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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...young black woman, I find it embarrassing to know that there are some blacks who still insist on keeping the rest of us down. Our ancestors would cry. S. Shuler East Orange...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: New York's Night of Terror | 8/15/1977 | See Source »

Stacy, a popular, outgoing young woman who worked as a secretary for a shoe firm in the Empire State Building, was Son of Sam's sixth murder victim. Robert, a polite, conservatively dressed fellow who had just applied for a construction job with Con Ed, was the seventh person to survive bullet wounds in the killer's yearlong series of attacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Man Hunt For Son of Sam Goes On | 8/15/1977 | See Source »

Nervous and shy, a freckle-faced woman in her 20s walked into the offices and told a typical story to police that TIME Correspondent James Willwerth overheard. Said she: "Well, I was in The Assembly [a Bayside, Queens, dating bar] about a year ago. It was a Friday, you know, and I started to talk to this guy named Eric. He had real burning eyes, you know? He kept staring at me. I asked him why he didn't dance. He said he hated people. He asked me to go out with him, and I finally said I would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Man Hunt For Son of Sam Goes On | 8/15/1977 | See Source »

...employees of stores and companies with 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Man Hunt For Son of Sam Goes On | 8/15/1977 | See Source »

Touring Hollywood in his unmarked blue squad car, Hickman pointed out the sights to TIME Correspondent Joseph Boyce. Driving by one apartment building, Hickman recalled, "Until recently, the whores there had a ten-year-old boy acting as a lookout." Entering an "encounter parlor," he was greeted by a woman in halter and shorts-and told that she holds "rap sessions." Then why the mattress on the floor? "That's to make the customers comfortable," the woman explained. Replied Hickman: "It's easy to see you're trained therapists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN SCENE: Cleaning Up the Act in Hollywood | 8/15/1977 | See Source »

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