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David Richard Berkowitz (born Richard David Falco; June 1, 1953), also known as the Son of Sam and the .44 Caliber Killer, is an American serial killer who pled guilty to perpetrating eight shootings in New York City between July 1976 and July 1977, which resulted in six fatalities. [2]
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 ...
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 ...
Lauria, 18, was the first person Berkowitz killed. Berkowitz is serving his sentence at the Shawangunk Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison in Ulster County, New York.
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. [5]
Although Berkowitz denied wanting any kind of deal, the New York State Legislature swiftly passed preemptive legal statutes anyway, the first legal restriction of its kind in the U.S. The original New York law was invoked in New York eleven times between 1977 and 1990, including against Mark David Chapman, the murderer of musician John Lennon.
“Son of Sam” David Berkowitz says he hopes he can inspire people from his prison cell in a similar way to how Anne Frank’s World War II diary inspired millions. Speaking days before facing a ...
In 1977, at the height of the Son of Sam scare in New York City, the killer, later identified as David Berkowitz, addressed letters to Breslin. [23] [24] Excerpts from the letters were published and used later in Spike Lee's film Summer of Sam, which Breslin, portraying himself, bookends. [25]