What was son of sam

A woman looks at a sketch of "Son of Sam" at a store in Brooklyn. Robert Violante, 20, and Stacy Moskowitz, 19, were shot in Violante's car while on their first date. Volante would lose his left eye, Moskowitz would die 18 hours after the attack which was the first to take place in the borough of Brooklyn and the first involving a victim, Moskowitz, with blonde hair.

Days later an eyewitness would come forward claiming to have seen a man with what looked like a gun minutes before the Brooklyn shootings, and that other police officers were writing parking tickets in the same area that night.

A search revealed one of the ticketed cars that night belonged to Berkowitz, who was already being investigated over complaints of harassment to a neighbor. Berkowitz, 24, of Yonkers, N. Waiting until Berkowitz left the apartment building, police arrested him as he sat behind the wheel of his car. A bag containing the. Berkowitz also told police he was responsible for 1, fires set around the city. He was 23 at the time of the first murder. Berkowitz withdraws an insanity defense and pleads guilty to the six murders, being given six years-to-life sentences for the crimes, and for which he would be denied parole ever since.

Following his arrest, Berkowitz made statements that he had been part of a violent cult that aided him in carrying out the attacks and murders. And a month later, he attacked Valentina Suriani and Alexander Esau in their car. The letter, which was mostly gibberish, said, per CBS News , "I am deeply hurt by your calling me a [woman] hater. I am not. But I am a monster. I am the 'Son of Sam. When father Sam gets drunk he gets mean Sam loves to drink blood.

Berkowitz committed his last crime in Brooklyn, when he killed Stacy Moskowitz and wounded year-old Robert Violante, who ended up partly blinded, per The New York Times. After Moskowitz was killed, an eyewitness saw someone getting away in a car that had a parking ticket on it. In August , police detective James Justus sifted through traffic tickets for cars that were near where Moskowitz and Violante had been shot, and found one registered to Berkowitz, the Times reported.

Justus called the Yonkers police department since Berkowitz lived in Yonkers and asked about him, only to have the dispatcher tell him that Berkowitz had shot her dog. This has got to be the guy,'" Justus told the Times. But the series, he said, plumbs the uncomfortable, ungrounded fog that can fester when distrust and urgency whip into conspiratorial thinking. Such discomfort is worth sitting with, Zeman said, the connection a warning of the perils of obsession and metastasized skepticism.

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