The story of the infamous serial murder case nicknamed the Boston Strangler involved 13 sexual assaults and murders between 1962 and 1964 in the Boston area.
Officially, 12 of them have never been solved. The 13th, decades later, was proven through DNA techniques to be the chief suspect, and self-confessed “Boston Strangler” Albert DeSalvo.
He was famously represented by F. Lee Bailey, who later would write a book about the case. The fact that there were, and still are, so many questions about it all did not deter Hollywood and others from exploiting it to various degrees, most famously in the 1968 20th Century Fox drama The Boston Strangler which starred Tony Curtis as DeSalvo and Henry Fonda as a lead detective.
Curtis waged a significant Oscar campaign for the role he fought to get, but was overlooked even after winning a Golden Globe nomination for it.
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