Dateline NBC The Santa Strangler (1992– ) Online

Adolph Laudenberg was called the Santa Strangler because by the time of his arrest, he looked like Santa Claus. He was brought to book in a very unusual way: he told two daughters-in-law twenty-seven years apart that he had raped and strangled four women. Both took him seriously.

Herein we hear from them as well as from the detectives assigned to the cold case. Somewhat ludicrous were the lengths to which they went to obtain his DNA. In the UK, he would simply have been arrested and swabbed, but the American police frown on that as the fruit of the poisonous tree. Something that is rather absurd considering the number of innocent citizens these trigger happy clowns kill year in year out.