Boston police say in a statement 'the miracle of science and DNA evidence' point to a suspect. The Boston Globe says that suspect is Albert DeSalvo, the reputed Strangler who was murdered in 1973 in prison.
UPDATE: Albert DeSalvo, the reputed Boston Strangler, linked by DNA to murder victim
Massachusetts law enforcement officials say advances in DNA technology have led to a breakthrough in the last of the 1960s slayings attributed to the Boston Strangler.
Authorities are planning a news conference for 11 this morning to discuss a “major development” in the nearly 50-year-old slaying of Mary Sullivan. The Boston Globe is reporting the new evidence links alleged Strangler Albert DeSalvo to the killing.
The 19-year-old was found strangled in her Boston apartment in January 1964. She was the last of about a dozen women whose deaths were attributed to the Boston Strangler.
DeSalvo confessed to the killings but was never convicted after his confession was ruled inadmissible. He was sentenced to life in prison on other charges and was stabbed to death there in 1973.
City police say in a statement “the miracle of science and DNA evidence” point to a suspect, the Associated Press reports. The Globe continues that statement to say the evidence "has put law enforcement officers in a position to formally charge the Boston Strangler with the murder of Mary Sullivan."
Sullivan is the only victim for which DNA evidence is available.