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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Andrea Cavallier

Retired detective thinks 1970 Bronx murder of teenage girl could be linked to serial killer Son of Sam and wants case reopened

Five years before New York City was terrorized by the ‘Son of Sam’ killer David Berkowitz back in the 1970s, a teenage girl was gunned down on a Bronx street – and now, a retired detective believes her killing could be linked to Berkowitz, as he calls for the case to be reopened.

Mike Lorenzo, whose father worked the Berkowitz investigation, told The New York Post that the 1970 murder of 16-year-old Margaret Inglesia bears striking similarities to the crimes that would later make Berkowitz one of the most infamous serial killers in American history.

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