Video: 'DAVID BERKOWITZ "THE SON OF SAM" - Serial Killer Killers Crime Biography (full documentary)' (July 29, 1976, at 18:52)
(Thursday, July 29, 1976, 1:10 a.m. EDT) — The first of eight shootings ascribed to the serial killer known as “Son of Sam” (or the “.44 Caliber Killer”) occurred early this morning in the Pelham Bay area of the Bronx, New York City’s northernmost borough, as a gunman killed 18-year-old Donna Lauria and wounded her friend, 19-year-old Jody Valenti, as the pair sat in Valenti’s Oldsmobile.