"Son of Sam" Has a New Father

Under the heading of "things I never thought I would read", David "Son of Sam" Berkowitz, who killed six people with a .44 caliber pistol in 1976, is now a Christian and, surprisingly, has a group of followers.

Read the article in New York Magazine.

To give you an idea of who he is, here is an excerpt:

To most New Yorkers, Son of Sam is still the iconic figure of evil. Thirty years ago, he began a reign of terror, killing six and wounding seven over the course of a year. With the city’s newspapers trumpeting each attack, he terrorized New Yorkers as no lone criminal has ever done. (no one is safe from son of sam, said a Post headline at the time.) Sam targeted young female strangers—white, college-bound prizes of the middle class. At times, he seemed to court the city. He believed, as he later put it, that “people were rooting for me.” After nearly three months without an attack, he wrote Daily News columnist Jimmy Bres­lin: “I am still here like a spirit roaming the night. Thirsty, hungry, seldom stopping to rest.”