The Boston Stranglers by Susan Kelly

Author:Susan Kelly [Kelly, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
Published: 2013-08-25T16:00:00+00:00

Perhaps nowhere in the entire confession is Albert’s need to please Bottomly by giving him the “right” answers to his questions more urgently expressed than in this account of Ida Irga’s murder. And Bottomly’s maneuverings to elicit those appropriate responses from Albert are equally blatant, particularly in the passage dealing with the purported rape of the victim.

In fact, Ida had not been raped—at least, there were no spermatozoa found in either her vagina or rectum, which is why Bottomly had to attack Albert’s initial confident assertion that he’d had full intercourse with the victim. No one had, although the slight injury to her external genitalia discovered during the autopsy indicated that she might have been assaulted with an object. Albert was insistent that he had committed no such brutal perversion.

Albert was entirely correct in claiming that Ida had been strangled by a pillowcase tied tightly around her neck; that the pillow itself had been placed beneath her body; that she had salt and pepper hair (it was actually brown and gray rather than black and white as he said); that she was found supine with her feet propped up on two chairs; and that her bedroom furniture was made of dark wood.

All those details had been printed—more than once—in the Record.

So had the fact that there was blood on Ida’s head.

So had the fact that she had been assaulted in the bedroom.

Albert said twice that Ida had been wearing a black and white housecoat with “squares” on it.

The “Strangle Worksheet” claimed she wore a “polka dot duster.”

The police report, written by the first officer to arrive at the crime scene, stated that Ida’s body was clad in a torn light brown nightgown.

Albert said he had placed the chairs on which he propped the victim’s feet on their backs.

The crime scene photo shows them standing upright.

But Albert made his worst mistake when—after a long hesitation—he told Bottomly that he’d assaulted the victim around 2:00 P.M.

If Albert was in Ida Irga’s apartment at that time, he was there by himself. She was in the Public Garden with a friend—until shortly before six o’clock.

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