Berkowitz, David
From Astro-Databank
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| Birthname | Falco, Richard David | ||
| born on | 1 June 1953 at 16:52 (= 4:52 PM ) | ||
| Place | Brooklyn NY, USA, 40n38, 73w56 | ||
| Timezone | EDT h4w (is daylight saving time) | ||
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| Astrology data |   11°02'   03°32 Asc. 00°55'
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Biography
American homicide known as the Son of Sam, holding New York in terror in 1976-1977.
David's dad, Tony Falco, deserted the family eight years before he was born, the result of his mom's affair with a married businessman. His mom put him up for adoption and the baby was taken in by the Berkowitz family.
A sharpshooter in the U.S. Army from 1971-1974, he served in Korea, then worked in New York as a postal employee. He hated to be dirty and kept his body clean so that he "would not get sick," however his apartment was messy with left-over garbage and he went to the laundry only after he had no clean clothes left. Between 9/28/1974 and 12/23/1975, he set over 2,000 fires on city property.
On Christmas Eve, 1974, he made his first knife assault, stabbing a black woman in the Bronx, followed by five gunshot murders and six woundings of young couples. He was arrested on 8/10/1977. At his trial on 5/08/1978, he entered an insanity plea, claiming that God spoke to him through the neighbors' dog. He was given a sentence of 365 years.
Events
- Crime : Assault/ Battery Perpetration 24 December 1974 (Knife assault)
- Crime : Homicide Perpetration 27 July 1977 (Fifth murder)
- Crime : Homicide Perpetration 29 July 1976 (First murder, Donna Lauria)
- Crime : Arrest 10 August 1977 (For murders)
- Crime : Trial dates 8 May 1978 (Entered insanity plea)
- Crime : Assault/ Battery Victimization 26 November 1976 at 11:55 AM (Third assault, Donna DeMasi, 15, shot in spine)
- Crime : Homicide Perpetration 30 January 1977 at 12:10 AM (Second murder, Christine Freund; died 4 hrs later)
- Crime : Homicide Perpetration 8 March 1977 (Third murder, Virginia Vaskeritchin, shot in face)
- Crime : Homicide Perpetration 18 April 1977 (Fourth-fifth attacks, Valentina Suriani, 18 and Alesander Eaus, 20)
- Crime : Homicide Perpetration 27 April 1977 (Shot Sam Carr's dog)
- Crime : Assault/ Battery Perpetration 26 July 1977 (Wounded two, Judy Placido and Sal Lupo)
- Crime : Assault/ Battery Perpetration 31 July 1977 at 02:32 AM (Wounded Bobby Violante and killed Stacey Moscowitz)
- Crime : Assault/ Battery Perpetration 28 September 1974 (Set first of 2,000 fires in 15 months)
Source Notes
Copy of hospital records in hand, Victoria Shaw
Categories
- Vocation : Military : Military service (Korea)
- Passions : Criminal Perpetrator : Homicide serial (Serial kiiller)
- Diagnoses : Psychological : Psychotic Episode
- Family : Childhood : Adopted
- Notable : Famous : Criminal cases (Son of Sam)
- Passions : Criminal Perpetrator : Prison sentence (365 years)
- Vocation : Politics : Postal service (P.O. employee)
- Passions : Criminal Perpetrator : Assault/ Battery (Murders and woundings)
- Notable : Book Collection : Occult/ Misc. Collection
- Notable : Famous : Notable extremes (Books and movies about Son of Sam)
