David Berkowitz Biography

David Berkowitz was born on June 1, 1953 in Brooklyn New York. His parents were Betty Broder and Joseph Kleinman. They weren’t his parents for very long though; he was given up for adoption shortly after his birth. He was later adopted by Nathan and Pearl Berkowitz. As a child Berkowitz was a bit overweight and unhappy with himself, so in order to combat this self hatred he became very secluded and was considered a loner. After a while he even began to pick on other kids just to feel better about himself. As a teenager he lost his adoptive mother to cancer which was a very traumatic event to him. As for his adult life, he joined the military and had his only sexual encounter there with a prostitute who left him with a venereal disease causing

These letters would allude to more murders he was going to commit to satisfy “Sam” who is basically a demon that is making him commit the crimes. On August 10, 1977 he was finally captured. His capture happened because a woman saw a suspicious man who looked like he could be the .44 caliber killer. She then saw the police writing a parking ticket on his car which the police were able to use to track him down and arrest him before he commit any other heinous crimes. Once he was captured the first words out of his mouth were “you got me. What took you so long?” For his sentencing he decided to do a plea bargain which in his case was he would plead guilty if he did not receive the death penalty. The courts agreed and he was sentenced to 25 years-to-life making his sentence a total of 365 years all for the murder of six and the injuring of seven. Later on he was psychoanalyzed and diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. This conclusion was mainly due to the fact that he said he commit the murders because a demon who took the place of his neighbors dog told him to. Presently, Berkowitz is still alive and well at 63 years old. He is being held at the Sullivan Correctional Facility in New York and has also been denied parole five