BOSTON (Reuters) - Almost 50 years after 11 women were killed in the unsolved "Boston Strangler" murders, police said on Thursday they have biological evidence linking a man, who confessed to the killings but was never convicted, to the final homicide.
DNA evidence retrieved at the site of the final killing, that of 19-year-old Mary Sullivan, who was raped and murdered in January 1964, was a close match to that of Albert DeSalvo, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel Conley said at a press conference at Boston Police headquarters.
DeSalvo died in prison on an unrelated conviction in 1973,
"There was no forensic evidence to link Albert DeSalvo to Mary Sullivan's murder until today," Conley said.
But even with that break, Conley warned that the case may remain largely unsolved, since DNA linked DeSalvo only to Sullivan and not to the other 10 victims. DeSalvo's confession after the murders met with skepticism, and some criminal experts believe more than one person committed the 11 Boston Strangler murders, Conley said.
"We don't claim with certainty that Albert DeSalvo is a suspect in each of them," Conley said.
Conley said a judge had authorized investigators to exhume DeSalvo's remains to confirm the finding.
(Reporting by Scott Malone; Editing by Jeffrey Benkoe and David Gregorio)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/police-reveal-details-1960s-boston-strangler-case-151328102.html
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