Among the statements DeSalvo made over the course of 50-plus hours of interviews, which amounted to 2,000 pages of transcripts, have been unprovable. However comparatively talking, he did not get a lot unsuitable, and investigators have been capable of confirm many of the particulars he offered.
On June 30, 1966, DeSalvo was discovered competent to face trial for the “Inexperienced Man” rapes (so referred to as as a result of victims recalled their attacker carrying inexperienced work pants).
He pleaded not responsible and Bailey argued that the jury had no alternative however to seek out his shopper insane so he may obtain psychiatric therapy. However DeSalvo was convicted of 10 counts of rape and armed theft and sentenced to life in jail on Jan. 18, 1967.
“Massachusetts has burned one other witch,” Bailey instructed reporters after the decision. “No fault of the jury’s, in fact. It is the fault of the legislation.”
DeSalvo and two different inmates escaped from Bridgewater on Feb. 24. He was caught the subsequent day at a clothes retailer in Lynn and, after that escapade, was transferred to a maximum-security facility that’s now the Massachusetts Correctional Establishment—Cedar Junction.
DeSalvo later recanted his confession. He was stabbed to dying by a fellow inmate within the jail infirmary on Nov. 25, 1973, having by no means been formally charged with any of the Boston Strangler killings.
