His death happened the Summer before I started 8th grade. We had just returned from a vacation in South carolina where we visited cousins. On the way down we saw billboards in North Carolina advertising Elvis concerts to take place there in September.

I remember as the vacation started, we were talking about Son of Sam, who was caught a day later.

And after we returned I remember talking with my brother and a friend on our back porch when my mother told us about Elvis after hearing the news on tv. It was a massive news story.