Son of Sam Decoded: The Dark Psychology ‘.44 Caliber Killer’ David Berkowitz

Eight victims. Thirteen months. One paper bag and a .44 calibre revolver. What kind of man wets his bed at twelve, sets over a thousand fires by twenty, and then becomes the most feared serial killer in modern American history? David Berkowitz was a soft, polite postal worker who clocked off the night shift in the Bronx and drove home to a Yonkers flat with the names of his dead written on the bedroom wall in marker pen. To the city he terrorised in 1977 he was Son of Sam. To the courts he was the .44 Caliber Killer. To himself, he was a footnote nobody had been willing to read until he made them. This is not another retread of the demonic dog, the satanic cult chatter, or the famous parking ticket that caught him. This is the deeper book. Inside, you will find a forensic decoding of the lonely, adopted boy who learned, before he could speak, that his existence was inconvenient, and who spent the rest of his life forcing the world to confirm he was there. You will trace the funnel from bedwetting to arson to murder. You will meet the survivors who carried the bullet for fifty years. You will sit with the columnist he chose as his audience, the prosecutor who broke ranks, and the journalist who lost half his life to the case. What he wanted, he got. The world finally looked. The question is what you will see when you look back. CraigBeck.com

Pagina's: 215, Paperback, Independently published