Brickwit

The word is not pronounced sam hayne. It's pronounced sawan, and back in the 19 seventies it was spelled s ama i n. The second mistake? Sam hayne is not a deity or demon. That appears to be an eccentric idea that berkowitz and his group got into their heads because they thought the name sam hayne sounded exotic and pagan,. They then took the name sam from sam hayne and combined it with details of the behaviour of sam carr to form the figure described in the letters. And these people who died, the victims, sadly, were for him. So this worked two ways. Tet sam ham, and you also had sam carr