Gender | Male |
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Weekday | Monday |
Date | June 1, 1953 |
Time | 4:52 p.m. |
Daylight Saving | Yes |
City | Flatlands, New York, United States |
Geo-location | 40ºN37'16.39", |
Timezone | America/New_York |
City | Flatlands, New York, United States |
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Timezone | America/New_York |
Time (America/New_York) | Jun. 01, 1953, 04:52:00 PM |
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Time (UTC) | Jun. 01, 1953, 08:52:00 PM |
Time (LMT) | Jun. 01, 1953, 03:56:16 PM |
Time (Julian) | 2434530.36944444 |
LMT Correction | -4.9289 Hrs |
Ayanmsha | True Chitra - 23º11'42.23" |
American homicide known as the Son of Sam, holding New York in terror in 1976-1977. David's dad, Tony Falco, deserted the family eight years before he was born, the result of his mom's affair with a married businessman. His mom put him up for adoption and the baby was taken in by the Berkowitz family. A sharpshooter in the U.S. Army from 1971-1974, he served in Korea, then worked in New York as a postal employee. He hated to be dirty and kept his body clean so that he "would not get sick," however his apartment was messy with left-over garbage and he went to the laundry only after he had no clean clothes left. Between 9/28/1974 and 12/23/1975, he set over 2,000 fires on city property. On Christmas Eve, 1974, he made his first knife assault, stabbing a black woman in the Bronx, followed by five gunshot murders and six woundings of young couples. He was arrested on 8/10/1977. At his trial on 5/08/1978, he entered an insanity plea, claiming that God spoke to him through the neighbors' dog. He was given a sentence of 365 years. Link to Wikipedia biography
S.No. | Event Type | Event Date | Event Description |
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1 |
Diagnosis |
May 26, 1977 |
Health : Medical diagnosis 26 May 1977 in New York (Psychological profile: neurotic and probably suffering from paranoid schizophrenia) . |
S.No. | Event Type | Event Date | Event Description |
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1 |
Assault Perpetrator |
Sept. 28, 1974 |
Crime : Assault/ Battery Perpetration 28 September 1974 (Set first of 2,000 fires in 15 months) . |
2 |
Assault Perpetrator |
Dec. 24, 1974 |
Crime : Assault/ Battery Perpetration 24 December 1974 (Knife assault) . |
3 |
Homicide Perpetrator |
July 29, 1976 |
Crime : Homicide Perpetration 29 July 1976 (First murder, Donna Lauria) . |
4 |
Assault Victim |
Nov. 26, 1976 |
Crime : Assault/ Battery Victimization 26 November 1976 at 11:55 AM (Third assault, Donna DeMasi, 15, shot in spine) . |
5 |
Homicide Perpetrator |
Jan. 30, 1977 |
Crime : Homicide Perpetration 30 January 1977 at 12:10 AM (Second murder, Christine Freund; died 4 hrs later) . |
6 |
Homicide Perpetrator |
March 1, 1977 |
Crime : Homicide Perpetration 8 March 1977 (Third murder, Virginia Vaskeritchin, shot in face) . |
7 |
Homicide Perpetrator |
April 18, 1977 |
Crime : Homicide Perpetration 18 April 1977 (Fourth-fifth attacks, Valentina Suriani, 18 and Alesander Eaus, 20) . |
8 |
Homicide Perpetrator |
April 27, 1977 |
Crime : Homicide Perpetration 27 April 1977 (Shot Sam Carr's dog) . |
9 |
Assault Perpetrator |
July 26, 1977 |
Crime : Assault/ Battery Perpetration 26 July 1977 (Wounded two, Judy Placido and Sal Lupo) . |
10 |
Homicide Perpetrator |
July 27, 1977 |
Crime : Homicide Perpetration 27 July 1977 (Fifth murder) . |
11 |
Assault Perpetrator |
July 31, 1977 |
Crime : Assault/ Battery Perpetration 31 July 1977 at 02:32 AM (Wounded Bobby Violante and killed Stacey Moscowitz) . |
12 |
Arrested |
Aug. 10, 1977 |
Crime : Arrest 10 August 1977 (For murders) . |
13 |
Insanity |
May 1, 1978 |
Crime : Trial dates 8 May 1978 (Entered insanity plea) . |