From June, 1962 through January, 1964, women in the city of Boston lived in fear of the infamous Strangler. Over those 19 months, he committed 13 known murders-crimes that included vicious sexual assaults and bizarre stagings of the victims' bodies. After the largest police investigation in Massachusetts history, handyman Albert DeSalvo confessed and went to prison. Despite DeSalvo's full confession and imprisonment, authorities would never put him on trial for the actual murders. And more t ...
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How do authoritarians silence dissent? How were libel laws used to criminalize criticism? What punishments awaited those who spoke out against Hitler? Find out in the latest Roots of Nazism episode as Ryan traces the development of Orwellian speech laws governing private conversation.
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