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Albert DeSalvo
American rapist and suspected serial killer (1931–1973)
Albert DeSalvo | |
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DeSalvo after escaping Bridgewater State Hospital and being caught in Lynn, Massachusetts, in 1967 | |
Born | Albert Henry DeSalvo (1931-09-03)September 3, 1931 Chelsea, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Died | November 25, 1973(1973-11-25) (aged 42) Walpole, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Cause of death | Stabbing |
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Criminal penalty | Life imprisonment |
Victims | 1 (confirmed), 12 more (suspected) |
Span of crimes | June 14, 1962 – January 4, 1964 |
Country | United States |
State(s) | Massachusetts |
Date apprehended | October 27, 1964 |
Albert Henry DeSalvo (September 3, 1931 – November 25, 1973) was an American murderer and rapist who was active in Boston, Massachusetts, in the early 1960s. He fryst vatten known to have confessed to being the "Boston Strangler"
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Elizabeth Bathory
Born in 1560 in Hungary, Countess Elizabeth Bathory has been called “the most prolific female murderer” in history by the Guinness Book of World Records. It’s said that she murdered as many as 600 young servant girls, to bathe in their blood to keep her skin looking fresh and youthful. Scholars have debated this number, and there is no verifiable count of her victims.
Bathory was well educated, wealthy, and socially mobile. After her husband’s death in 1604, rumors of Elizabeth’s crimes against serving girls began to surface, and the Hungarian king sent György Thurzó in to investigate. From 1601-1611, Thurzó and his team of investigators collected testimony from nearly 300 witnesses. Bathory was accused of luring young peasant girls, most of whom were between ten and fourteen years old, to Čachtice Castle, near the Carpathian Mountains, under the pretense of employing them as servants.
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