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He Smiled When Caught - "You Got Me. What Took You So Long?"

He Smiled When Caught - "You Got Me. What Took You So Long?"

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He Smiled When Caught - "You Got Me. What Took You So Long?"

A slow, deliberate smile met a detective’s gun on August 10, 1977 - after thirteen months of random shootings across New York that left six dead and seven permanently injured. The man in the back seat had a loaded semiautomatic rifle for a planned mass shooting and still claimed he didn’t act alone; he said the orders came through a dog - what did he truly believe?

In this episode, we tell how a string of seemingly random attacks terrified a city, how a single .44 caliber Charter Arms Bulldog connected the crimes, and how a parking ticket finally put a name to the shooter - but not to the louder question: why did he say a dog ordered him to kill?

Person: David Berkowitz (born Richard David Falco)
Date: August 10, 1977 (arrest), July 29, 1976 (first murder)
Location: New York City; Yonkers residence on Pine Street
Weapon: .44 caliber Charter Arms Bulldog revolver (same weapon used in murders)
Caseload: Six dead, seven permanently injured; loaded semiautomatic rifle found in car for planned mass shooting

- Berkowitz spent thirteen months shooting strangers in parked cars across New York City before his arrest.
- Six people were killed and seven more permanently injured in the series of shootings.
- On August 10, 1977, police found a loaded semiautomatic rifle in his car, intended for a weekend mass shooting.
- He shot neighbor Sam Carr’s dog Harvey with a .22 rifle on April 27, 1977; the dog survived.
- A parking ticket from the night of the last attack (July 31, 1977) listed the name David Berkowitz and led detectives to him.

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