ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The prison journals of David Berkowitz, the imprisoned “Son of Sam” killer who terrorized New York in the late 1970s, will be published in book form this September.
Lawrence Jordan, president of New York City-based Morning Star Communications LLC, said the company will publish Berkowitz’s journal because it is “a testimony to the Christian faith and to how God can change a person.”
“Son of Hope: The Prison Journals of David Berkowitz, Volume 1” will not mean any profits for the six-time killer. Under a state law named for Berkowitz, profits a convict makes while in prison can be recovered by victims.
Neyla Moskowitz, whose 20-year-old daughter Stacy was Berkowitz’s last victim, called the book “disgusting.”
“Show me one prisoner that doesn’t turn to God in jail,” she said. “It’s utterly sickening that people have to go through this again.”
Berkowitz, 52, is serving six 25-years-to-life sentences for killing six persons and wounding seven others during the deadly spree spanning 13 months in 1976 and 1977. His nickname came from a note, left at a crime scene, reading: “I am a monster. I am the Son of Sam.”
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