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 she got her head blown off. 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.
like berlin after world war ii. 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
the son of sam. growing up in north jersey, we weren t allowed to go into the front yard after dark. it s silly thinking back on it but the violence was remote. and now it s everywhere. everywhere. there s no place. not a high school, not a grammar school, not youtube, not silicon valley, not new tun, connecticut. a hospital. it is everywhere. and this fundamentally is a political question. i think it s much bigger than gun control legislation or mental health legislation. it is profoundly about what type of country do we want to live in? yeah. let me every day interrupt everyone and bring back in nbc s joe fryer who s watching this with us. joe, are you picking up any new information? few tidbits here, nicolle. our affiliate kntv in the bay area does confirm with san francisco general hospital that they are receiving patients from san bruno. at this point, though, we don t know how many patients that might be if they ve already arrived or if those patients are
i do not think this is going to go on like the zodiac killer. we are going to find this guy and i think we will find him quick. sean: i hope so, sir. the daily news article was correct. this is the guy, it s great that he open the dialogue. we get to know more about him. his motives, sean: like a son of sam case? like the unabomber sean: the manifesto got him. if it s a fake person trying to be this guy sean: arrest him. we ll arrest him but maybe it will flesh out the real guy by saying, no, it s not him, it s me and these are my real reasons. this might be good for law enforcement from the investigative point. sean: last thoughts, dr. gorka. look, our thoughts are with the people of texas and our federal agents and the people of texas will get this killer. sean: dan bongino, last call. sean,an he s going to screw p wendy s using anti-disturbance devices, which are inherently unstable. he may wind up taking himself up