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00:00:22Yeah, I get up and go to work like nothing ever happened
00:00:30What's very interesting about Berkowitz is that while he was going out and shooting people
00:00:36Terrorizing his neighbors
00:00:39Wreaking havoc in New York City
00:00:41At the same exact time he's presenting to the world as actually very normal
00:00:46He became a post office worker, a mail sorter, the person in the back
00:00:51Like the most ordinary guys, I take pride in doing a good job or doing a day's work
00:00:57In the post office, they never had any problems with me, I was always a hard worker
00:01:02There was a definite Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde quality to this guy
00:01:07When he was Dr. Jekyll, he was a very accommodating co-worker, a friend to people
00:01:14I spent a lot of work with people there
00:01:16And I was very sociable
00:01:17You know, I worked with them, drank coffee with them, took our lunch breaks together
00:01:21On the outside
00:01:23He was someone who no one suspected
00:01:26One day in the lunchroom, somebody was reading a New York Post story
00:01:31About the most recent horrible murder
00:01:34And talking about what kind of a monster, an abnormal human being
00:01:38This guy had to be
00:01:40And he said, you know, he's probably a guy like you or me
00:01:46Well, I tried to point out that he wasn't deranged
00:01:48I said, look at the way the guy is doing the crimes
00:01:51He's too clever, he's not crazy
00:01:53He may be crazy in that sense
00:01:55But not insane or anything, you know
00:01:58He gloated over the fact that he knew what was going on
00:02:03But nobody else did
00:02:05He talked about women who were afraid to walk alone to their cars at night
00:02:10And he escorted them to the car
00:02:12And would comfort them about the fact that they were in no danger
00:02:16Was there any time that you went back and got the gun
00:02:19Or you had the gun with you and you went out?
00:02:22Yeah
00:02:24I often wonder what kind of nightmares those folks had later
00:02:28They were that close
00:02:30So I was always
00:02:33I'll hold the image as a good, loyal citizen
00:02:35Not all outright evil
00:02:38He played both sides
00:02:41But reality was that he was a walking, seething cauldron of rage
00:02:47That was so well concealed
00:02:51Until he becomes full-on Mr. Hyde
00:02:56Continuing a hunt for another victim
00:02:59Everyone has emotional outlets, you see, for anger
00:03:03In different ways
00:03:04You hear about people that do harm somebody
00:03:07Won't kill somebody
00:03:08And that's it
00:03:09That released all their pent-up anger
00:03:12And now they're normal again
00:03:14That was me
00:03:29Tonight, July 29th, is a date that clearly haunts one man in New York
00:03:31Tonight, July 29th, is a date that clearly haunts one man in New York
00:03:34He calls himself Son of Sam
00:03:37A year ago tonight, he shot and killed a teenage girl
00:03:40Since then, he's struck six more times
00:03:42Since then, he's struck six more times
00:03:43Since then, he's struck six more times
00:03:45Each time using the same .44 caliber revolver
00:03:47Usually choosing young women with long brunette hair
00:03:50He's hinted upon the Jenna
00:03:51He has a pen of tears
00:03:55Than the first person
00:03:56Of rescue
00:04:18He's hinted in a letter to the press that he will strike again, possibly tonight.
00:04:24The one-year anniversary of the shooting of the first victim, Donna Laurier, is approaching, and now it's here.
00:04:33There's this huge build-up, not only by the media, but by the police task force.
00:04:38They're worried, what's going to happen? Is he going to shoot again?
00:04:40You get a little anxious, and you say, is he going to follow through on this here?
00:04:48We geared up for the anniversary.
00:04:50By night, police saturate neighborhoods where the killer has struck.
00:04:55I think we had every park in the city covered. We had every bridge covered in the Bronx and Queens.
00:05:01If you were a white, young male, you were going to be stopped.
00:05:07Police officers, you have some ID, maybe?
00:05:09Yeah.
00:05:10You were going to be questioned.
00:05:12What type of gun was that?
00:05:1338.
00:05:1438?
00:05:14You don't have to know anybody carrying a .44, did you?
00:05:19You're going to be searched.
00:05:20They'll get them. Somebody's going to get them.
00:05:26But the anniversary went by with no problem.
00:05:31Nothing's happened.
00:05:34You do a lot of work, and it goes for naught.
00:05:37But that's okay, because now it's relief.
00:05:42We just assumed that we forced them out because of the police presence, you know.
00:05:49But on that day, even though he doesn't do anything, he waits.
00:05:54But he completely flips the script, and he goes to a part of the city that no one ever considered.
00:06:00It's a great neighborhood, mostly all Italian and Jewish back in the day.
00:06:20It's where I grew up my whole life.
00:06:22The summer of 77, I had just turned 20.
00:06:27I was supposed to start a modeling career with Wilhelmina Modeling Agency.
00:06:34And everybody was just out having good times.
00:06:37The shootings at that point were in the Bronx and in Queens.
00:06:42People in Brooklyn think that they're totally out of harm's way.
00:06:45It felt safe because the summer stamp did not hit Brooklyn.
00:06:56Back in the day, we went to a place called Beef State Jolly's.
00:07:03I went one night with my friends, and that's where I had met Stacey.
00:07:08She was not just a beautiful girl outside, but she was an incredibly intelligent.
00:07:15intelligent and beautiful person inside.
00:07:18And I asked her for a date.
00:07:22I'm walking down the stairs in my parents' house, you know, going out to pick up Stacey.
00:07:28And my mom, she's at the top of the steps.
00:07:32And she says to me, Rob, be careful.
00:07:36You know, it's dangerous out there now.
00:07:38I said, Ma, don't worry.
00:07:41This son of Sam was going after girls with dark hair.
00:07:45And I'm going out with a blonde tonight.
00:07:47I went to a house to pick her up.
00:07:55And then we drove off to the Kingsway Theater to see the movie, New York, New York.
00:08:02Never forget that with Liza Minnelli.
00:08:05If I leave now, I'll never get to know you.
00:08:08I'll never get to know what a wonderful, beautiful chick you are.
00:08:10I felt fantastic.
00:08:12I thought she was such a nice girl, pretty girl.
00:08:18After the movie, we parked the car in what they called Lovers Lane.
00:08:24It was about 1 o'clock, 1.30 in the morning.
00:08:29We walked into the park.
00:08:31And we saw some guy, young guy with a dungaree jacket on, walking around.
00:08:39But I didn't pay no mind to him.
00:08:41I figured he was just some guy hanging out in the park.
00:08:45So we walked past him.
00:08:47And then we went on the swings like two little kids.
00:08:51We talked about what a beautiful night it was,
00:08:55how we had met that night in the Beast Steak Charlies.
00:08:58And then, all of a sudden, she turned to me a few minutes later and said,
00:09:04Rob, listen, I'm getting a little nervous.
00:09:07Why don't we leave here?
00:09:08Everybody knew of the Son of Sam shootings and it was late at night.
00:09:13So I said, OK, no problem.
00:09:16We went back to my car.
00:09:19I asked her to hang out five minutes.
00:09:21We're talking.
00:09:23And then, all of a sudden...
00:09:26We were shot through the open window.
00:09:36I heard Stacey moaning.
00:09:41I said, Stacey, you OK?
00:09:42And she was out of it.
00:09:46I couldn't see anything.
00:09:47And I tried to get out.
00:09:49I'm blowing the horn.
00:09:55At the same time, I'm screaming, help, help, somebody help.
00:10:01I just slumped over the top of the hood of the car and I fell to the ground outside.
00:10:07The young couple were hospitalized in critical condition.
00:10:20Both shot in the head as they sat in their car near the ocean in the Brooklyn section of New York.
00:10:25My doctor told me, you know, you lost your left eye and you lost most of the sight in your right eye.
00:10:34I was hysterical.
00:10:36What can you tell me about your son?
00:10:38We brought him up the right way.
00:10:44Good boy.
00:10:45Never had any trouble.
00:10:47There's this very vivid footage of Robert Violante's father in a doorway at Kings County Hospital.
00:10:54He was devastated.
00:10:56I told him to stay out of Queens.
00:10:57He said, Dad, I'm going to stay out of Queens.
00:11:00I'll hang around in Brooklyn.
00:11:02And that's where they found him.
00:11:03Stacey Moskowitz had just received such an injury that ended up causing her brain to swell.
00:11:14And she ended up dying about a day or two later.
00:11:18An animal should snuff away a life of a young girl, blind a young boy, and has killed others and will probably go on killing.
00:11:29An animal like this has to be caught.
00:11:31I was a basket catcher.
00:11:34If I would have just left in that five minutes, she might still be alive today.
00:11:39And I couldn't believe that such a beautiful young girl was dead.
00:11:44The reporter saw the caravan of mourners, you know, stood by the grave as she was being buried.
00:12:00Watching the coffin get lowered into the grave, you know.
00:12:05He remembers enjoying the grieving process that everyone was going through.
00:12:24It seemed to give him gratification at that time.
00:12:27That the killings were a way of being somebody, of doing something different, unique, and, you know, calling attention to yourself or something like that.
00:12:41He was incredibly narcissistic.
00:12:45I call him the lord of life.
00:12:47He was the puppet master that was going to control everything.
00:12:51And this guy loved every second of it.
00:12:54New York City is being terrorized by a gunman police call the .44 caliber killer.
00:13:03A lot of people want to kill him.
00:13:05A lot of people want to go out by themselves and kill him.
00:13:08That was it, man, after Stacey Moskowitz died.
00:13:13The city was, like, ready to riot at that point.
00:13:15Don't give him to the cops.
00:13:16Don't give him to these boys.
00:13:18Give him to us mothers.
00:13:19We want to handle him the way we want to.
00:13:24This was the eighth shooting, which made people irate.
00:13:28And on top of that, our case was in Brooklyn, and the victim had blonde hair.
00:13:35The locations were changing.
00:13:38The victims were changing.
00:13:41And it caused a tremendous amount of angst within the city.
00:13:46This just shows no one is safe in this city.
00:13:49And we did a headline that said, no one is safe.
00:13:53All the girls are really afraid.
00:13:55And it's something that we all have to worry about.
00:13:57The news media attention was just out of the swirl.
00:14:01It exacerbated the situation.
00:14:07Definitely not doing the right job about finding the guy.
00:14:10The police.
00:14:10Definitely.
00:14:11Maybe they have to call an outside help from the federal government.
00:14:14People are like, why can't they get this guy?
00:14:17What's going on?
00:14:18There's a lot of pressure on the police detectives and the task force and City Hall to do something.
00:14:26I lost about 30 pounds.
00:14:28The doctors all attributed to the stress.
00:14:32We had to find this guy.
00:14:34New York's mayor, Beam, directed that a hundred more policemen be added to what's become one of the biggest manhunts in the history of this city.
00:14:42We must have interviewed several hundred people already.
00:14:51Right.
00:14:51How do you act?
00:14:52There was a lot of eyewitnesses who thought they saw the shooter in the last shooting.
00:14:58He wasn't too tall of a man.
00:15:00He was like, I guess, a medium-sized man.
00:15:03In our case, there were several sketches.
00:15:07They didn't resemble one another.
00:15:08Not even a police artist will pretend that these sketches can pinpoint the killer.
00:15:13Sort of an oval face, medium nose, ordinary eyes with that pensive look and medium lips and a stylish hairdo.
00:15:25That only fits about eight million people.
00:15:27Right.
00:15:28So it confused the cops quite a bit, actually.
00:15:33At that point, we had no idea who did it.
00:15:36I was very concerned.
00:15:38And then we get a call about another eyewitness.
00:15:45The witness that turned the case around.
00:15:52The eyewitness, she says while she was walking her dog the night of the murder in Brooklyn, I think I was followed by the same shooter right outside the park.
00:16:03As I turned around, I seen a man coming out from down that tree there.
00:16:08And right here, we crossed each other.
00:16:12As he turned the corner, I look on his back of the side of the arm.
00:16:17He had a long thing, like a bell sticking up his sleeve.
00:16:21She reports, I pulled my dog away, and I went home.
00:16:27And several minutes later, I heard shots.
00:16:34She then volunteers.
00:16:36Oh, and there was a parking ticket given out.
00:16:39She said, this car was parked by a fire hydrant.
00:16:45We had already checked for parking tickets.
00:16:48There were no summonsers issued.
00:16:50But she insists, I'm telling you.
00:16:53I saw a police officer giving a summons.
00:16:56So we gave it one more try.
00:17:05We checked for summonsers at four in the morning during that time frame.
00:17:10It turned out there were summonsers.
00:17:13What I heard happen was the police officer who gave the summons, he was off for four days.
00:17:20So they were not submitted right away.
00:17:23We got five summonsers that weren't examined.
00:17:29Four of them were, and guess what the fifth of them was?
00:17:34A car registered to David Berkowitz of Yonkers.
00:17:37The cops say to themselves, wait a second.
00:17:40What's a nice Jewish boy from Yonkers doing in a mobbed up neighborhood in South Brooklyn
00:17:46at 2.30 in the morning the night of a shooting?
00:17:49We got to call this guy.
00:17:51Like, at the very least, he might be a witness.
00:17:54We just want to know why he was parked there.
00:17:57That's all.
00:17:57Curious.
00:17:59Did you see anything?
00:18:00Did you hear anything, you know?
00:18:02The Brooklyn detectives call up to David Berkowitz.
00:18:05They have his telephone number.
00:18:07They call four times.
00:18:08They call me up on the telephone.
00:18:18I never saw him, or I never asked him the phone.
00:18:22How many days after the last crime?
00:18:24About a week or so.
00:18:27I knew it was over.
00:18:28I felt punishment was coming.
00:18:32And so, that's when I went to Long Island.
00:18:37Sparrowby's speech was called.
00:18:39A hundred miles away from New York City.
00:18:40A few days after the last shooting, David Berkowitz was a different wild card because it was chaos in his own mind at that time.
00:18:54He knew that sooner or later somebody would come knocking on his door.
00:18:59So, he drove to the Hamptons to a public beach, a place where there were a lot of human targets.
00:19:08He actually talked about going out in a blaze of glory, you know, doing a mass murder, rather than continuing to pick his victims one at a time, and do a grand finale bloodbath.
00:19:38I sat there feeling like an outsider and became angry.
00:19:43I was emotionally charged up or psyched up to commit a crime.
00:19:48I was going to wait till dark.
00:19:57But when it started to rape, and then there was nobody around, I just got in my car and went home.
00:20:03He drove to the Hamptons to satisfy the bloodlust, but the rain canceled that plan.
00:20:16So, he just, you know, tucked his tail and drove back to his little rat hole that he had turned his apartment into.
00:20:23When the detective placed those calls to David Berkowitz about the parking ticket,
00:20:52and there's no response, he calls up to Yonkers, P.D., where he lives.
00:20:59The detective gets a civilian dispatcher that worked for the Yonkers Police Department on the phone by the name of Wheat Carr.
00:21:07She happened to be Sam Carr's daughter, the neighbor who had a problem with Berkowitz.
00:21:12She says, oh, Berkowitz, oh, that nut.
00:21:16And then the next thing, he's hearing all these horror stories from Wheat Carr.
00:21:21He shot our dog.
00:21:22He's firebombing us.
00:21:24He's sending us letters.
00:21:26The antenna went up.
00:21:28This could be the killing.
00:21:29We then send two detectives, Eddie Ziego, John Lungo, to Berkowitz's apartment.
00:21:44It's sometime in the afternoon, and they see his car, a Ford.
00:21:48They look into the car, and there is a army duffel bag on the floor of the vehicle protruding from the duffel bag as a semi-automatic rifle.
00:22:00And then they see a envelope addressed to the Suffolk County Police, and the writing has unique writing.
00:22:08It's very similar to previous writings that the newspapers of the salient had sent in.
00:22:12Now we know he's the son of Sam.
00:22:16The two detectives called our office in Brooklyn, and they were told surveillance on the car will be coming up.
00:22:27Sergeant Gardella and Detective John Fulatico get to the scene, and they see the car.
00:22:35They're in the car parked up the street.
00:22:37We were in the process of getting a warrant for the arrest, and so while we were waiting, we put surveillance on the car in the rear of the building.
00:22:50I put two detectives on the roof to watch his fire escape.
00:22:55They have a radio.
00:22:57We have a radio.
00:22:57We see a male come out of the building.
00:23:09He looks into the car, but doesn't go into the car.
00:23:13We assumed this might be the registered owner.
00:23:16We said to him, police.
00:23:19We search him.
00:23:21He's got a pistol, but not a .44 Bulldog revolver.
00:23:25We said, what are you doing with this gun?
00:23:29He says, I'm a part-time deputy sheriff of Westchester County.
00:23:33My name is Craig Glassman.
00:23:36We said, what are you looking in that car for?
00:23:39He says, I think the owner of that car, I think he's my neighbor upstairs who I've had a problem with.
00:23:46He put bullets outside my door, and we asked him, is he in?
00:23:50He says, yes.
00:23:51Now we know he's in.
00:23:53We then give the neighbor his gun back.
00:24:01And we sit there for several hours more.
00:24:06And finally, it's a quarter to ten at night.
00:24:08And I see a male coming out of the apartment building, and he starts walking up the sidewalk.
00:24:19They don't know who it is.
00:24:21They don't know if this is David Berkowitz yet.
00:24:23But the man walks out of 35 Pine Street, carrying in his hand a paper bag in the shape of a triangle.
00:24:33I said to John, let's go.
00:24:43So I jump at him of the unmarked car, and I put my gun on top of the window, and screamed at him, police.
00:24:51And he says, don't you move your hands, don't you go for a gun.
00:24:57And his reaction was, he had just turned the ignition on, and he slowly turns like this, and smiles at me.
00:25:08He says, well, you got me.
00:25:10What took you so long?
00:25:16Did you say to the cops, what took you so long?
00:25:19Yeah.
00:25:21Yeah.
00:25:22You know, okay, you got me, and what took you so long?
00:25:25Mm-hmm.
00:25:26Like, you know, finally.
00:25:28I couldn't have been more happy.
00:25:29I mean, I couldn't have made the job any easier, you know?
00:25:32At the same time, I want to make the public aware it was me, that I was responsible, you know?
00:25:37You arranged for yourself to get caught?
00:25:39Mm-hmm.
00:25:40I was leaving signs, hints, and things.
00:25:44Did you get to the park when you were taking those girls?
00:25:47Yes.
00:25:48The news media were paranguing these police officials constantly.
00:25:52Well, when are you going to get them?
00:25:54When are you going to get them?
00:25:55Police officials said, well, he probably made some type of mistake at a parking day or something.
00:26:00And I saw the cops there.
00:26:03So I stood across the street in a darkened spot, and one guy wrote out a ticket.
00:26:07They just put it on my window.
00:26:09And about 45 minutes later or so, the shooting happened.
00:26:15He was the master of his own fate in that.
00:26:18He chose to get caught.
00:26:19He reached a point where he wasn't getting enough attention.
00:26:24He had created, you know, this amazing stage for himself.
00:26:28And he wanted to be recognized for this person that everybody in the world now wanted to know the identity of.
00:26:37We got him.
00:26:38We traveled from Yonkers to New York City Police headquarters.
00:26:44Berkowitz is in the back, sitting in the middle, next to Eddie Zigo and John Falatico.
00:26:50Berkowitz says, hey, guys.
00:26:52He called us guys like we were his buddies.
00:26:55He says, I guess the press is waiting with their cameras.
00:26:57We said, yeah.
00:26:59He says, if you do me a favor, can you comb my hair?
00:27:01He's going to serve a life sentence in jail.
00:27:04He's worried about his hair.
00:27:10We're pulling up at 4 o'clock in the morning to police headquarters.
00:27:14There's already a crowd of people.
00:27:16And all the while, David is smiling.
00:27:21I'm looking at him.
00:27:22He wasn't what we thought he would look like.
00:27:25Forcing out the mouth a monster.
00:27:30I'm very pleased to announce that the people of the city of New York can rest easy this morning
00:27:37because of the fact that the police have captured a man whom they believe to be the son of Sam.
00:27:45The successful conclusion of this case was the culmination of a tremendous amount of dogged,
00:27:52persistent, day in and day out work by uniformed officers and by our detective.
00:27:59I am Detective Edward Zigo.
00:28:02Detective John Falatico.
00:28:06Sergeant William Gardella.
00:28:09I remember saying to myself, this is unbelievable.
00:28:14I'm part of this.
00:28:15We stopped these murders.
00:28:17My mother cried.
00:28:20Yeah.
00:28:21Police did a tremendous job and they're the best police force in the whole world.
00:28:25The relief on the mayor's face was political.
00:28:29The relief on our face was physical.
00:28:33Everybody was happy it was over.
00:28:35Good evening, the most intensive manhunt in New York City's history is over.
00:28:40David Berkowitz accused this morning as the .44 caliber killer.
00:28:45He looked like such a meek little guy.
00:28:47He kind of had a little smirk on his face.
00:28:50You know, I wanted to smack it off his face.
00:28:54It almost seemed like he wanted the fame.
00:28:56He seemed like he relished in that a little bit.
00:28:58It was just hard to believe.
00:29:00I just sat on the side of my bed for a couple hours, just kind of like reliving the last year.
00:29:07Oh, I feel much safer walking the streets of New York.
00:29:12Much safer.
00:29:13You know, I can go out at night and go to the discotheques.
00:29:15The streets of New York all of a sudden became alive.
00:29:22People were jumping around in the streets.
00:29:24People went out to bars.
00:29:26They were celebrating.
00:29:28Now I feel so much safer about going out at night.
00:29:30Now they could be young again.
00:29:36More newspapers were sold in both the New York Post and the Daily News
00:29:40than for the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
00:29:44The President of the United States.
00:29:48As they were headlined six inches high, one word, caught.
00:29:52That turned out to be one of the five best-selling New York Posts ever.
00:29:56We sold over a million copies.
00:29:59As news of the arrest of the .44 caliber killer spread,
00:30:03New Yorkers were generally relieved.
00:30:05But at the Brooklyn home of Robert Violante,
00:30:07who was blinded in the killer's last attack,
00:30:10Violante's mother said the arrest left one question unanswered.
00:30:13What would be one word?
00:30:16Why?
00:30:17Just why?
00:30:23As soon as David Berkowitz was arrested,
00:30:25all of us wanted to find out what made him tick.
00:30:27How did he get this way?
00:30:29What was his motivation?
00:30:31Why did you shoot all these people?
00:30:34Why did you shoot me?
00:30:36He began telling his story to the police.
00:30:40There was a 6,000-year-old man named Sam
00:30:43who was directing him to commit these murders,
00:30:46speaking to him through a dog, his neighbor Sam Carr's dog.
00:30:50David said he wasn't picking the victims.
00:30:56The demons were.
00:30:58He will simply be the hand with the gun.
00:31:01And I had nothing against these victims.
00:31:08There were these people to me.
00:31:10They were just people.
00:31:11I didn't hate them.
00:31:12I wasn't angry against them.
00:31:15I wanted to do it.
00:31:17Well, Sam did it for me.
00:31:19He used me.
00:31:20He made me go out there and do it.
00:31:22I did it for him.
00:31:23I told him to go out.
00:31:23So in his depraved mind,
00:31:31the only way to satisfy Sam
00:31:34is to do his bidding.
00:31:38And he will assume the identity
00:31:41of the son of Sam.
00:31:46So I was reading newspapers.
00:31:48They're saying he's talking about dogs
00:31:50commanding him to kill.
00:31:52I mean, this guy's totally nuts.
00:31:59Berkowitz lived in this world of internal madness
00:32:03where he was seemingly just wigging out in his apartment
00:32:06because of forces that were beyond his control.
00:32:10In fact, when the police would finally
00:32:13go into the apartment,
00:32:14the condition of the apartment
00:32:16was the condition of his head,
00:32:19of David's psychological head.
00:32:22I walked into his apartment.
00:32:24After the arrest, it chilled me.
00:32:26My body's chilling now.
00:32:29He had the photographs of the girls
00:32:31he killed on the floor.
00:32:32He had cut them out of newspapers.
00:32:34He had writings on the wall.
00:32:36There were holes in the walls
00:32:38where the demons apparently had lived.
00:32:41One of the holes said,
00:32:43Hi, my name is Mr. Williams.
00:32:45I live in this hole.
00:32:47I'm turning little children into killers.
00:32:50Can't wait till they grow up.
00:32:52It was the most bizarre thing
00:32:54I've ever seen in my life.
00:32:55And it seemed like whoever lived here
00:32:58was very, very disturbed.
00:33:00Burkowitz will be brought here
00:33:10to the state courthouse in Brooklyn this morning.
00:33:13And unless he changes his mind,
00:33:15he's expected to plead guilty
00:33:16to at least one of the Son of Sam murder charges.
00:33:19I was 29 years old.
00:33:24I was an assistant district attorney
00:33:25in the Kings County District Attorney's office.
00:33:28And I'm the kid who's asked by BDA, Gene Gold,
00:33:33to come in and work on David's case.
00:33:39There were 13 victims.
00:33:42Burkowitz was charged with six homicides
00:33:47and seven attempted homicides.
00:33:49And at the time,
00:33:51his lawyers advised Burkowitz
00:33:53to use an insanity defense.
00:33:55He refused.
00:33:56And I don't know why he refused,
00:33:57but he wouldn't do it.
00:33:58The so-called Son of Sam,
00:34:00in court today,
00:34:01pleaded guilty to all six of the murders
00:34:04that frightened New York City for about a year.
00:34:07He pled guilty for the whole six.
00:34:09And he says,
00:34:09I'm guilty of everything.
00:34:11Right there.
00:34:11Right down and there.
00:34:12Shocked us all.
00:34:14I never took this to trial, you see.
00:34:16I pled guilty as one,
00:34:17because I knew I was guilty.
00:34:19And number two,
00:34:20I wanted to call attention to myself, you see.
00:34:22As a criminal, the killer,
00:34:24I wanted to be somebody.
00:34:26He wanted to make sure
00:34:27that the world knew
00:34:29that it was him,
00:34:31David Burkowitz,
00:34:32that actually was doing it.
00:34:36Look at how important I am,
00:34:38because I'm not really important in real life,
00:34:40which he wasn't.
00:34:41In addition to being a black sheep
00:34:48all my life in the family,
00:34:50in addition to being an outcast
00:34:51and stigmatized for adoption
00:34:52and being somewhat of a loner
00:34:55as I got older, you know,
00:34:57doing all these things,
00:34:59I just couldn't see
00:34:59to fit into society.
00:35:01I got to a point
00:35:03where I was so angry,
00:35:04I blamed others, you see.
00:35:05And I started committing my crimes,
00:35:09you know,
00:35:09to make people pay attention to me.
00:35:13It's all part of the ego.
00:35:15Now admitting to all these crimes,
00:35:19guilty,
00:35:20he's getting more attention.
00:35:22He had achieved what he,
00:35:25he was after,
00:35:26you know,
00:35:27a lifetime of notoriety,
00:35:29of infamy.
00:35:30You think justice can be done
00:35:41in this case?
00:35:42Not unless they bring back
00:35:43the death penalty
00:35:43and he burns for it.
00:35:50I owed it to Stacy
00:35:52to be there
00:35:53and I needed to be there
00:35:55for myself
00:35:56to see justice being served.
00:35:58The courtroom was packed.
00:36:04The victims are there,
00:36:06family members of the victims
00:36:08who had been killed are there
00:36:09and the media is,
00:36:11is there to watch
00:36:12the spectacle of the sentencing.
00:36:15Berkowitz is brought
00:36:16into the courtroom
00:36:17and things just completely
00:36:20went off the rails.
00:36:23Berkowitz starts flipping out.
00:36:25He put on such a show
00:36:27where he started screaming
00:36:28that Stacy Moskowitz was a whore.
00:36:31I'd kill her again.
00:36:32I'd kill all of you.
00:36:33I'll kill again.
00:36:34He was just screaming
00:36:35like, like, like a madman.
00:36:37There was a physical transformation.
00:36:39The face,
00:36:40the physical manifestation,
00:36:41it was different.
00:36:42It was the face of evil
00:36:44as I perceived it.
00:36:46Mr. Hyde was totally losing control
00:36:48at that point.
00:36:49And he bolts to try
00:36:51to go out the window.
00:36:52And the court officer
00:36:54to bring him back.
00:36:55They couldn't see anything,
00:36:56but could hear the judge.
00:36:59Everybody calmed down,
00:37:01calmed down.
00:37:02I just got up.
00:37:03I said,
00:37:04F you,
00:37:05you piece of garbage.
00:37:06You should be dead.
00:37:07They said,
00:37:08this piece of garbage,
00:37:09I want to kill him.
00:37:11I mean, that animal,
00:37:12he is a sick bastard.
00:37:13I don't care.
00:37:13He is a sick son of a bitch.
00:37:16I felt like killing.
00:37:16I felt like scratching
00:37:17his eyes out.
00:37:18I really couldn't
00:37:18control myself.
00:37:20It was really,
00:37:22really a trying day
00:37:24that day.
00:37:26The idea
00:37:27of being sentenced
00:37:29to prison, right?
00:37:30You know,
00:37:30it's terribly frightening.
00:37:32And I just,
00:37:33it was just an act
00:37:33of desperation
00:37:34to, I guess,
00:37:37get attention,
00:37:38hope that somebody
00:37:39would intervene
00:37:40and say,
00:37:40oh, he is a mad man.
00:37:43Acting out
00:37:43shows his total lack
00:37:45of empathy
00:37:46and remorse.
00:37:49Sentencing went ahead.
00:37:51Berkowitz receiving
00:37:52a series of 25-year sentences
00:37:54totaling hundreds of years.
00:37:57But under the law,
00:37:58David Berkowitz may apply
00:37:59for parole in 25 years.
00:38:01The judge imposed
00:38:02a sentence of 25 to life
00:38:05on each of the murder convictions.
00:38:09Does Berkowitz have a chance
00:38:10of parole down the road?
00:38:12Between zero and one,
00:38:14between zero and none?
00:38:16Something in that order.
00:38:17Did he get what he deserved?
00:38:19Yes, he got what he deserved.
00:38:20He probably deserved worse
00:38:22than what he got
00:38:22because he got life
00:38:23and none of his victims did.
00:38:31When Berkowitz was sentenced,
00:38:32I, like most of the world,
00:38:34sort of assumed
00:38:35David Berkowitz was son of Sam.
00:38:37He confessed.
00:38:38He's in jail.
00:38:39It's over.
00:38:40But that wasn't the case.
00:38:42How much time is left
00:38:44on that, by the way?
00:38:46Probably good.
00:38:47All right, there is something
00:38:48I wanted to tell you
00:38:49that just came out of my mind.
00:38:52Amazingly,
00:38:53even after he had arrived
00:38:55at Attica,
00:38:56he continued to write
00:38:58the next chapter
00:38:59to this play.
00:39:00Here I was committing
00:39:01crimes of violence
00:39:02against innocent people.
00:39:05I didn't, at that time,
00:39:06understand any motives
00:39:07for what I was doing.
00:39:09I needed some type
00:39:10of justification.
00:39:11I had to convince myself
00:39:12that, no,
00:39:13I'm not the man
00:39:14that's doing this.
00:39:20There's some sinister force
00:39:23that's controlling me.
00:39:25They said the talking dogs
00:39:27and Sam Carr and demons.
00:39:29That was a good story,
00:39:31but it was all bullshit.
00:39:33I had fun with it.
00:39:34And what about
00:39:35the demon thing?
00:39:37Did it happen
00:39:38about the same time
00:39:39that the identity
00:39:41of Sonny Sam
00:39:41came about?
00:39:42Well, it just came for me,
00:39:44you know,
00:39:44because I've always
00:39:45had a wild imagination.
00:39:47Suddenly,
00:39:47I started to blame
00:39:48Sam Carr for everything.
00:39:50That he was his fault
00:39:51and that his dog
00:39:52was giving me orders
00:39:53and things.
00:39:54And it was all
00:39:55just a sham.
00:39:56It would be quite fine for me.
00:39:59When the police,
00:40:00I guess,
00:40:02went off of my apartment
00:40:03and after I was
00:40:03very pressing.
00:40:07You notice how,
00:40:08if you recall,
00:40:09all these scrawls
00:40:10of magic marker
00:40:11that were on the walls?
00:40:14I'm trying to make
00:40:15the left devil madman.
00:40:17Yeah.
00:40:18But somehow,
00:40:19this was the home
00:40:20of the devil
00:40:20or something.
00:40:22I knew I was going
00:40:22to be captain
00:40:23and I had set
00:40:24all these things up.
00:40:26Berkowitz says
00:40:27the demon dog story
00:40:29was a hoax,
00:40:30a ruse.
00:40:31He made it up.
00:40:32You know?
00:40:33It was crazy.
00:40:34You don't really know
00:40:35what's going on
00:40:36in his mind.
00:40:37And then,
00:40:38the story
00:40:39gets even more
00:40:40strange and weird.
00:40:47Today,
00:40:48an Inside Edition
00:40:49exclusive.
00:40:51In a shocking confession,
00:40:52the .44 caliber killer
00:40:54tells of devil worship,
00:40:55of cult members
00:40:56who helped him
00:40:56carry out
00:40:57his gruesome
00:40:57string of killings.
00:40:59And he reveals
00:41:00chilling details.
00:41:01I did not pull
00:41:02the trigger
00:41:03at every single
00:41:04one of them.
00:41:05Suddenly,
00:41:06we've got
00:41:07a worldwide
00:41:07satanic cult.
00:41:09And other members
00:41:10of this cult
00:41:11that he belonged
00:41:12to did some
00:41:14of the shootings,
00:41:15which once again
00:41:17put David Berkowitz
00:41:19in the limelight.
00:41:20Donna Laurie
00:41:21in the Bronx.
00:41:22Was that you?
00:41:23Yeah.
00:41:23Carl De Niro,
00:41:25Rosemary Keenan,
00:41:26and Queens.
00:41:28That wasn't you.
00:41:30I'm like,
00:41:31this is crazy.
00:41:33Was that the truth
00:41:34or a lie?
00:41:35The media
00:41:36goes absolutely wild
00:41:38connecting
00:41:39Son of Sam
00:41:40with a cult
00:41:41in the anchors.
00:41:42A cult
00:41:43that called itself
00:41:44the 22 Disciples
00:41:45of Hell.
00:41:47Ends this theory,
00:41:48caught on
00:41:49like wildfire.
00:41:50Other Son of Sam
00:41:52killers are still
00:41:53lurking on the loose.
00:41:55As soon as he
00:41:55joined that cult,
00:41:56the 44 was put
00:41:57into his hand.
00:41:58You try and figure out,
00:41:59okay, how much
00:42:00of this is real
00:42:01and how much of it
00:42:02is just people,
00:42:02you know, speculating.
00:42:04I mean,
00:42:04it was not far-fetched
00:42:05to believe that
00:42:06this might have been
00:42:08more than one guy.
00:42:09But years later,
00:42:11it didn't make any sense.
00:42:12Where did they go?
00:42:13And why isn't he
00:42:14naming anybody else?
00:42:20The day we locked him
00:42:21up, the shooting
00:42:22stopped.
00:42:23So you tell me
00:42:24if there's anybody
00:42:25else involved.
00:42:30I met with
00:42:31David Berkowitz
00:42:32in early 2022.
00:42:34He took interest
00:42:34in me
00:42:35because of my
00:42:37background.
00:42:38I'm a PhD
00:42:38in Advanced Studies
00:42:39in Human Behavior.
00:42:41Was also a pastor
00:42:42of a church
00:42:42for about 16 years.
00:42:44Worked extensively
00:42:45with inmates
00:42:47within the prison.
00:42:48And so he wrote me
00:42:49a letter
00:42:50and asked me
00:42:51if I'd visit him.
00:42:54From that point forward,
00:42:56we just began
00:42:56a journey of exploration.
00:42:59Right around
00:42:59the midway point,
00:43:00trust had developed.
00:43:02And at that point,
00:43:03David said,
00:43:03it's time for me
00:43:04to set the record straight.
00:43:07I did all the shootings.
00:43:09David's reason for lying,
00:43:11he said,
00:43:12journalists pitched
00:43:14the possibility
00:43:15that David wasn't
00:43:16alone in the crimes.
00:43:19And David went
00:43:19along with that.
00:43:20Why was David Berkowitz
00:43:22agreeable?
00:43:24I mean,
00:43:24that goes all the way
00:43:25back to childhood,
00:43:26just wanting to fit in.
00:43:27He will go along
00:43:29to get along.
00:43:31I think it says
00:43:32he demands attention
00:43:33still to this day.
00:43:35He thinks he can get
00:43:36the world's attention
00:43:37with these stories.
00:43:40It's been nearly 50 years
00:43:42since this happened,
00:43:43and still more things
00:43:44are coming out now.
00:43:45The David Berkowitz
00:43:51Son of Sam story
00:43:52is extremely fascinating
00:43:54to me because
00:43:55I believe that there's
00:43:57more to it
00:43:58than anybody
00:43:59even knows.
00:44:01And just recently,
00:44:03I discovered
00:44:03a new development
00:44:04that just absolutely
00:44:05blew me away.
00:44:06I was looking
00:44:09in David Berkowitz's
00:44:10case files,
00:44:11and I came across
00:44:12a sketch
00:44:13I have not seen before
00:44:14that was the spitting
00:44:16image of David Berkowitz.
00:44:18The eyes are the same,
00:44:19the nose is the same,
00:44:20the lips is the same,
00:44:21the hair is the same.
00:44:23This is the best
00:44:24Son of Sam sketch
00:44:24I've ever seen.
00:44:25And then I looked
00:44:26at the date,
00:44:275-5-76.
00:44:29This is almost
00:44:30three months
00:44:31before the first
00:44:32official Son of Sam
00:44:34shooting,
00:44:34the Donna Lauria
00:44:35shooting.
00:44:37And then my friend
00:44:37sends me
00:44:38a New York Times
00:44:39article about
00:44:40Wendy Sabino.
00:44:43And my hairs
00:44:45on my neck
00:44:45stood up on end.
00:44:47So I found
00:44:48Wendy's number,
00:44:49and Wendy
00:44:50told me her story.
00:44:52In 1976,
00:45:04I was having
00:45:05a wonderful life
00:45:06in a beautiful
00:45:07neighbourhood.
00:45:08Helen Manor
00:45:09in Westchester County,
00:45:10which is a really
00:45:11nice area,
00:45:12near to the city,
00:45:14could drive in
00:45:15quite easily.
00:45:16I was 39,
00:45:18and I had two sons,
00:45:19six and eight years old.
00:45:20I felt quite safe
00:45:22and very happy.
00:45:25On April the 9th,
00:45:26I was at home
00:45:27with the children,
00:45:28and my husband
00:45:29phoned and invited
00:45:31me out for dinner
00:45:31at our favourite
00:45:33restaurant,
00:45:34Nina's.
00:45:35I say it's
00:45:36around 10-15.
00:45:37As we exited,
00:45:40he went to his car,
00:45:42I went to my car.
00:45:44My husband pulled away.
00:45:46He assumes that
00:45:46I'm going to
00:45:47follow him home.
00:45:48I was in my car,
00:45:52and this young man
00:45:53walking towards me,
00:45:56smiling.
00:45:57I think he's going
00:45:58to ask for directions.
00:46:00He's right next to me.
00:46:03And the next thing,
00:46:05my chest exploded.
00:46:08I've been shot.
00:46:11I look back,
00:46:13and he's now laughing.
00:46:14The second bullet,
00:46:17I put my arm up
00:46:18to protect myself.
00:46:20It went through my arm,
00:46:23hit the dashboard,
00:46:25and went into my right eye.
00:46:28The third bullet came in here.
00:46:31He fired two more shots
00:46:33into my back,
00:46:34and I could hear him
00:46:36walking away from me.
00:46:39So I crawled
00:46:41across the gravel parking lot.
00:46:44And I see a policeman.
00:46:47And next thing,
00:46:48I am on a stretcher
00:46:50in the hospital.
00:46:52The police did
00:46:53what they always do
00:46:54in a case like this.
00:46:56They immediately focused
00:46:57in on her husband.
00:46:59He was a politician,
00:47:01but my family,
00:47:02as far as I know,
00:47:03did not have enemies.
00:47:04I think it was
00:47:06the media,
00:47:07they were trying
00:47:08to push this mafia angle,
00:47:10but there was just
00:47:11no evidence,
00:47:12and the investigation
00:47:14went nowhere.
00:47:17The police
00:47:18didn't know
00:47:19who he was.
00:47:20That was it.
00:47:22I was terrified.
00:47:29The most intensive
00:47:31manhunt
00:47:32in New York City's
00:47:33history is over.
00:47:34David Berkowitz
00:47:35accused this morning
00:47:36as the .44-caliber killer.
00:47:39Then,
00:47:40in August
00:47:41of 1977,
00:47:43I saw David Berkowitz,
00:47:45and I looked at him
00:47:47and I said,
00:47:48I don't believe it.
00:47:50I told the police,
00:47:51I said,
00:47:52that is the man
00:47:53that shot me.
00:47:55And I thought
00:47:56the sketch
00:47:57was proof of him.
00:47:58To me,
00:47:58it was that simple.
00:47:59I've drawn his face,
00:48:01get him.
00:48:02But I was shot
00:48:03by a .32.
00:48:03I was not
00:48:05shot by a .44.
00:48:08The gun used
00:48:09in the Savino shooting
00:48:10was a .32-caliber automatic.
00:48:13There is no record
00:48:14of Berkowitz
00:48:14ever owning this gun.
00:48:15And I never heard
00:48:18another thing
00:48:19from the police
00:48:20after that.
00:48:22I have been carrying
00:48:24this around
00:48:25in my handbag
00:48:26for 47 years.
00:48:28I saw him vividly.
00:48:31I see him now.
00:48:33Those blue eyes
00:48:34are shining.
00:48:35It was David Berkowitz.
00:48:38But nobody really
00:48:39took my story seriously
00:48:41until I got a phone call
00:48:43from Manny Grossman.
00:48:45Here was a woman
00:48:46who had been shot.
00:48:48Everything was the same
00:48:49as the other shootings,
00:48:51except for the gun.
00:48:53And so I reached out
00:48:56to the NYPD
00:48:57to look into this.
00:48:59So everybody
00:49:00has heard of the Son of Sam.
00:49:02It's kind of like
00:49:03New York City lore.
00:49:04So when Manny Grossman
00:49:06reached out
00:49:06saying there's
00:49:07a connection here,
00:49:08it seemed compelling
00:49:09to me.
00:49:11Once we were able
00:49:12to obtain the
00:49:13Wendy Savino case file,
00:49:14we developed
00:49:15an investigative plan.
00:49:17And at the time,
00:49:18David Berkowitz
00:49:18lived just miles
00:49:19from where
00:49:20Wendy Savino was shot.
00:49:22And while there's
00:49:23no record of David
00:49:24Berkowitz owning
00:49:25a .32 caliber,
00:49:26when he was arrested,
00:49:27there was various weapons
00:49:28that were recovered.
00:49:30Now, in regard
00:49:30to victimology,
00:49:32the majority of victims
00:49:33in these cases
00:49:33were women.
00:49:35And in regard
00:49:36to the methodology,
00:49:37he walked up the cars
00:49:38and shot through windows.
00:49:39Wendy was shot in a car.
00:49:44I mean,
00:49:45that's a statistical anomaly.
00:49:47There's not a lot of people
00:49:48then, now,
00:49:50we're in between
00:49:50that were shooting women
00:49:52through windows
00:49:53in parked cars.
00:50:01And it was at that point
00:50:02that we interviewed
00:50:03David Berkowitz
00:50:04at a correctional facility
00:50:06in upstate New York.
00:50:09How you doing, David?
00:50:10Yeah.
00:50:11All right.
00:50:14The reason we're here,
00:50:17it sort of centers
00:50:18around a woman.
00:50:20She's 87 years old.
00:50:22And she discussed
00:50:24with us an incident
00:50:25that occurred to her
00:50:26on April 9th of 76.
00:50:28Now, at the time,
00:50:31she draws a sketch.
00:50:33That there is a chance.
00:50:34That there is an uncanny
00:50:35resemblance.
00:50:36I admit that.
00:50:38Did you ever own
00:50:39a .32 caliber?
00:50:40No.
00:50:41The only handgun
00:50:42I owned
00:50:43was the 44 caliber
00:50:46we followed.
00:50:47Did you ever borrow
00:50:48one from any
00:50:48of your cop friends
00:50:49that used it
00:50:50as an off-duty
00:50:50or anything?
00:50:51No.
00:50:51No?
00:50:52I was not involved.
00:50:53I don't know
00:50:54what to say.
00:50:55Your position
00:50:55is absolutely not.
00:50:57Is that correct?
00:50:57Right.
00:50:58I would like to
00:50:58do what I can
00:51:00to just clear that.
00:51:01At the end of the day,
00:51:03our opinion,
00:51:04based on evidence,
00:51:05is investigative.
00:51:06It's just,
00:51:07we're probably going
00:51:08to close this case
00:51:09as is.
00:51:10Well, that's ridiculous.
00:51:11I don't know
00:51:12who this person is.
00:51:15David Berkowitz
00:51:16denies shooting me.
00:51:18He's agreeing
00:51:19to all of these
00:51:20other shootings.
00:51:22Why not this one?
00:51:23You saw my face.
00:51:25I saw your face,
00:51:26David.
00:51:27You can't deny
00:51:28you shot me.
00:51:29I saw you doing it.
00:51:32You're an absolute
00:51:33rotten bastard.
00:51:37Today,
00:51:39Berkowitz has a new identity
00:51:40as sort of
00:51:41a born-again Christian.
00:51:42So,
00:51:42I think to admit
00:51:43to being involved
00:51:44in Wendy's shooting
00:51:45was counter to that
00:51:47narrative that he's
00:51:47now trying to present.
00:51:49He's passionate
00:51:50about stating the fact
00:51:52that I did not do this.
00:51:54This is not my doing.
00:51:56He has admitted
00:51:57some things to me
00:51:58that were hard to
00:51:59admit.
00:52:00So, if he looks at me
00:52:02and emphatically
00:52:03says to me,
00:52:04I did not do this,
00:52:06I would probably
00:52:08be prone to believe him.
00:52:11Still,
00:52:12it is the opinion
00:52:13of the investigators
00:52:14of the Bronx
00:52:14Homicide Squad
00:52:15and the Bronx
00:52:17District Attorney's
00:52:18Office
00:52:18that David Berkowitz
00:52:19is responsible
00:52:20for the shooting
00:52:20of Wendy Savino.
00:52:21To tell her
00:52:24that we believed her
00:52:25and that we were
00:52:25closing the case,
00:52:26it was a heavy moment.
00:52:28She was happy
00:52:29and I can only hope
00:52:31that this offers
00:52:31some semblance
00:52:32of healing
00:52:33emotionally.
00:52:34I am validated
00:52:37and now
00:52:39the police
00:52:40know it's true.
00:52:42It's absolute
00:52:43and hopefully
00:52:45their nightmares
00:52:46will go away.
00:52:47answering the question
00:52:53of what went wrong
00:52:54with David Berkowitz,
00:52:56it's to take
00:52:56a complicated phenomenon
00:52:58and boil it down
00:52:59to one factor.
00:53:00We want to say
00:53:02this is why.
00:53:05I've spent more time
00:53:06with him
00:53:07analyzing
00:53:08what made him
00:53:09do what he did
00:53:10than any person.
00:53:12David Berkowitz
00:53:13from a young age
00:53:14really never fit in,
00:53:16feeling disconnected.
00:53:17He was an outsider
00:53:18and little by little
00:53:19the resentment
00:53:20kept building
00:53:21and it kept growing
00:53:22like a fire.
00:53:26I put David more
00:53:27in the category
00:53:27of school shooters
00:53:28than I do your
00:53:29Ted Bundys
00:53:29because he wasn't
00:53:30you know
00:53:30wanting to be
00:53:31intimate with the victim
00:53:32and to see
00:53:34the pain
00:53:34on their face.
00:53:36He shoot and run
00:53:37because for David
00:53:43what was under
00:53:43the anger
00:53:44was shame
00:53:45and we'd rather
00:53:47get angry
00:53:47because we feel
00:53:48powerful.
00:53:49We'd rather feel
00:53:50powerful than feel
00:53:51vulnerable.
00:53:59I'm just curious
00:54:11what do you want
00:54:12people to know
00:54:13about your story?
00:54:14If you could go back
00:54:34to young David
00:54:35what advice
00:54:36would you say
00:54:36say to that
00:54:36David?
00:54:38I would say
00:54:38Dave
00:54:39run for your life
00:54:40get help.
00:54:42I couldn't
00:54:42go out to my dad
00:54:43I couldn't
00:54:44go out to my sister
00:54:45but I kept
00:54:46everything to myself
00:54:47thinking like
00:54:47oh I can handle
00:54:48everything
00:54:48but the pull
00:54:50was too strong
00:54:51I wish I could
00:54:53start all over again
00:54:54and take a better
00:54:55path in life
00:54:55but it just
00:54:56didn't work out
00:54:57that way.
00:54:57This is a guy
00:55:00who actually
00:55:01really truly
00:55:02believed that
00:55:02the only way
00:55:03to improve
00:55:04his life
00:55:04and to relieve
00:55:05the tension
00:55:06that he was
00:55:06feeling in life
00:55:07was to go out
00:55:08and murder people.
00:55:11You and I
00:55:11wouldn't do that
00:55:12but this guy did
00:55:13and this is why
00:55:14of course
00:55:14we're sitting here
00:55:1550 years later
00:55:16talking about him.
00:55:19But you must not
00:55:20forget David Berkowitz
00:55:21really was just
00:55:22an evil human being
00:55:24and with all the
00:55:25excuses in the world
00:55:26a dog telling
00:55:27him what to do
00:55:28a cult telling
00:55:29him what to do
00:55:30I'm sorry
00:55:31there's no excuse
00:55:31for what he did.
00:55:32We're talking about
00:55:33multiple murders
00:55:34multiple shootings
00:55:35we're talking about
00:55:37putting a city
00:55:37in panic and fear
00:55:39for over a year.
00:55:44Of course we've
00:55:45moved on
00:55:46New York City
00:55:47is a tough
00:55:47tough city
00:55:48but it can never
00:55:49be forgotten
00:55:50what he did.
00:55:52Unfortunately
00:55:52the victims
00:55:53do get forgotten
00:55:55and
00:55:57the criminals
00:55:58just keep getting
00:56:00sensationalized
00:56:01in this case
00:56:02David Berkowitz
00:56:03I just want
00:56:05the victims
00:56:05to know
00:56:06that I'm here
00:56:07to speak out
00:56:08so we aren't
00:56:09forgotten.
00:56:10After an accident
00:56:11happens
00:56:11it doesn't end
00:56:12there
00:56:12it's a lifelong
00:56:13suffering.
00:56:15I would have
00:56:16loved to see
00:56:16how Donna Loria
00:56:18would have
00:56:19been in her life
00:56:20where she would
00:56:21have gone
00:56:22how she would
00:56:23have succeeded.
00:56:23he took her
00:56:26from her parents
00:56:27they didn't see
00:56:27her get married
00:56:29have children
00:56:29have a career
00:56:31buy her first
00:56:33house
00:56:34in the big picture
00:56:35I think that's
00:56:36what people forget
00:56:37what happened
00:56:38to those of us
00:56:39who are still here
00:56:40and the victims
00:56:42that aren't
00:56:44and even now
00:56:4747 years later
00:56:50it's still right here
00:56:52for all of us.
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