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he was adopted
he was adopted, by a Jewish family -
where it stared
born in Brooklyn New York, his real name was David Berkowitz -
he had a bad childhood
he was bullied as a kid, he didn't have much friends. he was super close to his mother when she died of breast cancer he stopped caring about a lot he joined the army at 18 -
after he got out of the army
He had a Honorable discharge he got a job for a postmen, he got an apartment in New York. his killings started shortly after -
when he first started killing
the son of Sam killed a total of 6 people but wounded 7 others his first shooting was two teenage girls walking down the street(Donna Lauri, and Jody Valenti) he used a 44 caliber -
how he got the name Son of Sam
at his 5th killing he left a note at the crime scene taunting the new York police department captain Joseph borrelli asking why you couldn't catch me and telling them he wanted to be called "the Son of Sam" after that almost every kill he left a note until he got caught -
life in prison
after he was arrested he got put in jail, and when it was his court he plead guilty and was sentenced to 30 years to life without parole, but he chnaged his life around he now calls him self the son of hope. -
a quote
"i was literally singing to my self on my way home after the killing the tension the desire to kill a women had built up in such explosive proportions that when i pulled the trigger all the pressures all the tensions all the hatred had just vanished disspiteaed but only for a short time" -
a qoute
"I was literally singing to my self on my way home after the killing the tension the desire to kill a women had built up in such explosive proportions that when I pulled the trigger all the pressure all the hatred had just vanished dissipated but only for a short time -
How he got caught
on his last killing as he was getting into the get away car, someone saw him and then they looked on the security tape and thats how he got caught -
the day he got caught
the day that he got caught they found the car and they found a un-sent letter to the captain that was working at that time, and the gun that he used on the other killings, he was found at his apartment
