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50 years later, Boston Strangler case still captures fascination

By Martine Powers

 |  Globe Staff  

  June 14, 2012

It all started with a sentence, tucked into the bottom corner of the Globe’s front page a half century ago. “An attractive divorcee was found strangled in her third-floor apartment at 77 Gainsboro St., Back Bay, at 7:45 last night.” Anna Slesers, a 55-year-old Latvian seamstress, lived alone. On June 14, 1962, she was discovered by her son. It took months before Slesers’ killer was matched with the moniker that prompted terror around the region and captivates people still — “the Boston Strangler.”

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