Here's How Many Victims The Boston Strangler Might Have Had

Over the course of 19 months in the early 1960s, a number of women would turn up dead in and around Boston, all having been sexually assaulted and murdered. Even the number of victims is disputed: Crime Museum claims there were 11 such murders, while ABC News said there were 13, a claim also made by The Boston Globe.

Even if history could collectively agree on the number of victims killed by the Boston Strangler, it's still unclear if they were killed by one man, or by people who knew each other and committed similar crimes, or if any or all of them were random copycat crimes.

One man was connected to one murder. Albert DeSalvo, a career criminal, was arrested for sexual assault, and while he was in jail, he reportedly gave detailed confessions about the murders, according to ABC News. Years after DeSalvo died, DNA evidence tied him to one — but only one — of the Boston murders.

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