"Born to Kill?" Albert DeSalvo: The Boston Strangler (TV Episode 2010) Poster

Christopher Slade: Narrator

Quotes 

  • Narrator : Albert's younger brother Richard, who maintains Albert's innocence, recalls their tough childhood.

    Himself - Albert DeSalvo's Brother : My dad, h... he drank, and when he drank, he was violent. I remember I-I hadda be no more dan four - five at dhe very most - and, uh, dere was a... a... a runkis goin' on out in the kitchen. My mudda had just got slammed and knocked down and hit the washin' machine, and I think she... she end up getting a split head or somethin'. Albert was tryin' to defend her, and my dad had him by de troat. He had 'im with two hands around his neck - I recall this - picked 'im up by his neck. I jumped up on the table. I remember climbin' on the chair and climbin' on the table. I don't know what I had in my hand - a spoon, a fork, a knife, somethin' - and I trying to stick it in him, and I'm sayin' "Leave my brudda alone! Leave my brudda alone!" I was screamin'. I get whacked and knocked down.

  • Narrator : The fast-talking, good-looking young soldier had developed a voracious appetite for sex.

    Himself - Defence Attorney : He is thought to have had intercourse with two thousand women in Germany when he was stationed there as a military policeman, and it is thought that not too many of them complained.

  • Narrator : DeSalvo's tough upbringing, and his time in reform school and the Army, had left him with the skills of a master con man.

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