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291: The Boston Strangler

True Crime Obsessed

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The Boston Strangler

Eight years into his prison sentence, Elba DeSalvo is ready to say he's not the Boston Strangler. He makes two calls one night and they make a plan to meet next day at the prison. But before it can take place, Albert DeSalvo was murdered in the prison infirmary. Later on, when we re-exhumed Albert and did toxicology testing on his hair, we found that he had been drugged with Valium. So like it was a targeted killing. You know? Absolutely. And so like somebody didn't want him to talk. The nephew of one of the victims is working with the DeSalvo family to either rule him in

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