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A water bottle recovered from a construction site where Tim DeSalvo – whose uncle Albert DeSalvo had confessed to being the internationally notorious Boston Strangler – gave police the DNA evidence they needed to bring closure to a case that has been a mystery for nearly 50 years, murders for which no one has ever been charged. "This is really a story of relentlessness,'' Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis explained today as Massachusetts top law enforcement officials revealed that DNA preserved from the body of the Boston Strangler's last victim--raped and murdered in 1964--can now be linked with "99.9 percent...

<p>December 7, 2001 -- SO they finally got around to testing the DNA of one of the victims of the Boston Strangler and discovered what I've been saying all along - Albert DeSalvo was innocent.</p> <p>It's been 36 years since Mary Sullivan, the last of the Strangler's victims, was found murdered, 35 years since DeSalvo confessed - and two years since Boston cops reopened the miscarriage of justice they call this case.</p>