Word: killers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...information on more than 1,500 men, placing the most likely suspects under surveillance. TIME Correspondent John Tompkins reports that at the time of the latest shooting, detectives were tailing twelve top suspects. Remarkably, seven or eight were present or former cops; one was a former FBI agent. The killer showed he was familiar with police work in his note to Breslin; he also fires his .44 in the police-approved two-handed, legs-apart crouch. "We're dealing with someone with training, a policeman, a former MP, an FBI agent," insists one veteran detective. Ironically, as the killings...
...names like Sam, Samson or Samsonite. Cops have minutely studied each of the crimes for clues to the murderer's methods and motivation. All the victims were young, from 17 to 26. Although three young men were shot, each was with a woman and seemed incidental to the killer's apparent sexual focus. Six of the eight attacks were on parked cars, the gunman approaching from the rear and firing into the front passenger window. Six of the shootings took place on weekend nights. One was as early as 7:30 p.m., the others after midnight. Ballistics tests...
...variations have been broad enough to make the killer unpredictable. While six of the women victims had fairly long dark hair, three did not. Stacy's was blonde. Only one of the parked cars was in a traditional romantic lovers' lane; the rest were on quiet residential streets. The geographical pattern first centered on neighboring parts of Queens and The Bronx, but then spread to Brooklyn, alarming all of New York City. Since Son of Sam's letter to Breslin was postmarked in New Jersey, the killer seems highly mobile...
...assault. A yellow Volkswagen was seen near the site of last week's attack No. 8. Yet more than 25,000 yellow Volkswagens are registered in New York State, and police have little confidence that state computers can narrow the number of owners who also roughly fit the killer's age range and physical description. The job of tracing ownership of the 28,000 Bulldog revolvers made by Charter Arms Corp. of Stratford, Conn., over the past five years is similarly hopeless; at least 600 were reported stolen before reaching retail outlets, and police estimate at least half...
...killer's notes have been teasers to investigators, revealing little. The message to Breslin showed that Son of Sam seemed to enjoy his grisly game with police. "Please inform all the detectives working the case that I wish them the best of luck," he wrote. "Keep 'em digging, drive on, think positive, get off your butts, knock on coffins, etc. Upon my capture I promise to buy all the guys working on the case a new pair of shoes if I can get up the money." The Son of Sam label lost some of its mystery when police...