June 30th, when Nina NicholsThe 68-year-old didn't show up to her sister's house for dinner, so her brother-in-law called her apartment manager and asked if he could check on her. A janitor found Nichols lying on the bedroom floor of her fourth-floor apartment, strangled by a pair of her own stockings, her dressing gown pulled up so that she was naked from the waist down.
I'm worried after I don't see Helen Blake Over the weekend, two neighbors borrowed her key to the supermarket at their home in Lynn, Massachusetts, and stopped by the house at 5 p.m. on July 2. They called police, who found the 65-year-old woman face down on the bed with her pajamas pulled up over her shoulders.
Blake was strangled with a stocking and the ends of her bra were tied under her chin with a flexible bow, similar to how Sleser's robe and Nichols' stockings were tied. Investigators determined that Blake was also killed on June 30.
Ida IrgaThe 75-year-old woman was found on August 22 on the living room floor of her fifth-floor apartment in Boston's West End. She was strangled by hand, but had a pillowcase tied around her neck.
In the afternoon of August 30 Jane SullivanThe 67-year-old woman was found strangled to death with her own stockings in her ground-floor flat in Dorchester, across town from Irga. She was left kneeling in the bathtub with six inches of water on her face and forearms, and it was determined that she had been dead for several days.
Investigators discovered that all of the items tied around each woman's neck were tied in what is known as a “granny knot.”
