Okay, we are alive. Hi, this is William Ramsey. Welcome to William Ramsey Investigates on today's show.

I have a very special guest. He just published a book in October. The full title of the book is Monster Mirror, 100 hours with David Berkowitz, once known as the son of Sam. His name is Michael A. Caparelli. His last name is spelled C-A-R-R-R-E-L-I. So it's double R-L-L-L.

And I started reading this book yesterday. And I read the whole thing all in one day. It's really

fascinating. And I've always been, I've had other guests on about Son of Sam. There's been a lot

of disputations and talks about Berkowitz. But I found this book to be really one of the

best books. I've read about the psychology of somebody who commits these crimes is very insightful.

A lot of terms and a lot of things he knew. Dr. Caperelli knows that. I didn't really know

some of these terms. I'm glad to have him on. It's not his first book. He's also written,

PEN Your Pain Into Parables,

A Tool for Recovery that was from 2019.

But right now,

this book just came out within the last month.

It already has 45-star reviews on Amazon, the U.S.,

and it's well-deserved.

So Dr. Michael A. Caparelli, welcome to the show.

Thank you, William.

I'm glad to be here.

Excellent. So for people who may not have heard your name, I saw you on CBN.

You did an interview on the Christian Broadcasting Network.

And this book is just, can you maybe talk a little bit about your background and what led up to you putting together this book, Monster Manor?

Well, I began my career as a pastor of a church in Providence, Rhode Island, kind of an inner-city

congregation, worked with inmates extensively, inmates in the prison and those that were released,

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