at crime scenes and in reporters' mailboxes after a year long manhunt police finally captured david berkowitz a socially withdrawn man in his twenty's with say tannic scrawlings all over his apartment guns and ammunition in his car and then there was he asked a confession to all the son of sam murders but after some previous allegations and references berkowitz made shocking claims years later that he actually had only killed three of the victims and that the others were slain by fellow members of as he said a satanic cult he was allegedly part of the talk of a nationwide ring of satanic cults sounded like a far fetched conspiracy theory back then and it still does but as it turns out many of the n.y.p.d. detectives and prosecutors on the case had plenty of other doubts about berkowitz being the only son of sam for more on those down from the various leads that detectives had even before the murder started shawn stone talked with jim rothstein a retired detective from the n.y.p.d. vice squad and former member of the new york state select committee on crime. so they were concerned that you wer