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Berkowitz: I had made a pact
with the devil,

and I felt these
paranormal powers.

And I felt somehow invincible,

and I was slowly being led down
a path of destruction.

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Welcome to "Very Scary People."
I'm Donnie Wahlberg.

He was known
as the Son of Sam --

a cold-eyed serial killer
who terrorized New York City

and the nation.

David Berkowitz stalked
his victims

across three
different boroughs,

wounding seven people
and killing six.

Berkowitz taunted police

and the seven million citizens
of New York,

creating widespread hysteria
in the city that never sleeps.

The final terrifying three
months of his killing spree

would come to be known
as the "Summer of Sam."

Why did this seemingly
unassuming postal worker

commit these vicious attacks?

And how did he elude
investigators for so long?

Here is part one of "Son Of Sam:
the Duke of Death."

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New York City in the mid-'70s

was discotheques,
Studio 54.

Klausner:
And in the midst of this...

suddenly, horrific acts occur.

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Jordan: In 1976, Donna Lauria

was an 18-year-old
living in the Bronx.

She's out with her friend
Jody Valenti.

They go out to play
some backgammon.

Borrelli:
They had returned.

They were sitting in the car
in front of Donna's home.

Kamen: They had no idea that
in moments to come,

a strange man would appear
out of nowhere,

like something
out of a nightmare.

He walks almost right up
to the passenger window.

And Donna even says
to her friend, "Who is this guy?

What does he want?"

He took the gun
out of a paper bag.

Jordan: The man crouches...

and fires a big gun at them.

Kamen: Five times.

Put a bullet into the leg

of the woman
who was behind the wheel.

She fell forward.
Her body struck the horn.

He shot both people
and then left.

Donna dies almost instantly,
but Jody survives.

The police come to the scene.

Jody gives a description of this
person that she sees fleetingly.

Jordan: She can describe him
in general terms, the shooter --

an average white guy,
kind of young, nondescript.

Who shoots at young women
sitting in a car?

Hopkins:
Their belief at the time

was it could have been
a lover's quarrel.

Borrelli: They determined the
caliber of the gun that was used

was a .44-caliber.

And there had been a boyfriend
of Donna,

and he possessed
a .44-caliber.

But ballistically, it was
no match for the gun.

This was cold right
at the beginning.

There was nothing to do.

Just one paper has it

that a girl is shot
in the Bronx and killed.

And then for the public,
it's lost.

The '70s in New York,
crime was bad.

There was guns
all over the place, shootings.

Kamen:
Let's face it, in 1976,

there were 1,622 murders
in the city of New York.

For a case to stand out,

it had to have some
special characteristics.

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The second shooting
really begins the pattern.

Rosemary Keenan is out
with her companion, Carl Denaro.

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Someone walks up behind the car.

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Borrelli: They both survived
in that shooting.

But they really were not able
to provide

any kind of definitive
information about the person,

and that made it difficult.

There seemed to be
no real apparent motive.

Borrelli: There really wasn't
too much to go with.

The bullets were badly deformed.

Klausner: The kind of gun was
pretty big. They knew that.

But the police
don't have a theory.

Kamen: It took a while

before some
of the smartest detectives

in the city of New York
began to say, "Wait a minute.

We may have
a serial killer at work."

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David Berkowitz was born
June 1, 1953.

He was raised by Nathan
and Pearl Berkowitz.

He seemed to have a relatively
normal childhood at first,

but then behavioral issues
started to bubble up.

Berkowitz: It goes back,
really, to childhood

and the struggles
I had as a child,

many psychological problems
growing up.

I was so disruptive in school

and had so many emotional
problems, behavioral problems,

that the school officials
told my parents,

"You're gonna have to take him
to a child psychologist."

I went for about two years,
once a week.

I had very bad bouts of
depression when I was a child.

I was very suicidal.

His parents took him to a rabbi,
they took him to psychologists,

they took him
to school counselors,

but none of them were able
to help him in any way.

Berkowitz: I didn't get along
all that well with my dad.

It was just my mean spirit
towards him.

I don't know why that was.

I definitely mistreated him,
and there were times

I wouldn't talk to him.

I was a very moody
and spiteful child,

and there were
so many walls between us.

I remember seeing my dad cry.

He said, "David, you're my son.

I love you so much,
but you don't talk to me.

You walk out of the house
without saying anything."

I don't know what was --
what the problem was.

I don't know why I was so mean.

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Glassman:
So, in the summer of 1977,

my father moves
into 35 Pine Street in Yonkers.

He didn't know what he was
about to face.

Klausner: Craig Glassman worked
as an auxiliary deputy sheriff

in Westchester County.

Glassman: He started getting

threatening letters
and phone calls.

He'd be asleep with the TV on,

and I guess
he had it on too loud.

He'd get a phone call screaming
at him to shut it off.

At first, wouldn't think
anything of it.

He thought, "Well, okay.
Well, someone has a temper.

I'll just try to be
more respectful."

And then one night,
he went to the door,

and he heard crackling.

He opened his door
and found a fire.

Glassman: It was trash
that someone had put there,

put bullets in,
and set it on fire,

hoping that my dad
would open the door

and get hit
by one of the bullets.

Jordan:
Craig Glassman came to realize

that the man harassing him
with these letters

and this fire was
his upstairs neighbor...

...but he had no way of knowing
it was the Son of Sam.

Nobody put it together.
Nobody.

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Klausner: November 27th,
there is another attack.

Two young ladies,
Joanne Lomino and Donna DeMasi,

go into Manhattan
to see a movie.

It's about 11:45 in the evening.

They're walking back
from the bus stop.

Jordan: Donna notices a man
standing under a streetlight,

watching them.

They don't like it.

So they head directly
to Joanne's house.

Clark:
The worst thing about these --

these girls did nothing to
put themselves into harm's way.

He went after them as someone
would go after prey.

Klausner:
They reach Joanne's home

and are climbing up the steps.

They saw this fellow
approach them.

Jordan:
Joanne is fumbling for her keys.

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He crosses the street,
coming directly towards them.

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The killer would pull out
the gun, look at them...

...and then fire
and fire and fire.

Both teens were shot
but survived.

Lomino, however, would always be
paralyzed from the waist down.

Police are confounded
about who would do this

to these two young teenagers.

They simply weren't connecting
the dots

to the other two shootings.

Hopkins: In order to make
a comparison with a bullet,

it has to be intact.

If the bullet strikes
a hard object,

even bones in a human body,

it could deform it.

Borrelli: We had three pieces
of a bullet that looked like

from a very
large-caliber weapon.

Hopkins: But if you don't have
those characteristics

where you can match it up,
it's of no value.

Hopkins: There was really
no direction to go.

January 30th, it came around
about 10 to 1:00

that there was a shooting.

I remember it was a cold night.

Little did I realize it would
turn the city upside down.

The fourth shooting was with
Christine Freund and John Diel.

The police come,
and they begin questioning John.

All he remembers was...

...a loud noise,
glass coming in.

And he looked at Christine,
and she's covered with blood.

Diel: All of a sudden,
there's a crash, and I turned.

And I seen Chris falling,
like this, towards me, you know?

And I grabbed her,
I started screaming,

"Chris, Chris, Chris!"

And then there was
one more bang, you know?

Hopkins: He has not been hit,
but she has.

She will die.

Borrelli: At the scene,
there was a bullet

that had glanced
off the windshield

and was laying
on the dashboard.

Hopkins: It was an unusual
bullet -- a large caliber,

.44 caliber.

And normally,
you don't see that.

My father said that
the .44-caliber gun

is only made
for one thing only.

It's made for maiming
and killing.

Borrelli: I was talking to one
of the detectives, I said,

"That's a big bullet."

And he said, "You know, we had
a shooting in our precinct

where the caliber
of the bullet was large."

He said, "And there's
something up in the Bronx."

And I said, "Hey, maybe we ought
to look into it a little more."

Klausner:
Now they're calling around.

"Does anything in your precinct
sound the same

as what just happened?"

The pattern started to emerge.

You had female victims
in every single case.

It's also the witnesses
who saw certain things --

the approach to the car,

to getting into
a crouch position,

and shooting with two hands.

And he would get away
very quickly.

The bells started going off.

There was a feeling that maybe
this is the same gun.

Maybe it's the same guy
pulling the gun.

Detectives are starting
to wonder,

"What are we dealing with here?"

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Jordan: David Berkowitz had
a complete fascination

with death and dying.

David's mother, Pearl,
had a pet parakeet.

David had slowly poisoned
the bird

with cleaning fluid
to kill it,

because his mother paid
too much attention to her pet

and not enough to him.

Collarini-Schlossberg: He got
experience in being inhumane.

When you can start
killing an animal,

the next step is
to kill a person.

Berkowitz: They tried to help
me, but that didn't work.

The problem was with me.

Kamen: The nightmare doesn't
start to sprout full

onto the city
until the next killing.

The fifth shooting,
in Forest Hills,

was Virginia Voskerichian,
a young girl coming from school.

She's a 19-year-old student
at Barnard, studying Russian.

She's by herself
in a quiet neighborhood.

A man coming
in the opposite direction

walks towards her.

And he stops directly in front
of her, pulls out a gun.

He fires one time,

right through the center
of the schoolbooks

into her face, and she dies.

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Clark:
It was such a brutal event.

That upset a lot of guys

because she was
a beautiful young girl

who apparently did nothing.

Hopkins: When you have a woman
shot on the street

for no apparent reason,
everybody wants to know why.

It wasn't actually until
after Voskerichian

that we were able to connect

the previous shootings
in Queens and the Bronx.

Jordan: With the shooting
of Virginia Voskerichian,

we now had
five shooting episodes.

So, now, the bullet
that was recovered

with that went to ballistics.

It all hinged on making
the match between the bullets.

And ballistics, even though
couldn't say definitively,

they felt very strongly
that it was the same gun

that was used
in each of those shootings.

The same person was
doing the shootings.

Patrick:
That's when they put it together

that there's a serial killer
on the loose in New York.

Klausner:
This is someone going out

and just destroying lives,
and that's scary.

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Klausner: Mayor Abraham Beame

and then police commissioner
Michael Codd

decide to hold
a press conference.

McLoughlin: You owe something
to the public.

Jordan: To warn them

that basically
a killer was on the loose.

Kamen:
What they essentially said was,

"We're looking for one guy,

using a large handgun,
a .44-caliber revolver."

Although the description
of the perpetrator was vague,

everyone agreed that it was
a young white male

between 25 and 30 years old,

about 6 feet tall,

with a medium build
and dark hair.

Hopkins:
Very mobile, has a car.

And the M.O. was
to surprise his victims,

usually who were in a car,
mostly attractive young women,

at times making out
with a boyfriend.

McLoughlin:
So, the natural reaction

was to form a task force
that would deal

with all the homicides
connected to this person.

Man: We will catch
this individual.

Our only hope is that we catch
him before he does it again.

Wax: At that point,
the public begins to feel,

"We've got a serial killer
in our midst."

It got the city up in arms.

When it first came out
in the newspapers,

they dubbed him
as the .44-caliber killer.

It was everywhere.
Everywhere.

And it was on the front page
of every paper --

The "Daily News,"
the "New York Post."

Everybody was afraid.

Collarini-Schlossberg:
It's scary because

they really don't know where
he's going to turn up next.

I won't walk home anymore
in the dark.

It's just scary.
It's frightening.

You don't know
what's gonna happen.

Patrick: That's when alarms came
to the house and locks

and "stay close to home."

Clark: At the time,
there was the misconception

that these women
that were being shot

all had the same
similar characteristics.

Heller:
They assumed that it was someone

that was going
after brunette women.

One day, my secretary,
Cynthia, came in,

and she had had long brown hair,

and she cut it short
and made it blond.

And she said, "Everybody in
the city who has long brown hair

is cutting it
and bleaching it blond

so that they don't end up
as one of the victims."

Reporter: Civilian patrols
took to the streets.

Women were afraid
to go out at night.

Teenagers stopped
sitting in cars.

There was a lot of hysteria
going on.

Heller: He really put
a tremendous fear

in the city of New York.

He was, in my view,

the original terrorist
that gripped the city.

Glassman:
People weren't going out.

Clubs and venues weren't
really making as much money.

Heller: That's when the Hamptons
became popular.

Everybody left the city
and went out to the Hamptons.

Justus: This was a horror
we couldn't get away from.

Borrelli:
After the fifth shooting,

I was being interviewed
by a reporter from CBS News,

and I mentioned all our victims
so far had been women,

so I guess
he doesn't like women.

Klausner: One of the outcomes
of this interview

was there were
a lot of people listening.

What they didn't understand
is the killer was listening.

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Welcome back
to "Very Scary People."

By March 1977, David Berkowitz
had fatally gunned down

three women
and injured four others,

escaping from each scene
so quickly,

there were very few clues
for detectives to go on...

until April 1977.

And while it would still
be months

until this killer was caught,

at the scene
of the sixth shooting,

he made an unusual move --

reaching out to the very cops
trying to bring him down.

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Collarini-Schlossberg:
Investigators were hoping

that they could figure out
who this killer was

before he would strike again.

But, unfortunately,
they were not so lucky.

Klausner: On April 17, 1977,

there will be another attack.

Jordan: Valentina Suriani
and her date, Alexander Esau,

pulled off the Hutchinson
Parkway in the Bronx,

and they started making out.

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Then a man approached the car.

And four shots rang out.

He came, he did it, he left.

And they were dead.

Berkowitz:
I knew it was wrong,

but when a mind
is captured by Satan,

you can't look at things
and evaluate things

in their right perspective.

Borrelli: I was up in the Bronx,
at the scene.

The scene was similar,
and yet there was a difference.

The difference was there was
a letter found at the scene.

And that letter
was addressed to me.

"Dear Captain Joseph Borrelli,

I am deeply hurt by your
calling me a 'wemon' hater."

And he misspells "woman."

"I am not.
But I am a monster."

And the killer names himself.

"I am...the Son of Sam."

Hopkins:
"I feel like an outsider.

I am on a different wave length
'then' everybody else,

programmed 'too' kill."

Borrelli: "I say goodbye
and goodnight, police.

Let me haunt you
with these words;

I'll be back!

I'll be back!

To be interpreted as --
bang, bang, bang, bang."

"Yours in murder,
Mr. Monster."

I still get a chill.

It's a pretty horrible
kind of a letter.

Justus: A psycho.

Would a normal person do that?
No.

Hopkins: The letter
that was left for Borrelli

put a different slant on things.

Now it's become
very, very personal.

Borrelli: When Berkowitz
wrote that letter,

it was kind of like a taunt.

Jordan: In the history of serial
killers, before these episodes,

we have a handful of examples
of killers taunting the police.

But we really had not seen
somebody writing a letter,

a detailed letter,
directly to a police detective.

Hopkins: Now the news media
picked up on this,

and everybody knew the shooter
as Son of Sam.

That's when mass hysteria
started.

Reporter #2: In Central Park,
t-shirts went on sale --

"Get Son of Sam
before he gets you."

Klausner:
The task force is now growing

because the mayor's getting a
tremendous amount of pressure.

Hopkins: When we started
to expand our task force,

we had the best of the best.

Jordan: It consisted of 200
to 300 officers

and basically every single
patrol officer

looking out for clues.

Each murder, it grew.

This becomes the single biggest
manhunt in the history

of the city of New York
at the time.

Phones rang 24 hours a day.

It was bedlam.

Collarini-Schlossberg:
At that point,

they were going
on every possible lead

that they could get.

Justus:
Every time we got a phone call,

that was a different lead
that had to be investigated.

And there were thousands
of phone calls coming in.

We had a lot of dead leads.

A lot.

Jordan: There are a number
of witnesses and survivors

in each of these episodes.

Over the next year,
different drawings were made.

Clark: But each one was
different from the other.

Because the shootings
were at night

and it's very traumatizing
to look up

and get shot almost immediately.

Reporter #3: Police blanketed
Queens and the Bronx

with cops in unmarked cars.

Justus: The police got orders
to chase everybody away

from lovers' lanes,

to do increased patrols
around social areas.

We went to Alexander's,
a department store.

And we got these mannequins,

and we put them in a car
with a detective.

And then the guys
themselves said, "No good.

If he's looking at us, he's got
to realize right away

something's wrong
because there's no movement."

So then we decided,
"Well, we'll get some females."

We were turned down by police
headquarters -- too risky.

Next thing we did,
we went out and we got wigs.

So there would be
a male detective

and an alleged female detective.

McLoughlin:
There were guys going out

with kerchiefs on their head.

They were being used as decoys,

hoping to catch someone
running away.

In 1976, my husband was asked
to help the NYPD

to figure out the kind of person

who would commit
the kinds of murders

that this killer was committing.

He is the founder of the NYPD
Psychological Services Unit.

Borrelli: The profile
of the individual

was he's in his late 20s,

maybe early 30s, lives alone.

Justus:
A sexually inadequate male

who has access to a weapon.

Hopkins: The guy is paranoid,
schizophrenic.

McLoughlin:
Lived in a sloppy apartment,

not a well-adjusted person

in terms of his relationships
with women,

possibly with his family.

A person who was relatively
intelligent,

in all likelihood
was not insane.

He knew what he was doing
and was planful in his act.

And it proved to be
right on the money

when eventually we arrested
the perpetrator.

Klausner: But they don't really
have anything to go on.

Collarini-Schlossberg:
In a city of millions,

it's like finding a needle
in a haystack.

Hopkins:
So, what's your next step?

That's what we all
kept on saying --

"What do we do next?"

Because we had
no real good leads.

Where do you go from here?

The police department was trying
to capture a ghost.

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Kamen:
So, who was this monster

that was stalking
the city of New York?

Interviewer:
You were adopted, right?

Berkowitz: Yes.
I had great parents.

What went wrong there,
do you think?

Well, no, with my parents,
nothing at all.

As an infant, David was adopted
by Pearl and Nathan Berkowitz.

Collarini-Schlossberg:
He seemed to have

a relatively normal upbringing
with the Berkowitz family.

His adoptive mother died
of cancer when he was around 14.

What was that like
for you?

Berkowitz:
Completely devastating.

My mom was, at that time,
the anchor of my life.

When I saw my mom, when I went
into the hospital to see her,

I couldn't believe what I saw.

My heart was broken, but I was,
back then, as a child,

I had trouble
expressing my emotions.

I just kind of divorced myself
from her,

realizing she was gonna die.

Jordan: He felt like his life
had slipped away from him.

Without her,
he had no sense of security.

Berkowitz:
I couldn't deal with the loss.

I couldn't deal with the pain.

I didn't know what
the future held.

I had nobody to really talk to.

The nurturing figure in his life
is gone.

Max: He graduated
from high school

and was perhaps
a bit of a loner.

He joined the Army
and he was stationed in Korea.

When he came back, he had
a difficult time

adjusting in other ways,
socially.

Berkowitz: I enrolled
in community college.

Living where?
In the Bronx.

I got my own apartment.

I had saved up some money
from when I was in the service.

And I just wanted
to start my life,

and friends had moved away,
and I didn't know anyone.

How old were you?

21 at the time.

And were you dating girls?

Well, I was dating a little bit
here and there,

just very, very casually.

I wouldn't really call
it even a date.

He never really enjoyed

a boyfriend-girlfriend type
of romantic relationship.

Jordan: His father remarried
and, with his new wife,

moved to Florida,

leaving David on his own.

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In June, out of the blue,

another letter is sent
from the killer.

Only this one isn't sent
to the cops. Oh, no.

This is sent to one of the most
high-profile journalists

in America,
named Jimmy Breslin.

Jimmy Breslin was a famous
reporter for the "Daily News."

Patrick: It came to the "Daily
News," to the newspaper,

and I believe
my father was at home.

All I remember is him --
whew! Out the door.

"Hello from the gutters
of New York City,

which are filled
with dog manure,

vomit, stale wine,
urine, and blood."

The first line in this proves
that this guy's not stupid.

That was the first thing
my father said,

"This guy knows punctuation."

"Hello from the cracks in
the sidewalk of New York City,

and from the ants
that dwell in these cracks

and feed on the dried blood
of the dead.

Sam's a thirsty lad,
and he won't let me stop killing

until he gets his fill of blood.

Mr. Breslin, sir,

don't think that because
you haven't heard from me

for a while
that I went to sleep.

No. Rather, I am still here,
like a spirit roaming the night.

Thirsty, hungry,
seldom stopping to rest,

anxious to please Sam.

I love my work.

Perhaps we shall meet
face-to-face someday,

or perhaps I will be blown away
by cops with smoking .38s.

Not knowing what the future
holds, I shall say farewell,

and I will see you
at the next job.

Or should I say, you will see
my handiwork at the next job?

In their blood and from
the gutter,

Sam's creation, .44."

And then, "Here are some names
to help you along.

The Duke of Death.

The Wicked King Wicker.

John Wheaties.

J.B., please inform all
the detectives working the case

that I wish them
the best of luck.

Keep them digging,
drive on, think positive,

get off your butts,
knock on coffins, et cetera.

Son of Sam."

That's a really scary letter.

It's disturbing.

There was something
seriously wrong with him.

It scared the shit
out of, you know,

7 million people
that lived in the city.

My father didn't get rifled
around much,

but I think he was scared.

Klausner: The Breslin letter is
important on several levels.

First of all, it tells
the police that he reads

Jimmy Breslin's column.

Jordan:
He was reading about himself

and the investigation
in the local papers.

He had a flair for publicity.

McLoughlin: If anybody gets to
the point of writing letters...

...he wants to be caught.

He wants the attention or
the credit for what he has done.

Hopkins: I think it was
to taunt us a little bit.

It was to throw us off.

Clark:
By sending the letters,

he took everything up
to a new level.

You know, he made it
very personal with the police

and made us want him
that much more.

Hopkins: From the letters
itself, we all tried to figure,

"What is the meaning
of each of these phrases?"

Serial killers, you know,

they'll feed you little
bits of information --

sometimes to throw you off,
sometimes not to throw you off.

But whatever it is, it's not
enough to find that person.

Patrick:
No one could figure out,

you know,
where his name came from.

Jordan: It turns out, these
letters would contain clues

as to who the killer really was.

And as later they will find out,

there is a Sam.

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Borrelli: Within a day or two,

they released
the whole letter in the paper.

Max: When people
living in the city

were able to see something

that came
from the hand of the killer,

that had an impact.

It said, "There is a madman
in our midst.

Who's next?"

Klausner: Now there was
a frightening aspect

added to this cauldron
of shootings,

of murders, of maimings.

Justus: You want to get this guy
off the street

'cause every day that
this person is on the street,

somebody else could die.

♪♪

♪♪

While the panic about the serial
killer began to swallow up

New York City...

There's a strange thing
happening

just north of the city,
in Yonkers.

Jordan: In May, somebody
threw a Molotov cocktail

into the backyard
of a man named Sam Carr.

It was alarming because
he was just an average Joe

in Yonkers,
with his three kids,

who included
a daughter named Wheat Carr.

Then, April 1977, he received an
interesting letter in the mail.

Sam Carr had a dog named Harvey.

Glassman:
The letter complained bitterly

about the dog's
incessant barking

and told Sam he'd better
do something about it.

The letter writer said
it tormented him

and said that he would seek
revenge on the dog's owner.

And on April 27th,
Sam Carr's dog,

Harvey,
was shot in the backyard.

The dog survived.

Clearly, Sam Carr knows someone
is out to get him,

but he doesn't know who,
and he doesn't know why.

In June, another family --

Cassara family
of New Rochelle --

gets a card in the mail.

It's a get-well card.

But the interesting thing
is that Mr. Cassara

isn't sick or ill at all.

And the card is signed
by a Mr. Sam Carr.

But they don't know a Sam Carr.

And it disturbs them.

Jordan: The Cassara family
looks up Sam Carr

in the phone book,
and they get together

and they compare notes,
literally.

Then the Cassara family remember
that they had a tenant

the year before in their house,
and he really hated dogs.

Glassman:
The Cassaras said, "Oh, yeah.

He used to yell
about our dog, too."

Jordan:
His name was David Berkowitz.

Sam Carr then realizes

that David Berkowitz
is a neighbor of his,

a man who lives right next
to his home.

He has to be the person
who is harassing them.

They take all of this evidence
to the Yonkers police.

But nothing had gotten to the
point where there was enough

to even bring David in
for questioning.

Jordan: Then, once the Son
of Sam letters are published

in the "New York Daily News,"

Sam Carr is convinced
that the David Berkowitz

who he believes shot his dog
could be a good suspect

in the Son of Sam killings.

After all, he is Sam Carr,
and the guy is Son of Sam.

And now Sam Carr actually
went to the task force.

Carr came down and wanted
to talk to us about this,

what he described
as this crazy guy up in Yonkers.

"Could be the killer."

He said, you know, "There's a
fellow named David Berkowitz,

and I think he's the one
that could be the Son of Sam."

He sounded like everybody else.

And he left.

Berkowitz had written a thing
called "the Wicked King Wicker."

He had a thing about wicker.

The night that Berkowitz
was caught, I went to the house,

and this fellow Carr
lived on the corner,

and the trees
rustled in the breeze,

and I saw the street sign
said Wicker Street.

I actually went into tears.

I said, "If this guy
had only said

that he lived on the corner
of Wicker Street,

it would have just set off
a fire alarm right there."

Had the New York police seen
the firebombing of Sam Carr,

the shooting
of Sam Carr's dog,

they would've had a suspect
to focus on.

But they didn't.

Jordan:
They took down the information,

put it in a file
to be followed up on later

and investigated,
and there it sat.

And they didn't discount it,
they just never acted on it.

"We'll get to it.
We have other things."

I, like most of the guys who
I knew who were covering this

or who were the detectives,

wanted to get my hands
around his throat and kill him.

We got to get this guy and stop
him, whatever that takes.

Klausner: The whole populace now
is primed for the next act,

and it's going to happen,
and it's going to be terrible.

Unless something happened
where the killer made a mistake,

it was going to be
very difficult to find this man.

Eventually,
you're gonna make a mistake,

and we're gonna get you.

It will fall on a few detectives
in a single precinct

who will actually capture
the killer due to a fluke.

Inevitably,
killers make mistakes,

and so did the Son of Sam.

I had always said,
"If he comes to Brooklyn,

he's going to get caught."

And that's exactly
what happened.

♪♪

With seven shootings
in two different boroughs

and no real leads,

the investigators working this
case were grasping at straws.

They desperately wanted to catch
this monster

before he struck again,
but it seemed impossible.

Ultimately, it would take some
old-fashioned police grunt work

and a little bit of luck

to bring an end
to the Summer of Sam".

The extraordinary story

of how David Berkowitz
was brought down, next time

on part two of "Son of Sam."

I'm Donnie Wahlberg.

Thanks for watching.
Good night.