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
Yevgeny Petrov (serial killer) suicide in his cell. The parents of his victims demaned the death penalty, and the father of one of them offered that Petrov be extradited to them. Yevgeny Petrov (serial killer) Yevgeny Nikolaevich Petrov (born December 17, 1975 in Novouralsk, Sverdlovsk Oblast, RSFSR), known as the "New Urals Ripper", is a Russian serial killer, rapist and pedophile. In 1992, Petrov was conditionally sentenced for stealing a computer. While serving in the army, he almost killed his commander, but the case was concealed by the military prosecutor's office itself. He graduated from a vocational school with the specialty of a fitter,