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

I'm your host, Dr. Mintry Filmmaker Bill Bacheley. Joining me is veteran prison reporter Jack Jones.

This is killer tape season one, David Berkowitz aka son of sound. He confessed to being the 44

killer, ordered by a voice speaking to a neighbor's dog, carrying out his bloody outrageous against

young pretty woman. I stuck up on him and shot him. Berkowitz planned to use the revolver again

and again until he felt police were getting close. I wanted to help people, I wanted to be for

somebody that's dead. David Berkowitz 24 years old found himself surrounded by police. Well, he said

you got him. And now the neat story, it's not for anybody else and for myself.

At least say those words ended the biggest manhunt in New York City history.

I should spend my whole life here for what I've done.

Episode 8. The Search for Betty Falco. Act 1. Meeting Mother.

Have you ever been to New York Public Library? As it says, four years of the million books

periodos. I went to the second where they have old telephone books from the 1960s and stuff.

I began to phone through all of them one at a time, but they were on microphone, you know.

You had to get the microphone out, the fork had to set up the machine and you had a wheeled up

in the microphone thing and I looked only looking for all the Falcos. This is after I found out

the name of my biological love. Shortly after David Berkowitz adopted Father Nat,

left for Florida, leaving him alone to Finn for himself for the first time in his life,

a task he had almost immediately failed to do by instantly succumbing to his rage

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