Word: strangler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite a massive manhunt by a special 55-man task force of the Los Angeles police department, aided by Los Angeles County and Glendale cops, the case of the "hillside strangler" has produced few usable clues and no suspects. Police are not sure whether they are looking for one killer or more-and, if more than one, whether they were working together or separately...
...were picked up there. At Glendale High School, alma mater of Actor John Wayne, a note on the bulletin board warns single teachers not to go unaccompanied to or from the faculty Christmas party. Adults who were attending night courses, says a school official, have dropped out "until the strangler is caught...
Waiting for him to strike again, New Yorkers are grimly recalling the Boston Strangler and Jack the Ripper. Like those classic murderers, the Son of Sam seems intent on killing women. Most of his attacks have been on long haired brunettes, many of them sitting in parked cars at night with their boy friends. Two of the male victims were wearing shoulder-length brown hair, and police think that the killer may have mistaken them for females...
Stoler, who wrote the main part of the cover story, is also an old hand at mysteries. While working as a radio editorial writer and freelancer in Boston during the '60s, he covered the case of the Boston Strangler...
...Albert DeSalvo, the apparent Boston strangler, convicted of robbery and various other offenses but not of the killings...