Continuing with another chapter from Maury Terry's work 'The Ultimate Evil'...

... What about your children? You say there are just a few? There are many, many more, coming in the same direction. They are running in the streets— and they are coming right at you!
—Charles Manson,
testifying at his trial

"That's right," Vinny said, warily glancing about the dreary visiting center in maximum-security Dannemora prison. "The Children—that's what the inner circle of twelve called themselves. Just like Manson's group. It was all part of the same setup, going from New York to L.A., and to Texas and North Dakota—with Texas weapons shipped up through Tampa, Florida. They also had some stuff in Massachusetts and Connecticut, and I think in Jersey."

Mike Zuckerman and I listened in silence while Vinny recited the scope of the cult's operations as whispered to him by Berkowitz. Later, we'd ask countless questions. But I was already mentally comparing Vinny's remarks with Berkowitz's 1977 "cult warning" to police in the tri-state area. Now I knew what he meant.

"The Children were the core in the East; in Westchester, anyway," Vinny went on. "Counting fringe people, there were sometimes as many as forty. But twenty-two was the official number of the cult itself, with the twelve planning and doing the killings."

It was late spring 1982. Vinny was first on the visiting list, and would be followed by Danny a month later. For five straight hours Vinny spoke, not once leaving his seat at the small table. The story was compelling, and would later be supported by months of street investigation. The road to Dannemora had been a tricky one; it took a while to convince Vinny of my sincerity. But he finally wrote:

Just got your letter. You aren't bullshit. You do know. Did Berkowitz tell you, or do you (like I) have evidence? Berkowitz is probably scared of me now, but I never violated his trust. As a fact, all I know would only make things better for him.
https://exploringrealhistory.blogspot.com/2020/03/part-12-ultimate-evila-coast-to-coast.html