Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Boston-area residents were gripped by fear in the early 1960s, as a serial rapist and killer targeted women in their homes. Oxygen ...

The Boston Strangler is one of the most disturbing true crime cases in American history—but has the true culprit ever been caught? That’s the question at the center of a new Oxygen True Crime ...

The Boston Strangler’s first victim, Anna Slesers, was found dead on 14 June 1962. The 55-year-old had been killed with the belt from her own blue housecoat. In the months that followed, more women ...

Someone was terrorizing the quiet neighborhoods of Boston — single women, quietly getting ready for bed, turning into victims of a nighttime predator who left no easy clues behind. "That confession ...

Casey Sherman, the nephew of the youngest known victim of the Boston Strangler, doesn’t believe that the man who confessed to the notorious murders was the right suspect. “I honestly don’t believe ...

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. The DNA ...

The Boston Strangler's final victim has been identified, according to police who say DNA tests have linked Albert DeSalvo, who confessed to being the serial killer, to the death of Mary Sullivan in ...

BOSTON (AP) — It took a half-century for DNA sleuthing to finger Albert DeSalvo as the Boston Strangler. Now a new movie is revisiting one of America's most notorious serial killer cases and the ...

A flood emergency is underway in western Washington as several communities are underwater from historic rains. by WILLIAM J. KOLE, Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — It took a half-century for DNA ...