Massachusetts: DNA Match Made in Strangler Case

[MADem]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/20/us/massachusetts-dna-match-made-in-strangler-case.html?_r=0

Law enforcement officials in Boston on Friday announced that the remains of a man who confessed he was the Boston Strangler match the DNA profile of seminal fluid found at the last of the crime scenes attributed to the serial killer.

Although Albert DeSalvo, a convicted rapist, confessed to the strangler murders, he was killed in prison and never prosecuted for them. Scientists recently extracted a DNA profile from seminal fluid found on and near the body of Mary Sullivan, who was strangled in 1964. After finding a familial match between that sample and one taken from a nephew of Mr. DeSalvo, investigators last week exhumed Mr. DeSalvo’s body to confirm the match.

[Ilsa]

1. I had to read that several times...

I'm glad it was DeSalvo and that another killer didn't get away with it.

[MADem]

2. Yes--everyone "knew" it was him, but there was always some tinfoiler sowing doubt here and there...

This is the last victim, same MO, so I think we can be fairly confident in saying he was the bum that did those murders...

[luckyleftyme2]

3. DO YOU HAVE A LINC

\ YUP -AND AN IP

[MADem]

4. There is a link in the OP. nt