Dr. Ames Robey may have had more insight about the identity of the Boston Strangler than people knew at the time. KatRamsland takes us through the story that has now become a new film on Hulu.
A new film about the Boston Strangler shows Albert DeSalvo inviting a reporter to record his revised story.
However, the call was made to a psychiatrist whom DeSalvo knew did not believe his original confession.Credit: Boston Public Library Creative Commons, a new Hulu film about a team of female reporters who broke the story about the murder series in Boston during the early 1960s, alters some key facts. Notably, in order to boost one character’s prominence, the film downplays a psychiatrist’s role. But the psychiatrist, Ames Robey, shouldn’t be so quickly dismissed.
Keira Knightley and Carrie Coon portray the investigative journalists Loretta McLaughlin and Jean Cole, who one-upped the cops to identify a link among several murders of older women. The murders continued.Between June 1962 and January 1964, 13 single women in the Boston area were strangled. Most were thought to be victims of a single perpetrator, whom the reporters dubbed"the Boston Strangler." The first wave, lasting ten weeks, involved older women.
On November 5, 1964, Albert DeSalvo was arrested for entering women’s homes by using a ruse as a maintenance man to gain their trust and rape them. He’d once been arrested as adeviant, the “Measuring Man.” On February 4, 1965, DeSalvo was sent to Bridgewater State Hospital for those deemed criminally insane, for observation. There, he met George Nassar, who roped in his attorney, F. Lee Bailey. DeSalvo confessed to Bailey that he was the Boston Strangler.
Yet a Bridgewater psychiatrist, Ames Robey, doubted DeSalvo’s confession. He claimed that DeSalvo had admitted he knew details about the victims’ residences because he’d been so fascinated by the press accounts that he’d gained entry into the apartments to look around. He’d also admitted that his lawyer had suggested symptoms of mental illness that he should feign for an insanity defense.
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