‘Son of Sam’ Writes To Houston Crime Victims Advocate

‘Son of Sam’ Writes To Houston Crime Victims Advocate, Andy Kahan, crime victim advocate for the city of Houston.

In these typewritten letters, sent from a prison cell in upstate New York to an office in Houston’s city hall annex, some say there is an effort to prove contrition for the killings back then, an eagerness to put distance between the monster he once was and the person he says he has become.

But can a serial killer reform? Does the thrill and thirst for blood, murder and mayhem ever go away?

Son of Sam’ Writes To Houston Crime Victims Advocate: “The past is such a painful memory … It was all a terrible nightmare. I got into something so evil,” one letter states. “I would give my life if I could go back into the past to have prevented this from happening.”

Blah, blah, blah…Six murders too late.

Son of Sam’ Writes To Houston Crime Victims Advocate and most Baby Boomers will remember the fear that David Berkowitz ‘Son of Sam’ put the country through.

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The letters from one of the country’s most notorious serial killers are addressed to Andy Kahan, crime victim advocate for the city of Houston. They reveal an unlikely ten year alliance that began with a simple form letter.

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