Word: sam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When David Berkowitz stood before Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Joseph Corso three weeks ago, he admitted that he, acting as "Son of Sam," had terrorized New York City in a long series of killings with his .44-cal. revolver. The former mail clerk appeared so placid and reasonable that the judge agreed with a panel of psychiatrists and found him mentally competent to stand trial. Berkowitz then pleaded guilty to the murder of Stacy Moskowitz, 20, and to five more counts of second-degree murder. This flat and anticlimactic appearance in court was entirely free of the seemingly psychotic rantings...
Fight B.I.G., urges Weidenbaum. Demand cost-benefit studies for all of B.I.G.'s inflationary, efficiency-sapping, unfair policies. "We need economic impact statements," says Weidenbaum. "Before Uncle Sam lectures the private sector about holding down inflation, he badly needs to get his own house in order...
...Hell" and "John Wheaties, Rapist and Suffocator of Young Girls." When finally captured last August, Berkowitz explained that he received orders to kill via a black Labrador retriever. The messages actually came, he explained, from a 6,000-year-old demon reincarnated as Berkowitz's next-door neighbor, Sam Carr. He even may have been, in addition to his killings, a mass arsonist. Introduced in evidence at the hearing were the murderer's diaries listing 1,400 fires, most set in The Bronx between 1974 and his capture in 1977. While it was not established that he actually...
...prospect seems certain to increase support for proponents of the death penalty, who only two weeks ago failed by just one vote in the New York State senate to overturn Governor Hugh Carey's veto of a bill to reintroduce capital punishment. In that sense. Son of Sam and his demons may haunt New York for some time to come...
...product on deadline, and is too closely allied with the ruling business establishment, to exert the kind of boat-rocking power denounced by such critics as Senator William Proxmire and a few TV Guide columnists. Thus it is safer and more profitable for a newspaper to denounce "Son of Sam" or the Hillside Strangler than neighborhood supermarket pricing policies. Especially on ad-filled Thursdays. "My life in journalism has persuaded me that the press too often tries to guard its freedom by shirking its responsibility, and that this leads to default on both," he writes. "What the press in America...