Crime & Safety

Fenway's Boston Strangler Connection: Three Killed - Does it Creep You Out?

Three of the Boston Strangler's 11 victims lived in the Fenway neighborhood.

The Fenway-Kenmore neighborhood had its share of deaths by the so-called Boston Strangler 50 years ago. 

Fenway was the site of the first Boston Strangler murder in 1962. On June 14, 55-year-old Anna Slesers was strangled to death inside her 77 Gainsborough Street apartment with the belt of her bathrobe, which was then tied as a bow. Police said she had been sexually assaulted. 

On December 5, 1962, 20-year-old Sophia Clark was strangled with nylon stockings and raped inside her 315 Huntington Avenue apartment. 

The last attack in the Fenway area happened on New Year's Eve in 1962. Patricia Bissette, a 24-year old resident of 515 Park Drive, was found raped and strangled to death using nylon stockings and a blouse. 

You can see a map detailing all the murders attributed to the Boston Strangler here. 

Controversy still surrounds the cases, even 50 years later. Albert DeSalvo, who was serving in prison for other sexual assaults, confessed to a cell mate in jail that he was the Boston Strangler. However, he was never formally charged, and died in prison in 1973 from a fatal stabbing.

On Thursday, authorities announced they were "99.9 percent" sure they had DNA evidence linking DeSalvo to at least the last murder the Boston Strangler committed in 1964, of 19-year-old Mary Sullivan. His body will be exhumed this week in Peabody for a final DNA test, thanks to recent advances in technology. 
Does knowing the addresses of the murders creep you out? Would you be okay with living in any of these buildings? Tell us in the comments. 

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