True Crime Tuesday: Son of Sam

David Berkowitz, who is infamously known as “Son of Sam”, murdered six people and wounded seven others with a .44 Bulldog revolver during his reign of terror in New York City in the late seventies.

Berkowitz was arrested on August 10, 1977, and subsequently indicted for eight shootings. He confessed to all of them, and initially claimed to have been obeying the orders of a demon manifested in the form of a black dog belonging to his neighbor, “Sam”.

After being found mentally competent to stand trial, he pled guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to six consecutive life sentences in state prison with the possibility of parole after 25 years.

Dr. Scott Bonn, author and criminologist, joins Kendall and Casey for True Crime Tuesday to discuss his personal interactions with Berkowitz.