Question: Facts: - states: massachusetts - death place: walpole , massachusetts - beginyear: june 14 , 1962 & nbsp ; - victims: 13 -lrb- disputed -rrb- - sentence: life imprisonment - caption: desalvo in lynn , massachusetts , in 1967 . after escaping bridgewater state hospital and being caught - birth name: albert henry desalvo - death date: 25 november 1973 - endyear: & nbsp ; january 4 , 1964 - country: united states - alias: the man the green man boston strangler mad strangler of boston the measuring - birth date: 3 september 1931 - name: albert desalvo - apprehended: october 27 , 1964 - image: albert desalvo2.jpg - birth place: chelsea , massachusetts , united states - cause: stabbed to death Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of albert desalvo .
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albert henry desalvo -lrb- september 3 , 1931 -- november 25 , 1973 -rrb- was a criminal in boston , massachusetts , who confessed to being the '' boston strangler '' , the murderer of thirteen women in the boston area .desalvo was not imprisoned for these murders , however , but for a series of rapes .his murder confession has been disputed and debate continues as to which crimes desalvo had actually committed .in july 2013 , a dna match between material found at the scene of the rape and murder of mary sullivan and dna obtained from desalvo 's nephew linked albert henry desalvo to that crime and excluded 99.9 percent of the remaining population .authorities seeking a perfect , 100 % dna match exhumed desalvo 's remains on july 12 , 2013 .