George Nassar, a twice-convicted murderer who said his former cellmate Albert DeSalvo confessed to him that he murdered 13 women attributed to the Boston Strangler in the early 1960s, died on December 3, 2018 in a prison hospital in Boston. The fact of the death of a cellmate of the once most wanted criminal in America remained without attention from the media. This was paid attention in light of the release of the thematic film, as well as the emergence of the hypothesis that Nassar himself was the same strangler (and DeSalvo attributed the murders to himself). The name of the latter in the middle of the last century did not leave the pages of newspapers against the backdrop of a series of murders that stirred up an American city and subsequently received many interpretations in popular culture.. The story is reported by The New York Times.

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Murder and terror against women began to spread in the city from 1962 to 1964, and the name DeSalvo became synonymous with the Boston Strangler in newspapers and? television, as well as in the 1968 film of the same name. This is not the only film adaptation, in 2023 another film was announced - with Keira Knightley, the picture shows this terrible crime story and the influence of the press on the coverage of this kind of events and prosecution.

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The film, due to hit the big screen this year, claims in a postscript that " The film's postscript caught the attention of Sarah Weinman, crime journalist and author of the Crime \u0026 Mystery blog at The New York Times: " “Considering that he was diagnosed with terminal cancer during his last interview in 2018, the likelihood that he was still alive seemed slim.”. Her call to the Massachusetts Department of Corrections confirmed his death, although details were not immediately provided..

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The prison confession DeSalvo made to Nassar in 1965 was one of several that later made him a prime suspect in the Boston Strangler case, although he was never charged with those crimes.. Mr. Nassar has at least twice publicly told his story about this confession..

It should be clarified that the investigation had reasonable doubts about whether DeSalvo was the sole perpetrator of the murders of the Boston Strangler.. Despite his confession, several factors raised doubts about the identity of the serial killer, given that crimes have a specific type of victim and method of killing: the women killed by the "

In 1995, Nassar recalled in an interview with The Boston Globe that DeSalvo described the murders 30 years earlier as they walked down a concrete corridor at Bridgewater State Hospital in Massachusetts, where both men were jailed and undergoing psychiatric examinations.. DeSalvo was held on unrelated charges of armed robbery, assault, and sexual offenses involving four women..

“He started describing the crime and watched my reaction to see if it was too disgusting for me to listen,” Nassar said.. “Some of them were horrendous, especially the crimes of stabbing a woman in the chest in Cambridge.. But I wasn't there to judge"

DeSalvo was killed by stabbing to death in 1973 in his bed in the hospital wing of the Walpole State Penitentiary (now the Massachusetts Correctional Institution - Cedar Junction).

Since the loss of their prime suspect, the police have had others in the Strangler case - at least six at a time - but no one has ever been brought to justice..

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The surviving victims recognized the attacker not in DeSalva, but in his cellmate.

However, in 2013, DeSalvo was linked to one of the crimes of the Boston Strangler.. Sperm in Beacon Hill apartment where Mary Sullivan's last of 13 victims was raped and murdered has been matched with DeSalva's exhumed remains.

Nassar was for some time considered a suspect in the murders.. According to The Globe article, at least two women fleeing the Boston Strangler were taken to Bridgewater and identified the assailant as Mr. Nassar, not Mr. DeSalvo.

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In addition to the aforementioned film with Keira Knightley, the image of the infamous Boston murderer has been repeatedly highlighted in popular culture:.

1968 film of the same name with Henry Fonda as the maniac's stalker.

The 1995 film The Imitator is about a serial killer psychologist who suffers from agoraphobia after being attacked by a maniac..

He and another serial killer, Zodiac, are featured in the graphic novel image comic The Roberts: One Nursing Home, Two Serial Killers.