The Strangler's reign of terror began in June 1962. Over the next nineteen months, thirteen unmarried women, the youngest 19, the oldest 85, were murdered in Boston and nearby cities. Some compared him to Jack the Ripper, but the Ripper's victims were prostitutes. The Boston Strangler killed ordinary women and he didn't stab them, he raped and strangled them. Albert DeSalvo was born on September 3, 1931, in Chelsea, Massachusetts. He had five siblings and his family was very poor. His mother’s name was Charlotte and his alcoholic, abusive father was Frank. His father would bring home prostitutes and have sex with them in front of his family. He also once knocked out all of his wife’s teeth and bent her fingers back until they broke. Albert obviously grew up in a very disturbed home. He was a white male with an intelligence quotient of about 96 which is below average-normal. …show more content…
He also took great pleasure in shooting cats with a bow and arrow which they say is common in killers. When Albert was 12, he was arrested for breaking and entering and sent to the Lyman School for delinquent boys, so he was reflecting bad behavior since he was young. After completing his second sentence, DeSalvo joined the Army at age 17 and was sent to Germany. There, he won the US Army middleweight boxing championship and married his wife, Irmgard Beck. He brought her back to the States and did a second Army tour at Fort Dix, NJ. He had his first child in 1956 which made him happy until his wife began to refuse his incessant sexual demands. This led to his first “job” as a talent scout for a modeling agency. He would con his way into women’s apartments and used a tape measure to take their measurements, touching them inappropriately whenever