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Tales From The Crypto: The Rise and Fall of FTX

4: S01E04: BERKOWITZ & SON

Tales From The Crypto: The Rise and Fall of FTX

Audio Up Inc.

Government, Investing, Business

4.21.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Pearl Berkowitz, David Berkowitz’s adoptive mother, and the only person to whom he is close, receives a terminal cancer diagnosis just as David is about to enter high school.

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0:00.0

This podcast details firsthand accounts of graphic crime, as well as deeply disturbing emotional

0:15.0

profiles and may not be suitable for all listeners.

0:19.1

Please proceed with caution.

0:22.1

The last is my manifesto.

0:28.1

About 11 o'clock in the morning, my father called.

0:30.8

Tell me that my mom was sick, that she fainted and she's in a hospital undergoing tests.

0:37.1

And after about a month, she never came home.

0:40.5

Within the last two weeks, she was like an incoherent.

0:45.2

It wasn't there.

0:46.2

She was like delirious.

0:47.2

She screamed out names and stuff and it was horrifying.

0:51.0

The last week before she died, I didn't even go see her, I didn't even want to go see her anymore.

0:58.6

A molasses manifesto production brought to you by audio up.

1:02.6

You're listening to Killer Tape.

1:05.9

The True Crime podcast where killers and hardcore criminals tell their own story and their own

1:11.4

words.

1:12.4

I'm your host, documentary filmmaker Bill Bacheley.

1:15.0

Joining me is veteran prison reporter Jack Jones.

1:18.5

This is Killer Tape, season one, David Berkowitz, aka son of Sam.

1:25.8

He confessed to being the 44 killer, ordered by a voice speaking to a neighbor's dog,

1:30.2

carrying out his bloody outrage against young pretty women.

1:32.6

I stuck up on him and shot him.

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