E. Zigo, helped arrest Son of Sam, dies
Photo credit: MCT/Bill Turnbull | Police escort handcuffed Son of Sam suspect David Berkowitz into headquarters in lower Manhattan on August 10, 1977. At right is then New York City Police Department detective Edward Zigo of Lynbrook. (Staff/New York Daily News/MCT)
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On August 10, 1977 - 13 months after the first of a string of night killings that terrorized New Yorkers and came to be known as the Son of Sam murders - NYPD Detective Edward Zigo and a partner traced a parking ticket left on a car in Brooklyn to the Yonkers apartment of David Berkowitz.
Inside a cream-colored 1970 Ford Galaxy parked outside, they saw a packet of letters and the butt of a...
