The Boston Strangler

A Summer of Fear.

In the summer of 1962 Boston, Massachusetts, was gripped by fear. In June a fifty-five-year-old woman was found dead in her apartment. She had been sexually assaulted and strangled by a cord. The cord had been tied in a bow beneath her chin, a method which was to become the sign of the murderer known as the Boston Strangler. By the end of the month, two more elderly women were found murdered in similar circumstances. In the next two months four more women in their sixties and seventies were found strangled. The Boston police faced rising demands for action as it became clear that elderly women in Boston were being targeted by a madman. For the next several months no new bodies were found. Then in December the Strangler struck again. This time he raped and strangled two young women in their early twenties. It was now clear to the police that they had a serious problem on their hands that was not going to go away....

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