The Ticket in the Broken Glass: The Son of Sam Case
The Ticket in the Broken Glass: How a Parking Fine Caught the Son of Sam
For thirteen months, a gunman with a .44 revolver turned New York City into a place where young women cut off their hair and millions stayed home after dark. How did a killer who named himself in letters to the police and the press evade the largest manhunt in the city's history, three hundred detectives strong? Why was his name already sitting in the task force's own tip files before the final murder? And how did a routine parking ticket succeed where an entire police department failed?
In this episode, we follow the…
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