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New York Times Bestseller and Winner of the Edgar Award: The definitive account of the notorious serial killer - and the manhunt that followed his rampage. On June 14, 1962, twenty-five-year-old Juris Slesers arrived at his mother's apartment to drive her to church. But there was no answer at the door. After waiting a half hour, Juris shoved his way inside. He found fifty-five-year-old Anna Slesers lying on the kitchen floor, dead, the cord of her housecoat knotted tightly around her neck and turned up in a bow. Between 1962 and 1964, twelve more bodies were discovered in and around Boston: all women, all sexually assaulted, and all strangled - often with their own pantyhose. None of the victims exhibited any signs of struggle, nothing was stolen from their homes, and there were no signs of forcible entry.
About the Author
Gerold Frank was an American author and ghostwriter. He wrote several celebrity memoirs and was considered a pioneer of the "as told to" form of (auto) biography. His two best-known books,[citation needed] however, are The Boston Strangler (1966) , which was adapted as the 1968 movie starring Tony Curtis and Henry Fonda, and An American Death (1972) , about the assassination of Martin Luther King.
