The Sons of Sam: A Descent Into Darkness is the latest true crime documentary series to hit Netflix. The series looks at the case of the Son of Sam killings, of which David Berkowitz was found guilty, and the subsequent investigation of journalist Maury Terry, who believed Berkowitz wasn’t alone and acted as part of cult.
Berkowitz is currently serving a life sentence for killing six people and wounding seven others. He became known as the Son of Sam through letters he had left at crime scenes, and police and the media also called him the .44 Caliber Killer – because of the gun he used. His case became one of the most notorious in New York history, but the Netflix documentary doesn’t quite squeeze all the details in.
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This show argues that the Son of Sam killings were committed by a Satanic cult with ties to Charles Manson?
Sort of! Zeman tries to split the difference between presenting Terry’s theories as fact and telling a cautionary tale about obsession and conspiratorial thinking, and at times you can feel the show collapsing under these opposing pressures.
If you’ve just finished The Sons of Sam documentary on Netflix, you’ve probably not yet quite come to terms with how it ended. Did anyone else just really not see that coming? The final episode revisits the Arlis Perry case, a disturbing murder which is mentioned earlier on in the series, and gives a shocking conclusion to it.
So now you’re probably wanting to know the ins and outs of what happened in the case, who Stephen Blake Crawford was and just how Maury Terry seemed to know it all, all along.
Here’s everything we know.
What happened to Maury Terry? Journalist in centre of Netflix s Sons of Sam docu-series
Netflix series Sons of Sam: A Descent Into Darkness takes a closer look at investigative journalist Maury Terry s theory that serial killer David Berkowitz, known as the Son of Sam, didn t act alone
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