Boston fear of new strangler

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33092, 6 December 1972, Page 19

Boston fear of new strangler

(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) BOSTON, December 5. Fear of a new “Boston Strangler”

is growing as the police investigate the murder of four college girls and search for a fifth who disappeared mysteriously. All the dead girls were strangled.

The original “Boston Strangler” is alleged to have murdered 13 women between the summer of 1962 and early 1964.

Albert Henry Desalvo, a mental patient, confessed to the killings, but was never convicted: the evidence was sufficient to convict him only on charges of armed robbery, assault, and sex offences against four women. He is now serving a life sentence. Lieutenant Edward Sherri, in charge of the inquiry into the death of Ellen Reich, who disappeared on November 9 and whose body was found in a cupboard in a deserted house on November 13, is working with the police in the municipalities in which

the other three bodies were found.

The missing girl, Damans Gillispie, aged 22, was .last seen on Sunday. She was a Boston University student, as were two of the dead girls. Another of the victims attended Emerson College, Boston, and the fourth was described as a college dropout. The police, who describe all four victims as attractive, say there is a possibility that they were all attacked after hitching rides.