BOSTON - A Springfield, Massachusetts man says he gave police evidence that points to a suspect in the Boston Strangler investigation - not Albert DeSalvo. DeSalvo was widely thought to be the Boston ...

The underseen French giallo film “The Strangler,” from 1970, never saw a release in the United States. That’s until this year, when the psychosexual chiller — about a young man targeting women he ...

It’s hard to keep serial killers down for long when it comes to movies and TV, especially when questions linger about the underlying case. “Boston Strangler” seems much cut from that “Zodiac” ...

Boston police used DNA to identify Albert DeSalvo as the Boston Strangler. This Feb. 25, 1967, file photo shows self-confessed Boston Strangler Albert DeSalvo minutes after his capture in Boston.

In the early 1960s, a serial killer dubbed the Boston Strangler had that city and its environs wrapped in a knot of fear. Thirteen women had been raped and murdered in the area over a period of ...

This strange, seductive film from 1970, directed by Paul Vecchiali, borrows the conventions of the serial-killer thriller and turns them inside out. By Beatrice Loayza When you purchase a ticket for ...