{"id":94696,"date":"2019-08-12T21:44:28","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T04:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/boston-strangler-case-solved-after-50-years"},"modified":"2019-08-12T21:44:28","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T04:44:28","slug":"boston-strangler-case-solved-after-50-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/boston-strangler-case-solved-after-50-years","title":{"rendered":"Boston Strangler Case Solved After 50 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/boston-strangler-case-solved-after-50-years.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A water bottle recovered from a construction site where Tim DeSalvo \u2013 whose uncle Albert DeSalvo had confessed to being the internationally notorious Boston Strangler \u2013 gave police the DNA evidence they needed to bring closure to a case that has been a mystery for nearly 50 years, murders for which no one has ever been charged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is really a story of relentlessness,\u2019\u2019 Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis explained today as Massachusetts top law enforcement officials revealed that DNA preserved from the body of the Boston Strangler\u2019s last victim\u2014raped and murdered in 1964\u2014can now be linked with \u201d99.9 percent certainty\u201d to the late Albert DeSalvo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dThis is good evidence. This is strong evidence. This is reliable evidence,\u2019\u2019 Suffolk County District Attorney Dan Conley said of the new DNA result. \u201dBut there can be no doubt.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A water bottle recovered from a construction site where Tim DeSalvo \u2013 whose uncle Albert DeSalvo had confessed to being the internationally notorious Boston Strangler \u2013 gave police the DNA evidence they needed to bring closure to a case that has been a mystery for nearly 50 years, murders for which no one has ever [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-law-enforcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}