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murders in New York City was actually filmed from a nearby parked van. Gimme Shelter first appeared
as the opening track on the band‘s 1969 album Let It Bleed. And the 1995 documentary film was a boxoffice
hit, which also showed several other actual executions of people condemned to death.
David Richard Berkowitz born 1st June 1953, also known as Son of Sam and the .44 Calibre Killer is an
American serial killer and arsonist whose crimes terrorised New York City from July 1976 until his arrest
in August 1977. After consulting with several psychiatrists, police released a psychological profile of their
suspect on the 26th May 1977. He was described as neurotic and probably suffering from paranoid
schizophrenia and believed himself to be a victim of demonic possession. Shortly after his arrest in
August 1977, Berkowitz confessed to killing 6 people and wounding several others in the course of eight
shootings during that period. He has been imprisoned for these crimes since 1977. Berkowitz
subsequently claimed that he was commanded to kill by a demon possessed in his neighbour‘s dog, and
later amended his confession to claim he was the shooter in only two incidents, personally killing three
people and wounding a fourth. The other victims were killed, Berkowitz claimed, by members of a violent
satanic cult of which he was a member. He claims that he joined a cult in the spring of 1975. Initially, he
said, the group was involved in harmless activities, such as séances and fortune telling. Gradually,
however, Berkowitz claimed that the group introduced him to drug use, sadistic pornography and violent
crime. [17]
On the 12th June 1978, he was sentenced to six life sentences in prison for the murders, making his
maximum term 365 years. He was first imprisoned at the Attica Correctional Facility, and was also given
additional terms for assault and attempted murder. In 1979, there was an attempt on Berkowitz‘s life. He
refused to identify the person[s] who had attacked him with a knife, but suggested that the act was directed
by the cult he once belonged to. He bears a permanent scar from the wound that took 52 stitches. In 1987,
Berkowitz became a born again Christian in prison. [I‘m not sure what‘s more worrying!] According to
his personal testimony, his moment of conversion occurred after reading Psalm 34:6 from a Gideon‘s
Pocket Testament Bible given to him by a fellow inmate. In the same testimony, he stated that his
obsession with and heavy involvement in the occult played a major role in the Son of Sam murders. [17]
There are sceptics that don‘t believe Berkowitz was involved in any cult or more importantly assisted
with the some of the murders and he acted alone etc. However Maury Terry continued investigating the
Son of Sam shootings before Berkowitz was arrested. Doubtful of the single shooter theory favoured by
police, Terry dug deeper into the case, noting a number of unresolved questions and inconsistencies that he
first publicised in a March 1978 newspaper article. Eventually interviewing Berkowitz several times,
Terry uncovered evidence that strongly supported the idea that a violent offshoot of the Process Church
Cult was responsible for the Son of Sam murders and many other crimes. After consulting with police and
agreeing to withhold some names and other details, Terry publicised his conclusions first in a series of
newspaper articles distributed by the Gannett syndicate in 1979, and later in the already mentioned book;
The Ultimate Evil, which has been expanded several times since its initial 1987 publication. Queens
district attorney John Santucci, who thought the case against Berkowitz was riddled with inconsistencies
and unresolved questions, was so impressed with Terry‘s research that; ―He agreed to reopen the Son of
Sam case ... But to date no-one else has ever been charged in connection with the crimes.‖ Journalist John
Hockenberry also reported that the Son of Sam case was reopened in 1996 and, as of to date 2011 it‘s still
considered open. [17]
The same year as Altamont in 1969, marked the beginning of the career of Ozzie Osbourne, who
formed the band Black Sabbath. The group modelled itself on the Rolling Stones. The next twenty years
would witness a procession of young drugged-out rock performers, like Osbourne, yet who many other
have since died in drug related deaths, and Osbourne himself has admitted his drug taking obliterated his
brain to pieces, and is no doubt the reason he stammers and seems to react more slowly than he did when
he was younger.
These young wannabes at any cost want to be famous and rich each competing for the big money and
the recording contracts that came with it, are all more than willing to sell their souls to the devil. The key
criteria of those who would make it, is their ability to portray decadence and evil. These were the heavymetal
groups 1970‘s and 80‘s, and today‘s rap singers and a like are following suit. In 1985, the New
Solidarity newspaper, which has since been forcibly shut down by the US government, conducted an
interview with Hezekiah Ben Aaron, at that time the third-ranking member of the Church of Satan, then led
by its high priest, Anton LaVey. However it‘s been alleged that many a report that LaVey, a former circus