Articles Book III - Pg 1-117 (Adoptees) - triadoption

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Brcslin Ictter, ltad ltintcd he mi ht ignition key, and sudden1 tltc barstrike
again on the nnnivcrsary of 'I tis rcls of three guns were I cvclcd at
first murder.) Witl! a d r ~ net over him.
Queens nnd tlte llronx an ! parts of "Police. Don't movcl" dctcctivcs
Hrooklyn, tlrc golice wcrc ho )ing yelled. -
thc killer woul blundcr into t 1 ,ern "Okay " David Hcrkowitz said
bcforc he could Itit n ain. Hc didn't. qujcrl "~ou'vc got ~iic." And hc
Hc waited until t P ~ next c night, smtlc~ -&W1!&
found a holc in the survcillnncc, and
shot Stacy Moskowitz nnd Robert THF. UYSTF.R~OUS "Snni" of the Ictters
Violantc.Tltcpolicematcr~)lanhad appears to have becn a nci hbor,
failcd.
Sam Ca564, a frail, grizzlc 4' man.
But something else had worked. m-dstz had sent tlircntcning let.
As lnspcctor Dowd had bccn saying tcrs to Carr complainin nbout his
all along, some sim le detail would dog's howling, and later s S lot the dog
ti u the -44-kil P er. 'X parking in the Icg with a .q~cnlibcr gun.
tic E ct, P ' a patrolman said Inter. "You "Sam told me what to do and I did
can'tgct any more simple than that." it," Bcrkowitz told police. "I had my
Tcn days after the killing, during orders." Who was Sam? Bcrkowitz
a check of all cars ticketcd in the raid Sam was at thc moment his
crime area that evening, co s found neighbor, but "really is a man who
the car ncar an apartment ! ousc at lived 6000 ycnrs n o. 1 got the mcs-
35 Pine Street 111 Yonkers, N.Y. . sa cs through 11,is
Tltrou h a window, detective Ed ki P
f og. Hc told me to
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.~igo gknpscd the butt of a machine
gun protruding [rom a gunny sack, BERKOWtn WAS TAKEN to a hospital
and an envelope addrcsscd to policc for sychiatric examinations. But,
and the prcss. . insi 6 cn admitted, it was bnlikcly he
At the end there was tltc smile. would stand trial or go to jail. For
Heading for what he apparently when this sick follower of weird
thou ltt would be a ninth attack and commands be an talkin , dctcctivcs
final ?I laze of glory-a machinc-gun found thcmsc 4 vcs nutn ! cd beyond *'
rlaughtcr in a Long Island disco. hate and rage. Unlike the crowds
thCqctc-he pickcd up a bag carrying that chanted for retribution outside
the loaded .4 -caliber Bulldog re- thcstntion housc, the veterans of this
volvcr, walkc 4 out of tlic portto- nigl~tmnrc scascd very quickly
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that
rnpltic litter and stneared graffiti of Son of Sam-who had st~ullcd out sir
ffis filtlty apartment, descended rev- lives and scarred many othersen
floorsin the elevator, atidgot into would leave them with only the fact
the crcn~n.colorcd Ford Galaxy that of his awful, random madtiess. Atid
held thcn~ncltincgun. He turned the the smile.
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