Being a trapeze artist and contortionist, I was very strong," Wendy Savino said of allegedly being shot five times by notorious .44-caliber killer David Berkowitz as she sat in her car in the Bronx on April 9, 1976.
They said it was my beautiful big lungs that saved me," the now 87-year-old said a week after The Post revealed that NYPD detectives recently determined she was actually the first victim in the spree that targeted women and left six people dead. 'I really thought I was dying.'
Savino, whose real first name was Brenda, began performing acrobatics and dance at a theater when she was just a child in Dartford, England, about 20 miles from London, because she was 'always hanging upside down.' She was a fixture in theaters by the time she was a preteen.
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