Berkowitz Caught
David Berkowitz eluded the authorities and continued to kill multiple men and women for years in New York City. Ironically, it was not the fact that he was killing people that ended him up in prison. It was a letter he wrote to a previous landlord that had nothing to do with anything that suddenly made things click. The Carrs and Cassaras received the letters from Berkowitz and turned them into the police, stating that David was the Son of Sam killer, but those letters were just placed into a folder and held for months. After the last attack, two policemen decided to look into this man and found that he worked for a security company so he must have some experience with guns. They ran his driver's license and the computer gave a brief image that showed Berkowitz to be the same age, heigth, and build as the suspect they were looking for. They did some more digging and found that David quit his job to work for a cab company the same year that the first victim was killed. After calling around, they found out that no company in New York had employed this man, they were indeed onto something. After turning in the information to the detectives, they were able to find Craig Glassman who lived below David. he brought forward letters written that had the identical handwriting of the letters the the supposed Son of Sam wrote. One of the letters turned in actually was a confession. It wrote "True, I am the killer, but Craig, the killings are at your command." After this information, information from the dog brought forward by the Carr family, and the background check they did on Berkowitz, they knew it was him. The police set up an ambush at his place to catch him in the act. Nearing midnight, a man approached a Ford Galaxy with a paper bag, entered the car and set the bag in the passenger seat. When the door shut, the police approached the car and took him in for questioning. During the interview, Sam admitted and provided details for each of the murders that he committed, only details that the killer could know. The case of the Son of Sam, was finally closed...
What makes this arrest different than the others, stated above, is that he did not get arrested off of killing people. Actually he got nabbed due to a parking ticket. The police had many pieces of the puzzle from various sources that may have led them to believe it was him,l but they did not have any concrete evidence to put him away. This just shows that no matter how careful you are, even the smllest things can take you down. Berkowitz was one of the more random killers, all he had was a way of killing the people and particular victims to a certain extent. His trial was held on May 8, 1978 and he was tried for the murder of Stacy Moskowitz and wounding Robert Violante. Even though his lawyers explicitly told him not to plead guilty, he did, and described the killings perfectly indicating that he committed them. He tried to make the jury believe that he was insane but they found that the demonic figures and entities were a part of his conscious imagination and he was fit to be in jail. The judge sentenced him to six twenty-five to life sentences, with an additional 15 and 25 year sentence for attempted murder. Lets just say that this man is going to die in jail. And yes, he is still alive today, still wearing the crooked smile that he did when murdering all those innocent people.
What makes this arrest different than the others, stated above, is that he did not get arrested off of killing people. Actually he got nabbed due to a parking ticket. The police had many pieces of the puzzle from various sources that may have led them to believe it was him,l but they did not have any concrete evidence to put him away. This just shows that no matter how careful you are, even the smllest things can take you down. Berkowitz was one of the more random killers, all he had was a way of killing the people and particular victims to a certain extent. His trial was held on May 8, 1978 and he was tried for the murder of Stacy Moskowitz and wounding Robert Violante. Even though his lawyers explicitly told him not to plead guilty, he did, and described the killings perfectly indicating that he committed them. He tried to make the jury believe that he was insane but they found that the demonic figures and entities were a part of his conscious imagination and he was fit to be in jail. The judge sentenced him to six twenty-five to life sentences, with an additional 15 and 25 year sentence for attempted murder. Lets just say that this man is going to die in jail. And yes, he is still alive today, still wearing the crooked smile that he did when murdering all those innocent people.