This week we're going back to the 1960s with Boston Strangler! Join us as we learn about the Boston PD's bad advice to women, raids on queer communities, the death of Albert DeSalvo, and more!

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James H. Hammond, "Boston 'Strangler' Flees Hospital; Women Are Told to Lock Doors," The Washington Post (25 Feb 1967): 1.  Douglas Crocket, "What Did the Five Strangle Victims Have in Common?" Boston Globe (24 Aug 1962): 4.  Charles Claffey, "9 Stranglings Still Unsolved--And Circle of Fear Widens," Boston Globe (15 Sep 1963): 38.  "Police Working Without Result on Stranglings," Boston Globe (8 July 1962): 6.  Douglas Crocket, "Police Have Queried 3000 Persons in Strangling Case," Boston Globe (20 Jan 1963): 9.  Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.), 09 Dec. 1962. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1962-12-09/ed-1/seq-7/  "What Police Say: 'Women Too Trusting.. Careless'." Boston Globe (1960-), Sep 19, 1965. "Public Faces/Private Lives," The History Project: Documenting LGBTQ Boston, https://www.historyproject.org/exhibition/public-faces-private-lives  Robert B. Kenney, "South Cove Branded Degenerates' Hangout," Boston Globe (8 July 1965): 1.  Joseph Keblinsky, "The Dapper Strikes Out," Boston Globe (11 Jly 1965): A4.  "Remember Scollay Square?" Boston Globe (2 November 1963): 4.  "Rowdy Ways of Scollay Sq. Soon Will Go: Proper Boston Stands the Death Watch," Chicago Daily Tribune (11 March 1962): B8.  Anthony J. Yudis, "Renewal to Oust 28 Liquor Spots: Battle for South Cove," Boston Globe (30 May 1965): 11.  Sixtieth Annual Report of the Police Commissioner for the City of Boston for the Year Ending December 31, 1965. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hl2k7i?urlappend=%3Bseq=33%3Bownerid=116415389-37  Blackwood, Harold. "What People Talk about: Boston Revisited After 20 Years, Ex-Navy Man Likes what He Sees." Boston Globe (1960-), Apr 14 1963, p. 1. ProQuest.  Jan Brogan, The Combat Zone: Murder, Race, and Boston's Struggle for Justice (University of Massachusetts Press, 2021). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv29g2gxr.6  Anne Gray Fischer, "Boston: The Place is Gone! Policing Black Women to Redevelop Downtown," in The Streets Belong to Us: Sex, Race, and Police Power from Segregation to Gentrification (University of North Carolina Press, 2022). https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469665061_fischer.8  

"DeSalvo, Confessed Boston Strangler, Found Stabbed to Death in Prison Cell," New York Times, 11/27/1973, available at https://www.nytimes.com/1973/11/27/archives/desalvo-confessed-boston-strangler-found-stabbed-to-death-in-prison.html Susan Kelly, "The Boston Stranglers," Kensington, 2013.

Nathan Smith, "The Tenacious Woman Reporters Who Helped Expose the Boston Strangler," Smithsonian, available at https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-tenacious-women-reporters-who-helped-expose-the-boston-strangler-180981786/ Kevin Slane, "Separating Fact From Fiction in the Boston Strangler Movie," Boston.com, available at https://www.boston.com/culture/movies/2023/03/17/boston-strangler-movie-whats-real-not/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Strangler_(film)