New York city 1976, a long pained ear-piercing scream filled a sticky night as violence exploded amid the shattered car glass. The Son Of Sam has just come face to face with the first of his six victims. He was only 23. This was the begining of an odyssey which will include violence, witchcraft, Satanism and black magic. New York will become a primeval disaster zone.
The media has everyone believing that the Son of Sam was only following orders to kill from his dog, but in reality the reasons are much darker. A night cult called 'The Children' are filming these killings as part of a snuff video ring run by The Process, a sactificial death organization who have ties with the the Manson Family. This Halloween world of sensuous evil only came to light in the 80's during the Satanic Panic Craze, and now with the Netflix documentary 'The Sons Of Sam' where we hear David Berkowitz explain his motivations to super sleuth Maury Terry who's creepy book 'Ultimate Evil' the show is based on.
Revolt, disorder and chaos are on display in this 4 part documentary full of psychic jolts and loaded with a steel chill similar to a cult underground Fabrizio Federico movie. Watch as the crowds of photographers smash into the Son Of Sam like bugs exploding into a radiator grill upon his arrest in 1977.
The letters The Son Of Sam was sending to the NYPD are also on display, full of Freudian symbolism, transcendental death imagery reminiscent of an Edgar Allan Poe poem.
Not unlike those who could never accept that Oswald acted alone, self-motivated journalist Maury Terry—an IBM employee when Berkowitz went on his killing spree—fully believed the delusional postal worker's later claim (from prison) that he was part of a satanic cult whose members also included brothers John and Michael Carr, the actual human sons of Sam Carr, owner of the devilish dog in question.
The twist and turns will define how slippery true steel evil really is, as the dark side of the psyche is displayed here in full force.
Terry discovered an abandoned pump house in Untermeyer Park in Yonkers, N.Y., that was nicknamed Devil’s Cave, where he believed Berkowitz first became indoctrinated into the cult. There were reports from neighbors that groups of people with hoods and torches would gather in the woods near the structure, and multiple people, including Berkowitz, said cult initiations happened there where members would sacrifice dogs and drink their blood. While investigating Devil’s Cave, Terry discovered that it was mere steps from Berkowitz’s single-room apartment. He also found satanic symbols covering the walls of the cave and German Shepherd carcasses in the nearby woods.
To Terry, this was proof of satanic cult activity going on near Berkowitz, and further fueled his theory that the cult — which he determined was called The Children — were involved in the killings.
Occult research often winds into endless loops and chasms of connections, which haunted Terry the longer he worked on the Son of Sam case. The connections he found that are unveiled in Netflix’s series are wide-reaching, to say the least. The cult Terry determined was operating in Yonkers, called The Children, had ties to Scientology and the West Coast. The Children was an offshoot of a cult called the Process Church of the Final Judgement, a group formed in Britain during 1966. Leaders Robert de Grimston and Mary Ann MacLean defected from a British division of L. Ron Hubbard’s Church of Scientology and brought their satanic teachings to the U.S. in the early 1970s.
The group eventually splintered into smaller factions, each with different names but a similar core belief — that their satanic and murderous practices could bring about the end of the world. Terry reasoned that’s how The Children ended up in Yonkers and in Berkowitz’s backyard. He also discovered proof that de Grimston and Charles Manson attended a party together in California in the late 1960s, and theorized that meeting de Grimston influenced Manson’s apocalyptic visions of a race war that he used to incite his followers into murdering five people in the summer of 1969.
One of Berkowitz’s most talked-about killings was the murder of 20-year-old Stacy Moskowitz, who was shot in the head while sitting in the car with her boyfriend, Robert Violante, who was blinded by the attack but survived. Moskowitz was the Son of Sam’s sixth and final murder victim.
Terry’s investigation led him to several sources who claimed Moskowitz was killed for a snuff film because The Children wanted to record her execution and sell it “to the highest bidder.”
The film never materialized, but Terry uncovered anecdotal evidence through a prison informant known only as Vinny that there were people in a van stationed near the lover’s lane where Moskowitz was killed, ready to film the murder. The informant claimed that a photographer named Ron Sisman — who was later murdered with a student, Elizabeth Platzman — filmed the murders. The informant linked Sisman to Hollywood producer and millionaire Roy Radin, who did have a penchant for throwing cocaine-fueled orgies and was linked to a rape. But it was never proven that Radin (identified as RR) had anything to do with the cult or the killings.