Albert DeSalvo Albert DeSalvo Albert Henry DeSalvo (September 3, 1931 – November 25, 1973) was a criminal in Boston, Massachusetts, who confessed to being the "Boston Strangler", the murderer of 13 women in the Boston area from 1962 to 1964. DeSalvo was imprisoned, however, for a series of rapes. His murder confession has been disputed, and debate continues as to which crimes DeSalvo actually committed. In July 2013, a DNA match between seminal fluid found at the scene of the rape and murder of Mary Sullivan and DNA obtained from DeSalvo's nephew linked DeSalvo to that crime and excluded 99.9% of the
Władysław Mazurkiewicz (serial killer) Władysław Mazurkiewicz (serial killer) Władysław Mazurkiewicz (January 31, 1911 – January 29, 1957) was a Polish serial killer from the post–World War II Kraków, who also owned property in Warsaw. His economic standing and polite manners in Stalinist Poland earned him the nickname "the Gentleman Murderer" ("elegancki morderca"), also ""piękny Władek"" (the Handsome Władek). Mazurkiewicz was arrested in 1955 and charged by the prosecution with six murders and two more attempted murders. He was convicted of killing four men and two women including Wiktor Zarzecki, Władysław Brylski, Józef Tomaszewski, and millionaire Jerzy de Laveaux along with his wife Jadwiga de