
Son of Sam (David Berkowitz, True Crime, Serial Killer)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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The Four Hundred Caliber Killer
Killer left a letter at the scene of his sixth attack. It was handwritten, mostly in capital letters and addressed to captain joseph barrelly. He also used what looked like deliberate spellings such as spelling women w e m o n weman instead of women. This use of deliberate misspellings echoes the zodiac killer who had done something similar in his letters just a few years before. To stop me, you must kill me. Attention all police, shoot me first.
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A terrifying series of killings in NYC in 1976 included letters to police from the killer calling himself "Son of Sam". Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss what happened, how David Berkowitz was arrested and confessed, and then ask did he really act alone?
