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...sexual assault or molestation was always threatened and often carried out; the robbers always stole jewelry and money; and because of the youth's long hair, many of the victims were uncertain at first whether he was a boy or girl. The man, much like the infamous Boston Strangler, liked to tie his victims on a bed and toy with them. Once, in a particularly perverted scene, he commanded the boy to rape a woman; the boy could...
...some, the affair might seem a bit ridiculous, but it was strong enough to survive many storms. Social critics might, and regularly did damn the high-powered car as a strangler of cities, fouler of the air and catalyst of a blighted landscape of junkyards, filling stations and hotdog stands. Foreigners might tempt with siren songs of durability and economy, and lure no small number of Americans into dalliance with a Volkswagen or Toyota. Even the average driver in the last decade or so might grumble at his beloved during a traffic jam or on the day that the insurance...
Died. Albert DeSalvo, 42, confessed "Boston Strangler"; of multiple stab wounds; at Walpole State Prison in Massachusetts. DeSalvo was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1967 for armed robbery, assault, and sex offenses against four women. Although he admitted during his trial to the strangling of 13 women between 1962 and 1964, he was never charged because of a lack of supporting evidence; later he recanted. Stabbed 16 times by an as yet unidentified slayer, DeSalvo is the fifth Walpole inmate to be murdered this year...
...great attention, their incidence is rare." In mass murder, he has found, "sex doesn't seem to be the motivation." One trait that Kozol has found in common among mass murderers: "A certain homogeneity about the victims." Jack the Ripper, for example, invariably chose prostitutes, and the Boston Strangler (13 victims) selected mostly elderly women...
...Massachusetts' Walpole state prison, Albert DeSalvo, "the Boston Strangler," has been baring his sex-obsessed past with some 1,500 women to Steve Dunleavy, one of the writers who helped out Xaviera Hollander with The Happy Hooker. "Albert wants people to understand about an individual with his tremendous sexual drive," P.J. Piscitelli, DeSalvo's lawyer, explained. The reminiscences were due to be published early next year - several publishers were bidding for them - when the Supreme Court ruled on pornography. Now, says Piscitelli, "we are injecting a lot of corn in place of some of the porn. The book...