1962, eleven women were brutally, savagely murdered in the Boston area. They were old, young, black, and white, with one characteristic in common: they were strangled with their own pantyhose. The city was frozen with fear until one day one man confessed to the murders. His name was Albert Henry DeSalvo, a 33-year-old construction worker. All of a sudden, the killings stopped.

Up until that point, DeSalvo wasn't even considered a suspect. That's not to say he never committed an illegal act. On the contrary, DeSalvo’s criminal career nearly spanned his lifetime. But that's not what caught the attention of the police, it was his creativity. It seemed DeSalvo would go to any length to be with or to touch a woman.

Before he was even dubbed the Boston Strangler, he was known by other names: the ‘measuring man' because he pretended to be a model agency representative who needed to take women's measurements (literally) and the ‘green man’ because he would pose as a maintenance worker, in a green uniform, to gain access to women's apartments.

It was during DeSalvo’s arrest for the ‘green man’ charges that he confessed to strangling not only those eleven women but also two more. Police however could not corroborate his statement and he was never charged in a court of law.

The media were different, with every newspaper in Boston labelling DeSalvo the Boston Strangler. He was subsequently given life imprisonment for sexually assaulting and robbing four women during his ‘green man’ scheme. Six years later, he was stabbed to death in prison. To date, no one has been charged with the Boston stranglings and the case remains open.