Summay of Gerold Frank's The Boston Strangler

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#1 On June 14, 1962, the stock market fell sharply for the fourth consecutive day. However, this was nothing compared to the scene in Boston that day, as Commander Alan B. Shepard, Jr. , the nation’s first astronaut, received a New England Aero Club award and was guest of honor on Boston Common.

#2 Mrs. Slesers, a divorced woman, had come to Boston with her son and daughter in 1950 as a displaced person from Latvia. She had spent the day shopping and preparing a frugal dinner for herself and wait for her son Juris, who would come by at seven o’clock to drive her to memorial services.

#3 At 7:45 p. m. , Juris, a research engineer at the M. I. T. Lincoln Laboratories in suburban Lexington, drove up to his mother’s apartment and knocked on the door. He hadn’t wanted to take her to the services, but she had pleaded with him, so he had agreed.

#4 When Officers Benson and Joyce arrived at the scene, they found the body of a woman named Anna Slesers, who had committed suicide. She had been depressed, and had hanged herself on the corner of the bathroom door with the cord of her bathrobe.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 24, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822525610

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

On June 14, 1962, the stock market fell sharply for the fourth consecutive day. However, this was nothing compared to the scene in Boston that day, as Commander Alan B. Shepard, Jr. , the nation’s first astronaut, received a New England Aero Club award and was guest of honor on Boston Common.

#2

Mrs. Slesers, a divorced woman, had come to Boston with her son and daughter in 1950 as a displaced person from Latvia. She had spent the day shopping and preparing a frugal dinner for herself and wait for her son Juris, who would come by at seven o’clock to drive her to memorial services.

#3

At 7:45 p. m. , Juris, a research engineer at the M. I. T. Lincoln Laboratories in suburban Lexington, drove up to his mother’s apartment and knocked on the door. He hadn’t wanted to take her to the services, but she had pleaded with him, so he had agreed.

#4

When Officers Benson and Joyce arrived at the scene, they found the body of a woman named Anna Slesers, who had committed suicide. She had been depressed, and had hanged herself on the corner of the bathroom door with the cord of her bathrobe.

#5

Mellon was a tall, blond man who was unafraid of facts. He was a policeman for nearly a decade, and he knew this neighborhood well. In the building lived a man well known to the police who made a practice of corresponding with women from a Lonely Hearts Club, inviting them to come to Boston and stay with him on pretext of marriage.

#6

The death of Anna Slesers became another statistic in Boston. It was not made public how she was killed, but it was said that more than sixty people had been questioned without yielding any clues.

#7

The police were able to determine that the motive for the murder was not related to Anna Slesers’s background. She had no known men friends, and was a conscientious woman who kept to herself and did not associate with other employees.

#8

On June 30, Nina Nichols, an energetic woman who looked younger than her 68 years, was murdered. She had been burglarized, her body exposed and her possessions strewn about the floor. Her watch was on her left wrist, and her blue sneakers were on her feet.

#9

The murder of Nina Nichols was a mystery. She had been strangled with a pair of her own stockings, and her apartment had been ransacked. Her camera was worth at least three hundred dollars, and among the most easily pawned of all objects. Yet nothing was taken.

#10

On July 2, 16 days after the murder of Annie and Margaret Winchell, two elderly women, neighbors in Lynn, Massachusetts, were murdered. Their mail had been delivered to their doors that morning, but neither Helen Blake, the neighbor across the hall, nor anyone else had seen or heard from her since early Saturday.

#11

The investigation showed that Helen had been murdered. She had been sexually assaulted, and someone had searched her apartment thoroughly. She had two small diamond rings, which were missing. She was not the sort of woman who would have succumbed easily.

#12

The police investigation into Helen Blake’s murder turned up very little. They believed she had been strangled in her kitchen, then carried into