In 1968, neo-noir thriller The Boston Strangler (pictured above) was released, chronicling the murders committed by Albert DeSalvo, who strangled 13 women to death in the Boston area in the early 1960s. All were single and between the ages of 19 and 85, and most were sexually assaulted before being strangled in their apartments. None of the crime scenes showed signs of forced entry, which led police to believe he disguised himself as a maintenance man or delivery guy. DeSalvo confessed in 1964, but still many had doubts that he was the true perpetrator until DNA evidence confirmed it in 2013. He was convicted and sent to maximum-security Walpole State Prison, where he was stabbed to death by a fellow inmate in 1973. A new movie is in the works about the Boston Strangler Task Force called Stranglehold.
