9/5/2023 0 Comments Sons of sam narrator![]() I did not want to make the documentary, but I was still interested in talking to Maury we became friends if you will. Please tell the story to the world because I could not convince them that David Berkowitz did not do it alone.” He was begging me like, “Please make a documentary about this case. He was both like a mentor - because he knew all about crime and I love true crime - but he’s also a bit of an unreliable narrator because he was so invested in it. We had lunch and he turned out to be this really fascinating character. ‘FUBAR’ Gives Arnold Schwarzenegger His Most Fun Role in Years I really wanted to kind of seek out this writer. But more so, this book was really fascinating because as you are reading it, you are feeling this writer go down this rabbit hole of the Son of Sam case and making all these connections. I didn’t totally believe it, but there was something about this book that was super fascinating, kind of in a Manson-esque terror way. ![]() I am a debunker of things that go bump in the night. I picked up The Ultimate Evil and honestly it scared the shit out of me - and I do not scare easy. They told me that if I wanted to know more that I should look up a guy named Maury Terry and read his book, The Ultimate Evil. ![]() These veteran detectives at the NYPD sat me down and they said, “No, let me tell you a story.” They proceeded to tell me that there were a number of detectives, both past and present, who had done some investigative work and believe that David Berkowitz, the Son of Sam, the notorious serial killer in the Seventies, did not act alone. More so, that these missing kids were connected to this cult that was theoretically behind the Son of Sam case - that and that Berkowitz didn’t act alone, that he was part of this cult. I was filming with my directing partner at the time, Barbara Brancaccio, and we had heard rumors among journalists and lawyers and even some police that these missing kids were somehow connected to the Son of Sam case. ![]() I was actually doing a documentary called Cropsey about some missing kids in my hometown of Staten Island, New York. How did you become interested in Maury Terry his work? You’ve been interested in this case for almost 10 years now, right? But it’s not Berkowitz and his alleged accomplices that are truly the focus of the series - instead, it’s Terry himself, a journalist who sacrifices his time, resources, and, ultimately, his life in the pursuit of those who perpetrated the Son of Sam killings. The series focuses on Terry’s obsessive journey to prove that Berkowitz was not a lone gunman, but a part of a many-webbed conspiracy rooted in Satanism, snuff films, and cold hard cash. Such is the crux of the upcoming four-part Netflix docuseries The Sons of Sam: A Descent Into Darkness, which will be released May 5th. Berkowitz signed off with a warning: “Maury, the public will never, ever truly believe you, no matter how well your evidence is presented.” “I am guilty of these crimes,” Berkowitz wrote, “But I didn’t do it all.”īerkowitz went on to tell Terry that he was part of a cult, as the journalist had suspected, and that there was more than one Son of Sam, even naming his neighbor John Carr, who Terry had long suspected of being involved in the 1976-1977 string of eight shooting attacks across New York City, for which Berkowitz had been convicted. the Son of Sam, did not act alone in his New York City killing spree when he received a letter from the serial killer in 1981, postmarked Attica Correctional Facility. Journalist Maury Terry was already neck-deep into trying to prove that David Berkowitz, a.k.a.
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