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David Richard Berkowitz (born Richard David Falco; June 1, 1953), also known as the Son of Sam and the .44 Caliber Killer, is an American serial killer who pled guilty to perpetrating eight shootings in New York City between July 1976 and July 1977, which resulted in six fatalities. [2]
The police sketches of the murderer based on eyewitness accounts did not resemble Berkowitz, [6] and Berkowitz even alleged that he did not commit all of the Son of Sam murders himself and, as recently as 2020, that he was a member of a cult. [7] [8] Zeman recalls NYPD detectives saying off the record that they believed "Berkowitz did not act ...
Now streaming on Netflix is The Sons of Sam: A Descent Into Darkness, a new true-crime docuseries that not only re-examines the 1977 murder spree by David Berkowitz, known then as the Son of Sam ...
Son of Sam killer David Berkowitz in his police booking photo (Getty) “From the day I was shot, I had the sketches the NYPD made for me, and I carried that around in my handbag every day,” she ...
Below is Netflix’s description for its four-episode “Sons of Sam” docuseries. The hunt for the “Son of Sam” captivated the world in the late 1970s, but the story behind one of America ...
He is known for writing the 1987 book The Ultimate Evil, which posited that the Son of Sam murders involved a satanic cult of serial killers rather than only David Berkowitz. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Legacy
We may soon begin to run low on famous cases from the past to reframe into true-crime series. Following on recent series about the Night Stalker and the Ted Bundy murders, Netflix now drops “The ...
Al Howard was the owner of a notable New York City night club, who bought Showman’s Jazz Club after a career as a New York City Police Department detective. [1] [2] [3]During his career as a detective he was part of the team that apprehended David Berkowitz, the serial killer known as the "Son of Sam". [1]