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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
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Let's have a go at those files!,
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This review is from: The Boston Strangler (Paperback)
I always wanted to know more about the Boston Strangler, having read about him in other true crime accounts, but never getting the full picture. This book gives a frightening and touching account of Boston in the 60s and the Strangler's unwitting victims. Frank handles brilliantly the chaotic investigation and numerous (but mesmerizing) deadend leads; his reporting of the case and its frustrations is near perfect. By the time I got to DeSalvo's confessions (and the fact that the case has never been brought to trial!) I wanted to roll up my sleeves and spend an all-nighter going through the files to check facts. Not since reading about Jack the Ripper have I been so engaged by an unsolved crime.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Boston Strangler, By Gerold Frank,
By Armando Benitez (houston, tx United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Boston Strangler (Paperback)
The persons who wrote the negative reviews on this book don't seem to have actually read it. The reason Albert DeSalvo was never tried for the stranglings was due principally to the skillful maneuvering of his attorney, F. Lee Baily. Anyone who reads Gerold Frank's The Boston Strangler cannot help but come to the conclusion that DeSalvo was the right man. But there are people who have an interest in casting doubt on the facts. If my brother, or son, or spouse had committed such horrible crimes, I would try to bring up such doubts myself. Or if I wanted to write a book about the case, using sensationalistic hogwash about another killer or killers. I first read Gerold Frank's book in the late sixties. Recently I came across it again, and reread every word. It is a fascinating story, a masterpiece of reporting, with elements of the supernatural, turbid politics, and police bungling. For, despite the fact that Albert DeSalvo was arrested for a violent rape, in which he had entered a woman's home under the pretext of effecting repairs (after he had already committed the murders), yet they did not investigate him as a possible suspect in the stranglings. The final pages of the book present a repelling, yet fascinating, picture of a sick soul, the depths of hell in the mind of a seemingly pleasant and affable man. And those final pages also fully explain why Albert DeSalvo was never tried for the murders.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
VERY Interesting Tale, Especially In Retrospect,
By J. Reynolds (Houston, TX United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Boston Strangler (Paperback)
Even when I first read this book as a teenager, something didn't sit right with Albert DeSalvo being pegged as the killer. The "old women" and "the girls" cohorts of victims propagated subconscious disconnections between factors being treated as the work of a single perpetrator, as did the case's sudden wrap-up. The psychoanalysis sessions, looking back at them, appeared laced with manipulation, and subsequent examinations of the Strangler case substantiate that: DeSalvo was prompted to be the killer, because they needed a killer to blame. Still, the portions about the investigation before DeSalvo's appearance are fascinating -- the crime scene descriptions, the victim timetables, detectives and their occasional dead ends. The tale is quite interesting, but should be absorbed only in combination with other writings about the Strangler case(s). It only makes you wish they had had, in the early 1960s, the same forensic techniques we have today. They really might have caught the guy(s).
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