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address, officers discovered that the car was parked out-the killer cult that specialized in skinning dogs alive and side; a semiautomatic rifle lay in plain view on the seat, gunning victims down on darkened streets. One sus-together with a note written in the “Son of Sam’s” dispect, John Charles Carr, was said to be the same “John tinctive, awkward style. When Berkowitz emerged from Wheaties” mentioned in a letter penned by Berkowitz, his apartment, he was instantly arrested and confessed containing other clues that point to cult involvement in his role in New York’s reign of terror.
the random murders. Calling themselves “The Chil-The story told by Berkowitz seemed tailor-made dren,” the cultists operated from a base in Untermeyer for an INSANITY DEFENSE in court. The “Sam”
Park, where mutilated dogs were found from time to referred to in his letters was a neighbor, one Sam Carr, time. Cult members represented the “Twenty-Two Dis-whose Labrador retriever was allegedly possessed by ciples of Hell” mentioned in another “Son of Sam” let-ancient demons, beaming out commands for Berkoter. Suspect John Carr fled New York in February 1979
witz to kill and kill again. On one occasion he had and “committed suicide” under mysterious circum-tried to kill the dog, but it was useless; demons stances in Minot, North Dakota, two days later.
spoiled his aim, and when the dog recovered from its Brother Michael Carr died in a single-car crash in Octo-wounds, the nightly torment had redoubled in intenber 1979, and New York authorities reopened the sity. A number of psychiatrists described the suspect
“Sam” case after his death.
as a paranoid schizophrenic, suffering from delusions Newsman Maury Terry, after six years on the case, and therefore incompetent to stand trial. The lone believes there were at least five different gunmen in the exception was Dr. David Abrahamson, who found
“Son of Sam” attacks, including Berkowitz, John Carr, that Berkowitz was sane and capable of understand-and several suspects—one a woman—who have yet to ing that his actions had been criminal. The court be indicted. Terry also notes that six of the seven shoot-agreed with Abrahamson and ordered Berkowitz to ings fell in close proximity to recognized occult holi-trial. The gunman soon pled guilty and was sentenced days, the March 8 Voskerichian attack emerging as the to 365 years in prison.
sole exception to the pattern. In the journalist’s opinion, Ironically, Berkowitz seemed grateful to Dr. Abraham-Berkowitz was chosen as a scapegoat by the other son for his sanity ruling and later agreed to a series of cultists, who then defaced his apartment with weird interviews that Abrahamson published in his book Con-graffiti, whipping up a bogus “arson ledger”—which fessions of Son of Sam (1985). The interviews revealed includes peculiar, out-of-order entries—to support a that Berkowitz had tried to kill two women during 1975, plea of innocent by reason of insanity.
attacking them with knives, but he turned squeamish Berkowitz himself confirmed the occult connection when they screamed and tried to fight him off. (“I didn’t in conversations with fellow inmates and letters mailed want to hurt them,” he explained, confused. “I only from prison. One such, posted in October 1979, reads: wanted to kill them.”) A virgin at the time of his arrest, Berkowitz was prone to fabricate elaborate lies about his I really don’t know how to begin this letter, but at one bedroom prowess, all the while intent upon revenge time I was a member of an occult group. Being sworn against the women who habitually rejected him. When to secrecy or face death I cannot reveal the name of the not engaged in stalking female victims, Berkowitz report-group, nor do I wish to. This group contained a mix-edly was an accomplished arsonist: a secret journal listed ture of satanic practices which included the teachings of details
address, officers discovered that the car was parked out-the killer cult that specialized in skinning dogs alive and side; a semiautomatic rifle lay in plain view on the seat, gunning victims down on darkened streets. One sus-together with a note written in the “Son of Sam’s” dispect, John Charles Carr, was said to be the same “John tinctive, awkward style. When Berkowitz emerged from Wheaties” mentioned in a letter penned by Berkowitz, his apartment, he was instantly arrested and confessed containing other clues that point to cult involvement in his role in New York’s reign of terror.
the random murders. Calling themselves “The Chil-The story told by Berkowitz seemed tailor-made dren,” the cultists operated from a base in Untermeyer for an INSANITY DEFENSE in court. The “Sam”
Park, where mutilated dogs were found from time to referred to in his letters was a neighbor, one Sam Carr, time. Cult members represented the “Twenty-Two Dis-whose Labrador retriever was allegedly possessed by ciples of Hell” mentioned in another “Son of Sam” let-ancient demons, beaming out commands for Berkoter. Suspect John Carr fled New York in February 1979
witz to kill and kill again. On one occasion he had and “committed suicide” under mysterious circum-tried to kill the dog, but it was useless; demons stances in Minot, North Dakota, two days later.
spoiled his aim, and when the dog recovered from its Brother Michael Carr died in a single-car crash in Octo-wounds, the nightly torment had redoubled in intenber 1979, and New York authorities reopened the sity. A number of psychiatrists described the suspect
“Sam” case after his death.
as a paranoid schizophrenic, suffering from delusions Newsman Maury Terry, after six years on the case, and therefore incompetent to stand trial. The lone believes there were at least five different gunmen in the exception was Dr. David Abrahamson, who found
“Son of Sam” attacks, including Berkowitz, John Carr, that Berkowitz was sane and capable of understand-and several suspects—one a woman—who have yet to ing that his actions had been criminal. The court be indicted. Terry also notes that six of the seven shoot-agreed with Abrahamson and ordered Berkowitz to ings fell in close proximity to recognized occult holi-trial. The gunman soon pled guilty and was sentenced days, the March 8 Voskerichian attack emerging as the to 365 years in prison.
sole exception to the pattern. In the journalist’s opinion, Ironically, Berkowitz seemed grateful to Dr. Abraham-Berkowitz was chosen as a scapegoat by the other son for his sanity ruling and later agreed to a series of cultists, who then defaced his apartment with weird interviews that Abrahamson published in his book Con-graffiti, whipping up a bogus “arson ledger”—which fessions of Son of Sam (1985). The interviews revealed includes peculiar, out-of-order entries—to support a that Berkowitz had tried to kill two women during 1975, plea of innocent by reason of insanity.
attacking them with knives, but he turned squeamish Berkowitz himself confirmed the occult connection when they screamed and tried to fight him off. (“I didn’t in conversations with fellow inmates and letters mailed want to hurt them,” he explained, confused. “I only from prison. One such, posted in October 1979, reads: wanted to kill them.”) A virgin at the time of his arrest, Berkowitz was prone to fabricate elaborate lies about his I really don’t know how to begin this letter, but at one bedroom prowess, all the while intent upon revenge time I was a member of an occult group. Being sworn against the women who habitually rejected him. When to secrecy or face death I cannot reveal the name of the not engaged in stalking female victims, Berkowitz report-group, nor do I wish to. This group contained a mix-edly was an accomplished arsonist: a secret journal listed ture of satanic practices which included the teachings of details
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