Meet the Kerry cop who caught NY’s ‘Son of Sam’ serial killer

The Kerry-born cop who solved a notorious murder spree in New York is remembered in a TV documentary to be aired this week.

Meet the Kerry cop who caught NY’s ‘Son of Sam’ serial killer
Mon, 14 May, 2018 - 01:00
Anne Lucey

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.

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