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Crime stories with Nancy Grace on Sirius XM Triumph channel 132.

It started out at Typical Friday night. We drove to 159th Street, 32nd Avenue.

Basically we started making out and like two minutes later the car exploded.

All the windows blew out of the car.

Son of Sam. Three words that strike fear in the hearts of everybody that's read a newspaper or gone on the internet in the last 20 years.

You'd have to be living in a cave or under a rock not to know of the brutal reign of son of Sam also known as David Berkowitz.

A prolific killer. Son of Sam also known as the 44 caliber killer. A serial killer that we know is guilty of eight separate shooting attacks.

It all started in the summer of 1976 when the crimes were perpetrated with a bulldog revolver killing six people.

Wondering nine others. The victims increasing the body bags piling up and the son of Sam eludes the biggest police manhunt in the history of the city.

He even went so far as to leave letters mocking police and promising more murders.

But now even after a guilty plea on multiple charges is the son of Sam one of the most prolific serial killers in US history set to walk free with a parole hearing.

I'm Nancy Grace. This is crime stories. Thank you for being with us.

First of all, I want you to hear in his own words the son of Sam in a CBS interview talking about his childhood boo.

I was about four or five. I learned that I was adopted and of course I had a lot of questions. You know my dad and mom you know well meaning.

I told me that my mother died while giving birth to me. I think now looking back in retrospect because a lot of guilt and conflict within me.

No, I didn't understand what drove me to be so like self-destructive and destructive to always have thoughts of suicide. I was obsessed with dying because I felt that I needed to be punished for somehow causing my mother's death.

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