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The Boston Stranglers

By: Susan Kelly
Narrated by: Lorna Raver
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 Beginning in June, 1962, the Boston area was terrorized for 18 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 best-selling 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 suspects - some of whom may have been getting away with murder for decades.

©2002 Susan Kelly (P)2009 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Crime Murder True Crime Boston

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Critic reviews

"Remarkable!" (Robert B. Parker)
"Impressive...raises disturbing questions about one of our nation's most notorious crime sprees." (Gail Zimmerman, producer, 48 Hours)
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Starts off well enough but really sags in the middle with what feels like hours of verbatim courtroom transcripts, painfully acted out by the reader. An over-reliance on interview transcripts from there on in makes this a struggle to get to the end. Nevertheless it’s thought-provoking and a good accompanying text to the original book by Gerold Frank in the 60s.

Read/listen to the 60s Gerold Frank book first for a grounding in the original “facts”

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