Maurice P. Terry Sr. (June 29, 1946 – December 10, 2015)[1] was an American journalist associated with researching the Son of Sam killings.
A graduate at Iona College, he worked as an in-house editor at IBM after his reports on the MLK assassination.
[2] He is known for writing the 1987 book The Ultimate Evil, which posited that the Son of Sam murders involved a satanic cult of serial killers rather than only David Berkowitz.
[3][4] He, his preserved archives, audio tapes, and his book were used as the basis for the Netflix documentary series The Sons of Sam: A Descent Into Darkness.
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