![]() ![]() The letters are part of a collection of correspondence between DeSalvo and a Massachusetts family who met him while visiting a friend at Walpole State Prison and took pity on him. Never-before-seen letters, published here for the first time today, reveal that Albert DeSalvo planned to recant his confession and 'tell the truth,' nearly a decade after claiming the murders of 13 women in the Boston area. The man who claimed to be the Boston Strangler was murdered in a prison hit just two weeks after mailing a letter from his cell in which he vowed to 'clear his name,' and said that he was about to 'drop a bomb,' can reveal. 'In time you'll understand what I am saying or trying to say, as it will happen in about a month or so…I'm going to drop a bomb!!' he wroteīy Laura Collins, Chief Investigative Reporter For.A year later, letters from DeSalvo suggested he had seen little of the financial gain he envisaged and instead wanted retribution.In one letter from May 8, 1972, DeSalvo spoke about meeting with attorneys and writers and boasted that any book deal would have to be 'over $100,000'.'If he confessed to the Boston Strangler case then he has the means via a book, a movie, you name it…' Boston journalist Casey Sherman told. ![]()
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