A wealthy engineer who attacked multiple women at Boston malls in the 80s has continued to “humiliate and exploit women” while incarcerated, according to two district attorney’s offices.
Phillip Pizzo, now 75, went in front of the parole board for the fourth time on Aug. 12, 2025. The Essex District Attorney’s office and the Middlesex District Attorney’s office both spoke against giving him parole fearing he would “pose a significant threat to public safety if released.”
Between Aug. 12, 1983, and Jan. 19, 1984, Pizzo, 33, kidnapped between eight and 20 women in their late teens or early twenties from at least three Boston area malls. Officials said he would open the car door, hold a knife to the woman’s throat and push her over to the passenger’s seat. He would put the ski mask over the woman’s face and tie her hands behind her back…