A Death in Belmont
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In the spring of 1963, the quiet suburb of Belmont, Massachusetts, is rocked by a shocking sex murder that exactly fits the pattern of the Boston Strangler. Sensing a break in the case that has paralyzed the city of Boston, the police track down a black man, Roy Smith, whoā¦
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Iāve long admired Sebastian Junger, who writes with precision, empathy, and intelligence.
Heās best known for A Perfect Storm, but in A Death in Belmont, a 1962 photograph shows him as an infant in his motherās lap, posing with the two carpenters whoād just added an art studio to the Jungersā home: The younger man is Albert DeSalvo, later known as The Boston Strangler.
Junger argues, convincingly but not definitively, that DeSalvo may have been responsible for the rape-murder of Bessie Goldberg, who lived near the Jungers, despite the conviction, based on circumstantial evidence, of Roy Smith, anā¦
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