Steve Dunleavy
The Archive
These clues could have stopped 'Son of Sam's killing spree
On July 31, 1977 -- 40 years ago Monday -- David Berkowitz struck his last victims at the corner of Shore Parkway and Bay 14th Street in Bath Beach, Brooklyn....
I MAY BE GOING - BUT I WON'T BE GONE
REAL men don't cry, but on Wednesday night if my eyes were dry, there was a Niagara cascading from my heart. It was the occasion of my retirement at a...
HIS LASTING IMPRESSIONS
I LAUGH easily and loudly, but like so many of us, sometimes not sincerely. But with Tim, you responded with more than just a belly laugh - you'd end up...
MEMORIAL FOR A HERO
HIS life blood was ebbing away as four bullets, fired by evil, blasted into his body. As a cop staring death stark in the face, Anthony Mosomillo had one last...
A SAD FINAL SALUTE TO OFFICER PATTY
A funeral Mass will be held this week for veteran cop John Patrick Burns, who died Saturday of complications from cancer. He was 76. Patty, as he was affectionately known,...
ARUBA 3 SNAGGED BY THE WIRE
Bombshell wiretaps of the prime suspects in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway allegedly provided prosecutors with the evidence they were seeking to rearrest the three men they have long suspected...
I LOVED A 'CUTE' KILLER
LINDA SCHIRO, the embattled mistress of dead gangster Greg Scarpa, said simply: "He was in the business of killing." Her daughter, "Little" Linda Schiro, interrupted: "True, but he was home...
'THIS GUY IS GONNA GET AWAY WITH MURDER'
IT WASN'T a smile of inevitable victory, but the gloom of looming defeat had definitely taken wing. Lindley DeVecchio gave a definitive nod, a wide grin and a simple "yes"...
SHE'S PAYING THE PRICE FOR A LIFETIME OF VICE
FOR 30 years, she baby- sat the psychotic punk and in the end, she got . . . diddly. Linda Schiro, 62, bore Greg Scarpa's boy, Joey, and when Greg...
GUTLESS WISEGUY WAS NO GUY'S GUY
IF THE souls of a legion of wiseguys ever got to the great godfather in the sky, then their remains on Earth must be somersaulting in their graves in judgment...
'IT BREAKS MY HEART,' SAYS HIS FATHER
I FEEL damn sorry for Robert Chambers - the fa ther, not the son. Around 10 yesterday morning, Robert Sr., 68, got a telephone call. "It was from my son,...
PREP KILLER CHAMBERS BUSTED
Preppy Killer Robert Chambers and his longtime girlfriend were busted at their East Side apartment last night after cops executing a search warrant found cocaine there, authorities said. Chambers, 41,...
VALIANT WARRIOR'S EXPLOITS DWARF GREEK TRAGEDY
WASHINGTON - From the moment he read "Gates of Fire" until a fanatic's bullet slammed into his back, "Murph" lived the life. The book told the story of the battle...
CROSS HIM & WIND UP DEAD AT CHURCH
WHEN Joe "Olive Oil King" Profaci ran the Brooklyn mob, he would hold court on the steps of his church. By the time Greg "The Grim Reaper" Scarpa was running...
SILLY SALOON SLAPFEST UNWORTHY OF LAWSUIT
IF I had been success fully sued for every punch I threw at a malcontent, I would be living under the Brooklyn Bridge. Similarly, if I had successfully sued everyone...
DIRT BAG IS GRIME OF CENTURY
IF FBI rogue Lindley DeVecchio walks out of this one, he'll be walking a crooked mile for the rest of his life. "It was no secret in the '80s that...
ALL HORSE FEATHERS!
IAN McKEEVER is hopping mad at a legion of wacko animal activists who can't help but put the cart before the horse. McKeever is one of the 68 registered horsedrawn...
GRIEF ADDS TO OUTRAGE
WHEN a God- loving man of 81 years is killed by absolute venal abandonment of decency, one wonders if the almighty had glanced away for a second. Today a Lutheran...
CLOSING TIME FOR BAR LEGEND
WHEN Mick Jagger went for his pocket to give a tip, there would be moths flying out because the money had not been touched in a long time. "Oh, a...
FINEST ARE PUT TO THE TEST - HOW INSULTING
THE memory of Jermaine Taylor is indelibly im printed on the mind of Deidre Johnson. More correctly it's indelibly imprinted on her right leg, where she says Taylor's pit bull...