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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Son of Sam Is Not Sleeping | 7/11/1977 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Aug. 16, 1976 | 8/16/1976 | See Source »

...Albert DeSalvo, the apparent Boston strangler, convicted of robbery and various other offenses but not of the killings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Piloting Patty's Defense | 2/16/1976 | See Source »

Bailey, who has represented clients on more than 100 murder charges and had only three convicted, caught the headlines by defending Dr. Sam Sheppard and Albert DeSalvo (the "Boston Strangler"). In 1971 Bailey got Army Captain Edward Medina acquitted of charges that he was among those responsible for the My Lai massacre of civilians in South Viet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Master of Acquittals | 10/20/1975 | See Source »

...Charles Manson, Lieut, William Calley, Richard "Chicago Nurse" Speck. Charles "Texas Tower" Whitman, and Albert "Boston Strangler" DeSolve...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg and Tom Lee, S | Title: The Joyce-Maynard-is-21,-The-Sixties-Are-History Quiz | 4/14/1975 | See Source »

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