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Map Of America's Scary Things: In NY, Son Of Sam Is Scarier Than Rent Prices

Map Of America's Scary Things: In NY, Son Of Sam Is Scarier Than Rent Prices

Is Son Of Sam the scariest person/thing to terrorize New York ever? Yes he is according to Pleated Jeans, who you may recall from the United States Of Shame map earlier this year. We can't help but feel a little underwhelmed: while hipsters roam Oregon, potato bugs terrorizes Idaho, and Zombie William Faulkner haunts Mississippi, NY is stuck with David Berkowitz. What about rent prices? Giant mutant rats? The constant underlying fear of another terror attack? What about packs of wild, hyper-articulate, nihilistic TEENAGERS??? more ›

SI Man Accused Of Killing His Parents Thinks He's Son Of Sam

SI Man Accused Of Killing His Parents Thinks He's Son Of Sam

Last October Staten Islander Eric Bellucci allegedly stabbed his parents to death in their Annadale home before fleeing to Israel. Since being returned to the States he has been on and off suicide watch and has made such a scene each time he is supposed to go to court that he remains unarraigned. That theme continued today when, despite psychiatric reports saying he was fit to stand trial, his lawyer successfully asked for more time before Bellucci gets his day in court. In favor of the argument that the troubled 31-year-old, a Stuyvesant and Williams graduate, is not well in the head? When he was on the Corrections bus to court and kept screaming "I am the Son of Sam!" more ›

Cop Who Caught Son Of Sam Killer Dies At 83

Cop Who Caught Son Of Sam Killer Dies At 83

Detective Ed Zigo, famous for catching serial killer David "Son of Sam" Berkowitz, died on Saturday of cancer on his Long Island home. He was 83. Zigo found Berkowitz by tracing a parking ticked issued to him at the scene of his last murder. He went to Berkowitz's house, and Zigo's son said, "According to my father, he introduced himself and said, 'Hi, David. I'm Detective Zigo.' Berkowitz said to him, 'Hi, Ed. I'm the Son of Sam.' " more ›

Grim LeRogue Sends S.O.S.-Type Letters To Politicians

Grim LeRogue Sends S.O.S.-Type Letters To Politicians

If we're to believe this CBS headline, then Grim LeRogue, the man who rushed the field at Yankee Stadium with a photo of A-Rod reading "You have to go bud, you've ruined too many of our white queens," hates A-Rod. But before he set off on his crusade to win Cameron Diaz's heart, he saved some of his wrath for local politicians. He is believed to be the author of vitriolic letters sent to Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. and the newsrooms of The Riverdale Press and Norwood News, signed "The Uncle of Sam" in an apparent nod to the Bronx's "Son of Sam" killer. Uh oh, is there a talking dog involved? more ›

Flashback: The Son Of Sam

      

David Berkowitz, better known by his psycho killer name: Son of Sam, has just been denied parole for the fifth time. The state Parole Board told him last Tuesday, "Your actions exhibited a total disregard for not only the law but the lives of innocent members of society. Not only did you harm the victims and their families, but the N.Y.C. community as a whole. Your release is not in the interest of the public safety and welfare." So: phew! more ›

Crockefeller's Son of Sam Scam

Crockefeller's Son of Sam Scam

As the mysteries around Clark Rockefeller, the apparent con man who abducted his daughter during a social worker-supervised visit, are still being unraveled, here's an definitely bizarre addition: The German national actually used the Son of Sam's Social Security number to get his stock broker's license. The NY Post reports that Rockefeller, born Christian Gerhartsreiter, was fired from his firm when it learned he used David Berkowitz's SS#. A German man, a friend of Rockefeller's father, described Rockefeller as "crazy, always crazy He was like Batman before there was Batman, always going into different roles." Some classmates in Bavaria, Germany suspect he fled the country to avoid military service. more ›

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