Discusses the facts and myths surrounding the case of the Boston Strangler, in which eleven women living in and around the Boston area were murdered in similarly brutal ways in 1962.
In 1963 Boston, with a killer known as the Boston Strangler stalking the city, the three Daley brothers--Joe, a cop; Michael, a prosecutor; and Ricky, a master thief--track down a criminal with ties to their family's own lethal secrets.
Reexamines the murder of Bessie Goldberg in the Boston suburb of Belmont in 1963--a crime for which African-American handyman Roy Smith was tried and convicted--in light of the confession two years later by Albert DeSalvo to being the notorious Boston Strangler, and the knowledge that DeSalvo was also in the neighborhood the day Goldberg died, working at the author's home.
Discusses the facts and myths surrounding the case of the Boston Strangler, in which eleven women living in and around the Boston area were murdered in similarly brutal ways in 1962.
Reexamines the murder of Bessie Goldberg in the Boston suburb of Belmont in 1963--a crime for which African-American handyman Roy Smith was tried and convicted--in light of the confession two years later by Albert DeSalvo to being the notorious Boston Strangler, and the knowledge that DeSalvo was also in the neighborhood the day Goldberg died, working at the author's home.
