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David Berkowitz

Born June 1, 1953 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA (age 73)

David Berkowitz was born as Richard David Falco. His mother had him out of wedlock when she had an affair with a married real-estate agent named Joseph Klineman. Her husband Tony Falco had left her a few years before that. His mother gave him up for adoption to Nathan and Pearl Berkowitz who named him David Berkowitz Chicago. Being rejected by his birth mother caused David to develop an inferiorit…

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Serious Serial KillersSerious Serial Killers · 2012
Serious Serial Killers
2012
MovieDocumentary
A documentary covering various serial killers including BTK, Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, Son of Sam and more.
NBC News Presents: Inside Evil - Serial Killers Jeffrey Dahmer & Son of SamNBC News Presents: Inside Evil - Serial Killers Jeffrey Dahmer & Son of Sam
NBC News Presents: Inside Evil - Serial Killers Jeffrey Dahmer & Son of Sam
Movie
In "Inside Evil: Jeffrey Dahmer," Dateline NBC anchor Stone Phillips confronts Dahmer on-camera, in a prison interview about the victims he killed and cannibalized -- and the urges that drove him. In a rare interview with Dahmer's father, Phillips examines events in Dahmer's childhood that could have pushed him to murder. It's a compelling portrait of a killer and the demons deep down inside him. In "Inside Evil: Son Of Sam," NBC News investigates the infamous serial murder case that terrorized New York City in 1977: did killer David Berkowitz have help in his crime spree, and could other murderers still be at large? Here, in rare video, "Son of Sam" speaks for himself on camera - and makes startling charges about who may really be behind some the crimes.
Son of Sam: The Killer SpeaksSon of Sam: The Killer Speaks · 2017
Son of Sam: The Killer Speaks
2017
MovieCrime
David Berkowitz terrorized New York City by killing six people and wounding seven others in seemingly random shootings from July 1976 to July 1977. In his first major TV interview in a decade and his only interview about the 40th anniversary of his arrest, Berkowitz -- who is serving six consecutive life sentences -- speaks out to CBS News correspondent Maurice DuBois about what led him to kill, his life before he turned into a murderer, and what his life is like in prison today.

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NBC News Presents: Inside Evil - Serial Killers Jeffrey Dahmer & Son of SamNBC News Presents: Inside Evil - Serial Killers Jeffrey Dahmer & Son of Sam
NBC News Presents: Inside Evil - Serial Killers Jeffrey Dahmer & Son of Sam
Movie
In "Inside Evil: Jeffrey Dahmer," Dateline NBC anchor Stone Phillips confronts Dahmer on-camera, in a prison interview about the victims he killed and cannibalized -- and the urges that drove him. In a rare interview with Dahmer's father, Phillips examines events in Dahmer's childhood that could have pushed him to murder. It's a compelling portrait of a killer and the demons deep down inside him. In "Inside Evil: Son Of Sam," NBC News investigates the infamous serial murder case that terrorized New York City in 1977: did killer David Berkowitz have help in his crime spree, and could other murderers still be at large? Here, in rare video, "Son of Sam" speaks for himself on camera - and makes startling charges about who may really be behind some the crimes.