In his own words, “Sam’s son” serial killer survives

The story was originally posted on August 10, 2017. It was updated on August 2, 2025.

On July 31, 1977, Robert Violunt and Stacey Moscovitz were sitting in his standing car in Brooklyn “Lovers Lane” on their first date, when he was suddenly shot in his head “Sam’s son” serial killer Who terrorized New Yorsers for more than a year before his arrest on August 10, 1977.

“The doctors said that I was not going to make it, and Stacey,” Violent told CBS News in 2017. A.44 Caliber Slug destroyed the left eye of the viulta and damaged his right eye as it was across his skull. But it was a 19 -year -old college student Moskovitz, who bowed to her wounds, and it was a 20 -year -old violant, who faced life forever with a maniac bullets.

Incredibly, four days ago, Viilent did a modeling job at Wilhelmina Modeling Agency after taking an one -hour metro in Manhattan. Once the agents saw the 6 -feet -1 viullent, with their John Tavolta, they immediately signed them to start the next Monday. In many ways, he was a real -life Tony Manero, the character Tavolta played in the iconic film “Saturday Night Fever” of that year.

The next night, he met Moskovitz, celebrating his good fortune at a “Gong Show” program in a popular “Beefstake Charlise”. The restaurant was the “wall for the wall for the wall”, she remembered, and the violt found himself face to face with stacey in the crush.

“She was a beautiful, beautiful girl,” said Viilent. “And what a pleasant, pleasant girl. A very bubbly, young woman full of life.” They hit it, spoke for hours, and on Saturday night, agreed to see each other on 31 July, even though they were all worried about “Sam’s son”, like all New Yorsers.

The serial killer killed five and injured six others, but he had never killed in Brooklyn. Their female victims had black hair of shoulder length. “Stacey -e -Gora,” Violant assured her mother as she left her first date.

He went to the film, “New York, New York,” and then shore the parkway near the water, where they kept walking and played on a set of swings. “We were like two young children,” Violent remembered.

A shape in the shade, however, with his arms, crossed the moskovitz. He asked to leave, and they came into the violant’s car, but he said, “Let’s stop five minutes.”

He always wishes to go away immediately. Within two minutes, the glass of the car suddenly burst. Everything got dark, and he felt that he was dead.

“I was shot in the head, completely blind and filled with blood,” Violent remembered. “Oh, my god! Oh, my god! He killed us.”

Then he heard Moskovitz mourned and felt that he was alive.

Although seriously injured and unable to see, Vilynte succeeded in opening the car door, and wrapped his hand around the nearby pole. Shouting, “We are shot, we are shot,” he pressed his other hand on the horn of the car, until the battery died, he honored him, and he fell on the road.

After days, his father – “My Best Pal” – Brock the News Violtaland lost his vision. Weeks later, he told Violtente that Moskovitz died 18 hours after the shooting.

“I cried like a baby,” Violent remembered.

Violent never asked me why, because it would mean why no one else. ” He became a picture in courage, calls an internal strength that he never knew that he had, and seems to have sufficiently improved his damaged eye to avoid the need of an eye dog to improve. “I swear that I would never have one,” he said. Finally, after prolonged dispersal of rehabilitation, he achieved a rigorous measure position with the American Postal Service, for which David Berkovitz, “son of Sam”, also works irony.

Violent handled the mail for 35 years till its retirement. They never married, and always thought what could develop with Moskovitz, their young relationship was given time to bloom.

About a year ago and a boro away, Carl Denaro, then a 20 -year -old, who was only admitted to the Air Force, scattered his life in another .44 Caliber Slug, scattered in Queens.

Denaro, who was more hippie than Tony Manero, met Rosemary Keenan on October 23, 1976 in a local bar. He made a small drive in a nearby park, where the bullets suddenly broke the windows of his Volkswagen Beetle. Told CBS News that the bullets missed the Keenan, and Denaro “shouted it to start the car, (and) let’s leave from here.”

They returned to the bar, where Denaro said, “I don’t like it very much.” He placed his head on a table, and a large pool of blood came out of his shoulder length hair and shirt.

At that time, no one had heard of “Sam’s son” because he yet had a pattern for the police to find out a note to find out that there was a pattern for madness. In fact, the police initially suspected Danaro, and NYPD had taken months before he realizes that he had a serial killer on loose and Danaro was one of his victims.

Doctors told Denaro that he was lucky. They placed a plate in her head and she eventually returned to play softball with friends. His military career derailed, and he started working in telecommunications for Meril Lynch and before retiring. However, he recalled that he lived with Gockers for years, reported that he was shot by “Sam’s son”.

When David Berkovitz, when David Berkovitz, a postal worker of Yonkar, was accused on 10 August 1977 as “Son and Sam”, both Derano and Vilynte rejoiced. Neither a certain Berkovitz worked alone. And Violent admitted that he wanted to get Berkovitz’s death sentence. But both of them are thrilled that he is away from the streets forever.

“Thank God,” Violant shouted that when he heard the news in his hospital room decades ago. “At least now he will not be able to harm anyone else.”