![]() ![]() The witness sketches of the perpetrator from various shootings showed totally different men. ![]() ![]() Today, the Son of Sam, David Berkowitz, is known as one of America’s most prolific serial killers.īut it never really added up. Though he later recounted the demon dog story, it was already ingrained in the public’s narrative of the case. He pled guilty and was sentenced to six consecutive life sentences. He confessed to the shootings, and told police he had been commanded to kill by a demon dog belonging to his neighbor Sam. Creepy, cryptic letters were sent to the police and to journalists from “the Son of Sam,” claiming responsibility for the violent murders, mocking the police, and threatening more to come.īut finally, after his car was traced to the final shooting in Brooklyn, the police arrested David Berkowitz, a 24-year-old postal worker living in Yonkers on August 10, 1977. From the summer of 1976 until the summer of 1977, fourteen people were shot in parked cars throughout the city, from the Bronx to Brooklyn. Scared of being the next shooting victim, people stayed home, off of the streets and out of their cars. It was a year of terror, in which the streets of New York City were uncharacteristically silent at night. It was the first of eight seemingly random shootings that continued throughout New York City for more than a year afterwards. ![]()
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