On a hot summer night in 1977, New York lived in a state of quiet terror — a stranger with a .44 revolver, a trail of taunting letters, and a city that no longer felt safe after dark. This episode unfolds like a thriller: fragmented clues, eyewitnesses in the shadows, and a killer who claimed a demon spoke through his neighbor's dog.

We trace the brutal arc from the first shot in the Bronx to the yellow Ford Galaxy that finally cracked the case, following detectives racing against time as panic tightens its grip on neighborhoods and newspapers sell out on fear. Through letters, ballistics, and the gritty work of investigators, the story builds toward the arrest that stunned a metropolis.

Listen as we pull back the curtain on David Berkowitz — the lies he told, the myths he fed, and the chilling calm with which he greeted capture. This is a story about violence, obsession, and how a city fought to reclaim the night.

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