Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the early 1960s, fear gripped the City of Boston. Someone was brutally killing single women and leaving an ominous calling card ...

Someone was terrorizing the quiet neighborhoods of Boston — single women, quietly getting ready for bed, turning into victims of a nighttime predator who left no easy clues behind. "That confession ...

The Boston Strangler's final victim has been identified, according to police who say DNA tests have linked Albert DeSalvo, who confessed to being the serial killer, to the death of Mary Sullivan in ...

Advances in DNA technology have allowed investigators to link longtime suspect Albert DeSalvo to the last of the 1960s slayings attributed to the Boston Strangler, a prosecutor said Thursday. The DNA ...

Casey Sherman, the nephew of the youngest known victim of the Boston Strangler, doesn’t believe that the man who confessed to the notorious murders was the right suspect. “I honestly don’t believe ...

BOSTON (AP) — It took a half-century for DNA sleuthing to finger Albert DeSalvo as the Boston Strangler. Now a new movie is revisiting one of America's most notorious serial killer cases and the ...

A flood emergency is underway in western Washington as several communities are underwater from historic rains. by WILLIAM J. KOLE, Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — It took a half-century for DNA ...