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Post by Omega on Mar 29, 2021 8:08:09 GMT -6
Interesting YouTuber (Manny Grossman - not me) doing some walking tour videos on the Son of Sam sites with commentary and historical backgrounds. Gets into the cult-related aspects also.
Manny has done two videos/tours so far on Yonkers/Untermyer Park SOS connections and the two Bronx shooting sites (Lauria/Valenti & Esau/Suriani) in the Pelham Bay section of the Bronx.
It seems he is planning to possibly do all the Son of Sam sites in the future and post these on YouTube as well.
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Post by mannygrossman on Apr 11, 2021 7:20:57 GMT -6
Thanks a lot Omega. This is Manny, who created the series you linked to above. I just want to say thanks to the viewers. The response has been nothing short of amazing. I met some very great investigators and researchers since I started the series. I can't say too much, but we're hot on the heels of solving some key components of the case. I have some incredible videos coming up in the series and they will trickle out over the spring and summer. Please stay tuned folks and I love all the comments and interaction.
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Post by Omega on Apr 11, 2021 10:35:50 GMT -6
Thanks a lot Omega. This is Manny, who created the series you linked to above. I just want to say thanks to the viewers. The response has been nothing short of amazing. I met some very great investigators and researchers since I started the series. I can't say too much, but we're hot on the heels of solving some key components of the case. I have some incredible videos coming up in the series and they will trickle out over the spring and summer. Please stay tuned folks and I love all the comments and interaction. Hi Manny!
And WELCOME! I'm glad you have found the boards here and I have really been enjoying your YouTube walking tour videos on the Son of Sam sites!
It seems this a great time to have something out there on the Son of Sam topic. The Professor started things off last year with his Stones Unturned podcasts on YouTube on the SOS and also creating the special SOS section here on these boards to discuss items. The momentum continued with Carl Denaro and Michael Benson publishing two separate books and now we have your walking tour videos on the subject. Add into the mix the upcoming re-release of "The Ultimate Evil" book on April 20th and the long awaited four-part documentary series on Netflix by Josh Zeman beginning on May 5th, and things couldn't be more involved on the SOS. Even the recent 40th anniversary in 2017 didn't seem to generate this kind of interest!
Last August, I posted a thread on the Forest Hills sites. I stumbled upon a non-Son of Sam video on YouTube of a sightseeing walking tour of Forest Hills, but noticed that in the video the walk went by the Freund and Voskerichian sites (no mention in the actual YouTube of anything related to these). I included in the post, the times in the video to be aware of as it relates to pertinent Son of Sam items. Here's the link to that post that you might find interesting, especially since you said you are planning to do one of your videos on these sites in the future:
Again, good to see you posting here Manny! Keep up the good work!
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Post by mannygrossman on Apr 11, 2021 12:29:11 GMT -6
Thanks Omega. You're good people. It's funny. I had no clue that there was going to be a re-release of TUE and had no clue there was a Netflix special in the works. I just woke up a couple weeks ago and decided that enough time had gone by and I wanted to finally make a series of videos on the sites. Since I live so close, and the technology (go pro/crane stablizer) is so small and cheap, there was simply no excuse anymore. I wanted to do this 20 years ago, but life intervened. I guess there is just something in the zeitgeist right now that I must've tapped into. And once again, just like it happened to me in the 90's and early 2000's, once I opened this door, all sorts of new and potentially explosive info has come my way. Obviously I can't say more until law enforcement has had a chance to investigate, but hopefully I will be able to make public some of this new info. In the meantime, the Carl Denaro video will drop in a couple weeks. I'm gonna let the series stew for a bit, garner more interest, so when my Denaro vid comes out there will be pent up demand. Plus, I may have a very special guest join me on that walk and talk which I can't say anymore about in case it falls thru. I really appreciate you publicizing it, and the videos are really going far and wide. People from all over the world are emailing me about how much they are liking them. I think the "walk and talk" is a very innovative way to present this story, and of course no one has ever shown these sites in quite the same way. I will check out that queens vid you posted for sure. It will come in handy to get a handle on the area for when I do the Freund and Voskerichian video, which will be a "two for one" in which I will cover both crimes.
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Post by ace on Apr 12, 2021 11:53:24 GMT -6
Thanks Omega. You're good people. It's funny. I had no clue that there was going to be a re-release of TUE and had no clue there was a Netflix special in the works. I just woke up a couple weeks ago and decided that enough time had gone by and I wanted to finally make a series of videos on the sites. Since I live so close, and the technology (go pro/crane stablizer) is so small and cheap, there was simply no excuse anymore. I wanted to do this 20 years ago, but life intervened. I guess there is just something in the zeitgeist right now that I must've tapped into. And once again, just like it happened to me in the 90's and early 2000's, once I opened this door, all sorts of new and potentially explosive info has come my way. Obviously I can't say more until law enforcement has had a chance to investigate, but hopefully I will be able to make public some of this new info. In the meantime, the Carl Denaro video will drop in a couple weeks. I'm gonna let the series stew for a bit, garner more interest, so when my Denaro vid comes out there will be pent up demand. Plus, I may have a very special guest join me on that walk and talk which I can't say anymore about in case it falls thru. I really appreciate you publicizing it, and the videos are really going far and wide. People from all over the world are emailing me about how much they are liking them. I think the "walk and talk" is a very innovative way to present this story, and of course no one has ever shown these sites in quite the same way. I will check out that queens vid you posted for sure. It will come in handy to get a handle on the area for when I do the Freund and Voskerichian video, which will be a "two for one" in which I will cover both crimes. From what I've seen so far I'm hooked. Looking forward to future installments!
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Post by mannygrossman on Apr 12, 2021 14:27:04 GMT -6
Thanks Ace! Much appreciated. I just added a new vid today on John Carr's gravesite. Maybe you haven't seen it yet so I wanted to hip you to it. Lots of exciting stuff coming in and coming up. Can't wait to bring you guys more vids!
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Post by mannygrossman on Apr 14, 2021 8:25:02 GMT -6
Just a heads up to those watching my series. I have a couple vids in the works for the next couple weeks. The first will be one on the JFK Marina and the Glenwood Power Plant. The second will be on the Carl Denaro shooting site. Both will be in the same walk and talk style. Stay tuned for some very cool stuff! And thanks for watching. So far the reaction has been amazing and I am totally encouraged to go on and produce more vids.
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Post by mannygrossman on Apr 20, 2021 13:03:56 GMT -6
Just a quick update.
I will be producing a video in Van Cortlandt Park this week entitled, "A Requiem for Karen Wahlstrom." Should be up by Saturday April 24.
And I am filming a walk and talk at the Denaro shooting sites on May 1 or 2. I will have a special guest host with me on that one.
Stay tuned!
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Post by Omega on Apr 20, 2021 14:46:28 GMT -6
Manny,
Josh Z. keeps saying that one must read "The Ultimate Evil" (re-released TODAY - 4/20! YAY!) in order to grasp the upcoming Netflix docuseries in May, but gotta say, you are doing a helluva of job with your SOS tour videos and those too should be required viewing also for the Netflix series. It's one thing to read about something, it another thing to actually see where the history was made! Keep up the GREAT WORK, my friend!
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Post by mannygrossman on Apr 20, 2021 15:40:47 GMT -6
Manny,
Josh Z. keeps saying that one must read "The Ultimate Evil" (re-released TODAY - 4/20! YAY!) in order to grasp the upcoming Netflix docuseries in May, but gotta say, you are doing a helluva of job with your SOS tour videos and those too should be required viewing also for the Netflix series. It's one thing to read about something, it another thing to actually see where the history was made! Keep up the GREAT WORK, my friend! Thanks Omega!! I really appreciate that. And I'm glad the series is connecting with you. Zeman is right. Reading TUE is a must to get up to speed on the basic storyline. Believe me, although I didn't intend it, I'm happy the attention on his series will probably end up translating to mine. And I want to get super granular in a way that he probably couldn't. My current obsession is on the "nameless and faceless" characters in TUE.
Karen Wahlstrom to me is the epitome of the nameless and faceless character. Brother John will make his first appearance in this episode as well. I found out some info that will blow people away. I'm gonna tell the most updated version of the story there is. Some rare photos will be shared too.
It will be released on 4/23 or 4/24. 4/23 is Al Howell's birthday and 4/24 is the day they found Karen's body. I didn't know that till today.
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Post by mannygrossman on Apr 23, 2021 18:37:41 GMT -6
Requiem for Karen Wahlstrom is up.
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Post by mike23 on Apr 23, 2021 20:27:10 GMT -6
Hey,Manny.WOW!Great video as always.Wonderful storytelling on one of the most obscure(until now)victims in this whole sordid tale.Loved the photographs of Karen and the places that formed the background for this story.Your description of what likely happened makes perfect sense.Obviously blood was being spilt long before '76.Awesome job.Later,Mike.
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Post by mannygrossman on Apr 24, 2021 6:27:10 GMT -6
Hey,Manny.WOW!Great video as always.Wonderful storytelling on one of the most obscure(until now)victims in this whole sordid tale.Loved the photographs of Karen and the places that formed the background for this story.Your description of what likely happened makes perfect sense.Obviously blood was being spilt long before '76.Awesome job.Later,Mike. Hey, thanks a lot bud!! I am going to exposing a few more of the nameless and faceless going forward, but I felt Karen Wahlstrom's story was by far the most poignant, so I wanted it out first. I literally spent the last week essentially being completely haunted by the story and spent a lot of time trying to get the narrative to flow better than my previous vids. I'm learning how to do this as I go, and I appreciate all the great response from the SOS community so far. What's happening here is I am learning all this info for the first time, and in my excitement about it I want to bring it to all of you guys. Since I live so close by to all the sites, it's super easy for me to do. Plus it's a fun way to put my mind to something other than anger at the state of the world.
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Post by ace on Apr 24, 2021 12:35:27 GMT -6
Manny, you mentioned something about the reversed SoS logo in one of your videos, but I can't remember the context.
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Post by mannygrossman on Apr 24, 2021 12:53:39 GMT -6
Manny, you mentioned something about the reversed SoS logo in one of your videos, but I can't remember the context.
Yep. that's it. If you look at Berkowitz's drawing on the left, you can clearly see how he just didn't draw it correctly. The "correct" is on the right. Look particularly at the directions of the two symbols on the left and right sides, the male and female ones. He completely got it wrong. Plus he forgot to use all capital letters and reverted to lower case. It was a pathetic attempt to link himself to the SOS letters and it fell completely flat. Unfortunately no detective realized it.
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