A death in Belmont / Sebastian Junger.
By: Junger, Sebastian.
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BookPublisher: New York : Norton, c2006Edition: 1st ed.Description: xi, 266 p. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9780393059809 (hardcover); 0393059804 (hardcover).Subject(s): Murder -- Massachusetts -- Belmont -- Case studies | Smith, Roy, 1927 or 8- | Goldberg, Bessie | De Salvo, Albert Henry, 1931- | Homicide -- Belmont (Mass.) -- Case studies | Smith, Roy, 1927 or 8- | Goldberg, Bessie | De Salvo, Albert Henry, 1931-DDC classification: 364.152/3097444 Summary: Reexamines the murder of Bessie Goldberg in the Boston suburb of Belmont in 1963--a crime for which African-American handyman Roy Smith was tried and convicted--in light of the confession two years later by Albert DeSalvo to being the notorious Boston Strangler, and the knowledge that DeSalvo was also in the neighborhood the day Goldberg died, working at the author's home.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-263).
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Reexamines the murder of Bessie Goldberg in the Boston suburb of Belmont in 1963--a crime for which African-American handyman Roy Smith was tried and convicted--in light of the confession two years later by Albert DeSalvo to being the notorious Boston Strangler, and the knowledge that DeSalvo was also in the neighborhood the day Goldberg died, working at the author's home.
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