David Berkowitz

I'll be upfront: writing a "My Take" on David Berkowitz is a different exercise than gushing about a musician or actor. This is the Son of Sam — the .44 Caliber Killer who terrorized New York City from 1975 to 1977, killing six people and wounding eleven more while the whole city spiraled into a very real, very public panic. What strikes me is how ordinary his background looks on paper: a Brooklyn kid, Christopher Columbus High School, a stretch in the Army. Yet he became the face of late-70s New York at its most frightened and chaotic. His capture in 1977 was a cultural moment. The victims and their families are the story that actually matters here, and I think the only honest thing to say is that remembering him means never letting their names be forgotten either.

Name (English)

David Berkowitz

Name (Japanese)

デイヴィッド・バーコウィッツ

Reading

でいゔぃっど・ばーこうぃっつ

Born

June 1, 1953 (age 73)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Snake

Origin

Brooklyn, New York, United States

Occupation

serial killer

High school

Christopher Columbus High School

University

Bronx Community College

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%87%E3%83%93%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B3%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%83%E3%83%84

Tags

• New York
• serial killer

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.