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Son of Sam
YONKERS – After nights of murder in New York City, the killer commuted from his grisly, blood-puddled crime scenes to his apartment here on quiet Pine Street. Here, the "Son of Sam” slept on a m…
Sometimes the roads took him to work. He was a postal clerk in the Bronx General Post Office, a great, ugly building on the top of the slope at 149th St. and the Grand Concourse. In the wake of the k…
It was a parking ticket. A simple, run of the mill $35 New York City parking ticket - one of eight million slapped underneath windshields each year - broke the case. This was the clue that led police…
James Justus remembers hanging up the telephone convinced that he had something. It was Aug. 9, 1977. He was a police detective checking on parking summonses issued in Brooklyn on July 31, the night …
Four decades ago, a lowly postal worker from Yonkers held all of New York City in the grip of terror, carrying out a deadly string of late-night shootings that killed six and injured seven, triggerin…
Nearly four decades later, we rounded up some less familiar details about the case: The news media called the gunman the .44-caliber killer — for his weapon of choice — until he left a note at the si…
The "Son of Sam murders" in New York City, where the killer used a .44 caliber, 5-shot revolver remains one of the most heinous in our nation's history. While David Berkowitz conf…
