Ma'am, your sketch was so much better than the ones that were put out there. So spot on. So glad you survived this and have the strength to talk about this. So very sorry that you had to endure this in the first place. May God be with you always and forever.
you are this woman’s grandson. When was the sketch done? How did you connect her to the son of Sam if the police never had her information in the son of Sam files? How could you have possibly connected this woman to the SOA if she didnt even know who he was and she was in England immediately leaving the hospital? You are trying to scam people
Manny is this woman’s grandson. When was the sketch done? How did you connect her to the son of Sam if the police never had her information in the son of Sam files? How could you have possibly connected this woman to the SOA if she didnt even know who he was and she was in England immediately leaving the hospital? You are trying to scam people
I remember this time so well. I started nursing school in NYC in 1977 and the Son of Sam “reign of terror” was terrifying. This woman defied all odds and she sustained so much trauma. I’m so glad she made it and she believed in life.
I was upstate, in the Finger Lakes, but we had WPIX channel 11 on our TV. It was almost like being in NYC. About all they talked about was the ".44 caliber killer." I vividly remember all the "Crazy Eddie" commercials.
I was 20 years old and a sophomore in college when this story unfolded. And even being 3000 miles away in a rural wheat farming college town full of farmers and students, we were scared to death of the "Son of Sam" saga. 😳 This woman's survival is unbelievable! 😫
@@6Haunted-Days she didn't know who shot her until she seen him arrested, and recognized him as her assailant. Problem was people didn't believe her, and the police already has enough evidence for a conviction, and they didn't pursue it any further. She didn't wait till now to say anything. People just didn't believe her claims to have been shot by SOS. Manny Grossman, and Mike Lorenzo was able to crack this case, and Berkowitz was interviewed by detectives, and confirmed that he did in fact shoot her.
@@6Haunted-Daysit's very common with severe trauma, some people never talk about it. it's so difficult that it is considered part of treatment, to try to talk about it over and over to help process and desensitize. She's incredibly strong. ❤
4:45 she is basically reliving it in and out. I recognize this state. It's really hard to keep going when it starts feeling real, she keeps pushing thru. You can tell it still feels recent despite being decades past. Mad respect.
Exactly. Critics say "he never smiled at other victims," but we are not able to interview the people he killed to find out if that is true. Two survivors (lomino and Demasi) describe their shooting almost exactly like Wendy did. A guy walks up, looks friendly, starts to ask for directions and then shoots.
Thank you to NBC for running this story on Wendy Savino. When I originally found her story I just knew she had been shot by Berkowitz. This whole experience of discovering her story to meeting her to having NYPD close her case naming Berkowitz as shooter has been one of the most memorable experiences of my life. I would just like to give a huge shoutout to Retired Detective First Grade Mike Lorenzo (YPD) for being my trusted research partner and friend on this Savino journey. He provided the philosophical framework that allowed us to eventually find Wendy. He is getting short shrift in the media reports of this story and I just would like to correct that historical error.
@@Ana-jn9fr She's giving a full account of her experience . Most people would recite a list of wounds, but, by acting it out, she makes it far more vivid. She's amazing.
I'm so glad I saw this. I was in my early 20s and attending Columbia University as a commuter. We were terrified. She told it so matter factly yet brought all the horror of that time back!
Great story! Thank you, Tom. This was incredibly inspiring. This is one tough lady. Classy and smart. I’m so glad she made it through that horrific ordeal!
As this poor innocent lady was telling her story I began gasping my breath went out of me! Omg so sorry that happened to her. Yet she survived this harrowing ordeal. She is inspiring with her resolve and determination! She seems so kind and decent. Take a page from her story and count your blessings. May she live a very long life 🙏
I can no longer feel sorry for myself about problems or past trauma. To hear every agonizing detail of this attack and how it upended Wendy's life has me in tears mixed with admiration and awe. One of the strangest feelings. Thank you for telling us, Wendy and thank you for sharing her story, Tom Llamas, NBC.
God bless this heroic woman! I am sorry you have such a vivid memory of this terrible, traumatic attack. She was an absolute inspiration! God bless you!
What a strong woman! She was shot 5 times! NYC in the 70s was wild. The Bronx in the 70s was literally burning to the ground. New Yorkers have been through so much since the 70s they now jump into action during an emergency to help someone. We don’t play that.
how could the newspapers publish her home address and her husband work address? Seriously, even if they didn't link the crime to the others no one knew who the killer was. I don't blame her and her husband going back to England.
He most likely bought the .44 because he couldn't believe this lady survived. He had also become obsessed with the film "Taxi Driver" & Travis Bickle, which mentions a .44. (This was according to his friends)
Thank you to Wendy for sharing and reliving a person’s worst nightmare. Her PTSD is still visible. But, she is, indeed, a strong and positive woman, and her survival is a miracle. 🌹 Her tormentor is where he belongs until the day he dies.
The newspaper printed her address? And her husband's location? What if he'd been one of those psychotic killers that had acolytes? There was a complete disregard for her safety! 😢
What a remarkably strong and courageous woman! I can't believe how Ms. Savino was able to survive getting shot five times at close range. The pain must have been tremendous, but I can only imagine that she was able to struggle into that restaurant for help under the pure power of adrenaline. How dare the newspapers invade a victim's privacy by publishing her home address and her husband's business address. What was the point of that? I'm glad this criminal was finally captured, but I wonder if he could have been caught sooner if Ms. Savino's sketch had been shared with the public instead of languishing away in another victim's police file. Thank goodness he was put away in prison for the rest of his miserable life. Wendy Savino may have lost an eye in the attack, but I suspect she never let her handicap get her down. Her story is a real inspiration for me. Thank you for sharing it.
@@richardwinter6259 No one tried. She was officially ignored by the Bronx DA in 1977 when she told them Berkowitz shot her. Me and Mike Lorenzo were the guys who did this. It took a couple months to put it all together. My channel is called The Grossman Files if you want more information. Thanks!
That awful guy is a waste of life. How dare him injure this woman and make her go through all the pain and recovery and change the trajectory of her life. I am so sorry, but I am glad she fought on
@@JoeBuck207Does not undo the physical pain he caused this woman and many others in addition to the pain suffered by the families of this who did not survive. This woman is not even the only one to lose an eye because of him.
@@JoeBuck207 Berkowitz's alleged "Christianity" is another long con. He's no Christian and neither are his alleged "friends." They're actually his fanclub using their boy Dave to grift.
There was a victim before her where he used a knife. On a neighbor. He wrote about it .he said she screamed that's why he started to use the bulldog gun. Great sketch. He was caught by hapenstance. The summons on the car was a stroke of luck.
Michelle Forman. Stabbed on the coop city overpass on Dec 24 1975 by David Berkowitz. Proving the DB used many different "tools" to try to harm people. The .44 was a media created myth. Berkie had other guns.
What an incredible story and what an unbelievable experience of living through such an outrageous attempt at killing somebody to have them survive! That just goes to show you that if it’s not your time to go you’re not going anywhere!
At first, he was reffered to as The 44 caliber killer..once he started writing those taunting notes, his moniker changed. This poor, poor woman looks so TERRIFIC May God continue to Bless her and her family..
Brooklyn detectives knew there was a ball game that night and that parking was limited. They surmised he had changed his routine because of the intense police presence in the other boroughs. Brooklyn PD jumped in their cars and went right away to his apartment building. Outside their jurisdiction. Machine gun visible in the ticketed vehicle. They stopped a major crime.
It was great detective work and the summons was a stroke of luck but poor policing by the NYPD. This lady gave a very detailed description of her shooter. All the police had to do was give the description to the media and he might have been caught much sooner.
My wife remembers her father telling her to dye her hair and not allowing her out at times. Tension was so bad she went to stay with relatives out of state and then summer camp.
Turns out her dad, like all of NY, fell prey to the myths the media created about SOS. Wendy was a pixie cut platinum blonde. Hardly his "type" if you believed the papers back then. Those myths put NYC in much greater danger.
This would have never been made possible if not for the cumulative effort of Manny Grossman and Det. Mike Lorenzo from The Grossman Files... it's a treasure vault for anyone interested in the Son of Sam case.
At the beginning, I could feel her fear as this awesome and inspirational woman recounted her amazing tale of surviving that cold blooded killer's first attack. Remember Son of Sam well as I was a teenager, regularly reading the local papers in Dunedin, New Zealand, which also featured the latest terrifying reports on England's Yorkshire Ripper.
Christ! She survived all of that. Amazing woman.
Ma'am, your sketch was so much better than the ones that were put out there. So spot on. So glad you survived this and have the strength to talk about this. So very sorry that you had to endure this in the first place. May God be with you always and forever.
you are this woman’s grandson. When was the sketch done? How did you connect her to the son of Sam if the police never had her information in the son of Sam files? How could you have possibly connected this woman to the SOA if she didnt even know who he was and she was in England immediately leaving the hospital? You are trying to scam people
Manny is this woman’s grandson. When was the sketch done? How did you connect her to the son of Sam if the police never had her information in the son of Sam files? How could you have possibly connected this woman to the SOA if she didnt even know who he was and she was in England immediately leaving the hospital? You are trying to scam people
I remember this time so well. I started nursing school in NYC in 1977 and the Son of Sam “reign of terror” was terrifying. This woman defied all odds and she sustained so much trauma. I’m so glad she made it and she believed in life.
Thankyou for all you do ,I was 12 a preteen born and raised in brooklyn, I remember being scared
@@QueenofQueens1-hn7wcyes, horror I was in highschool in Brooklyn 😮
I was upstate, in the Finger Lakes, but we had WPIX channel 11 on our TV. It was almost like being in NYC. About all they talked about was the ".44 caliber killer." I vividly remember all the "Crazy Eddie" commercials.
@ - OMG…Crazy Eddie commercials! What a blast from the past!
What a sweet eloquent woman. He kept interrupting her but she told her story perfectly. What a strong woman she is
She was so courageous then, and still has been in the years since.
An unusally brave remarkable lady!
Excellent interview!
I was 20 years old and a sophomore in college when this story unfolded. And even being 3000 miles away in a rural wheat farming college town full of farmers and students, we were scared to death of the "Son of Sam" saga. 😳 This woman's survival is unbelievable! 😫
"And then I'm a balloon deflating." That must have been terrifying. What a brave, strong woman!
The woman who survived retells her story with great gestures!
WHY she wait THIS LONG to say anything tho?
@@6Haunted-Days she didn't know who shot her until she seen him arrested, and recognized him as her assailant. Problem was people didn't believe her, and the police already has enough evidence for a conviction, and they didn't pursue it any further. She didn't wait till now to say anything. People just didn't believe her claims to have been shot by SOS. Manny Grossman, and Mike Lorenzo was able to crack this case, and Berkowitz was interviewed by detectives, and confirmed that he did in fact shoot her.
@@6Haunted-Daysit's very common with severe trauma, some people never talk about it. it's so difficult that it is considered part of treatment, to try to talk about it over and over to help process and desensitize. She's incredibly strong. ❤
4:45 she is basically reliving it in and out. I recognize this state. It's really hard to keep going when it starts feeling real, she keeps pushing thru. You can tell it still feels recent despite being decades past. Mad respect.
@@6Haunted-Daystrauma presents different in everyone. Sometimes it takes years before you can talk about it. It’s extremely hard to do.
If nothing else.. she’s reminded all of us of our strength.. amazing woman.. amazing
Miss, I’m sorry this happened to you, but delighted you survived. Thank you for sharing your story. And may you live many more years yet.
i wasnt aware any of his victims survived. wow. shes so lucky to have survived after being shot several times.
There were several that survived, you need to research this.
She is able to describe what a lot of people who ended up dying could not tell us. Love her!
Exactly. Critics say "he never smiled at other victims," but we are not able to interview the people he killed to find out if that is true. Two survivors (lomino and Demasi) describe their shooting almost exactly like Wendy did. A guy walks up, looks friendly, starts to ask for directions and then shoots.
I can’t imagine the trauma.
by the grace of god she survived i can’t even imagine her pain the flashbacks she endured he was a true monster
Amen
WOW . what a strong woman to live through all of that.
That is amazing she was shot so many times and survived to tell the tale. Very brave woman. They need to never let him out.
This woman is a walking miracle 😇🙏😇🙏😇🙏😇✝️
The way this extraordinary lady says the word 'exactly' = 🔥!!!
Thank you to NBC for running this story on Wendy Savino. When I originally found her story I just knew she had been shot by Berkowitz.
This whole experience of discovering her story to meeting her to having NYPD close her case naming Berkowitz as shooter has been one of the most memorable experiences of my life.
I would just like to give a huge shoutout to Retired Detective First Grade Mike Lorenzo (YPD) for being my trusted research partner and friend on this Savino journey. He provided the philosophical framework that allowed us to eventually find Wendy. He is getting short shrift in the media reports of this story and I just would like to correct that historical error.
Ha ha ha ha ha
Wendy is really hamming it up here isn't she hahahahaha
@@Ana-jn9fr She's giving a full account of her experience . Most people would recite a list of wounds, but, by acting it out, she makes it far more vivid. She's amazing.
Thanks for your hard work Manny.
@@GodzHarleyGirlStudio You are very welcome.
I'm so glad I saw this. I was in my early 20s and attending Columbia University as a commuter. We were terrified. She told it so matter factly yet brought all the horror of that time back!
Amazing strength and fortitude of this woman! 👏👏🥰
Great story! Thank you, Tom. This was incredibly inspiring. This is one tough lady. Classy and smart. I’m so glad she made it through that horrific ordeal!
What a brave woman. Your scetch was uncanny.
He’s smiling.. that’s terrifying!
Demon possessed.
Hence why he was denied parole recently for the 12th time!!!
As this poor innocent lady was telling her story I began gasping my breath went out of me! Omg so sorry that happened to her. Yet she survived this harrowing ordeal. She is inspiring with her resolve and determination! She seems so kind and decent. Take a page from her story and count your blessings. May she live a very long life 🙏
I was a teenager in the 70s and I was kind of scare. He worked about 10 minutes away from my home. I was in a state of shock.
this woman survived being shot five times at point blank range. that is absolutely crazy the strength she holds should never be questioned
Your a great survivor and a very strong lady .🌹🌹🌹
Yea very strong! She’s got that strength of soul. Remarkable!
She is my auntie
@@kayleighclarke6150 oh my gosh, I'm stunned at her fortitude and courage!! 🙏
I can no longer feel sorry for myself about problems or past trauma. To hear every agonizing detail of this attack and how it upended Wendy's life has me in tears mixed with admiration and awe. One of the strangest feelings. Thank you for telling us, Wendy and thank you for sharing her story, Tom Llamas, NBC.
You dont have to compare your life to hers. Your life is yours.
Oh Dear God, what an awful, awful nightmare! God bless you.
He should let her tell it complete before interrupting her and asking questions.
He has to ask questions or you will never know her story.
This brave woman might consider appearing on Soft White Underbelly. Mark Laita does not interrupt.
Prayers for you ma'am
This happened 60 years ago
@@RuffioCruz Not even quite 50 years ago.
Goodness. Terrifying. You are so brave and strong. I’m so glad you survived.
God bless this woman. You are a miracle
She really is. She told that story without an ounce of self pity, just self compassion.
God bless this heroic woman! I am sorry you have such a vivid memory of this terrible, traumatic attack. She was an absolute inspiration! God bless you!
This wonderful woman is truly amazing!
Those stories scared me, I remember!!
Omg. That poor woman. What a monster.
Wow ! Amazing Manny and Mike Lorenzo , this made headline news .
God Bless this woman. Hope he never gets out.
What a strong woman! She was shot 5 times! NYC in the 70s was wild. The Bronx in the 70s was literally burning to the ground. New Yorkers have been through so much since the 70s they now jump into action during an emergency to help someone. We don’t play that.
I was 5 years old then and one of the shootings was 6 blocks from my house. Talk about a first memory. It was scary.
She's a miracle. God bless her! 💐
Hr recollection is still vivid and traumatic.
Now that's a story. So glad she's alive. Using a seat belt in the mid 70s, definitely not from New York.
how could the newspapers publish her home address and her husband work address? Seriously, even if they didn't link the crime to the others no one knew who the killer was. I don't blame her and her husband going back to England.
That was routinely done at that time.
God bless her, absolutely lovely lady, tough and and resilient 💯💜🙏🙏🙏
5 rounds from a .44 magnum at close range. This poor woman has been through it.
32.
He most likely bought the .44 because he couldn't believe this lady survived. He had also become obsessed with the film "Taxi Driver" & Travis Bickle, which mentions a .44. (This was according to his friends)
@@jaysonb.6669 Exactly correct. And he saw Taxi Driver in Texas several months after the Savino shooting.
So vivid after so many years. Poor woman has probably played it over in her mind thousands of times. Thank god she lived.
Shot in the head and survived? Shot 5 times?! Incredible. What a strong woman...
Thank you to Wendy for sharing and reliving a person’s worst nightmare. Her PTSD is still visible. But, she is, indeed, a strong and positive woman, and her survival is a miracle. 🌹 Her tormentor is where he belongs until the day he dies.
What a lovely lady. Can't believe she lived through all that
I lived in Oklahoma and was home with my new baby. I remember turning on the TV every morning seeing who else had been murdered.
The newspaper printed her address? And her husband's location? What if he'd been one of those psychotic killers that had acolytes? There was a complete disregard for her safety! 😢
This is absolutely riveting. That poor lady. I'm glad she survived but can't imagine what she has had to live with all these years.
😢😢😢😢😢😢 this is so devastating even though I wasn't even born yet but I'm so glad she survived to tell her story
I Wasn't even born either. But I'm so glad she survived to tell her story.🙏🏾🙏🏾
What a remarkably strong and courageous woman! I can't believe how Ms. Savino was able to survive getting shot five times at close range. The pain must have been tremendous, but I can only imagine that she was able to struggle into that restaurant for help under the pure power of adrenaline. How dare the newspapers invade a victim's privacy by publishing her home address and her husband's business address. What was the point of that? I'm glad this criminal was finally captured, but I wonder if he could have been caught sooner if Ms. Savino's sketch had been shared with the public instead of languishing away in another victim's police file. Thank goodness he was put away in prison for the rest of his miserable life. Wendy Savino may have lost an eye in the attack, but I suspect she never let her handicap get her down. Her story is a real inspiration for me. Thank you for sharing it.
Isn't it crazy that newspapers used to be allowed to publish people's private information like home address?! Madness
How amazing is she what an inspiring and incredible survivor ❤ love her accent and her ability to see some humour also that’s gutsy strength x
God Bless you Wendy. I admire your courage and strength. 💖👏🌹🌹🌹
This video broke my heart💔💔💔🙏🏼
Me too.😢😢
And he blamed it all on a dog "talking" to him.
Then he blamed in on a non-existent "cult"
So impressed by the strength of this woman, amazing that she survived this horrific attack. Her sketch was spot on.
the spitting image of Berkowitz for sure.
Can’t believe it took them this long to put it together
@@richardwinter6259 No one tried. She was officially ignored by the Bronx DA in 1977 when she told them Berkowitz shot her. Me and Mike Lorenzo were the guys who did this. It took a couple months to put it all together. My channel is called The Grossman Files if you want more information. Thanks!
Moving interview of a brave woman
This woman is amazing. You had angels 😇 watching over you that day.
Yes 💯💯
That awful guy is a waste of life. How dare him injure this woman and make her go through all the pain and recovery and change the trajectory of her life. I am so sorry, but I am glad she fought on
He's turned his life around in prison and helps many prisoners.
He's turned his life around in prison and helps many prisoners.
@@JoeBuck207 That’s good, but in the meantime, she has gone through grueling pain and surgeries and has a less healthy body, and many people are dead!
@@JoeBuck207Does not undo the physical pain he caused this woman and many others in addition to the pain suffered by the families of this who did not survive. This woman is not even the only one to lose an eye because of him.
@@JoeBuck207 Berkowitz's alleged "Christianity" is another long con. He's no Christian and neither are his alleged "friends." They're actually his fanclub using their boy Dave to grift.
GOD BLESS HER ! What a strong lady she is.
My friend Marion lived in Bensenhurst at the time.She moved to N.J. out of fear.
And so did every other Italian eventually
Just let her talk!
There was a victim before her where he used a knife. On a neighbor. He wrote about it .he said she screamed that's why he started to use the bulldog gun. Great sketch. He was caught by hapenstance. The summons on the car was a stroke of luck.
Michelle Forman. Stabbed on the coop city overpass on Dec 24 1975 by David Berkowitz. Proving the DB used many different "tools" to try to harm people. The .44 was a media created myth. Berkie had other guns.
What an incredible story and what an unbelievable experience of living through such an outrageous attempt at killing somebody to have them survive! That just goes to show you that if it’s not your time to go you’re not going anywhere!
At first, he was reffered to as The 44 caliber killer..once he started writing those taunting notes, his moniker changed. This poor, poor woman looks so TERRIFIC May God continue to Bless her and her family..
Wendy’s story makes me cry. What an amazing, resilient lady!!
spike lee's "summer of sam" is a great underrated movie
Agree 100%
remarkable woman! Peace, sister. You defeated evil.
What a coward he is
This is the stuff that messes up a life big time
Omg this woman is an amazing storyteller
I could listen to her trauma over and over
Amazing story. God bless her strength
What an amazingly tough Lady.
Phenomenal Survivor!
😢what a brave woman!
Wow big respect for her attitude after living through something like that.
She is amazing!! Such a strong woman!!
What an amazing woman. Maybe, because she was a contortionist, it explains her survival and determination to survive.
She was also in good physical shape.
Brooklyn detectives knew there was a ball game that night and that parking was limited. They surmised he had changed his routine because of the intense police presence in the other boroughs. Brooklyn PD jumped in their cars and went right away to his apartment building. Outside their jurisdiction. Machine gun visible in the ticketed vehicle. They stopped a major crime.
It was great detective work and the summons was a stroke of luck but poor policing by the NYPD. This lady gave a very detailed description of her shooter. All the police had to do was give the description to the media and he might have been caught much sooner.
@@anthonyriche552 The composite drawing of him on the cover of the New York Daily News ended up looking nothing like him.
@@Paumanokcom Disagree. Most of the SOS sketches were really good. Savino's was the closest though to what he actually looked like.
My wife remembers her father telling her to dye her hair and not allowing her out at times. Tension was so bad she went to stay with relatives out of state and then summer camp.
Turns out her dad, like all of NY, fell prey to the myths the media created about SOS. Wendy was a pixie cut platinum blonde. Hardly his "type" if you believed the papers back then. Those myths put NYC in much greater danger.
Omg praise god she’s still here what a sick man I hope he rots in his cell (worse) your very strong ❤️
What a beautiful woman! I am so sorry that happened to you! Thank you so much for your story!
You’re right. You have to be positive and get through whatever life throws at you. So happy you survived.
You are A Beautiful Strong woman ❤
This would have never been made possible if not for the cumulative effort of Manny Grossman and Det. Mike Lorenzo from The Grossman Files... it's a treasure vault for anyone interested in the Son of Sam case.
Thanks Blaise. One slight correction though. Mike is not a junior. He does not share the same full name as his father.
@@mannygrossman oops! I corrected that error, thanks for letting me know
We are so proud of you Manny! ❤
DB can rot in prison until he passes.....
Such a horrible thing to happen to a lady
That my auntie
WOW! I am so shocked by her story. Very brave woman. Long life to her! ❤
WOW! How this lady survived any of those bullets is amazing. Astounding.
At the beginning, I could feel her fear as this awesome and inspirational woman recounted her amazing tale of surviving that cold blooded killer's first attack. Remember Son of Sam well as I was a teenager, regularly reading the local papers in Dunedin, New Zealand, which also featured the latest terrifying reports on England's Yorkshire Ripper.
Wait.. what? she survived all this? ... My goodness....
What a remarkable woman!
I wish he didn’t keep interrupting her.