see who she works with and have real insight into what kind of money she s got. dana: in new york, there is a son of sam law that you cannot profit off of crimes but she s never been charged with anything. i m pretty sure with the great investigators going out there around the world with a similar cartel, it wouldn t be surprised if there s some active stuff going on right now so the law enforcement is not right there but what i would say is she is known to son, his name ce godfather movie. these people are the most ruthless people. she is responsible for doing $80 million a month in cocaine back in the 80s. she helped build the foundation with pablo escobar for the massive cocaine use that s going on in this country today so there is nothing to glorify, and i don t understand why there is not more corporate responsibility. dana: also nothing stopping
this was a series of random shootings, and the ballistic comparison determined that there was indeed the same killer using the same gun, a .44 caliber weapon on these homicides. therefore, the police nicknamed it the .44 caliber killer. he struck april 17th at 3:00 in the morning, killing 18-year-old valentina suriani, and her fiance, 20-year-old alexander esau as they sat in a parked car in the baychester section of the bronx. we got the shooting back in the bronx. a girl named valentina suriani. but at that scene where that shooting occurred left a note addressed to my supervisor, and he called himself the son of sam. well, he talks about being possessed by a man he refers to as sam, the man he refers to as his father. and he says that his father requires blood. this got people s attention. i think it was just the sheer randomness of it. the fact you could be doing something as simple as sitting in a car talking to a friend, and someone would come behind
you and open fire. it was pretty terrifying. it was frightening. i was in charge of the nighttime operation. the task force that wanted to shoot him on sight. that was our job. take him out on the street. we flooded the streets of new york. there s people dying, and we re trying to stop it, okay? it s everybody. it s not you. it s everybody. that s all we re trying to do. okay. in terms of the victim count, that doesn t place him at the top of the list in terms of the most deadly serial killers, but it was new york city. what happens in new york city, well, that s international news. good evening. harry is on vacation. here are our top stories. 100 more police join the hunt for the son of sam killer in new york. the search continues for the .44-caliber killer who has come to be known as the son of sam. he warned in one of his sick and threatening letters to the press and to the police, sam s a
literally looked like berlin. 1.5 million people live in this borough. once that smoke on the horizon signified industry, progress, jobs. now it means someone is burning down a building. it has become the arson capital of the world. it happens 30 times a day, and the flames are the signal of a national disaster. is there anything that can change the situation? the bronx, my own estimation, is doomed with a capital d. a lot of gritty stuff went down in new york, and when you think of new york in the 70s you, of course, think of the son of sam murders. christine freund, 26 years old, soon to be married, is dead today. dead in a shooting that has no apparent motive. the end of 1976, they transferred me to queens homicide. and the first victim that i came across was a woman named christine freund, who was sitting in a parked car with her boyfriend coming from a movie and she got her head blown off.
after girls with long brown hair. so when i go out, me and my friends go out at night, we put our hair up. my hair is down to my shoulder. it was about this length. i cut it short because of the .44 caliber killer. well, his last victim was actually blond. a 20-year-old new york city girl died this evening a day and a half after she and her companion were shot by the son of sam. he s the nighttime killer who has stalked new york residential boroughs for a year. a postal worker walked out of his yonkers apartment last night, turned the ignition key in his car, and found himself surrounded by police. well, he said, you got me. police say those words ended the biggest manhunt in new york city history with the capture of son of sam. and this is what they say tripped up the .44 caliber killer. a parking ticket. david berkowitz drove this cream-colored ford galaxie from his home in yonkers to