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Jul 16, 2013
"When he was just a year old, Sebastian Junger (author of The Perfect Storm) lived in Belmont, Massachusetts, close to where a 1963 murder occurred during the Boston Strangler's reign of terror. African-American cleaning man Roy Smith was convicted of the killing, though he claimed he was innocent. At the time, Italian-American Albert DeSalvo was working on a renovation project at the Junger house - and he later confessed to all of the Boston Strangler murders except the one in Belmont. Junger painstakingly reexamines the lives of DeSalvo and Smith, considering the possibilities that DeSalvo might not have been the Strangler and that Smith was both a victim of racism and in the wrong place at the wrong time." July 2013 Biography and Memoir newsletter http://www.nextreads.com/Display2.aspx?SID=5acc8fc1-4e91-4ebe-906d-f8fc5e82a8e0&N=656325ff