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Casey Sherman, the nephew of the famous victim of the Boston Strangler, does not believe that the man who confessed to the famous murder was the right suspect.
“I honestly can’t believe Albert Desalvo did it,” Sherman told Fox News Digital. “I’m going back to the psychology profession done by Albert Desalvo’s psychiatrist, who created profiles of all the possible suspects that he didn’t think Desalvo was capable of killing.”
“Albert Desalvo was a sex offender,” Sherman said. “He was a person with a person
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Albert Desalvo (1931-1973) holds one of the necklaces he made while in prison up to his neck at Walpole State Prison, South Walpole, Massachusetts, Circa 1970s. Desalvo is the Boston Strangler, a serial killer who took the lives of 13 women in the 1960s. Desalvo confessed to the murder, but there has always been a shadow of doubt regarding his guilt. (Hulton Archive / Getty Images)
The murders, which took place between 1962 and 1964 in the Boston area, are explored in a new crime documentary on Oxygen, “The Boston Strangler: A Confession You Can Hear.” It features a never-before-seen sound made by Desalvo, who was killed in prison in 1973.
The special is hosted by Sherman, an author who wrote a book about the 1964 murder of his Aunt, Mary Sullivan.
FOX News Digital has reached out to the Boston Police Department for comment on the film and Sherman’s requests.
Casey Sherman, writer and niece of Work of Men Advertival Mariya Sullivan, continues to spend years investigating the case of the Boston Strangler. (Suzanne Kreiter / The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
“Growing up, I felt diminished by my mother’s murder,” Sherman said. “One day, I finally went to my mother, who was 17 years old when her 19-year-old sister was killed. They were best friends. Everything was reported as my mother.”
Sherman recalled: “I saw him start to remember for the first time. “I did what a child does – I hugged him. I said, ‘Mom, at least they got a boy.’ He looked at me and said, ‘Casey, I don’t know if they’ve ever done it.’
“My mother had no evidence to support her belief – it was a sister’s opinion, a bond that could never be broken.”
A view of Mary Sullivan’s apartment where she was killed. (Wendy Maeda / Boston Globe via Getty Images)
For decades, Sherman investigated Sullivan’s murder. In 2013, investigators announced that DNA tests conducted on Desalvo’s fired cases While Sherman continued to support the findings, over time he grew skeptical of how DNA evidence was presented and interpreted.
“The Boston Strangler: Unheard-of Confessions” never-before-heard features of Albert Desalvo. (oxygen)
“When I interviewed everyone connected to the case, I started getting very different stories,” Sherman said. “I talked about the Witnesses with about 50 people and people who worked on the Boston Strangler task force. One original member believed in all the help they reported.” There were several other suspects. “
Three women between the ages of 19 and 85 were sexually assaulted and killed, cases that terrorized the region. All victims were framed by their clothing; Another was also stabbed repeatedly.
The Boston Strangler was called “Jack jack the Ripper” by the media. As the infamous serial killer of Victorian London, the serial killer terrorized the metropolis with a string of brutal murders that targeted women and left a nation gripped with fear.
Albert Desalvo recanted his confession before dying in prison, where he was serving a life sentence for other crimes. The Boston Strangler was also known as “Jack’s Jack the Ripper.” (Pet Pictures)
Desalvo, a blue-collar worker and Army Voter who was married with children, confessed to the murders. At the time, he was a patient at Bridgewater Status Hospital, which housed the criminally insane, the Associated Press reported.
Albert Desalvo (left), self-proclaimed “Boston Strangler,” is seen here being escorted to the Middlesex County Courthouse in 1968. He was sent back to Walpole State Prison to begin serving life on a sex and armed robbery conviction. (Pet Pictures)
The police lost evidence to bring Desalvo to trial. He was never convicted of the murders and was instead sentenced to life in prison in 1967 for a series of unrelated attacks. Desalvo repeated his confession before he was stabbed to death in a maximum-security prison, according to the release.
“There are 60 hours of tapes of confessions from Albert Desalvo,” Sherman said. “What you hear in the text is only a sample. Another investigator who keeps the taps – they checked that this man added to him for several months and finally allowed him to let me listen to the taps.”
Albert Desalvo prays at Walpole State Prison, South Walpole, Massachusetts, in the early 1970s. Desalvo was executed on November 25, 1973. (Hulton Archive / Getty Images)
“Albert Desalvo confessed to events that never happened,” Sherman said. “There were glaring flaws with these confessions. John Bookyley, who led the investigation, had no experience in criminal investigations – he was a real estate lawyer who had never questioned a suspect before.
Mary Sullivan, Casey Sherman’s uncle, was found murdered and sexually assaulted in her Boston apartment on Jan. 4, 1964. He was 19 years old. (Courtesy of Casey Sherman)
“He gave leading questions and showed desalvo photos of crime scenes, which he should never have done. I shared tapes of self-inflicted confessions with veterans, and they were shocked that they were allowed to be interrogated in this way.”
Sherman said during his time, he revealed 40 letters Desalvo wrote to a Massachusetts family who visited inmates at Walpole State Prison.
“He told the family he wasn’t sure he was planning to recant his confession when a reporter from the New York Times appeared,” Sherman said. “Desalvo never stood a chance – he was killed in prison.”
Charles Terry is pictured in custody in New York City on June 7, 1963, after confessing to the surprise of Zenovia Clegg, a 62-year-old divorcee, at the Times Square Hotel. The 34-year-old Terry was implicated in the crimes committed by the Boston Strangler. There was no evidence linking him to the Boston Strangler Murders, and he was not charged in those cases. (Bob Costello/New York Daily News via Getty Images)
Critics, including Sherman, have long argued that there were at least two killers responsible for the killings – perhaps more. They show that Desalvo did not understand the explanations of the Witnesses, was not on the list of more than 300 suspects, and often gave contradictory statements.
But not all people agree. Several important investigators, law enforcement officials and forensic experts have concluded that Desalvo was the Boston Strangler – or at least the one responsible for the many murders attributed to the serial killer.
This disturbing photo shows convicted murderer George Nassar sitting in a car between two law enforcement officers as he waits to be transported from Salem to Walpole State Prison. (Pet Pictures)
Sherman noted that Desalvo was a friend of George Nassar, a convicted murderer for his career. Sherman, like others, believes Nassar may have swayed Desalvo into agreeing to deflect charges. However, no evidence has emerged to support that claim.
George Nassar is seen here being interviewed while in prison. In 1965, Albert Desalvo told Nassar that he was the Strangler. (Janet Khott / The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
Nassar, who died in 2018, always denied any wrongdoing.
“If I was, honestly, honestly, with Al, and we were in a crime scene together, and I found out that he killed women and was killed with it, I would give him a quick and painless death there,” he said.
Sherman wonders if there was a motive. He pointed out that at the time of the killings, a reward was given as the city wanted answers. He believes Desalvo and Nassar may have put the scheme together in hopes of raising money themselves.
F. Lee Bailey, who worked as Albert Desalvo (Pet Pictures)
Desalvo’s lawyer, F. Lee Bailey, previously said, “They had the right person, not looking,” it was reported.
“No one has come up with anything meaningful to contradict that,” Bailey added.
Sherman said he would welcome a retrial — even if it proves wrong.
This negative photo shows Diane Dodd, center, and her son Sherman, at a news conference asking officials to release information Dodd’s sister Mariya Sullivan (shown to Albert Desalvo, who they are. On the far right is Desno’s brother Richard Desalvo, part of Richard’s son Tim Desalvo. (John Blanding / Boston Globe via Getty Images)
“The families of the victims deserve answers and the truth about the tragic killings,” she said. “There is no statute of limitations on murder in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.”
“I think the answer is there,” Sherman said. “I presented my views at the time, and others have. The killers are dead, and many connected to this case have passed on. Now it’s up to the public.
Aerial view of Albert Desalvo’s cremation at Puritan Memorial Park, Circa 2013. (David L Ryan / The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
“I don’t see any single idea that, even in 2025, restarting this execution would reveal new information that wasn’t available a few years ago.”
“The Boston Strangler: An Audible Confession” is available to stream.
