UPDATE: In case you missed it, here’s a recap of the Boston Strangler development press conference

At 11 a.m. ET today and live streaming below, the Boston Police will be holding a press conference to announce a major development in the notorious Boston Strangler case. Albert DeSalvo was thought to be behind the string of 13 brutal murders that took place in The Hub between 1962 and 1964, though he was never formally charged despite confessing to the crimes. Today, new DNA evidence may show us just who the killer really was.


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The press conference is being held by Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley, and will likely feature input from members of the Boston Police Cold Case Squad & Crime Lab

The DNA evidence comes from victim Mary Sullivan, the only one from which the evidence could be extracted. Sullivan was 19-years old at the time of her death, having just moved from her native Cape Cod home to Boston. She, along with the majority of the other victims, was killed after being abused sexually and strangled to death with the murderer’s signature dark-colored stockings.

Though DeSalvo was arrested and put away for life, he was charged in an unrelated case involving armed robberies and sexual assaults. He was killed in prison after being stabbed to death in Massachusetts’s maximum security prison in Walpole. Before being killed himself in 1973, DeSalvo recanted his confession.

11 of the Boston-area women between the ages of 19 and 85 were sexually assaulted and killed between 1962 and 1964, sending shockwaves throughout the terrorized the region while making national headlines.

The murders were especially eerie for Boston-area residents as none of the crime scenes showed signs of forced entry, alluding to the fact that either the perpetrator knew his victims on a personal level or he was simply able to charm his way into their respeective apartments.