Maury Terry

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In 1987, journalist Maury Terry published a book about the serial killer David Berkowitz, a.k.a. the son of Sam, the postal worker who terrified New York when he went on a killing spree between July of 1976 and August of 1977, targeting couples in parked cars in Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx.

He shot and killed six victims until August of 1977 when he was arrested.

In this book, Maury Terry alleged that the Son of Sam killings were the work of a satanic cult.

He also wrote that Ronald Sisman and Roy Radin were also in this cult.

And in that book, he stated that David Berkowitz predicted Ronald and Elizabeth's murders weeks before they happened.

First, when he initially confessed to the murders, he said that he was obeying a demon who spoke to him through his neighbor's dog named Sam, which led to his nickname.

But much later, he admitted that he never heard voices from his neighbor's dog.

Yeah.

And like, you know, somebody like Maury Terry, like the Ultimate Evil, you know, would've slipped into.

Uh, but it, uh, but I mean, it's, I mean, it, it gives you some food for thought.

Um-

Yeah.

Yeah.

And of course, like, you know, Maury Terry, the Ultimate Evil-

Yeah, Ultimate Evil

Certain individuals will connect a lot of these cases.

And I, I'm not convinced that Maury Terry is a total phony and that it's all fake.

I, I, I don't, I'm not believing the debunking that's now going on, right? So this theory has been around for a while.

Dave wrote his book in 2004.

And, and, but also sex magic, blood rituals, these are real things, you know.

And, and people legitimately believe in the harnessing of the power that it provides and, and that even, even that w- that, like in the terms of the Son of Sam case with David Berkowitz and The Ultimate Evil, right, Maury Terry's book on, on that case, and he kind of perfectly provides like this window in- into the reality that, yeah, um, there is a level where I think the, the intelligence community does utilize it to their own benefit to, to create this dynamic of, um, you know, like very easily dismissible by, by the average person looking at it at face value, right? Like, if you're introduced to those ideas, you instantly kind of turn a, a blind eye to it.

Like, "Yeah, sure.

That's extraordinary." And, and, and so there is a level I think that that's leveraged against us and, and exploited.

But, but, um, that was something I found fascinating because essentially what it, he...

So David Berkowitz himself said that there was filming going on, right? As far as for snuff material sitting outside of where basically during the killing of Stacy Moskowitz, uh, apparently it was filmed by someone who was hiding in a van, which was stationed right outside of where the killing was going to take place.

And so then, you know, he's inevitably asked by Maury Terry at one point, he's asked about, um, essentially this cult group that he claims that he was a part of, and he says, Berkowitz stated that the coven he belonged to, named The Children, was infiltrated by an elite group that pushed them further into the dark side of what they were doing in Untermyer.

Mm-hmm.

Manny's a good guy

... he's, he's talked to the witnesses, he's gone to the locations, and he's uncovered a lot of stuff that aligns with, uh, what Maury Terry wrote about in The Ultimate Evil.

Right, The Ultimate Evil.

Kind of s- that started it all for, for Manny.

Make up your own mind.

But, um, yeah, it totally is a blueprint, and I, I think we see this too with, like, uh, the Sons of Sam documentary on Netflix and stuff, which was a total, like, character assassination of Maury Terry.

Um, and you know, some of these other ones, like the Chaos documenta- I mean, Chaos is kind of a limited hangout anyways, but-

Mm-hmm

Right.

100%.

He, he got, he got the rights to The Ultimate Evil, Maury Terry's Ultimate Evil.

Mm-hmm.

Look at the Netflix series Frankie brought it up, Sons of Sand.

Maury Terry.

I think I co-hosted a show with you on that one, right? Yeah, we

did.

But there are cases where something goes far beyond just the, um, the perpetrator of the, of the murders.

And it is, uh, it, they, they become almost like a, a point on the circuit board or something much larger.

And that was that, that was a really eyeopening, uh, series of discussions we had based on that Netflix documentary about Maury Terry, because the, David Berkowitz, son of Sam, especially coming from New York or the tri-state area, you have your parents telling you about that summer in 1978 or whatever the hell it was and how the Yankees were doing.

And, of course, the fact that everybody was dyeing their hair blonde or whatever because he was looking for brunettes.

And he wrote to a newspaper to say that he was not asking to be released, that he expected to go to heaven, and that he keeps a small congregation in the unit where he lives.

But though Berkowitz was behind bars, a reporter named Maury Terry never accepted that the case was finished.

Now, Terry worked at finding the others he believed had worked with Berkowitz for decades, and put all of the effort into a 1987 book called The Ultimate Evil.

Now, he died in 2015, and nobody else was ever charged.