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NYC crime rewind: How S.I. helped catch ‘Son of Sam’ in summer of 1977 Updated May 07, 1:33 PM; Posted May 07, 8:00 AM Son of Sam suspect David Berkowitz, stands before Criminal Court Judge Richard Brown at the Criminal Court building in Brooklyn on Aug. 11, 1977 to hear charges accusing him in six random murders that terrorized New York City. (Photo by Stan Wolfson/Newsday RM via Getty Images) Facebook Share STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – It was the sweltering summer of 1977 and New York City w...

The Sons of Sam: A Descent into Darkness went straight into the top spot of the Netflix Top 10 list when it was released this week. The four-part series tells the story of serial killer David Berkowitz and journalist Maury Terry’s investigation into the theory that the killer wasn’t working alone and could be part of a cult. With Maury Terry being such a huge focus of the doc, you might have been wondering who it actually is who has provided his voiceover for the series – because the narr...

It was the first of eight seemingly random shootings that continued throughout New York City for more than a year afterwards. It was a year of terror, in which the streets of New York City were uncharacteristically silent at night. Scared of being the next shooting victim, people stayed home, off of the streets and out of their cars. 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. Six of them died. Creep...

Mike Groll/AP/Shutterstock The story of the Son of Sam, David Berkowitz, who was found guilty of six murders committed in New York City in the late 1970s, once again returns to prime time in Netflix’s new documentary The Sons of Sam. Though Berkowitz is the titular focus, the four-part series organizes events around a different Yonkers resident. The series chronicles the white-whale search of investigative reporter Maury Terry, who maintained Berkowitz was not the sole perpetrator of the Ne...

Netflix has just released a new true crime documentary to get stuck into, which is all about serial killer David Berkowitz. The four-part series focuses heavily on the investigation carried out by journalist Maury Terry – who made it very clear he believed police failed in investigating the case fully as he thinks Berkowitz wasn’t acting alone in his crimes. In the summer of 1976, a serial killer was on the loose in New York. Over a year after his first crime, David Berkowitz would be found...

On August 10, 1977, Son of Sam murderer David Berkowitz was taken into custody by the NYPD.

The Sons of Sam: A Descent into Darkness: journalist Maury Terry, the author of The Ultimate Evil: An Investigation into Americas Most Dangerous Satanic Cult, and David Berkowitz, referred to by some as the .44 Caliber Killer, and more widely known as the Son of Sam, a name he gave himself. Berkowitz was an unassuming man, by all accounts. He had served time in the US army, after which he turned his hand to a number of jobs, including a security guard, taxi driver and a letter sorter for the p...

Eponymously titled, the documentary follows the infamous serial killer, Son of Sam - real name David Berkowitz - who carried out a number of murders in New York during the 1970s. When the crimes began, Berkowitz was a 24-year-old postal employee and said his shooting spree was motivated by a demon that manifested itself in his neighbours black Labrador. Beginning with a shooting in 1976, Berkwotiz went on to kill six people and injure a further seven in a total of eight shootings by July 1977. ...

Son of Sam Survivor Says David Berkowitz Accomplice Shot Him and Evaded Police On 5/6/21 at 7:59 AM EDT A survivor of one of Americas most notorious serial killers, the Son of Sam, has spoken about how he was shot by an accomplice of David Berkowitz amid an NYPD probe for the wrong killer. Carl Denaro has said hes lucky to be alive after revealing he was actually fired at by an "occult priestess" during the Son of Sams reign of terror. Berkowitz terrorized the city of New York for a year in 197...

And the theory of why his murderous accomplices could still be on the loose