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Albert Desalvo  

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  • Albert DeSalvo, the self-professed Boston Strangler, was born on September 3, 1931, to Charlotte and Frank DeSalvo. Albert's father was an abusive alcoholic who once sold Albert and two of his sisters into slavery to a Maine farmer. [Source: The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America: An Encylopedia; DeSalvo, Albert]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-CXR6R237-4

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