Meet the Kerry cop who caught NY’s ‘Son of Sam’ serial killer
The ‘Son of Sam’ killings terrorised New York in 1976 and 1977, but a detective inspector, born in Castlemaine, brought the serial killer to justice.
The small west Kerry town is famed as the birthplace of ‘the wild colonial boy’, the 19th-century Australian criminal Jack Duggan. But a TG4 documentary shows it is also the hometown of detective inspector Timothy J Dowd.
