Donna Lauria
Son of Sam started his random killing spree on July 29, 1976. David was the type of serial killer that deserted the boides, meaning that once he killed his victims he just left them there and went about his business. He murdered Donna and her friend Jody Valenti in their car. It was said that the two women were sitting in their parked car in the park when they were approached by Berkowitz. He walked up to the car with a sack, pulled out his infamous .44 caliber pistol and shot. He murdered Donna with one fatal shot to the head, and wounded Jody with 3 gunshot wounds to multiple locations in her body. The randomness behind his killings was what helped him elude the authorities for so long, however, the knew it was him because of his signature. He always used the same pistol, a .44 caliber, and always murdered women. Also going back to being a deserter, he left the bodies where they were for someone else to come around and find them.
Jody Valenti
The interesting thing about this victim, was that she survivde, and probably contriubted to the capture of David Berkowitz. She was able to describe to the police atleast what she thought that he looked like, so that was a start. The police were able to identify the exact gun that was used, and the funny thing was that the stlye and methods behind it were that of a NYPD officer's training. The police had a profile of a 5'9 160 pound man with a fiar complexion. This profile got people stirred up and more and more sightings of this man were seen, but he was not stopped.