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David Berkowitz was born Richard David Falco on June 1, 1953, in Brooklyn, New York City. [3]: 73 Within a few days of his birth, his biological mother, Elizabeth "Betty" Broder, gave the child away. [3]: 80 Broder had grown up as part of an impoverished family and was working as a waitress.
The killer, David Berkowitz, later identifies himself as "Son of Sam" in a note left at a murder scene. Berkowitz lives in a messy apartment, where he is driven crazy by the barking of a neighbor's large black labrador, Harvey, the dog of Sam Carr, and has a vision of the dog directing him to kill.
Berkowitz is now serving a 300-year prison sentence for the shooting of 13 people and killing six between July 1976 and July 1977. He was the only one who was ever charged for these crimes, but Terry insisted that Berkowitz was acting on behalf of a satanic cult known as "The Children," which allegedly was connected to Charles Manson.
The serial killer David Berkowitz—nicknamed Son of Sam—is still serving life for his so-called “Summer of Sam,” in which he murdered six people and wounded seven others in 1976 and 1977.
Now streaming on Netflix is The Sons of Sam: A Descent Into Darkness, a new true-crime docuseries that not only re-examines the 1977 murder spree by David Berkowitz, known then as the Son of Sam ...
Wendy Savino, 87, recalled the moment that David Berkowitz, dubbed the “Son of Sam” killer, walked up to her car in a Bronx parking lot on an April night in 1976, grinning as he stepped closer ...
David Berkowitz April 16, 2020 ( 2020-04-16 ) In the summer of 1976, the New York City Police Department are chasing a man shooting at couples with a gigantic, .44 caliber handgun.
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — “Son of Sam” killer David Berkowitz, who set New York City on edge with late-night shootings in the 1970s, was denied parole after his twelfth board appearance. Berkowitz ...