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...shut, and women scurried furtively along cold, windswept streets. Husbands hurried home to be with their wives, and there was a run on locks-though, as authorities dourly admitted, the man they were after could open just about any lock in existence. Albert DeSalvo, 35, the self-confessed "Boston Strangler" and sexual felon, had escaped...
...built sometime after 1890. Said Hospital Superintendent Charles Gaughan: "We're holding murderers here in a hen coop." Sentenced in January to life plus ten years for armed robbery and sex crimes resulting from assaults on four women, DeSalvo, a former handyman, was never legally identified as the Strangler, but the minute details of his confession-which, by prior agreement with his attorney, could not be used as evidence-left little doubt that he was indeed the man who had murdered and, in several cases, savagely mutilated 13 women in 18 months between 1962 and 1964 (TIME...
...runaways did not get far. DeSalvo's two companions drunkenly telephoned their surrender from a bar in a Boston suburb. And after 33 hours of freedom, the self-styled Strangler was captured, wearing a sailor's uniform, in a clothing store in Lynn, 40 miles from the hospital. There was no struggle, and DeSalvo, who had pleaded in vain for psychiatric help, said plaintively: "Maybe now they'll believe it's a mental condition...