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Cult Liter with Spencer Henry

35: David Berkowitz

Cult Liter with Spencer Henry

Spencer Henry | Morbid Network | Wondery

True Crime, Exhibit C, Society & Culture, Comedy

4.95.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Whoops I’m late! This week we’re talking about serial killer David Berkowitz, a real whacky guy. Check out this week’s affiliate Green Chef, giving you $50.00 of off your first order by visiting greenchef.us/cultliter. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

Hey, Prime members, you can listen to Cult Leader Early and add free on Amazon Music. Download the app today.

0:07.0

You're listening to a morbid network podcast.

0:31.0

Welcome back to Cult Leader. I'm your Cult Leader, Spencer Henry. If you're new here, I don't know what to tell you. Just do what I say.

0:44.0

Where do I start? I'm going to tell you, I know. You know what I'm going to do? I'm going to do that annoying thing where I tell you guys something big is in the works, but I can't tell you what.

0:52.0

At least not yet. What I can tell you about it is nothing. I signed something that said I wouldn't, so I can't.

1:05.0

But you know, I know the past few weeks have been erratic episodes coming out late. I haven't been able to keep up on the online stuff as much, but behind the scenes, I am working more than ever to make sure there is a bright future for the Cult.

1:20.0

So don't think that I'm going lazy on you guys. This next year is going to be insane. There's so much planning happening right now. Also, as of right now, I do everything for Cult Leader.

1:32.0

So it's just me. It's a one man team. And this is all in addition to an already really demanding job. So if I seem less active, just know that I am working nonstop.

1:44.0

Also, I've been traveling like every week and I'm not an asshole. I know I'm grateful, but I am tired. I was in San Francisco this week and I'm home now for a couple days.

1:57.0

I leave for Salt Lake City on Friday, and then I think I'm back home and I'm back in LA for two days and then back in SF.

2:04.0

So we're on the go right now. We're doing what we can. Okay. So I want to get into today's topic. And I will get there eventually.

2:13.0

I also want to talk about I was reading today about Ashton Kutcher's random. But this article popped up on Twitter now. I can't stop thinking about it.

2:24.0

Like I guess 20 years ago, this girl that Ashton Kutcher was dating was murdered by a serial killer. And it happened on the night where Ashton was supposed to take her out.

2:34.0

He went over to her house little did he know that she had been stabbed like 47 times or something on the other side of the door. But just fucking awful.

2:43.0

So I guess the trial for whoever the serial killer that killed the girl is happening right now and Ashton just testified hence why it's probably on like the major news networks. But interesting.

2:55.0

So there's something to know also if you guys listen to the first serial kit or first what am I talking about first celebrity series that I did where I talked about a few different celebrity related murders.

3:07.0

I did one of them a while ago. So if you would like another one of those let me know happy to do it. So okay. We'll get to today's topic.

3:18.0

We're talking about David Berkowitz aka the son of Sam and this is I would say a lot of people probably have heard of this story.

3:27.0

He was kind of a whack job. We'll get into all of that in a minute. But this is my condensed cult leader version of it. So David Berkowitz son of Sam whack job.

3:41.0

He gives me kind of these like bun D vibes in a behavioral sense not looks wise. He looks kind of like you know the sad paintings where like they did him back in like really old paintings like I think like 16 chapel days like where they're just looking up and they're kind of sad.

3:58.0

Do you know what I mean? Not like big eyes. They all just have sad eyes like where's my art history cold babes. I know one of these out there like you're talking about this.

4:07.0

I don't fucking know. So you'll see the picture on the post on Instagram. You'll know what I'm talking about. Anyways David Berkowitz. He was born Richard David Falco on June 1st 1953 in New York to Elizabeth Broder and her boyfriend J.F.S. of Kleinman.

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