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...fear of correction that it has aided me physically and mentally." The significance of the legislature's approval of his resolution, however, is open to possible correction: few legislators anywhere read proposed statements of legislative sentiment. Two years ago the Texas legislature unanimously affirmed a measure praising the Boston Strangler for his efforts on behalf of population control...
...which merged violence with psychodrama after the model of Hitchcock's Psycho -- formula films where violence was often the only substance, films that Hitchcock wouldn't even deign to sneeze at. Exploiters like Strait-Jacket, the 1964 axe-murder movie, led later to box-office hits like The Boston Strangler (still playing in Boston drive-ins today), and also to superfluous and exploitative violence in films otherwise far removed from the world of sensational crime...
...college or college-age, middle class women which have occurred in the Boston area since July 9 of last year. Police now believe that three of the victims were hitchhiking when they were murdered, and that all seven of the murders may have been committed by a new "Boston Strangler." Although the murders remain officially unsolved, the police are now holding a prime suspect, and Middlesex Attorney General John Droney has promised that he will seek a murder indictment before the end of February. Police refuse to identify the man they are holding, but several Boston newspapers have reported that...
Chintzy Ties. Nobody, that is," but Molloy. Over the next decade, he refined his techniques and conducted other experiments that convinced him he was right. During his early research, for example, he discovered that the Boston Strangler invariably wore beige or gray repairman-like outfits; the light colors tended to reassure housewives and helped him get into their homes. Last year Molloy planted an actor posing as a trainee in a New York City corporate office, and instructed him to ask 100 secretaries to retrieve some information from their files. First the actor dressed in "lower-middle-class" style: black...
...Massachusetts' Walpole State Prison formed a JayCee group, their first gesture to the local townspeople was to stage a barbecue and dance for senior citizens. Trying out a waltz, one white-haired woman found herself in the arms of Albert DeSalvo, the self-confessed but never prosecut Boston Strangler. DeSalvo, who is serving a term for breaking and entering and assault, proved a model escort...