State Police to Hold Sobriety Checkpoint in Barnstable County
Massachusetts State Police will implement a sobriety checkpoint on a public way in Barnstable County this weekend. The checkpoint will be in effect from Saturday, July 13 to Sunday, July 14. "The...
View Article'Lone Star' Ticks Found at Sandy Neck Beach
A new type of tick with Southern roots has settled into Sandy Neck Beach, the Cape Cod Times
View ArticleRoll-over Crash in Hyannis Takes Down Flagpoles
A one-car roll-over crash late Monday night on Main Street and Old Colony Road in Hyannis knocked down three flagpoles, the Cape Cod Times report
View ArticleBuy, Sell, Trade on Barnstable-Hyannis Patch
Check out Barnstable-Hyannis Patch's new "Buy, Sell, Trade" feature >>
View Article9 Things I Want to Do This Summer - What’s On Your List? (Sponsored)
Everyone makes a summer wish list that includes family excursions and well-deserved downtime. Here are nine things I want to do this summer. What’s on your list? 1. Eat loads and loads of ice cream....
View ArticlePOLL: Would You Evacuate Cape Cod?
How bad would the weather have to be for you to evacuate the Cape, and with what form of transportation? What if there was an incident at the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station? Where would you go, and who...
View ArticlePolice Protect DeSalvo Grave After Boston Strangler News
Written by Liz Taurasi. Owen Boss and Roberto Scalese contributed to this report.Peabody police shut down Puritan Lawn Memorial Park cemetery, following the announcement officials will exhume the body...
View ArticleMap of Boston Strangler Killings
Written by Roberto Scalese.The Boston Strangler has been connected to 13 murders between 1962 and 1964. The above map shows the locations of the killings.Investigators will exhume the body of Albert...
View ArticleCops Will Dig Up Suspected Strangler's Grave
By Bret Silverberg and Roberto Scalese.BOSTON -- Officials today cited a technological breakthrough allowing them to identify Albert DeSalvo as the killer of Mary Sullivan, the last murder in a string...
View ArticleCemetery Official: Exhuming of DeSalvo's Body Thursday 'Unlikely'
Written by Owen Boss.The row of photographers and reporters stationed in the parking lot of the Puritan Lawn Memorial Cemetery in Peabody Thursday afternoon were all waiting to find out if Albert...
View ArticleBoston Strangler Victim's Family: "People Really Did Care"
Written by Sara Jacobi.As police announced Thursday morning their "99.9 percent" certainty that suspected
View Article‘Grown Ups 2’ in Theaters Today (Sponsored)
Written by Sarah Cocchimiglio“Grown Ups 2,” in theaters now, is the anticipated follow-up to the 2010 Adam Sandler hit comedy. W
View ArticleWeekend Planner: July 12-14
Summer Sampler at the Osterville Museum The museum will host a variety of local vendors including Cape Cod Beer, the Osterville Fish Market, Momo's Food Emporium and To-Taste to fundraise for the...
View ArticleCemetery, Officials to Open DeSalvo Grave Friday Afternoon
By John Castelluccio, Bret Silverberg and Roberto Scalese.While investigators await the chance to once again
View ArticleWhere Was Mary Sullivan Killed?
Written by Jake O'Donnell.Above is a look at the Beacon Hill location where Mary Sullivan, 19, was found dead in 1964.The address, 44 Charles St., is home to the Paramount Pub. Sullivan had moved to an...
View ArticleProsecutor's Son Says DeSalvo Development Vindicates Father’s Work
Written by Bret Silverberg.Other than a dust up in the early 2000s, there was little mention of the Boston Strangler murders, a string of brutal crimes which took place between 1962 and 1964, until...
View ArticleBoston Strangler Development Reopens Wounds, Provides Closure
By Bret SilverbergFive decades after a string of crimes committed by a seemingly nebulous entity called the “Boston Strangler,” there’s hardly been anything close to a break in one of the coldest cold...
View ArticleTown Officials Consider Bridgewater State Campus on Cape Cod
Bridgewater State University officials said that if the school establishes a program on Cape Cod, it will co-exist, not compete, with Cape Cod Community C
View ArticleHyannis Native Weighs in on Aunt's Killer, 'Boston Strangler'
Editor's note: The following information was provided by police departments in local Patch towns. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, they do not indicate a conviction.Officials this week cited a...
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