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Families of Albert DeSalvo and One Boston Strangler Victim Suing Boston Authorities, Alleging Real Killer Is Still at Large

Aired September 14, 2000 - 10:23 a.m. ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: Albert DeSalvo, the man best known as the Boston Strangler, back in the news this morning. DeSalvo's family and the relatives of one of his alleged victims plan to sue law enforcement authorities. They say they want information that will prove the real killer is still at large.

Ted Wayman (ph) for our affiliate in Boston, WBZ, now with a closer look at some of the evidence now in question.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

TED WAYMAN, WBZ REPORTER (voice-over): Albert DeSalvo's fame began when he confessed to strangling 13 women in Boston in the early 1960s. This is the first time this taped confession to police has ever been broadcast. Here, he tells authorities about raping one of victims.

ALBERT DESALVO: This is very serious stuff. I did penetrate her. I had intercourse with her. She's alive. She allowed me to do it to her.

WAYMAN: WBZ has obtained the official autopsy report of Mary Sullivan, the last victim of the Boston Strangler. It contradicts DeSalvo's confession, flatly stating: no semen was found on Sullivan's body. Quoting the report: "none of these shows presence of sperm."

(on camera): There are some, very close to this story, that believe that, at the time, law enforcement officials actually fed Albert DeSalvo information about the Boston murders, to make it appear Albert knew intimate details about those killings, when, in fact, he didn't.

(voice-over): In another confession, Albert talks about his method of gagging a victim.

DESALVO: I do remember putting a thing over her face and I'm almost positive I put a gag over her mouth, but why? It don't make sense.

WAYMAN: The fact is, no gag was ever found in the mouth of Mary Sullivan.

JIM MELLON, FMR. BOSTON DETECTIVE: The information that he gave was so radically wrong,

Jim Mellon is one of the original members of the Boston Strangler task force.

MELLON: They call it an information brokerage. I think he was fed everything. Bailey was told everything to tell him.

WAYMAN: Bailey is famed attorney F. Lee Bailey, who Mellon and relatives of DeSalvo say told Albert confessing to the murders would make him rich and famous. Mellon called Albert a good con, but a bad actor.

MELLON: And, you could rest assured, that Bailey knew about it, who, in turn, would feed it to DeSalvo and then they'd bring it up in the form a question and let DeSalvo carry the ball.

WAYMAN (on camera): It's believed DeSalvo was going to come clean on his confessions. Instead, he was murdered in prison.

Tomorrow, the families of Albert DeSalvo and the final victim will be filing a civil lawsuit together against the city of Boston and the state of Massachusetts, seeking all documents and physical evidence connected to this infamous murder case. Information that has never been given to those families.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

HEMMER: That is Ted Wayman, WBZ, out of Boston.

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