THIS WEDNESDAY: Netflix premieres “The Sons of Sam: A Descent into Darkness,” a four-part documentary that looks back on one of the most notorious cases in New York City crime History
YONKERS: CONTROVERSY: Director Joshua Zeman, 48, picks up the argument that David Berkowitz, aka the Son of Sam, did not act alone during a one-year spree that climaxed in August 1977 with his arrest in the city of hills and later his full confessions for over a dozen dead and wounded.
Defunct Hearld Statesman journalist Maury Terry uncovered a David Berkowitz neighbor in Yonkers, named Sam Carr – who had sons.
Gannet reporter Maury Terry supposedly uncovered Satanic cults and claims that they sacrificed German shepherd dogs in the Untermyer Gardens on North Broadway – and they saw an unusually high death rate among his suspects.
Maury Terry, who died in 2015, became obsessed with the case and sometimes blogged about it.
The documentary is broken into two different parts. The first is the Son of Sam investigation and whether Berkowitz acted alone.
The second part is about what happens when the police call Maury Terry a crackpot, who gets invested in truth they fall down a rabbit hole and can’t find their way out?
It’s a cautionary tale about the tragedy of Westchester County reporter Maury Terry.