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DeSalvo was the subject of the 1968 Hollywood film The Boston Strangler, starring Tony Curtis as DeSalvo, and Henry Fonda and George Kennedy as the homicide detectives who apprehend him. The movie was highly fictionalized.
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The three journalists primarily featured in “Boston Strangler” were all based on real-life employees of the Boston Record-American. Loretta McLaughlin, played by Keira Knightley, was a reporter at the Record-American, and along with Jean Cole, wrote the definitive account of the case and coined the “Boston Strangler” moniker. After working at the R...
There are two Boston Police figures who feature prominently in “Boston Strangler,” one of which is based on a real figure and one who is a composite of multiple real-life BPD officers. After McLaughlin publishes her first story, her editor catches hell from BPD Commissioner Edmund McNamara, who is played by Massachusetts native Bill Camp (“Joker”)....
Much like in real life, the ending of “Boston Strangler” doesn’t come to any tidy conclusion about who was responsible for the killings. In the film, we see three men who are held up as possible suspects, two of whom existed in real life and one who is a pseudonymous creation. Albert DeSalvo, played by David Dastmalchian (“The Dark Knight”), confes...
While “Boston Strangler” doesn’t provide any definitive answers, it does illustrate how several people close to the case, as well as many amateur sleuths in the present day, have unanswered questions. It also relies on theories put forth in the intervening years that have never been definitively proven. “Boston Strangler” speculates that George Nas...
Mar 17, 2023 · David Dastmalchian has portrayed unsettling characters in films like The Dark Knight and Prisoners, but he saw his latest role as Albert DeSalvo (aka the presumed Boston Strangler) as a...
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Apr 2, 2014 · Convicted criminal Albert DeSalvo is best known for confessing to be the “Boston Strangler,” who killed 13 women in Boston in the early 1960s.
Jul 11, 2013 · Tim DeSalvo – whose uncle Albert DeSalvo had confessed to being the internationally notorious Boston Strangler – gave police the DNA evidence investigators needed to exhume his body to bring closure to a case that has been a mystery for nearly 50 years.
Mar 17, 2023 · In October 1964, 34-year-old Albert DeSalvo (played by David Dastmalchian) was arrested for sexually assaulting a woman after pretending to be a police officer to gain entry into her home.
Mar 17, 2023 · Albert DeSalvo reportedly raped and killed 13 women as the Boston Strangler. Read ahead for a complete timeline of the Boston Strangler's victims.
