After his admission to Sullivan prison, Berkowitz began to claim that he had joined a Satanic cult in the spring of 1975. In 1993, Berkowitz made these claims known when he announced to the press that he had killed only three of the Son of Sam victims: Donna Lauria, Alexander Esau, and Valentina Suriani.

In his revised version of the events, Berkowitz said that other shooters were involved and that he fired the gun only in the first attack (Lauria and Valenti) and the sixth (Esau and Suriani). He said that he and several other cult members were involved in every incident by planning the events, providing early surveillance of the victims, and acting as lookouts and drivers at the crime scenes. Berkowitz stated that he could not divulge the names of most of his accomplices without putting his family directly at risk.

Berkowitz declared that “at least five” cult members were at the scene of the Freund–Diel shooting, but the actual shooter was a prominent cult associate who had been brought in from outside New York with an unspecified motive—a cult member whom he identified only by his nickname, “Manson II.” Another unnamed person was the gunman in the Moskowitz–Violante case, a male cult member who had arrived from North Dakota for the occasion, also without explanation.

Berkowitz did name two of the cult members: John and Michael Carr. The two men were sons of the dog-owner Sam Carr, and they lived on nearby Warburton Avenue in Yonkers, NY.  Both of these other “sons of Sam” were dead: John Carr had been killed in a shooting judged a suicide in North Dakota during 1978, and Michael Carr had been in a fatal single-car accident in 1979.

Berkowitz claimed that the perpetrator of the DeMasi–Lomino shooting was John Carr, and he added that a Yonkers police officer, also a cult member, was involved in this crime. He claimed that Michael Carr fired the shots at Lupo and Placido.  Michael Carr was a very active Scientologist who had traveled to Scientology’s “Mecca” in Clearwater Florida; According to Maury Terry, at the time of Berkowitz’s arrest, he was in possession of a list of telephone numbers, including the number of Scientology’s Fort Harrison Hotel facility in Clearwater.

The Process Church of the Final Judgement:

• Investigative reporter Maury Terry linked the Process Church to the Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO), and claimed both as part of a grand satanic conspiracy in his 1987 book, “The Ultimate Evil.”  Click to view new Process Church page.