Boston Strangler

Boston Strangler
Author: Paul Hoblin
Publisher: ABDO Publishing Company
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1614786259

Put on your detective hat and uncover the facts and myths about the Boston strangler. Starting in 1962, eleven women living in and around the Boston area had been murdered in similar, and similarly brutal, ways. Many of these women had been sexually assaulted. Several had been stabbed. All had been strangled. Topics discussed include the victims, the atmosphere of Boston, Massachusetts, at the time of the murders, and the man who confessed to the murders, Albert DeSalvo. The evidence against DeSalvo, reasons DeSalvo confessed to murders he may not have committed, theories about who the Boston Strangler really was, and DNA evidence are also highlighted. Features include a Tools and Clues section that highlights research tools, technology, and investigative methods, a timeline, a glossary, selected bibliography, further readings, places to visit, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Mysteries and Legends of New England

Mysteries and Legends of New England
Author: Diana Ross McCain
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2009-08-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 0762756144

Mysteries and Legends of New England explores unusual phenomena, strange events, and mysteries in the region’s history—evenly divided between the New England States (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island).

Texas's Unsolved Mysteries and Their Solutions

Texas's Unsolved Mysteries and Their Solutions
Author: Carole Marsh
Publisher: Carole Marsh Books
Total Pages: 70
Release: 1994
Genre: Curiosities and wonders
ISBN: 0793358515

Trivia questions covering the states's mysterious legends: Bigfoot, UFOs, archeology mysteries, lost treasure, other mysteries in Texas.

Killing Season

Killing Season
Author: Carlton Smith
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2017-08-29
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 1504047613

A New York Times–bestselling journalist traces a string of unsolved murders—and the botched investigation that let the New Bedford Highway Killer walk away. Over the course of seven months in 1988, eleven women disappeared off the streets of New Bedford, Massachusetts, a gloomy, drug-addled coastal town that was once the whaling capital of the world. Nine turned up dead. Two were never found. And the perpetrator remains unknown to this day. How could such a thing happen? How, in what was once one of America’s richest cities, could the authorities let their most vulnerable citizens down this badly? As Carlton Smith, a Pulitzer Prize finalist for his coverage of the Green River Killer case, demonstrates in this riveting account, it was the inability of police officers and politicians alike to set aside their personal agendas that let a psychopath off the hook. In Killing Season, Smith takes readers into a close-knit community of working-class men and women, an underworld of prostitution and drug abuse, and the halls of New England law enforcement to tell the story of an epic failure of justice.