Wednesday, February 23, 2011

AS SEEN ON TV: ED ZIGO

The cop who arrested Son of Sam has passed away......

ED ZIGO

AS SEEN IN:
"Out Of The Darkness"

AS PLAYED BY:
Martin Sheen

From The New York Post
By
PHILIP MESSING
Detective Ed Zigo -- the NYPD legend who cracked the "Son of Sam" case and slapped the handcuffs on serial killer David Berkowitz -- has died, The Post has learned. He was 84.

Zigo solved the confounding 1977 case by checking out a parking ticket issued to Berkowitz at the scene of his last murder.

"My father's deductive reasoning was: 'What is a Jewish guy from Yonkers doing parked in an Italian neighborhood at two in the morning?' " recalled Ed Zigo III, whose dad died of cancer Saturday at his Lynbrook, LI, home.

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BCnU!

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