He confessed to all of them, and initially claimed to have been obeying the orders of a demon manifested in the form of a black dog belonging to his neighbor, “Sam”. After being found mentally ...

“Son of Sam.” In a city of newsstands, a city on edge, the reply was as big a piece of work as Breslin had ever been given. The letter had come into the paper several days earlier.

One of the so-called "Super Chiefs" of that era in the NYPD, Borrelli — who played a role in numerous major investigations, including the "Son of Sam" case — died Wednesday at the age of 93.

JOSEPH BORRELLI, the Brooklyn-born sleuth who put NYC’s notorious “Son of Sam” serial killer behind bars, died this week, according to the New York Post. He was 93.

Eugene Gold, a former tough-on-crime Brooklyn district attorney who in the late 1970s spearheaded the successful prosecution of David Berkowitz, the so-called Son of Sam serial killer, died on Aug ...