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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 was under siege. A lone gunman dubbed “Son of Sam” had been terrorizing the five boroughs for mor...

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 narrator of The Sons of Sam isn’t actually him. Journalist Maury Terry sadly passed away in 2015, so t...

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. Creepy, cryptic letters were sent to the police and to journalists from “the Son of Sam,” claiming re...

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 New York City killing spree. His investigations and his book, The Ultimate Evil, attempted to connect...

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 to be the man behind the killings. Over his spree, Berkowitz was found to have killed six people an...