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By Gerold Frank

ISBN-10: 0330021400

ISBN-13: 9780330021401

ISBN-10: 1504038983

ISBN-13: 9781504038980

Long island instances Bestseller and Winner of the Edgar Award: The definitive account of the infamous serial killer—and the manhunt that his rampage.

On June 14, 1962, twenty-five-year-old Juris Slesers arrived at his mother’s condominium to force her to church. yet there has been no solution on the door. After ready a part hour, Juris shoved his means within. He stumbled on fifty-five-year-old Anna Slesers mendacity at the kitchen ground, useless, the twine of her housecoat knotted tightly round her neck and became up in a bow.

Between 1962 and 1964, twelve extra our bodies have been stumbled on in and round Boston: all ladies, all sexually assaulted, and all strangled—often with their very own pantyhose. not one of the sufferers exhibited any indicators of fight, not anything used to be stolen from their houses, and there have been no symptoms of forcible access. The police may possibly locate no discernable cause or clues. Who was once this insane killer? How was once he getting into women’s houses? And why have been they letting him in?

More than a gripping chronicle of an American serial killer on par with Jack the Ripper, The Boston Strangler is a surprising tale approximately what occurs to a urban less than a siege of terror. Drawn from 1000s of hours of non-public interviews, in addition to police, clinical, and courtroom documentation, writer Gerold Frank’s grisly, frightening, and meticulously researched account was once presented the Edgar for top truth Crime.

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In the course of a year in Boston nearly 20,000 crimes of all kinds occur; in June 1962, excluding the three women, many other murders had taken place with hardly more than a paragraph in the newspapers. Most were sordid affairs, mainly in the Bowery-like South End. Though Precinct No. 4, which commands this area, was at times the busiest police precinct in the United States, it still remained one of the least publicized. Violent death might carry a kind of horrid glamour in New York or Chicago, but it was a facet of life that Bostonians characteristically preferred to keep swept under the rug.

Mellon looked at him, then turned away and went down to the first floor. M. , covering on foot and by car an area of ten square miles of the Back Bay area, and he knew this neighborhood and the people in it. In the building lived a man well known to the police. He made a practice of corresponding with women belonging to a Lonely Hearts Club, inviting them to come to Boston and stay with him on pretext of marriage. After a week or so he would announce he’d changed his mind and send them home. Perhaps a dozen women had been involved, but only two or three had complained to the police, and all had been too embarrassed to prosecute.

M. that morning. By six o’clock, however, all this was history. Then the microscope held to the city would have revealed a curious process under way. Boston is a town whose population swells and decreases by half every twenty-four hours. , as workers pour into the city from the surrounding suburbs, it becomes a metropolis of 1,500,000; but at dusk as they flow back to their homes, it shrinks to a town half as populated, tenanted only by those who live there. Among these was Mrs. Anna E. Slesers, fifty-five, a divorcée for more than twenty years, who had come to this country with her son and daughter in 1950 as a displaced person from Latvia.

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