The Sons of Sam: Who Was John Wheat Carr, and What Happened to Him?

The Sons of Sam: Who Was John Wheat Carr, and What Happened to Him?

Did the Son of Sam, aka David Berkowitz, really act alone? According to Netflix’s The Sons of Sam: A Descent into Darkness, that was the narrative that the NYPD was trying to sell after a shooter (or shooters) with a .44 caliber gun killed six and injured seven between 1976 and 1977 in New York City. Investigative journalist Maury Terry didn’t buy this story — it didn’t seem feasible to him that Berkowitz acted alone. One of the key suspects for Terry was a man named John Carr, who died from a gunshot wound in 1978. Officials