Word: carr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that sold for $3,500 a decade ago now commands $17,500. The price has risen $2,000 just since May, and Douglas Wiles, a Miami housing economist, predicts a further $4,000 increase by year's end. In the northern Virginia suburbs outside Washington, D.C., Builder Edward Carr paid $7,442 for a quarter-acre lot in 1969; now the price is $23,000. That accounts for almost half of the rise in the price that Carr charges for his four-bedroom homes, from $40,950 to $74,823 (he also has taken away the carport and fireplace...
...Again: "Sam told me to do it. Sam sent me on an assignment. I had to do what I had to do. I had my orders. Sam sent me." Who is Sam? Berkowitz said Sam is at the moment a neighbor of his named Sam Carr, but "really is a man who lived 6,000 years ago. I got the messages through his dog. He told me to kill. Sam is the Devil...
...torments within Berkowitz, a man who sometimes greeted people in his apartment building with a friendly, smile and even gave a newspaper delivery boy a $30 tip one Christmas, also surfaced in anonymous crank letters to neighbors -notes that helped lead to his capture. Two were to Sam Carr, the fatherly figure Berkowitz was to fancy as a source of the commands to kill. Carr, 64, a frail, grizzled man who operates a telephone answering service from his home and maintains an astonishing arsenal of guns (he said he has a .22 automatic, .32 revolver, .38 revolver, .30-06 rifle...
...that "my life is destroyed now. I have nothing to lose anymore. I can see that there shall be no peace in my life or my family's life until I end yours. You wicked, evil man-child of the devil-I curse you and your family forever." Carr claimed that Berkowitz later shot Harvey in the leg with...
...fire brought Yonkers police to interview Glassman, who told them about the hate letters. Yonkers detectives quickly linked those letters to the similar ones Carr had reported receiving-and they informed Glassman that Berkowitz was the probable letter writer. At that time Yonkers police knew what type of car Berkowitz was driving and its license number, and they began to suspect that Berkowitz might be Son of Sam. It was three days later that the New York police task force hunting the killer learned Yonkers authorities were pursuing Berkowitz as a potentially dangerous neighborhood crank...