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The Boston Globe City Region B15 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2000 Prosecutors told to deal with families in Strangler case January 1964. Sullivan was 19 when she was killed Jan. 4, 1964. She is believed to be the last of the Boston Strangled victims. In October, Sullivan's family exhumed her body and collected more evidence that backs up the theory that DeSalvo was not Sullivan's killer and that the true Boston Strangler has never been caught Sharp said.

Sharp said the families obtained a copy of DeSalvo's tape-recorded confession, in which he said he strangled Sullivan with his bare hands and sexually penetrated her. That confession is at odds with the original autopsy of Sullivan, which showed Sullivan was strangled with a ligature, not manually, and was not sexually penetrated, Sharp said. fighting release of the evidence, but acknowledged yesterday that some evidence does exist, including tissue samples and personal property of Sullivan, according to Daniel S. Sharp, an attorney representing the DeSalvo and Sullivan families. US District Court Judge William G.

Young refused to dismiss the case filed by the families and instead ordered the attorney general's office, the Boston police, and the Suffolk district attorney's office to negotiate with them. "We believe that Albert DeSalvo did not kill Mary Sullivan and that Albert DeSalvo was not 'J DeSalvo confessed to the 11 Boston Strangler murders and the murders of two other women, but was never charged with them. He was killed in prison in 1973, while serving time on an unrelated rape conviction. The Boston Strangler case, a notorious series of murders in which Sullivan and 10 other women were strangled in Boston, occurred between June 1962 and A YAMAHA BllBWAL PACK HJH a By Steve LeBlanc ASSOCIATED PRESS BOSTON A federal judge ordered the attorney general yesterday to negotiate with the families of the Boston Strangler and one of his victims over the release of evidence from the four-decade-old murders. The families of Albert DeSalvo, who confessed to the Boston Strangler murders, and of Mary Sullivan, believed to be one of his victims, hope to prove that De-Salvo is not the Boston Strangler and that Sullivan's killer has escaped justice.

The attorney general's office is US: Flemmi FLEMMI Continued from Bl Amendment right against self-incrimination when asked if he had given his son $20,000 last year when his son was undergoing chemotherapy treatments for cancer. "Isn't it true that you're pretending to be indigent and are perpetrating a fraud on this court?" Kelly asked. "I take the fifth," Flemmi said. It was evident from Kelly's questions that Flemmi's son wasn't the only one providing investigators with information about the gangster's activities. The prosecutor noted that Flemmi's former codefendants, convicted New England Mafia boss Francis "Cadillac Frank" Salemme, mob soldier Robert DeLuca, and confessed hitman John Martorano had revealed that Flemmi slipped out of his handcuffs back in 1998 during rides from the Plymouth jail to the federal courthouse in Boston for pretrial hearings.

"I think they're all testifying against me because they're getting consideration from the government, and if definitely not true," said Flemmi, insisting he never removed his handcuffs. Kelly suggested that Flemmi was anxious to return to Plymouth jail because he had received "spe The J. "199 the Boston Strangler and that the killer of Mary Sullivan has not been brought to justice," Sharp said. "Both families have a common interest in getting to what really happened in this case." An aide to Attorney General Thomas Reilly said prosecutors are willing to sit down with the families and move the case forward. In the past, Reilly has said that the current case is about the Sullivan murder, not the entire string of Boston Strangler murders.

"Our focus is on the Mary Sullivan case; we want to see where it will takes us," Reilly spokeswoman Ann Donlan said yesterday. escape plan lawyers, isnt allowed to telephone family or friends, and has no interaction with other inmates. "My concentration has been reduced," said Flemmi, adding that he's kept awake until 2 or 3 a.m. by the screams of inmates in neighboring cells and has lost his ability to focus on his defense. "I'm being isolated.

Whip me down mentally, so I cant focus on my case. That what if all about" Kelly asked Flemmi, "Is there anything else giving you problems sleeping?" Tfes, this indictment I'm under," said Flemmi, who was charged in a new racketeering case in September with killing 10 people, including Deborah Hussey, the half-sister of the son who is now cooperating against him. His codefendant, fugitive James "Whitey" Bulger, is charged with killing 19 people. "If my mental stability for all these charges and not being able to defend myself," said Flemmi, adding that he was rattled from being kept in isolation for so long. Asked Kelly: "Do you feel you're suffering from some kind of delusion? Do you know where you are today?" "I know where I am today," said Flemmi Tm not insane yet" US District Judge Mark Wolf is expected to resume the hearing today.

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Flemmi conceded that a guard delivered multivitamins to the jail that had been purchased by another one of his sons, Stephen Hussey. Flemmi insisted he couldn't remember the guard's name, although he said it sounded like Barrell or Barrett During later testimony, Brian H. Gillen, deputy superintendent of the Plymouth County Correctional facility, acknowledged that a guard, Sean Battles, was fired recently after being arrested in October on charges that he sold marijuana and cocaine to inmates. Flemmi, 66, dressed in bright red prison garb with DOC letters on the back, said his mental and physical health has deteriorated over the last five weeks, while he has been confined to a 6-by-12-foot cell for 23 hours a day on weekdays and round the dock on weekends. During questioning by his attorney, Kenneth J.

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