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
Andrei Meshcheryakov (serial killer) Andrei Meshcheryakov (serial killer) Andrei Mikhailovich Meshcheryakov (born February 9, 1978 in Voskresensk, Moscow Oblast), known as the "Balashikhinsky Maniac", is a Russian robber and serial killer who killed 5 women in the Moscow Oblast in 2002. Meshcheryakov was born on February 9, 1978 in the Moscow Oblast. He had two brothers, and grew up in a good family. Before the murders, he had no connections to the crime world. After graduating from high school, he served in the army, then graduated the vocational school with the welder specialty. He worked as a driver in a motor company in his