Free Search for the Strangler by Casey Sherman Page B

for evidence in the gas station murder, they found a police and a doctor’s uniform in
     his bedroom closet. Nassar could have used these disguises to gain access to the strangling victims’ apartments.
    Ames Robey interviewed Nassar when he arrived at Bridgewater. “He had a real hatred toward women,” recalls Robey, who already
     had interviewed several suspects in the Boston Strangler case and had helped the task force create a psychological profile
     of the killer. According to Robey, “Albert DeSalvo did not fit the profile at all. But George Nassar fit it ideally. He had
     a real hatred of women and was prone to homicidal urges.” In any case, after meeting Nassar, DeSalvo underwent a personality
     change. Robey says that before Nassar arrived at Bridgewater, DeSalvo was quite friendly with the other inmates and even the
     guards. But after Nassar arrived, he behaved as if he and Nassar were the only two inmates in the hospital. The two spent
     most of their time together, in the common room in the facility. “The other inmates knew they were not to be disturbed, unless
     you wanted to be the victim of an accident, like falling in the shower and breaking your neck,” says Robey. When hospital
     guards got too close, the two would immediately stop talking. One former Bridgewater inmate says he heard the men discussing
     the Boston Strangler case. The inmate remembers Nassar quizzing DeSalvo about details, after which the pair would go over
     the story again and again. “DeSalvo was a punk, but I was scared shitless of George,” the former inmate says.
    The once chatty DeSalvo also stopped talking to Robey, but in this case, the psychiatrist claims DeSalvo was merely acting
     on the advice of his new lawyer, a brash young attorney named F. Lee Bailey.
    Francis Lee Bailey was born in Waltham, Massachusetts, in 1933. His father was in advertising, and his mother was a nursery
     school teacher. Lee, a fair athlete and a star pupil, finished high school at age sixteen and entered Harvard University.
     After Harvard, where Bailey was an average student, he joined the U.S. Navy and enrolled in naval aviation school. Finishing
     there, he transferred to the U.S. Marine Corps with his heart set on flying Sabre Jets. However, when his squadron’s chief
     legal advisor was killed in a plane crash, Bailey was ordered to fill the position. His chance of becoming a pilot was over,
     but his legal career was born.
    Bailey worked on several cases during his two remaining years of military service. Sometimes he worked as a prosecutor, other
     times as a defense attorney, all the while soaking up the protocol and nuances of military law. After his discharge, he worked
     as an investigator for a Boston lawyer and put himself through law school at Boston University. He graduated in 1960 and hung
     out his shingle that fall. Bailey quickly built a reputation around local courthouses as a lawyer willing to use any method
     at his disposal to help his client and promote himself. Working hard to become a superstar lawyer, even more famous than Clarence
     Darrow had been, Bailey hired a driver and was the first attorney to customize his automobile with a swivel chair in front
     on the passenger side so he could swivel around to chat with reporters tagging along in the backseat.
    Bailey’s first high-profile case came in 1961, when he got a call from the brother of Sam Sheppard. Sam Sheppard, a physician,
     was serving ten years in an Ohio prison for the murder of his pregnant wife, who had been bludgeoned to death in the couple’s
     Cleveland area home in 1954. Sheppard claimed he had walked in on the killer, who had knocked him unconscious with a blow
     to the head, but prosecutors argued he had murdered his wife after she discovered he was having an affair with a medical technician.
     During Sheppard’s trial, the jurors were allowed to read every salacious detail of the affair in the newspapers and even permitted
     to talk with