Editing Boston Strangler (section)

==Names==
Initially, the crimes were assumed to be the work of one unknown person dubbed "The Mad Strangler of Boston".<ref name=Gardner>{{cite web|last=Gardner|first=Erle Stanley|title=The Mad Strangler of Boston|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/special-report/the-future-of-the-city/archive/2010/05/the-mad-strangler-of-boston/57108/|date=May 1, 1964|work=The Atlantic|access-date=June 27, 2012}}</ref> On July 8, 1962, the ''[[Boston Herald|Sunday Herald]]'' wrote that "[a] mad strangler is loose in Boston" in an article titled "Mad Strangler Kills Four Women in Boston".<ref name=MadStrangler>{{cite web|title=Mad Strangler Kills Four Women in Boston|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2229&dat=19620708&id=BAMzAAAAIBAJ&pg=1965,2258222|newspaper=Sunday Herald|access-date=June 27, 2012}}</ref> The killer was also known as the "Phantom Fiend"<ref>{{cite web|last=Bardsley |first=Marilyn |title=The Boston Strangler |url=http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/notorious/boston/21.html |website=TruTV.com |access-date=June 27, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130510085648/http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/notorious/boston/21.html |archive-date=May 10, 2013 }}</ref> or "Phantom Strangler",<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Crime: The Phantom Strangler|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,896645,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081222085607/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,896645,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 22, 2008|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|access-date=June 27, 2012|date=March 22, 1963}}</ref> due to his ability to get women to allow him into their apartments. In 1963, two investigative reporters for the ''[[Boston Record American|Record American]]'', [[Jean Cole]]<ref name="patch/ma/chtn/jean-cole-89">{{cite news |last1=O'Laughlin |first1=Frank |title=Jean Cole Harris, 89, Former Newspaper Reporter |url=https://patch.com/massachusetts/charlestown/jean-cole-harris-89-former-newspaper-reporter-0 |access-date=16 March 2023 |work=Patch |date=13 August 2015 |location=Charlestown, MA |language=en}}</ref> and [[Loretta McLaughlin]],<ref name="McLaughlin-1992-09-30">{{cite news |last1=McLaughlin |first1=Loretta |author1-link=Loretta McLaughlin |title=Boston Strangler Recalled |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1992-09-30-9203290160-story.html |access-date=16 March 2023 |work=[[Chicago Tribune]] |agency=[[Boston Globe]] |date=September 29, 1992 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230224202030/https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1992-09-30-9203290160-story.html |archive-date=24 February 2023}}</ref> wrote a four-part series about the killer, dubbing him "The Boston Strangler".<ref name="smithsonianmag/180981786">{{cite news |last1=Smith |first1=Nathan |title=The Tenacious Women Reporters Who Helped Expose the Boston Strangler |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-tenacious-women-reporters-who-helped-expose-the-boston-strangler-180981786/ |access-date=16 March 2023 |work=[[Smithsonian Magazine]] |date=2023-03-16 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Sherman|first1=Casey|title=A Rose for Mary: The Hunt for the Real Boston Strangler|date=2003|publisher=UPNE|isbn=9781555535780|pages=28–29|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wZblBN8-UnsC&pg=PA28}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Kelly|first1=Susan|title=The Boston Stranglers|date=2013|publisher=Pinnacle Books|isbn=9780786035342|page=405|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3VPUAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT405}} (Bibliography showing article dates)</ref> By the time that DeSalvo's confession was aired in open court, the name "Boston Strangler" had become part of crime lore.