Editing Boston Strangler (section)

== DNA evidence ==
On July 11, 2013, the Boston Police Department announced that they had found DNA evidence that linked DeSalvo to the murder of Mary Sullivan.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://boston.cbslocal.com/2013/07/11/new-information-to-be-released-in-boston-strangler-case/ |title=New DNA Testing Ties Boston Strangler To 1964 Mary Sullivan Murder « CBS Boston |date=July 11, 2013 |publisher=Boston.cbslocal.com |access-date=2013-07-12}}</ref> DNA found at the scene was a "near certain match" to [[Y-DNA]] taken from a nephew of DeSalvo. Y-DNA is passed through the direct male lines with little change and can be used to link males with a common paternal-line ancestor. A court ordered the exhumation of DeSalvo's corpse to test his DNA directly.<ref>{{Citation |work=[[The New York Times]]|last=Bidgood |first=Jess |year=2013 |title=50 Years Later, a Break in a Boston Strangler Case |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/12/us/dna-evidence-identified-in-boston-strangler-case.html |access-date=July 11, 2013 }}</ref> On July 19, 2013, Suffolk County District Attorney [[Daniel F. Conley]], Massachusetts Attorney General [[Martha Coakley]] and Boston Police Commissioner [[Edward F. Davis]] announced the DNA test results proving that DeSalvo was the source of seminal fluid recovered at the scene of Sullivan's 1964 murder.<ref>{{cite news|last=Otis|first=Ginger Adams|title=DNA confirms Albert DeSalvo's link to 'Boston Strangler' killing of Mary Sullivan: authorities|url=https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/dna-confirms-albert-desalvo-link-boston-strangler-killing-mary-sullivan-authorities-article-1.1403536|newspaper=New York Daily News|date=July 19, 2013|access-date=January 2, 2019}}</ref>