Word: strangler
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...potential perpetrator with better than 99% accuracy. In 1987, Florida rapist Tommie Lee Andrews became the first person in the U.S. to be convicted as a result of DNA evidence; he was sentenced to 22 years behind bars. The next year, a Virginia killer dubbed the "South Side Strangler" was sentenced to death after DNA linked him to several rapes and murders around Richmond. DNA is also responsible for snaring Gary Ridgway, the infamous "Green River Killer" of Washington State, responsible for a string of murders around Seattle in the 1980s and '90s. After being implicated by genetic testing, Ridgway...
...bleed and hemorrhage unless this Congress at least protects one industry ... whose total future depends on its protection from the savagery and the ravages of this machine... I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public," he fulminated, "as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone...
...Jack surely loved those "strangler" metaphors. But he retired, three years ago, with his own neck untouched. He came to Hollywood an unknown quantity and left this world its most legendary hypester. Veni, vidi, Valenti...
Others may lie for more practical reasons. In 1965, when handyman Albert DeSalvo told police he was the Boston Strangler, he confessed to having brutally murdered 13 women. Some experts now suspect that DeSalvo, who at the time was in custody on lesser charges, hoped the lavish claims would bolster his rep in prison and save him from execution via an insanity plea...
...there's another wrinkle, one that might or might not have been a coincidence. During the period DeSalvo was working at the Jungers', a 62-year-old woman was killed in a house down the street. Her name was Bessie Goldberg, and she was raped and strangled--precisely the Strangler's modus operandi. But DeSalvo was never charged with the crime. Instead a black man named Roy Smith, who had cleaned Goldberg's house that day, was convicted of her murder. Did the police get the wrong...