In 1963, journalists Jean Cole and Loretta McLaughlin published a four-part series about The Boston Strangler in the Record American newspaper (which later became the Boston Herald).
The killer had been stalking the streets of the city for a year, murdering single women – usually by strangulation – somehow entering and leaving their apartments like a phantom. Women in the city were terrified: some moved away, some bought special bolts for the door or went to stay with friends.
