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Post by Admin Horan on Jan 10, 2020 6:54:17 GMT -6
In the Pine Street (Yonkers) apartment directly underneath Berkowitz's, lived a nursing student/auxiliary Westchester County police officer named Craig Glassman. According to letters supposedly mailed TO Glassman, the "Son of Sam" accused Glassman of being up to various nefarious activities.
Was he? Who was Craig Glassman? His daughter (who corresponds with Berkowitz in prison and even VISITS him) claims he died in a car accident on Halloween, 1991. This was at a time when Maury Terry AND Craig Glassman were publicizing books about the Son of Sam. At the time of the murders, Glassman was posing for pictures on the front pages of New York newspapers.
Could Glassman actually have been an accomplice of Berkowitz? Some of the .44 caliber victims worked as nurses, or were studying to be nurses--just like Craig. Glassman had personal nuts an bolts experience with how police units patrol neighborhoods, how they are dispatched to calls, etc--just like David Berkowitz and Wheat Carr, sister of John and Michael Carr.
And is Crag Glassman really dead? Or did he fake his own death as a publicity stunt to promote a book? Has anyone ever seen an obituary (easy to fake) or a newspaper article (impossible to fake) about this car accident on the Taconic Parkway on Halloween 1991? Let alone a death certificate? Is there any actual evidence that Glassman is dead?
Because there IS evidence that he's NOT dead...
What else do we know about Craig Glassman?
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Post by raemen2 on Jan 11, 2020 12:59:23 GMT -6
Michael Carr’s death was reported by the New York Times. Mind blowing that Glassman dying in a “bizarre” car accident didn’t even rate a mention in the local Bronx newspaper.
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Post by Admin Horan on Jan 11, 2020 13:44:39 GMT -6
As far as I know, there wasn't even an obit. For a guy who loved publicity, that's odd.
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Post by Omega on Jan 11, 2020 14:21:40 GMT -6
Social Security death database records are indicating that there is a "C.R. Glassman" that died in New York in 1991.
It also states that year of birth was 1948.
I have found 1977 articles stating that Craig Glassman was 29 years old in 1977.
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Post by Admin Horan on Jan 12, 2020 6:53:05 GMT -6
That helps. But I can't find a death certificate...
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Post by Admin Horan on May 5, 2020 5:52:32 GMT -6
Oh, yeah. Shayla and Berko are cozy as lice. Stranger things have happened, but I'm 99 percent sure Glassman was a member of the club who was in on the plan to get Berko to off himself in a Cowan-like blaze of murder-suicide at a disco the night Berko got arrested, instead. That's why Berko is laughing in all those mug shots and other pictures taken that day.
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Post by oceancastle44 on May 5, 2020 8:43:54 GMT -6
All interesting stuff.My guess is Glassman is dead.Berkowitz being penpals with daughter seems strange.This case seems to go off in so many directions.
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Post by james1983 on Jul 9, 2020 0:47:21 GMT -6
While reading this I had a brainfart lol. I remembered the name Sal Cassara was a name that was included in the SOS cult brain page. Whoever made the chart had Sal Cassara being a member of the cult. Jack Cassara had a son named Salvatore (Sal) J. Cassara. It even had a picture of Sal that looked like it was taken from a webcam. Him sitting in front of the computer with a hat on. I don't know if it's the same Sal, but how many Sal Cassaras can there be in New Rochelle? Grounds for further research.
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Post by james1983 on Jul 9, 2020 13:59:04 GMT -6
I know for a 100% fact there was. I use to research names on there. Like the brother and sister Silberstein. The group of Yonkers doctors, they had it webbed out connecting to many incidents of other Satanic murders in America like Bob Berdella they even had overseas incidents on there like the Dutroux case in Belgium. I researched that site and posted some of my finding on the KidKenoma blog under the name James.
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Post by james1983 on Jul 9, 2020 14:04:04 GMT -6
The killer William Devin Howell from Connecticut was on there. They had Mr. RE name wrong. They named him Albert Howell instead of Aldred. They had the sketch from the art student who hung around the cult in the 70s. Howell was pictured as a Vampire, but looked exactly like his photo. He looks just like his son Jr, but was bald. Don't tell me what I know.
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Post by james1983 on Jul 9, 2020 14:12:51 GMT -6
There were links to books there. I read a book about Jimmy Savile that was linked from there. What most people don't realize is there are other crimes related to this cult. The murder of Etan Patz, and little Lisa Steinberg. When Hedda Nussbaum was arrested Maury was given her address book. In it was the name and address of Roy Radin. Maury claimed Nussbaum use to take Lise to Radins house for sex parties.
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Post by Admin Horan on Jul 10, 2020 5:30:43 GMT -6
If true, it would be interesting that both the "son(s) of Sam Carr" AND the "son of Jack Cassara" were cult members, especially in light of Berko's letters blaming Sam and Jack. And Berko's obsession with protecting his own [adopted] father. What I mean is, if members threatened Berko's father, why wouldn't Berko threaten THEIR fathers?
Which makes me curious about Glassman's father.
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Post by Omega on Jul 10, 2020 10:38:07 GMT -6
If true, it would be interesting that both the "son(s) of Sam Carr" AND the "son of Jack Cassara" were cult members, especially in light of Berko's letters blaming Sam and Jack. And Berko's obsession with protecting his own [adopted] father. What I mean is, if members threatened Berko's father, why wouldn't Berko threaten THEIR fathers? Which makes me curious about Glassman's father. Since the "Son of Sam" moniker originated out of the two infamous letters, I always wanted to get your take on who you believe was responsible for writing these?
Both Berkowitz's supposed "enemies" had fathers named "Sam" - Carr & Glassman. Diversion? Revenge? A tip? Obviously, it has been discussed that Berkowitz didn't have the intellect or wit to craft the letters.
Your research into Hal Snook/Zodiac, could lend to some interesting hypothesis on the author(s) of the SOS letter.
Any insight?
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Post by Admin Horan on Jul 10, 2020 11:21:25 GMT -6
I have a hunch. It goes like this: By FAR the best suspects in the Esau/Suriani shooting HAVE to be the two undercover cops who were parked six inches away 2 seconds earlier. Period. I mean, why bother with some complicated scheme involving split-second timing, teams of Satanic hitmen for hire, blah, blah, blah, when you can just off them yourselves. Plenty of cops were packing .44s and .45s there and then. Plenty of "undercover" cops carried their rods in paper bags--just like "Son of Sam."
The letter in question was left FOR the cops. Why? To send a warning TO some cops? From who? By who? Why not other cops? Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeennnnnnnnnty of NYPD "cops" ran for cover over the whole .44 Caliber Killer brouhaha. When a "suspect" was nabbed, down he went, for six goofs, evidence, schmevidence. With more grease from The Man than the William Heirens case. Funny, that. A bunch of Friends of Sam were cops or "Reserve Officers" and other undercover/blah blah blah. One rode to the cop shop with Berko the day he got pinched. Funny, THAT. I mean, I don't see a lot of mystery, here. If there had been no "Son of Sam" media frenzy, no Ultimate Evil, no Sam Sleeps garbaahge, etc, there would be no appearance of a "mystery." In fact, the letter in question only made its appearance AFTER the newspapers started screaming--against all police denials--that some of these murders were, in fact, connected. "Gee, fellows, I guess we better start writing batshit confession letters, since the public already know that we're a bunch of coconuts..." Right. "Hey, assholes--the jig is up. We better start blaming this shit on some wacko, quick, before somebody starts putting two and two together..."
Just a hunch.
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Post by Omega on Jul 10, 2020 12:26:53 GMT -6
That is an interesting hypothesis Professor and you may be onto something.
What always bothered me about the Esau/Suriani murders is the timing and location of the cops prior to the attack.
These shootings take place at 3:00 in the morning on Sunday April 17th on the service road of the Hutchinson River Parkway.
The cops are parked across from 1873 Hutchinson River Parkway. They are the detectives assigned to the Donna Lauria murder/Jody Valenti shooting. Valenti's residence is only a half block away from this location - visible. A third cop - a sergeant working for Bronx Sex Crimes unit and ending his shift, runs into them at this location and the three supposedly are just chatting and socializing for 45 minutes until around 2:45 am. All three cops leave the location at this time.
Alexander Esau and Valentina Suriani pull into a parking spot (across from 1878 Hutchinson River Parkway), seemingly just a few feet from where the cops were just parked, sometime between 2:45 am and 3:00 am. At 3:00 am the shootings/murders occur.
The police claim they had more than 200 stakeouts nightly by this time handling the 44 Caliber Killer case (it wasn't yet defined as "Son of Sam" - that changed that April morning)
It's plausible that the detectives would be in the area, because they were assigned to the Lauria/Valenti case and a main victim lived on that block.
What needs to be looked into was if this was a routine thing they did nightly/weekly on that block? It had been 8 and a half months since the Lauria/Valenti shootings.
Cops are staking out the area, and then hang around for an extra 45 minutes to BS and then less than 15 minutes later, at 3:00 in the morning on a Sunday, a double murder occurs involving a case the whole NYPD is focused on in the EXACT SAME SPOT???
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