Major developments in Boston Strangler case

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

I'm kind of excited.
Count me among those who doesn't believe DeSalvo was The Boston Strangler.

BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts law enforcement officials say advances in DNA technology have led to a breakthrough in the last of the 1960s slayings attributed to the Boston Strangler.
Authorities are planning a Thursday morning news conference to discuss a "major development" in the nearly 50-year-old slaying of Mary Sullivan.
The 19-year-old was found strangled in her Boston apartment in January 1964. She was the last of about a dozen women whose deaths were attributed to the Boston Strangler.
Albert DeSalvo confessed to the killings but was never convicted. He was sentenced to life in prison on other charges and was stabbed to death there in 1973.
City police say in a statement "the miracle of science and DNA evidence" point to a suspect.
Sullivan is the only victim for which DNA evidence is available.

 

[YankeeFan]

I thought Bodie already determined that Aaron Hernandez was the Boston Strangler.

 

[YankeeFan]

Or, maybe it was Tamerlan Tsarnaev. The cops seem very anxious to pin open murders on him:

It was the most brazen crime in the memory of this Boston suburb: three men murdered with knife slashes to their throats in a second-floor apartment at 12 Harding Avenue; each corpse precisely positioned, stomach down, head turned a quarter to the right, marijuana sprinkled on top.

The case has remained unsolved since the bodies were discovered on Sept. 12, 2011. It is now back in the investigative spotlight as evidence mounts, according to law enforcement officials, that one of the suspects in the April 15 bombings at the Boston Marathon, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, participated in the killings.

On Wednesday, Mr. Tsarnaev’s younger brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, the surviving suspect in the bombings, appeared in court for arraignment, the first time he had been seen by the public since he was discovered, covered in blood, hiding in a boat in a Watertown, Mass., backyard. He pleaded not guilty to all 30 counts against him.

But the emerging evidence against his brother, who died on April 19 after a shootout with the police, has led some law enforcement authorities to contend that if the local murder investigation had been more vigorous it could have led to his apprehension well before the bombings left 3 dead and more than 260 wounded — in short, that the bombings might never have happened.

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[Songbird]

In an interview today, Andrew Toney told the Global Bostonian News Agency, "Wasn't me."

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

I'm pretty sure the general consensus is that DeSalvo was not The Boston Strangler. Your average Joe will tell you that.

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

Wow.

Boston authorities have secured a search warrant to exhume the body of Albert DeSalvo, the confessed Boston Strangler who terrorized the city in the 1960s, to confirm a newly released DNA that links him to the rape and killing of his last victim.
Mary Sullivan was 19 years old when she was brutally raped and killed in her Boston bedroom in 1964.
The only link between DeSalvo and Sullivan’s murder was his confession, which was subject of controversy since there was no evidence.
That was until today.
Advances in DNA testing has provided authorities with a “familial match” between evidence from the crime scene with DeSalvo. Once he is exhumed, the case will be closed.
Authorities in the 1960s had the foresight to set aside evidence extracted from Sullivan’s body and a blanket and had it placed in a laboratory until science could be employed to link a suspect.
Last fall, the DNA evidence was submitted to two independent labs and a profile was developed. The evidence in the case has never changes, only the ability for law enforcement to explore the evidence.
Boston police located a water bottle used by a nephew of DeSalvo and found a “familial match” in the Y chromosome, which eliminates 99.9 percent of the population to the crime. Sullivan is the only victim for which DNA evidence is available.
DeSalvo, married with children, a blue collar worker and Army veteran, confessed to the 11 Boston Strangler murders, as well as two others.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/07/11/possible-significant-development-in-boston-strangler-case-report-says/#ixzz2YksXh0L0

 

[SpeedTchr]

The only greater choke job in Boston history.

 

[Songbird]

Buckner more than made up for it (this was a great episode):