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                DNA Could Solve 1960's 'Boston Strangler' Murder

   Almost 50 years after the "Boston Strangler" killed 11 women, advances
   in DNA technology have allowed investigators to link a suspect to the
   final murder.
   Longtime suspect Albert DeSalvo confessed to the murders, but was never
   convicted of the "Boston Strangler" killings. He was sentenced to life
   in prison for a string of sexual assaults and armed robberies, and died
   from a prison stabbing in 1973.
   Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel Conley told reporters in Boston
   Thursday that DNA evidence retrieved at the site where 19-year-old Mary
   Sullivan was raped and murdered in January 1964 was a close match to
   that of DeSalvo.
   He told reporters a judge is allowing investigators to exhume DeSalvo`s
   remains to confirm the finding.
   Conley said no forensic evidence linked DeSalvo to Sullivan`s murder
   until now. He cautioned that no other DNA evidence is believed to exist
   at the other crime scenes - evidence that is needed to try to solve the
   other 10 murders.
   The murders have become one of America`s most infamous criminal cases.
   A 1966 book titled The Boston Strangler by Gerald Frank was made into a
   movie starring Tony Curtis as DeSalvo and Henry Fonda as John S.
   Bottomly, the chief detective who obtained DeSalvo`s confession.
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