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Title: Ultimate Evil, The: The Search for the Sons of Sam
Author: TERRY MAURY
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 02/07/2021
Imprint: QUIRK BOOKS
Price: $30.00
Publishing status: Active
On August 10, 1977, the NYPD arrested David Berkowitz, a mailman from Yonkers, for the
Son of Sam murders that had terrorized New York City for over a year. Berkowitz
confessed to shooting sixteen people and killing six with a .44 caliber Bulldog revolver. The
case was officially closed soon after. Journalist Maury Terry was suspicious of Berkowitz’s
confession. Spurred by conflicting eyewitness descriptions of the killer and the Queens
District Attorney, who was convinced Berkowitz didn’t act alone, Terry investigated the case
for a decade. In the original publication of The Ultimate Evil in 1987, he presented his
theory that Berkowitz was a member of the Process Church of the Final Judgment, a
Satanic cult responsible for the Son of Sam murders, as well as other ritual murders across
the country. The epilogue of the 1999 edition included an interview in which Berkowitz
confirmed Terry’s theory. But the full extent of the Process Church’s reach is still coming to
light.
After Terry’s death in 2015, documentary filmmaker Josh Zeman (Cropsey, The Killing
Season) followed leads Terry left for him, which led to his Netflix series Sons of Sam.
Together with Tenderfoot Media’s podcast Down the Rabbit Hole and this reissued edition
of The Ultimate Evil–which includes an introduction by Zeman–these works reveal the
stunning intersections of power, wealth, privilege, and evil in America–from the Summer of
Sam till today.
ISBN: 9781683692843
Pages: 512