The Boston Strangler Victimes

By CourtneyClose

  • Anna Slesers

    Age: 55
    A seamstress and devoted churchgoer. The first victim to be murdered on the evening of June 14, 1962. She lived on her own in a brick house apartment at 77 Gainsborough St. in Boston

  • Mary Mullens

    Age: 85.
    Found murdered in her home.

  • Nina Nichols and Helen Blake

    Nina Nichols-
    Age: 68
    Was also discovered in the Brighton area of Boston. Nichols was also found in a state of undress, her legs wide open and her stocking tops tied in a bow. Helen Blake-
    Age: 65
    Her murder was more gruesome. She had suffered lacerations to her vagina and anus.

  • Ida Irga

    Age: 75
    Was discovered in her apartment on Grove Street in Boston. She had been sexually assaulted with a foreign object and her body had been placed so it faced the door and would be the first thing the person entering would see.

  • Jane Sullivan

    Age: 67
    Was found in her apartment at 435 Columbia Road in Dorchester and was found facedown in six inches of water in the bathtub in a half-kneeling position, her housecoat was thrown over her shoulders.

  • Sophie Clark

    Age: 20
    She was not elderly and white but young and black. She was found lying on the living room floor and her legs, in black stockings, were wide apart. She had been strangled with three pairs of her own stockings, knotted under the neck.

  • Patricia Bissette

    Age: 23
    Was murdered on New Year’s Eve in 1962. She was in her locked apartment at 515 Park Drive in the Back Bay area, the same area where the first victim and the most recent victim had both lived.

  • Mary Brown

    Age: 69
    Brown was found beaten to death in her apartment. She had also been strangled and raped.

  • Beverly Samans

    Age: 23
    Body was discovered in her apartment at 4 University Road. This crime was across the Charles River in Cambridge.

  • Evelyn Corbin

    Age: 58
    She was found in her apartment on the first floor at 224 Lafayette in Salem.

  • Joanne Graff

    Age: 23
    She was found in her home at 54 Essex Street in Lawrence.

  • Mary Sullvian

    Age: 19
    The youngest victim of all, she was found in her apartment at 44A Charles Street in Boston.