The Boston Strangler (film) and prosecution of De Salvo." The Boston Strangler (film) The Boston Strangler is a 1968 American neo-noir film loosely based on the true story of the Boston Strangler and the book by Gerold Frank. It was directed by Richard Fleischer, and stars Tony Curtis as Albert DeSalvo, the strangler, and Henry Fonda as John S. Bottomly, the chief detective who came to fame for obtaining DeSalvo's confession. Curtis was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for his performance. The cast also featured George Kennedy and the film debut of Sally Kellerman. After three murders of elderly women, with all victims
Boston Strangler taken from a nephew of DeSalvo (Y-DNA is passed through the direct male lines with little change, and can be used to link males with a common paternal-line ancestor.) To determine conclusively that it was DeSalvo's DNA, a court ordered the exhumation of his body in order to test his DNA directly. On July 19, 2013 Suffolk County DA Daniel F. Conley, Mass. Attorney General Martha Coakley, and Boston Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis announced the DNA test results proving that Albert Henry DeSalvo was the source of seminal fluid recovered at the scene of Sullivan's 1964 murder. Boston Strangler