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Larry King: What did
you get out of it?

David: Nothing.

I just, like,
felt I had no mind.

I felt something else
was controlling --

controlling me.

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Welcome to "Very Scary People."

I'm Donnie Wahlberg.

Between July of 1976
and June of 1977,

David Berkowitz was busy
making nightmares a reality,

maiming or killing
11 innocent victims.

Certain he was targeting
long-haired brunettes,

women began cutting
and coloring their hair.

Couples avoided going out.

All to escape being attacked
by the Son of Sam.

Panic in New York City
was mounting.

Where and when would
the killer strike next?

Police had no real leads.

Then, finally, a mistake
puts an end to the terror.

This is part two of "Son Of Sam:
I am a Monster."

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Reporter: He struck
in the dark of night,

popping out of the shadows
in the Bronx and Queens.

Kamen: There was nothing
that told them the killer

was about
to do open fire on them,

and he did.

Man: A killer made his way
from one dark street

to another without a face
and name, without an identity.

He was an M.O.

Everyone agreed that it was
a young white male

between 25 and 30 years old,
about 6 feet tall.

Borrelli: "I am a monster."

Kamen: "I am the Son of Sam."

It scared the shit
out of 7 million people

that lived in the city.

Reporter #2: Young people
stopped sitting in cars,

stopped going out,

or went out only
when they absolutely had to.

Everybody was afraid.

Because they really don't know

where he's going
to turn up next.

He captivated this city
for an entire year.

So, who was this monster

that was stalking
the city of New York?

David:
I knew it was wrong,

but when a mind
is captured by Satan,

you can't look at things
and evaluate things

in their right perspective.

He was adopted by Pearl
and Nathan Berkowitz.

He seemed to have a relatively
normal childhood at first,

but then behavioral issues
started to bubble up.

His adoptive mother died
of cancer when he was 14.

Interviewer: What was that
like for you?

David:
Completely devastating.

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Jordan: June 26, 1977,
Judy Placido, 17 years old,

and Salvatore Lupo.

They had gone out to a disco
in Queens.

At the end of the night,
they walked back to the car

and got inside.

They were actually talking
about the murders happening

and how scary it was,
and then it hit them.

Klausner: The same thing
that's happened before --

a figure walks up, takes
a shooting stance, and bang!

That particular night,
my partner and myself,

we were just a couple
of blocks away.

And by the time we got there,
it was said and done.

He's evaded capture.

Jordan: Even though Judy
and Sal survived,

they really couldn't provide
any description to the police.

Police, once again,
were stumped.

Those things create an image
that he will not be caught.

The police cannot see him.

He is a wisp of smoke that
just dissipates into the air.

King:
So, there was no plan

on how I'm gonna get away
with this?

David: No.

No plan to deceive?
No, no.

I was just a real mess.

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Klausner: The police really have
nothing to go on.

Is there going to be
another shooting?

Of course, the police
knew there would be.

More police officers
are assigned,

Queens and the Bronx,
but he won't strike there again.

Now he will strike in Brooklyn.

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Jordan: On July 31, 1977,

Robert Violante
and Stacy Moskowitz

were out on a date
in Brooklyn.

Kamen: Stacy's mom,
Neysa Moskowitz, said,

"You be careful tonight,
sweetheart."

The warning could not prevent
the nightmare.

Stacy's response was,
"Mom, I'm a blonde."

Jordan: At the end of their
night, they drove down to a park

underneath
the Verrazzano Bridge,

which was a well-known
lovers' lane.

They were in an area
where couples would park.

Jordan:
They got out of the car

and walked over
to the swing set.

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But they saw a man
watching them..

...and decided to return
to the car.

Klausner: And at that moment,
the shooting occurs.

Whoever would have been
in that particular spot

would have gotten killed.

It was my daughter's
unfortunate luck

to have been there.

He approached the car,
and he fired through the window.

Woman:
He was covered with blood,

and the girl was covered
with blood.

It was a horror.

Just started screaming,
just screaming and screaming.

Stacy Moskowitz was transported
to the hospital, where she died.

And Robert Violante was shot
and blinded for life.

I lost something
very dear to me.

Great kid.

Kamen: You have to really feel
for the cops on this.

They're waiting for something

that will let them
put things together.

They want to stop the killer.
They have to stop the killer.

Collarini-Schlossberg:
Inevitably,

killers make mistakes.

And so did the Son of Sam.

It seems that David Berkowitz
had looked into his background

shortly before he started
his killing spree.

He wants to find out more
about his birth family.

Klausner: David had
this idealistic view

of what his real mother
and father would be like.

And, unfortunately, he isn't
happy with what he finds out.

David: My parents told me,

I think when I was around 5
or 6 years old,

that I was adopted.

I really had a hard time
with that

because my parents, meaning well

and probably under
the instruction of other people,

were told to tell me
that my mom had died

while giving birth to me

and that my dad
couldn't care for me,

so he put me up
for adoption.

Interviewer: But that
wasn't true, was it?

No.

Jordan: His father, Nate,
finally told him the truth.

His mother hadn't actually died
in childbirth.

David: I think now,
looking back in retrospect,

there was times
I had a lot of guilt

because I thought that somehow,
in some way,

I was responsible
for the death of my mom.

I see it did cause a lot
of difficulty in my life.

I had internal struggles
over that issue.

David was actually born
to Betty Falco.

David is a baby out of wedlock.

She had had an affair.

Her pregnancy with David

was, in fact, a product
of the affair.

But even more disturbing
to David

was the fact that Betty had
a daughter named Roslyn,

13 years older,
that she had never given up.

And he went to great length

to search out
his natural family.

And he actually met
his natural mother,

his sister, and her children.

And they had, at one point,
you know, a nice relationship.

And then, ultimately,
he felt greatly rejected

by his natural mother, Betty,

because although she retained
and cared for his sister,

she chose to give him away.

Jordan: This would cause

a deep-seated
and harboring rage within him.

The psychiatrists found
the interaction

with the birth mother

and his older sister
quite significant

in terms of what may have
led him to kill.

These are all very powerful
experiences

in the life of someone who
feels inadequate to begin with.

The abandonment by his mother,

the death
of his adoptive mother,

the fact that he never
had a girlfriend --

all of these negative
experiences

really bubbled up into a rage

where he wanted
to get back at women.

At that point,
he was certainly delusional.

And I think his delusions
pushed him in the direction

of these horrible crimes.

And very shortly after,
will start out on this rampage.

When David Berkowitz
aimed and shot

each of those young women,

he is symbolically killing
every woman

who has ever rejected him
or let him down.

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He looked me straight in the
face, he looked at my dog.

And right here...

we crossed each other.

Cecilia Davis didn't like
the look of this guy,

so she hurried home.

And just as she got inside
her house and closed the door,

she heard the rain of bullets...

...the shooting that took
the lives of Robert and Stacy.

She told the police
about this strange man

she saw just
before the shooting,

and she remembered
something else.

Justus: On the night
of the Moskowitz shooting,

she saw the police officers
issuing a summons to a car.

It was right next to the hydrant
by her home.

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So, the first thing you do
is you pull all the summonses

that are issued.

Boring? Yeah.

But it's something
that had to be done.

Jordan: There could be other
witnesses besides Cecilia Davis

who could give them a clue
as to who the shooter is.

Breslin: But the police looked
for the ticket,

and they couldn't
find the ticket.

There was a thought that maybe
there was no summons served,

but she was so positive of it.

Where is it?

I found out who
the police officer was

that had that sector,
called him on the phone,

and I asked him, you know,
"Did you issue a summons?"

And he said, "Yes."

And I asked him, "Well, why
wasn't the summons turned in?"

He said the chaos that night --
when somebody gets shot,

the last thing you're thinking
about is that stupid summons.

And he just forgot about it,

and he stuck the summons
in his hat.

The patrolman who wrote the
ticket didn't submit the ticket.

He put it in his locker
for a couple of days.

Again, this whole thing is going
towards a possible witness.

I went in and I looked in
his summons receipt book.

They found four that were handed
out that night by the police.

Kamen: And there's a parking
ticket for a vehicle

that isn't even
a New York City vehicle.

It's from this northern suburb,
Yonkers.

Klausner: From a car
that was parked

at a fire hydrant,
a Ford Galaxy,

to someone named
David Berkowitz.

Max: They're looking at this
and thinking,

"What is this guy,
you know, from Yonkers,

you know, doing in Brooklyn,
in that neighborhood?"

It just seemed out of place.

There is a higher power,
as they say.

So, Justus picks up the phone,
and he calls the Yonkers P.D.

and a very pleasant woman
answers the phone.

Thank God the person
on the switchboard

was Wheat Carr.

Jordan:
Wheat Carr was the daughter

of Yonkers resident Sam Carr.

Over the previous year,

the Carr family had been
harassed by somebody.

They had a dog named Harvey,
and Harvey would bark.

The harasser sent
threatening letters

complaining about Sam's
barking dog,

threw a Molotov cocktail
into their yard.

And one night,
the person shoots their dog.

The Carr family had figured out

that the person doing it was
their neighbor, David Berkowitz.

So when Detective Justus calls
Yonkers to look into Berkowitz

as a possible witness
to the Moskowitz murder,

by complete coincidence,
Wheat Carr picks up the phone

because she just so happens

to be a dispatcher
for the Yonkers P.D.

It was being at the right place
at the right time, so to speak.

And as soon as I mentioned
David Berkowitz,

she said,
"Let me tell you about him.

I know him."

He lived in the apartment house

directly behind
where her and her father lived.

She then related a story

about her black Labrador
retriever

being shot by Berkowitz,

and the fact
that Berkowitz was strange.

Clark: He says, "He shot
your father's dog?"

"Yeah."

"What's your name?"
"Wheat."

In one of the letters,
he had said, "Wheaties."

"Okay, what's your dad's name?"
"Sam."

"Sam?!"

And every great detective
has instinct.

I went back to my command,
and my inspector was there.

And he said,
"Well, how'd it go?"

And I said to him,
"I think we got the guy."

Collarini-Schlossberg: And
the next step was to set him up

so that they could
make an arrest.

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Jordan: On August 10, 1977,

NYPD detectives take a road trip
up to Yonkers, New York,

and coordinate a stakeout
on that Ford Galaxy.

It's parked right outside
of David Berkowitz's apartment.

And they looked in the car.

Clark: And they see a duffel bag
with a gun sticking out of it,

and this letter
in that Son of Sam handwriting.

So, what they did was, they set
up a surveillance on the car.

And they wait.

Jordan: Sure enough,
about 10:00 p.m. that night,

a white, heavyset man
with dark hair

comes out
and approaches the car.

Coffey: He's got a brown
paper bag in his hand.

He puts it
on the car seat.

Within seconds, police have
surrounded the vehicle.

He says, "Put your hands
on the dashboard,

turn the ignition off,"
which he does.

He immediately said,
"You got me."

And they said, "Who do we got?"

He said, "I'm the Son of Sam."

He's just smiling at them.

He gives himself right up.

In the bag on the front seat
of the car,

was the .44-caliber gun
that killed all those people.

Game over.

Reporter #2: This is the man
police say

is the .44-caliber killer.

Young, dark-haired,
almost chubby.

When he came into the building,

we all had the same reaction --

how ordinary-looking
this guy was.

I think his appearance
was almost startling to people.

All along, we think we're gonna
find this screaming, crazy guy.

He was a regular Joe.

He had a big smile on his face.

He was almost enjoying the fuss,
the excitement.

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I am very pleased to announce
that the people

of the city of New York
can rest easy this morning.

Police have captured a man
whom they believe

to be the Son of Sam.

Kamen:
I was at the press conference.

You can imagine
what this moment is like

across the entire
New York City police department.

Oh, I was elated.
It was a wonderful feeling.

Hopkins: People were in the
streets. They were partying.

And it was all over
the radio, TV.

David Berkowitz,
when arrested --

24-year-old guy,
was working at the post office.

People who knew him said,
"I would have had no idea."

Hopkins: We went to the post
office, where he worked,

and they're all in disbelief.

Max: He had been escorting some
of his young female colleagues

to walk to their cars because of
this mass murderer on the loose.

Hopkins: One fellow says,
"Well, every morning,

he would have the newspaper."

And at that time,
this was in the newspaper

every day, front page.

And he would turn around
and say to them,

"I hope we get this son
of a bitch."

To me, that was --
that was crazy.

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Klausner:
They bring him to New York City

to the chief
of detective's office.

Borrelli: We stuck him in a room
all by himself,

and all the detectives that had
a case went in, interviewed him.

Hopkins: We all had a shot
at him, questioning.

It was an eerie feeling,

'cause here's the conclusion
of all that we did,

and it's in front of us.

David just tells them
everything.

He went through
each of the killings.

He knew every detail.

He knew how he shot
every victim.

He knew the conditions
of the street.

He knew where he shot
the victims.

He knew what part of the body
he shot them in.

He's very nonchalant, sometimes
a little bit of a smirk,

which kind of unnerved you
a little bit.

He was so proud of what he had
done, that he was so famous,

and he couldn't wait
to tell everybody about it.

He was, frankly, as he told me,
greatly relieved.

Jordan:
In his confessions to police

and subsequent interviews,

David Berkowitz
would provide the details

that would shed light on each
of those individual killings.

One of the first shootings,
he said that,

"I saw the two girls in a car.

I went around the block.

There was my sign.

There's this beautiful
parking space.

I pulled right into the parking
space, walked up, shot them...

...got back in the car,
and drove away."

A spot to park his car
was what got these girls shot.

Jordan:
After the second one...

...he pulled over at a White
Castle hamburger restaurant

and had a meal.

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There were a number of times

when we learned through
the interviewing process

that Berkowitz had gone out
perhaps intending to shoot

but did not.

Clark: He was out every night,
driving around,

waiting for something

that triggered him
to go shoot somebody.

Hopkins: He probably traveled
400, 500 miles

from one borough to another,

and he was just
searching out victims.

It was all opportunistic.

Heller: There was never
a specific rhyme or reason.

It was just random shootings.

He told me that his
primary object was the female.

And of course, in those days,

young men wore their hair
kind of long,

so you didn't know
whether you were necessarily

shooting a male or a female.

In some instances,
the men were hit, also.

Klausner: He was embarrassed
that he even shot at men,

because that wasn't
his objective.

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There were some stories,
unfortunately,

where they
just missed the killer.

There was a code put out,
the 44 code.

When that happened, the bridges
were going to be manned

by police officers
after a shooting incident.

There were two policewomen
guarding the tollbooths.

The killer was in the third car
to come.

The gun was on the seat
next to him.

The two police decided

they weren't gonna have
any business tonight,

and they left just as the cars
were pulling up.

And he would have been stopped
right there.

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In 1975, at Christmastime,

David decides
it's time for blood.

So he accosts a young lady
on a footbridge

that spans a parkway
in the Bronx.

He described stabbing her
multiple times.

Collarini-Schlossberg: He
thought that that was going to be

an easy way to kill a person.

He apparently
had some ideas from TV shows

that the person was just
going to get stabbed,

collapse, and die.

And instead, this particular
woman fought back.

She starts to scream.

And that disturbs him.

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Max: She didn't die.

There was a little bit of panic
that he described,

with a knife actually going into
another human being's flesh.

Borrelli: He ran away.
I guess then after that,

he decided
he was gonna use a gun.

Collarini-Schlossberg:
He really didn't want there

to be too much
of a messy scene for him.

He wanted to do it, get it done,
and go away.

He had a friend purchase him
the gun down in Texas.

He will go to another state, get
a straw purchase of a handgun,

and come back to New York
and start a shooting spree

where you can shoot
from a distance.

It's less personal,
in the same vein.

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Welcome back
to "Very Scary People."

After his arrest in 1977,

David Berkowitz readily
admitted to police

that he was the man
they'd been searching for --

the serial killer known
as the Son of Sam.

The city was relieved
to get him off the streets.

And it couldn't have happened
at a better time.

On the night of his arrest,

Berkowitz was allegedly
going out to kill again.

This time, headed to a nightclub
in Long Island,

where he planned
to carry out a mass shooting.

But there were still
many questions that remained.

In the first interrogation
and confession,

investigators asked the question
everyone wanted to know --

Why did he kill?

Kamen: David Berkowitz
told the police

that it really wasn't his fault.

He was doing the bidding
of a powerful demon

that was speaking to him through
his neighbor Sam Carr's dog.

He fixates on this Carr family
mainly because of the dog.

The dog kept howling
and waking him up.

And caused him a great deal
of sleep deprivation.

Jordan:
He said that the dog barking

was sending him a message

from a 6,000-year-old man
named Sam

and telling him
that he had to go out and kill.

Kamen:
And so he was the Son of Sam.

That's what he called himself,

because he said the demon
told him to do it.

David: I had nothing
against these victims.

Who were these people to me?

They were just people.
I wasn't angry against them.

Interviewer:
Then why'd you do it?

Well, Sam did it through me.

He used me.

He made me go out there
and do it.

He -- I did it for him,
for blood.

Klausner: It was pure chance.

It wasn't a calculated thing.

The demons would tell him,
"Hey, this is the one.

Do it."

Heller: David clearly,

at the time
these crimes were committed,

had a very reduced mental state.

The best word I could use
is delusional.

He had delusions
about everything around him.

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Klausner: When the police got
into his apartment,

they found something
they were not ready for.

His apartment shows
a tormented soul.

He kind of closed up
his apartment

and put curtains
over the windows

and really isolated himself.

Max: One entire wall
of Berkowitz's apartment

was covered in --

I will use the word
"bizarre" -- writings.

There were writings
about Sam Carr.

A lot of writings about Satan.

There were the writings
for the demons,

where they lived, who they were.

There was actually a hole
in the wall.

He said somebody lived
in that hole.

Hopkins: Sometimes he'd go home
without finding anybody,

and that depressed him.

And then the hole in the wall
would respond to say,

"Well, you have to go out
and do this again."

Who does that?

Reporter #3: Today,
Berkowitz's 68-year-old father

held an emotional news
conference to try to explain,

to try to reach out
to those his son allegedly hurt.

I will live with this heartache
for the rest of my life.

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Reporter 4: Berkowitz was
brought to court

in an 8-vehicle motorcade.

David and I went to the Supreme
Court in Kings County,

where an arraignment
was conducted.

There must have been
literally over

3,000 media people
from all over the world.

Would there be a trial?
Would he be set free?

There were 101 questions.

Heller: What surprised me
was how calm he was.

Usually people are very erratic.

They can become violent
at times.

But he was very friendly,
very cordial,

and at that point,
very contrite.

I found him to be very,
very bright, very perceptive,

actually brilliant.

I guess there's a very thin line
between insanity and genius.

First order of business
then became determining

whether or not
he was competent to stand trial.

I felt for sure they would just
put him in a nuthouse

and that'd be the end of it.

Max: It was clear from the
letters that he had written

that he had a disordered mind.

Under the law, a person
who is legally incompetent

cannot be tried.

Eventually, he has to go in
for evaluation, which he did.

Max: The outward appearance
of Mr. Berkowitz was normal.

And in responding
to the psychiatrists,

for the most part, he sounded,
I'll use the word "rational."

However, when questioned about
the killings and about why,

what he was articulating
was what those first doctors

called a fixed
delusional structure.

"I did this because
the demons on Earth,

speaking through
Sam Carr's dog,

were telling me
they needed blood."

That was how he articulated
to the doctors

why he killed.

Reporter #5: Their opinion,
that Berkowitz is not competent

to help his lawyers
or understand the proceedings,

not competent to stand trial.

Max:
Reality was, there was no way,

given the intense pressures
on the district attorneys,

the terror that the city
had suffered,

that a finding of incompetence

was going to be acceptable
to the powers that be.

He simply killed
too many people,

and they couldn't
let that go by.

If you spoke to him
for 30 seconds,

you could see
he was crazy,

but there were too many
dead bodies around,

and somebody had
to account for them.

So they put another
psychiatrist in.

Max: Brooklyn D.A.'s office
hired Dr. David Abrahamsen.

Abrahamsen says,
"Well, look at the way

in which he is able to talk
to us about everything."

Collarini-Schlossberg:
This was someone

who knew what he was doing.

He was smart enough to come up
with a psychological discussion

to explain away his crimes
by making us think

that he was some kind of
mentally ill psychotic person.

But one of the things
that we know about people

who commit an offense like this
is you can't be a madman

and do the kind of planning
and execution

that a man like this did.

Max: Abrahamsen said Berkowitz
was not lacking in capacity.

He thought that he was
actually malingering.

"He can control his actions,

because he tells me
that on occasion,

he would go out
and would not kill."

And on the basis of that,

David was found competent
to stand trial.

He could have gone to trial
and tried the insanity defense.

His lawyers believed
that he should try to claim it.

Max:
But the next month or so,

the doctors at the hospital
allowed a minister to see him,

and David has converted
to Christianity.

Well, what happened --

Berkowitz says,
"I am going to plead guilty.

I'm not going to use
an insanity defense,

because I'm going to be
giving credence to these demons,

and I can't do that,
and Jesus has saved me."

I just wanted to end it,

and I was just
so distraught.

I just confessed
and pled guilty

and got it over with.

They consolidated all the cases,

had him come in
and enter a guilty plea.

Then it just became a matter
of sentencing after that.

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Max: What ultimately happened
with Berkowitz is,

sentencing was set maybe
10 days later

and a very disturbing
scene occurred.

Reporter #6: There was no hint
of trouble to come

as Berkowitz was driven to court
in an armored van.

But once inside, a struggle
broke out on the 7th floor.

Berkowitz said he didn't
want to be sentenced.

He kicked and bit some of five
officers trying to move him.

Two officers were hurt,
but not seriously,

before Berkowitz
was finally subdued.

In court, spectators waited.

When Berkowitz was brought in,

it was evident
he was still agitated,

wild-eyed in handcuffs.

And the moment he hits
the center of the courtroom,

he starts to singsong chant.

Reporter #6:
Shouting repeatedly,

"Stacy was a whore!
I'd kill her again!"

Kamen: It's one of the few times
in my career

I wanted to get up and attack
a person who was speaking.

Max:
He had to be wrestled down

and dragged out
of the courtroom.

It was a very chilling scene,

and I'm sure it was
quite disturbing

to the families of the victims,
and the victims who were present

to see the surface veneer
of normal appearance disappear

and be replaced
by something scary.

I believe that David Berkowitz

was a profoundly disturbed
human being.

To me, his appearance in court
just locked it in.

This is a guy who killed
because he hated women.

Ultimately, he was sentenced
to a number of sentences

of 25 years to life.

It's 25 to life for each
of the 6 victims.

The maximum for each
of the crimes committed.

Jordan: Plus additional time
for attempted murders

of his other victims.

I don't have a whole lot
of hate and anger,

possibly because
I'm still alive.

But I certainly don't --
I don't forgive him.

I would've liked more to have
happened to him.

The electric chair,
for instance.

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When I first came to prison,
I was very suicidal.

And I was disgusted
with my life.

I was angry at a lot of people.

I saw no hope.

Can you tell us
what happened to your neck?

Uh...
It's so obvious.

That's a nasty scar.
Yeah.

In 1979, another inmate --

I guess to make a name
for himself --

tried to take my life.

And he stuck me when I wasn't
looking with a razor

and opened up
the whole side of my neck.

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David admitted
that he was a fraud.

Jordan: He said he made
the whole thing up,

that he was just lying
and malingering

with that "Son of Sam"

and the barking dog
telling him to kill.

That he knew what he was doing
and he knew that it was wrong.

Collarini-Schlossberg: And that
his effort to look like

a psychologically
deranged person

was part of his facade

to excuse the behaviors
that he did.

This was not the demons
in his head.

This was his own
psychological disturbance.

Later, he would insist
that he did not act alone,

that he was actually acting
on behest of a satanic cult

and they forced him
to do these things

and there were other people
who conspired with him

and were part of the shootings.

You were sort of
satanically involved?

Yes, I was.

It was the worst mistake
of my life.

I was lonely.
I was looking for companionship.

There's never been any evidence
to support

that there were
other people involved.

He'll say at the moment what
he feels people want to hear.

What kind of work
do you do?

I work in the mental
health unit.

And I'm there as, like,
a peer counselor

for the men
that have emotional problems.

Do you get
psychiatric counseling?

No, I don't.
No.

The Department of Corrections
has given me

a clean bill of health.

After spending time in prison,

David became pretty much
a born-again Christian.

During his time in jail,
an inmate befriended David

and he started to
introduce him to the Bible.

David: Prison is not easy,
but over the years,

God has given me
a lot of strength

and a lot of hope to make it
and to endure and to survive.

Glassman: He even changed his
nickname and his whole image

to the Son of Hope
instead of the Son of Sam.

I feel that God has completely
forgiven me,

and he's taught me
how to forgive myself.

Have you ever had to deal
with relatives

of the victims
directly?

What would you say?

That I'm sorry.

Neysa, I understand he --
this guy Berkowitz --

actually sends --

has sent you a card
on Mother's Day?

He has written you
letters.

I have many letters
from him.

Do you believe
he's a changed man?

I mean, he says
he's found God in prison.

Do you think that's some
sort of bid,

maybe holding out hope that
he might get parole someday?

No, he makes me feel
like stone inside of me.

He's an animal.

King:
You're gonna be here

the rest of your life,
right?

David: That's right.

I'm doing consecutive
life sentences

totaling more than 300 years.

What do you do
with something like that?

Larry,
believe it or not,

I have learned to just be
content and accept the fact.

Klausner: He comes up
every two years for parole

and doesn't even ask
for a hearing now.

Heller: When I spoke to David
and discussed the legal approach

that we could take
to get him released,

he basically said to me,
"I'm okay.

I've already been freed
by a greater spirit."

I don't want to sound harsh,
but they all suddenly find God

and, "Now I'm a changed person."

Some of them may have.
I don't believe he did.

I would love to think
that he's suffering

every minute
of his time there.

But I also think he should
have been eradicated.

You notice, every interview
of that son of a gun --

Never mentions the killings.

All he talks about is,
"I've changed, I help others."

He doesn't talk about the dead.

He should die right where he is.

That's a terrible thing to say,
but that's how I feel about him.

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Interestingly, one other thing
found in Berkowitz's apartment

was a journal with detailed
dates and times of fires --

Fires that some people
believe he set himself.

Was the serial killer
also an arsonist?

It's one mystery
that we may never know.

Oddly, over time, some people
started to believe the "Sam"

in "Son of Sam"

was the name of the dog

that allegedly tormented
Berkowitz

and gave him
his murderous orders.

But it was actually
the dog's owner, Sam,

that helped give
the serial killer his moniker.

I'm Donnie Wahlberg.

Thanks for watching.

Good night.