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Did the Son of Sam have an accomplice? Signs point to ND
Queens prosecutors revisited evidence suggesting John Carr may have aided David Berkowitz, as letters, witness claims and a 1979 recording fueled doubts about a lone gunman.
- The Queens District Attorney's Office reopened the Son of Sam case, investigating potential links between convicted killer David Berkowitz and the late John Carr to determine if more than one perpetrator existed.
- Carr lived next door to Berkowitz in Yonkers, New York, during the mid-1970s, where Berkowitz claimed Sam Carr's dog, Harvey, commanded him to kill six people with a.44-caliber Charter Arms Bulldog revolver.
- After Carr died in Minot, North Dakota, in 1978, his sister Wheat Carr and girlfriend Linda O'Connor disputed the official suicide ruling; investigators discovered Carr's nickname in a 1977 letter sent to columnist Jimmy Breslin.
- Carr and his brother Michael Carr resembled composite sketches circulated by New York Police, and prosecutors linked both men to occult activities, including a blood ritual in 1976.
- Reopening the case allows officials to re-examine whether Berkowitz acted alone, assessing if the Son of Sam terror involved a larger occult network spanning from New York to North Dakota.
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Did the Son of Sam have an accomplice? Signs point to ND
MINOT, N.D. — When John Carr watched the news report that ended the Son of Sam's New York City summer of fear, he cursed. It wasn’t Carr’s first reaction Aug. 10, 1977, that startled his girlfriend, Linda O’Connor. With news about David Berkowitz, the self-named Son of Sam who stalked lovers’ lanes for nearly a year, dominating the airwaves and the front pages of newspapers, she told him a week later she “was glad the jerk was caught.” He stared…
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