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Now streaming on Netflix is
The Sons of Sam: A Descent Into Darkness, a new true-crime docuseries that not only re-examines the 1977 murder spree by David Berkowitz, known then as the Son of Sam, but also what happens when someone’s search for the truth goes too far. “Especially where we are in society right now, I think it’s an important cautionary tale of true crime,” director Joshua Zeman tells ET.
“I think we all need to realize what it means to go down the rabbit hole. And sometimes what it means to not be able to get back out,” he adds.
SERIES REVIEW by Richard Roeper THE SONS OF SAM: A DESCENT INTO DARKNESS Three stars
A four-part docuseries available Wednesday on Netflix.
Around the halfway mark of the four-part Neflix true-crime series The Sons of Sam, we re about 90% convinced the notorious serial killer David Berkowitz a.k.a. Son of Sam had at least one accomplice as he terrorized New York City with a series of gruesome execution-style murders in 1976-77 before he was apprehended by authorities.
Berkowitz looked nothing like the police sketches drawn from the memories of surviving victims. He had a neighbor in Yonkers named Sam Carr owner of the supposedly Satanic dog who ordered Berkowitz to commit the crimes. Sam Carr had two sons, John and Michael, who died in separate incidents within two years of Berkowitz s arrest. Berkowitz claimed the Carr brothers had taken part in the killings. (They were never charged.) Building blocks are laid down to form the foundation for a credible argument
âFor anybody who grew up in New York City, this is
the case,â the seriesâ director, Joshua Zeman, told the Guardian. And as far as New York City police were concerned, the case was closed: Berkowitz was the Son of Sam, a man who claimed to receive orders from a 6,000-year-old demon within his neighborâs dog, an infamous and highly publicized serial killer who further inflamed the Satanic Panic of the early 1970s, and who acted alone.
The Sons of Sam, a four-part series which jumps off from the panic of summer 1977, argues that Berkowitz probably did not act alone, based primarily on the work of the late investigator Maury Terry, whose zeal for solving the case spiraled from grounded skepticism to manic obsession over the course of several decades. Terry, who died at 69 in 2015, was initially skeptical of the NYPDâs explanation for the case, not least because the department was under enormous public pressure to capture the killer and lock up the investigati
The Sons of Sam: Who Was Roy Radin? How He Was Potentially Linked to David Berkowitz 0 Shares
You might know convicted serial killer David Berkowitz as the notorious Son of Sam behind the shootings that terrorized New York City between 1976 and 1977. But Netflix s
The Sons of Sam: A Descent Into Darkness explores the possibility of more than one perpetrator behind the deadly attacks. Following the thorough research of investigative journalist Maury Terry, the true-crime docuseries looks into Berkowitz s connection to a widespread satanic cult across the nation. One lead that Terry fell into was that of Roy Radin, an unsavory producer who was rumored to be a cult leader. So who was Radin, and what happened to him? Here s what you need to know about him.
A four-part docuseries available Wednesday on Netflix. Berkowitz looked nothing like the police sketches drawn from the memories of surviving victims. He had a neighbor in Yonkers named Sam Carr owner of the supposedly Satanic dog who ordered Berkowitz to commit the crimes. Sam Carr had two sons, John and Michael, who died in separate incidents within two years of Berkowitz’s arrest. Berkowitz claimed the Carr brothers had taken part in the killings. (They were never charged.) Building blocks are laid down to form the foundation for a credible argument there were others involved. Around the three-quarters mark, we’re still fairly certain Berkowitz didn’t act alone, but we’re also nearly lost in the weeds of an expanding web of murders and suspicious deaths that expand to the West, not to mention a thicket of conspiracy theories involving Satanic cults and a controversial church and literally dozens of tangential storylines and characters.