When Albert DeSalvo was arrested by Cambridge, Mass., police in November 1964, it wasn't for murder. Rather, the 33-year-old handyman was wanted for robbery and sexual assault. But while DeSalvo was ...

A Sky investigation raises the possibility that the horrific crimes were in fact carried out by multiple killers ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Boston-area residents were gripped by fear in the early 1960s, as a serial rapist and killer targeted women in their homes. Oxygen ...

Massachusetts has one of the lowest violent crime rates in the country, according to U.S. News & World Report. But that doesn't mean tragedies don't touch the Bay State. Longtime residents may ...

Casey Sherman, the nephew of the youngest known victim of the Boston Strangler, doesn’t believe that the man who confessed to the notorious murders was the right suspect. “I honestly don’t believe ...

Advances in DNA technology have allowed investigators to link longtime suspect Albert DeSalvo to the last of the 1960s slayings attributed to the Boston Strangler, a prosecutor said Thursday. The DNA ...

BOSTON (AP) — It took a half-century for DNA sleuthing to finger Albert DeSalvo as the Boston Strangler. Now a new movie is revisiting one of America's most notorious serial killer cases and the ...