DNA has been matched from the remains of Albert DeSalvo, the man who confessed to being the Boston Strangler, to crime scene evidence from the murder of a woman believed to be his last victim in 1964.

Albert DeSalvo, 35, the self-confessed “Boston Strangler” and sexual felon, had escaped. In the biggest manhunt in New England history, bloodhounds bayed through the woods around the ...

In 1971, Moore sponsored a resolution honoring Albert DeSalvo for “unconventional techniques involving population control.” DeSalvo was better known as the Boston Strangler, a serial killer ...

Advances in DNA technology have allowed investigators to link longtime suspect Albert DeSalvo to the last of the 1960s slayings attributed to the Boston Strangler, a prosecutor said Thursday.