![]() ![]() He reinvestigated the Boston Strangler case “to give my Aunt Mary a voice that she did not have during the original investigation, where she was discussed merely as a crime statistic.” ![]() “I’m drawn to crime reporting because it’s personal for me,” Sherman says. Since then, he’s cowritten books probing other evil, from Patriot Days (about the Boston Marathon bombings) to Hunting Whitey (about the late organized crime boss and FBI informant Whitey Bulger). (He was convicted of two of the murders and suspected in a fifth in New York City.) It’s the latest true-crime book by Sherman (COM’93), whose first, A Rose for Mary, dealt with his aunt’s murder, attributed to the Boston Strangler. Helltown: The Untold Story of a Serial Killer on Cape Cod required an iron stomach to research, as it graphically details Costa’s grisly killing spree, necrophilia, and mutilation of four women in 19. Helltown mixes Costa’s story with that of writers Kurt Vonnegut and Norman Mailer, Cape Cod residents who took an interest in the killings. ![]()
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