The Boston Strangler - Albert Henry DeSalvo was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, on September 3, 1931, the third of six children. When DeSalvo was eight his abusive father abandoned the family, returning occasionally for drunken rampages. Upon graduating high school, with a criminal record, DeSalvo joined the army. While stationed in Europe he married a German woman who returned to the United States with him when he was transferred to Fort Dix in New Jersey. Together they had two children. DeSalvo had an inexhaustible sex drive that took on a criminal dimension when he was stationed at Fort Dix and was accused of molesting a nine-year-old-girl. He then began to approach women on the street saying he represented a modeling agency. Apparently hundreds of women allowed him into their homes. In March 1960 he was arrested for breaking and entering, he received a two year sentence and was released after only eleven months. After his release he became a rapist. He raped as many as six women a day. He claimed that he had assaulted over one thousand women. It was not until the summer of 1962 that he began killing some of his victims. In 1964 DeSalvo was arrested and sent to the mental hospital at Bridgewater for observation. In January 1967 DeSalvo was found guilty and was sentenced to life imprisonment. On November 26 1973 DeSalvo was found dead in his cell, stabbed in the heart. His murderer was never identified.