Word: strangler
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...Boston Strangler, Frank...
...bright F. (for Francis) Lee Bailey is the hottest criminal lawyer in the U.S. Last month he got a Cleveland jury to acquit Dr. Sam Sheppard of killing his wife; this week comes the sex-tinged murder trial of Dr. Carl Coppolino in New Jersey; after that, the Boston Strangler. Only six years out of law school, Bailey already compares himself to "Clarence" (meaning Darrow), though his monumental self-assurance might not yet convince William Jennings (meaning Bryan...
Bailey knows all about bugging and hypnosis as well as polygraphy. Along with electronic gadgets, his jet-age operation includes five office cars and five investigators headed by the former chief investigator for Boston's strangler bureau. Divorced and remarried (three children), he is rich in possessions: a Pontiac GTO, a Thunderbird, three sizable yachts, a 17-room ranch house and 80 acres in Marshfield near Boston. The whole empire is connected by two-way radios that keep the boss in constant touch as he swoops around the country in his Cessna 310 airplane...
...willing to break the agreement, but only if the state sought an acquittal on grounds of insanity. Not surprisingly, the state refused to permit any seemingly "rigged" trial. And for his part, Bailey says that "I will not permit DeSalvo to make a legal confession." As a result, the strangler case is probably dead...
...while he was being held for psychiatric tests that DeSalvo identified himself as the Strangler, says Gerold Frank, who quotes extensively from a rambling, tape-recorded statement that DeSalvo made to a state assistant attorney general. According to Frank, the authorities are reluctant to name DeSalvo as the Strangler because they have nothing to offer in evidence but his uncorroborated statement. Under rules established by the Supreme Court in recent cases, the tape recording would not be regarded as a valid confession. The police, meanwhile, never discuss the case, and the only official comment comes in the form...