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.
Martin Sheen played the detective in a CBS made-for-TV movie.
“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.
On Aug. 10, 1977, Detective Zigo went to Berkowitz’s home. The suspect had already killed six people and wounded seven others.
“According to my father, he introduced himself and said, ‘Hi, David. I’m Detective Zigo,’ ” the younger Zigo said.
“Berkowitz said to him, ‘Hi, Ed. I’m the Son of Sam.’ ”