Serial killer doco everyoneâs talking about Netflixâs new true crime hit looks at New Yorkâs most terrifying year â and one manâs obsession with a deranged killer.
TV by Candace Sutton 12th May 2021 6:16 PM It was the summer of 1976, around 1.10am on July 29, when two young women were sitting in a car in Pelham Bay, a neighbourhood of the Bronx, in the northern part of New York City. Jody Valenti, 19, and Donna Lauria, 18, a nursing and a medical student, were sitting in Ms Valenti s Oldsmobile in front of Ms Lauria s home, discussing the holidays and their futures.
Netflix hit Sons of Sam re-examines New York s summer of terror
12 May, 2021 07:02 AM
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David Berkowitz was arrested in New York on August 10, 1977. Photo / AP
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By: Candace Sutton
It was the summer of 1976, around 1.10am on July 29, when two young women were sitting in a car in Pelham Bay, a neighbourhood of the Bronx, in the northern part of New York City.
Jody Valenti, 19, and Donna Lauria, 18, a nursing and a medical student, were sitting in Valenti s Oldsmobile in front of Lauria s home, discussing the holidays and their futures.
Lauria s parents had just arrived home after an evening out, inviting Valenti upstairs before they went inside.
Serial killer doco everyoneâs talking about Netflixâs new true crime hit looks at New Yorkâs most terrifying year â and one manâs obsession with a deranged killer.
TV by Candace Sutton 12th May 2021 6:16 PM It was the summer of 1976, around 1.10am on July 29, when two young women were sitting in a car in Pelham Bay, a neighbourhood of the Bronx, in the northern part of New York City. Jody Valenti, 19, and Donna Lauria, 18, a nursing and a medical student, were sitting in Ms Valenti s Oldsmobile in front of Ms Lauria s home, discussing the holidays and their futures.
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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 Berkowitz’s crimes to other occult-linked killings in the United States, while also proving the Berkowitz murders required accomplices namely Berkowitz’s neighbors John and Michael Carr, the actual sons of Sam (Sam Carr).
Son of Sam Survivor Says David Berkowitz Accomplice Shot Him and Evaded Police
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A survivor of one of America s 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 he s lucky to be alive after revealing he was actually fired at by an occult priestess during the Son of Sam s reign of terror.
Berkowitz terrorized the city of New York for a year in 1977, killing six and wounding seven. The then 23-year old civil servant confessed to the killings.