On August 10, 1977, 24-year-old postal employee David Berkowitz
was arrested and charged with being the “Son of Sam,” the serial
killer who terrorized New York City for more than a year, killing
six young people and wounding seven others with a .44-caliber
revolver. Because Berkowitz generally targeted attractive young
women with long brown hair, hundreds of young women had their
hair cut short and dyed blonde during the time he terrorized the
city. Thousands more simply stayed home at night.

After his arrest, Berkowitz claimed that demons and a black
Labrador retriever owned by a neighbor named Sam had
ordered him to commit the killings. 

David Richard Berkowitz (born Richard David Falco)
Turned 70 June 1st.

PORTLAND, Ore. — Oregon Governor Tina Kotek has ordered
all flags at Oregon public institutions to be flown at half-staff
until sunset on August 10 to honor firefighter Benjamin Charles
Sapper (21), who died in the line of duty on August 4.

Benjamin was a firefighter with the Rogue River-Siskiyou
National Forest Service.

Robert Swan, the veteran character actor who appeared in key
roles in the notable sports films Hoosiers, Rudy and The Babe, 
died Wednesday after a long battle with cancer at his home in
Rolling Prairie, Indiana.

Swan also portrayed a Canadian Mountie in Brian De Palma’s
The Untouchables (1987) and a bloodied deputy in Oliver
Stone’s Natural Born Killers (1994) and was other lawmen in
Who’s That Girl (1987) and Mo’ Money (1992).

Robert Swan in Natural Born Killers.

CAMILLE BOHANNON

    William David Friedkin (August 29, 1935 – August 7, 2023)

   
LOS ANGELES (AP) — William Friedkin, the Oscar winning
director who became a top filmmaker in his 30s with the
gripping “The French Connection” and the horrifying “The
Exorcist” and struggled in the following decades to match
his early success has died. He was 87.

Friedkin died from heart failure and pneumonia at his home
in Bel Air, Los Angeles.

Friedkin (left) on set of The Exorcist.

Filmed in Portland, Oregon (2003).