SON OF SAM

Valentina

Valentina Suriani; victim and boyfriend

As expected, the phantom reappeared. On April 17, 1977, two young lovers sat kissing in their parked car near the Hutchinson River Parkway, not far from where Donna Lauria had been murdered the previous year. Eighteen-year-old Valentina Suriani, an aspiring actress and model, sat in the car with her twenty-year-old boyfriend Alexander Esau, a tow truck operator.

At 3 A.M. that Sunday, another car pulled up along side them. Its driver shot each of them twice. Valentina died immediately and Alexander a bit later at the hospital. This was just what the police department had been fearing -- the next inevitable attack in the series of the .44 caliber murders. This psycho who would keep on killing until he could be found among the millions of men who fit his description.

But -- this time there was something different: the killer's letter left at the scene of the murders addressed to Captain Borrelli. The letter in which the killer gave the police his "name" -- the Son of Sam.

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1. The Letter
2. Sam
3. Operation Omega
4. Panic
5. Permanent Damage
6. Christina
7. Virginia
8. Valentina
9. Paranoid Schizo
10. The Devil Dog
11. Queens
12. Stacy
13. Investigation
14. An Eye Witness
15. Connecting the Dots
16. Capture
17. David Berkowitz
18. Adopted Son
19. Fantasyland
20. Cry for Help
21. The Demons Take Over
22. The Blood Monster
23. Ressler's Interview
24. David In Jail
25. The The Lost Son of Sam Letters
26. Bibliography