The judge ordered Kent Easter taken into custody. Easter hadn’t expected this. He had made no arrangements for his three kids, for his bills. The judge gave him a day to arrange his affairs, “out of concern for nothing but your children.” When he told his wife the news that day,...
He was ordered to drive safely after causing a crash while backing up his patrol car in 2021. That same year Schurr said he stopped a car because an air freshener dangling from a mirror could obstruct the driver’s vision. A search turned up a small safe that was subsequently b...
Finally, on August 10, 1977, police were able to arrest 24-year-old David Berkowitz, a postal worker who eventually pleaded guilty to all of the shootings. 42 Pine St. (formerly 35 Pine St.) in Yonkers is the location of the home where Berkowitz was arrested that August day. Gianni Ve...
A year after his funeral a cross was burned in the cemetery at his grave. Although the Lowman’s were tried and sentenced to death, a State Supreme Court reversed the findings and ordered a new trial. Demon had just been found not guilty when the raid on the jail occurred. Taken to a...