Disney Plus premiered on Friday, March 17, 2023 and a new take on the famous The Boston Strangler case

On March 17, 2023, Disney+ first The Boston Strangler, one of his biggest original films of the year. Thanks in part to a very attractive cast made up of Keira Knightley, Carrie Coon, Alessandro Nivola there Chris Cooperamong others. matt ruskin directs this cinematographic proposal (responsible for Crown heights in 2017) based on real events.

In effect, The Boston Strangler was a figure that terrorized this American city in the 1960s. Her name is Albert Henry DeSalvo and the story behind the feature film is even darker.

Albert Henry DeSalvo, the Boston strangler who murdered 13 women

It is interesting to know the history of Albert Henry DeSalvo through the movie The Boston Strangler, but even more so by reading who this serial killer was and how he managed to kill 13 women in the greater Boston area. Without a doubt, his confession was the most controversialWhy Although he said at the time that he had murdered 13 women, he could only be found guilty of the rape and death of four: the evidence was lacking and it was impossible to accuse him of these crimes even if he admitted to them.

He was Albert Henry DeSalvo, the Boston strangler who inspired the Disney Plus movie

The life sentence for robbery and sexual assault on four women was insufficient for a society that lived in fear in the 1960s until the criminal’s arrest on January 18, 1967. The fact is that despite the confession crimes, Boston police found it virtually impossible for the so-called ‘Boston Strangler’ to go it alone. Of course, they didn’t prosecute a second person involved.

All the victims were single women and were strangled in a similar way (hence the nickname), but the difference in age (between 21 and 85), physical characteristics (they did not correspond to a single pattern) and there operating mode. There were also no prosecution witnesses. Albert Henry DeSalvo, while his acquaintances maintained that he was incapable of killing. However, he confessed to being the perpetrator of the crimes, although investigators believed he only read the press and remembered the most sinister details of each murder. Was he really the murderer of the 13 women? Only 4? Or none?

The Boston Strangler is inspired by a terrifying true story.
The Boston Strangler is inspired by a terrifying true story.

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