
Son of Sam (David Berkowitz, True Crime, Serial Killer)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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What Happened to David Berkwitz?
David berkwitz was a 24 year old postal worker and former veteran. He confessed to the attacks, all eight of them. After his arrest on september nineteenth, he published a letter in the new york post. People were worried that he might sell his story to a writer, publisher or movie producer. New York state assembly passed a law to prevent this - known as the son of sam law.
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Transcript

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?
