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...BOSTON STRANGLER by Gerold Frank. 364 pages. New American Library...
...murderers in history ever spread so much terror as the madman who roved the Boston area from June 1962 to January 1964. The headlines called him the Boston Strangler, but the killer did not garrote all of his 13 victims. One 85-year-old woman became so frightened when he manhandled her that she died of a heart attack; he killed a 23-year-old Boston University graduate student by stabbing her 22 times, carefully spacing 18 of the wounds into a perfect bull's-eye design on her left breast...
Whether he strangled, stabbed or beat his victims to death, the Boston Strangler usually left some article of clothing -stocking or bra-tied around the neck in a flamboyant bow that police learned to recognize as his grisly trademark. The obscene indignities he performed on the bodies of the women he killed were never fully reported in the newspapers; some were simply unprintable. Nevertheless, chilling accounts of the killer's bestiality leaked out, compounding the fear that any community feels when a murderer is on the prowl. Women living alone all but barricaded themselves in their apartments; the demand...
Talkative Caller. As far as official records show, the murderer has never been caught. But unaccountably, at the beginning of 1964, the brutal crimes stopped. Then, about a year later, cautiously worded news stories suggested that the Strangler was lodged in Bridgewater State Hospital, a maximum-security asylum...
...contingency fund to bankroll a massive man hunt. Police went on an emergency no-days-off basis, beefed up the homicide division by transferring the entire vice squad to that duty. A special "Station X" was set up at police headquarters to receive calls about the strangler; 900 came during the first eight hours it was in service last week...