The Boston Stranglers, Susan Kelly
The Boston Stranglers, Susan Kelly
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The Boston Stranglers

Author: Susan Kelly

Narrator: Lorna Raver

Unabridged: 15 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/13/2009

Synopsis

Beginning in June, 1962, the Boston area was terrorized for eighteen months by an elusive serial killer who sexually assaulted and then strangled a succession of women. Boasting that he was the killer and that he had raped an additional 2,000 victims, Albert DeSalvo's horrific story became the subject of a bestselling book and a major Hollywood movie. But it was all a monstrous hoax: DeSalvo was not the Boston Strangler. In the only definitive book on this subject, Susan Kelly's detailed investigation shows us the true DeSalvo, a twisted pathological liar whose hunger for celebrity made him confess to crimes he did not commit. Kelly also proves that the stranglings were committed by at least eight different slayers. She even names the lead suspectssome of whom may have been getting away with murder for decades.

About Susan Kelly

Susan Kelly is a Massachusetts writer and the author of six novels: The Gemini Man, The Summertime Soldiers, Trail of the Dragon, Until Proven Innocent, And Soon I'll Come to Kill You, and Out of the Darkness.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Patty on May 09, 2024

Before reading this book, my knowledge about The Boston Strangler came from the 1968 movie of the same name. What I learned was: the murders were done by one person, and that person was Albert DeSalvo. I also thought DeSalvo was convicted of the crimes. Boy was I wrong. It seems that everyone who is......more

Goodreads review by Katherine on May 09, 2020

This is the obverse face of Gerold Frank's The Boston Strangler; Kelly doesn't think DeSalvo committed ANY of the murders. (DNA proved her wrong the same year this updated edition came out: DeSalvo's DNA was matched to evidence from Mary Sullivan's murder---or was it? Kelly's response raises doubts.......more

Goodreads review by Heronimo Gieronymus on May 29, 2024

THE BOSTON STRANGLERS ends up becoming very quickly a basically perfect true crime saga because it is impersonal and multi-perspectival, certainly, but also because Susan Kelly has no choice but to remain largely agnostic with respect to the material she is covering, every last detail blasted from s......more

Goodreads review by Laura on October 24, 2024

Sounds like the movies got it wrong. This was a fascinating book about the infamous murders in the 1960s in Boston. Everyone assumes Albert DeSalvo was the strangler because he confessed. But evidence points otherwise.......more

Goodreads review by Susan on April 01, 2013

As one who once lived in Boston's Back Bay, I have always been fascinated by the Boston Strangler murders (1962-1964). Susan Kelly has written what I consider to be the definitive book about them. Albert DeSalvo confessed to the murders in November 1964 while incarcerated in Bridgewater Hospital for......more

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