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posted 16 years ago by MissMargoChanning
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If this has been covered already, I'm sorry. I did'nt see it and I admit that I did'nt look very much.
I read this book in the 1970's, so my memory is hazy. In the film, DeSalvo, John S. Bottomly, and Detective Phil DiNatale are in the elevator, and Bottomly and DiNatale notice that DeSalvo has his hand bandaged. Outside, just as these law enforcers are about to get into the car, they look at each other, and connect DeSalvo to the woman who bit the strangler's hand.

My question: Did this really happen that way?

[–] mmmm_email 16 years ago

i'm guessing not, this is from wikipedia:

-- DeSalvo was the subject of the 1968 Hollywood film The Boston Strangler, starring Tony Curtis as DeSalvo, and Henry Fonda and George Kennedy as the homicide detectives who apprehend him. The movie was highly fictionalized: It assumed DeSalvo was guilty, and it portrayed him as suffering from multiple personality disorder and committing the murders while in a psychotic state. DeSalvo was never diagnosed with, or even suspected of having, that disorder.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_DeSalvo

"You can't go till I say you can go, and you can't go until you are dead!" -- Van Helsing

[–] MissMargoChanning 16 years ago

Thank you for your response. I always wonder about that every time I see the film. I always felt that it just could'nt have gone that way, but I was never really sure.