The Sons of Sam: A Descent Into Darkness

The first episode goes into the chronology of the Son of Sam case, starting with the shooting death of Donna Lauria. For the subsequent year, random women around those three boroughs were shot, with some surviving and some not. Almost all of them were in their cars late at night; most of them had shoulder-length, dark hair.The Sons of Sam: A Descent Into Darkness Season 1 Download.

As the shootings became linked by the NYPD, the “.45-Caliber Killer” case terrorized the city during a time when poverty and crime were at an all-time high and the city was about to go bankrupt. Right at a time when more cops were needed, mayor Abe Beam needed to lay off thousands.

It seemed that, every month or so, another shooting happened, and it seemed like the NYPD was always on their heels, mainly because eyewitnesses described different attributes of the shooter and there was no linkage between the shooter and the victims, or between the victims themselves. The shooter then taunted cops by sending them frighteningly-worded notes proclaiming himself as “Son of Sam” and that he will keep on killing until he was caught. A note to Daily News columnist Jimmy Breslin yielded big headlines.

But a hunch led detectives to Yonkers and schlubby postal worker David Berkowitz. Not only did he not look anything like the accounts by all of the surviving witnesses, the way he was caught, saying “You got me,” when cops confronted him, seemed off. At least it did to Terry (whose words are voiced by Paul Giamatti), who was always interested in true crime, but was working as an editor for an IBM internal publication at the time. He found that the “Sam” in question, whose dog Berkowitz shot, was a neighbor who’s son’s name showed up in a stylized form in one of Son of Sam’s notes.