David Berkowitz
David Berkowitz (A.K.A) Son of Sam the notorious serial killer of the New York City area, Terrifying people from late July of 1976 threw late June of 1977, Killing 6 and injuring 5 ; David Berkowitz really didn't change American culture he just continued a current trend of serial killers before him. Betty Broder married an Italian American named Tony Falco at the age of 19. She soon after began having an affair with a married man by the name of Joseph Kleinman. As soon as Betty became pregnant, Kleinman found out told her that if she wanted to continue seeing him she would have to get rid of the baby when it came. On June 1, 1953 she gave birth to a baby boy named David Berkowitz Falco. But soon after he was put up for adoption. The people that adopted David Berkowitz were Nathan and Pearl Berkowitz a Jewish family who weren't able to have kids of there own, but got David Berkowitz with the intent of raising him as there own. Tragedy struck David Berkowitz's life at the tender age of 14 when his mother died of breast cancer. Two years later in 1971 David Berkowitz's father Nathan remarried. This effected David Berkowitz's life very much and he started to fail at school because of his troubled family life.
Around midnight of November 27, of 1976. Berkowitz struck yet again. This time his victims were 18-year-old Joanne Lomino and 16-year-old Donna Demasi. Joanne was shot in the lower spine, shattering it, she will have to spend the rest of her life in a wheel chair, Donna was shot through the base of the neck. On October 23, 1976, He struck again. This time his victims where 18 year old Rosemary and 20 year old Carl Denaro. Carl Denaro had shoulder length hair and was probably mistaken by Berkowitz for a girl. Berkowitz fired 5 shots into the car and only hit Carl in the back of the head, surprisingly he survived but only by having a metal plate placed into the back of his head where the skull was missing. The next attack happened on June 26, 1977, in the Queens area, 17 year old Judy Placido and 20-year-old Salvatore Lupo where sitting in their car talking about Son of Sam. When the Son of Sam attacked them. The shots went threw the window and hit Salvatore in the wrist and continued on threw his into Jody's neck. The next shot hit Jody in the head but didn't penetrate her skull; she was also hit in the shoulder. They both lived and recovered at the hospital. The final attack took place on July 31, 1977, in Brooklyn. Bobby Wiolante and Stacy Moskowitz both age 20 where taking a stroll in the park when they where attacked with gun fire hitting Stacy in the head killing her instantly and wounding Bobby. This is the letter David Berkowitz sent to Captain Joe Borelli who later sent it to Jimmy Breslin of the New York Daily News. (See Back Of Report).
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