European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 27, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Who is this Man they Call the son of Sam by Quigl in led press International a fellow postal worker asked David Richard ice Kowitz to dinner the night of july they normally ale Al a nearby David was partial to inc diners egg creams David smiling t have something else later that saturday a nun Sal calmly on a Park across from an isolated Lane under the verrazano Bridge near the Brooklyn waterfront he had Eye on a couple naked in a car across the jut he couple drove to the Darker area of the Street and is mans attention shifted loan old Brown where iwo 20yearolds on their Glrst Date were parked at a police would say the Man got up from the walked across the Street under the brightness of a Lull Moon and a Street he approached Inu the Man pulled a a Dalibor bulldog revolver from a plastic bag m Wilh both crouched in the military aimed through inc open window on the pass Cafier Side and fired four a Horn a scream pierced the witnesses saw tie Man walk deliberately Back into inc darkness of the he would find his car where he left parked by a fire pm it was a parking the to furl would her Boyfriend would be left partially we had a frustrated detective have this maniac off the this maniac this son of Sam killer As police had taken to calling him had struck tight different limes in a 12month the inless ambush attack coming on the weekend of the Liral anniversary of the first six were seven were ten Days David it Berk owl walked out at he apartment and got into his lit started the be was surrounded by their weapons a Allahl smile played on bar Kowitt pleas he identified police As son of this 2tyoarold Paunchy mail sorter in the a Gaud Friendly but not intimate with a Soldier in Korea who refused to carry a cordial to women but with no love a court official would later examine the superficial facts about David Berkowitz and conclude he had Strong Community ties and should be released without bail pending a the judge who arraigned Berkowitz heard prosecutor Tell of a secret Here before a prosecutor is the killer known As i guess lit led a double said a fellow postal that about Burkowitz was a Crea Ture of Ite was lonely always by Distant but he would go out of his Way to take a coworker Home at lie want Friendly in the sense thai he tried to make said the he just sat there with that smile on his but he seemed like a Nice the Nice Guy was arrested and charged As the Cali Ber killer on id in front of his ending the largest manhunt in new York David Richard bom Richard David was charged with second degree murder in the death of pm of Sams last Stacy and in the wounding of her Robert they were shot the night Berk owl turned Down a dinner inv Alion because lie had something else when captured Berkowitz bad m or in his Nimby us charter arms a a and another disassembled police said they found a note saying he planned to go out in a Blaze of glory by shooting with the semiautomatic a discotheque in Long vet in us army in Korea he had termed himself a conscientious objector and refused to carry guns even in the thut a just one of the Many contradictions of the Man accused of being the killer who terrorized a taunted police with messages and evaded capture for More than a Berkowitz is said by authorities to have had no love to have been rejected by yet acquaintances said he was polite to and there was pornographic literature on the floor mattress in his Ilia Sam accused him of shooting Carrs yet he once wrote from Korea i sure wish i had some and a Man for wham he worked As a guard after he left the service said he was the Only one who could walk the guard police said Berkowit told How he received commands to kill from Sam through even after his arrest and heavy news coverage of the David Berkowitz a Nice Fly theirs want t jewish household he was acquaintances said he never sure about Hla i that he never knew his natural a Bodoh told he wan when be returned ram he sought and found till natural cleaning in new and Learned for us first time that hah id who had not been put up for t How much an event Tupi try lit anybody a was 1 to mid temper untrue fit Kab is pubic Loving toward almost careful of t according of Memed to be a definite Hyde aspect to character Tome my cult potion concocted Early in and we Dew seeping Lota his he was raised in Middle class in contrast to the mass of the apartment he was living in double life of son of dust closest to Berk owl could not believe what they had read and David Berk owl was a Nice pleasant Guy to work an excellent Dalti Llly not the violent said Carlos a fellow postal i could never picture in my mind thai be was the Guy police say is son when 1 heard Luff been 1 was shocked for about an Robert owner at the concourse Cale near the Post Bald Berkowitz would come in before going to work at 4 and order ice a was very a lonesome always by in connection with Jack Foreman of a firm where Berkowitz loaded trucks last said he was sometimes depressed and would break into i asked him what was the matter and he said he had problems at Home and Bills to he never mentioned women but and indicated be was having vague problems along that Young women in parked can were his prime five of us six murder victims were women four of Iho wounded seven were one of the wounded was v Berkowitz had a Rte igloos born and raised be became a in he went on drugs Bol the duality preached Christian Hyto Bli went to revival meetings instead at going out with them at he carried Bible after leaving one pos Korea army Paul who served with Berio Wellz at Kyin described him As a Jesus Freak most of his social Ike consisted of revival billow believes Berkowitzz problems can be traced to his year in Korea he used 16 Tell us How heavily into dope he and he spoke at length of his sexual adventures with korean he said Berk went into a personality change a rather reclusive character it was like Jekyll and Hyde it got so that i was the Only Guy he would really open up to and once a couple of Guys were fooling around with a Rifle and Berkowitz left the he told me i never Trust anybody with a Terry who also knew Berkowitz in Korea five years has a different version of his sexual and he said Berk owl used drugs but never drank and thai he hated korean women because prostitution there was he said Berkowit filed As a conscientious objector and refused to carry n gun even on Maneu vers he was very i never contradicted and he was extremely Berkowitz wrote from Korea to a Friend one Day me and Jesus you the usual anyhow we got to some big la fiery Cowitz dramatically club aged from a Hawk to a from a right Winger to the he wrote Friend la new York to support the Stu Cau Lor a democratic society keep the movement moving on Home and ill keep it moving the Friend says As Long As Ive known Hes had a confusion Between fantasy and peace symbols appeared on his which he signed later letters would be tilled with satanic and sexual the Story of Berk in the last 13 presents a picture of a person gone berserk by a killer in the dark but lonely and reserved by one of his problems was his View of Bis own his father was an italian he Mother a polish he was bom in Brooklyn on june to Tony and Betty Falco and was named Richard David they gave him up for adoption when he was 17 months old by Nathan and Pearl a childless couple in the they changed his name to David Richard Ber Ruif the urges to t i by Louisa Coli aug coed he lipstick the Boston the Zodiac the Zebra they terror and like the Man a new York City police have arrested As the son of they often ended there have been the new stir famous unsolved Case to probably that a the who killed at few and possibly As Many As 20 prostitutes London in a modern Day Ripper is sought by police in for five deaths to the last two another still open Cost Man Aba called Uyselt Zodle Tat in a 1170 letter to a Saa Fructo co claimed to have atm 10 people in he there Taw no recent the 1950 slaying of a Philadelphia Claire by someone known Only mad also is in five the Roan wounded per As Well As wiling murder investigations Are never Days Pouce commissioner talk recent but we Nave no leads Al the present Prett i in bom to mfr Chicago police were luckier came to the Man believed responsible killings Over a period of time the slayings included what was known the because of i hts written in lips Tetona Mirror for catch me before i pm 1 cannot control then is and a student at the University of under truth to at least three of murders we was convicted at still to the Stateville penitent Iviry in full serving three life a Man known a the Boston wrangler killed 13 women in the Boston from 1962 to Albert Desalvo confessed to being the but police were unable to bring him to trial because of a Lack of supporting they did try Desalvo it series of unrelated he we feel ended to life imprisonment and was stabbed to death in his cell in the Zebra killing codenamed after a police radio band occurred in san Cisco from the f All of 1173 in us Spring of fourteen persons were killed and eight assaulted in the apparently random four Black muslims were convicted in 1976 of conspiracy to commit murder and other charges to three of the they were found guilty of killing Chi we son and Trot wer can Pihrt War a Page the stars and stripes at
