When Albert DeSalvo was arrested by Cambridge, Mass., police in November 1964, it wasn't for murder.

Rather, the 33-year-old handyman was wanted for robbery and sexual assault.

After being judged mentally unfit to stand trial for rape, he was sent to a psychiatric hospital. And that's where he told attorney F. Lee Bailey that he had killed 12 women, 11 of them victims linked to the so-called "Boston Strangler," a moniker coined by Record-American newspaper reporters Loretta McLaughlin and Jean Cole .

But while DeSalvo was eventually sentenced to life in prison for 10 rapes, he recanted his confession and was never charged with any of the murders before he was stabbed to death behind bars in 1973.

The new Oxygen documentary The Boston Strangler: Unheard Confession , prem

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