Berkowitz David Richard - Son of Sam: based on the authorized transcription of the tapes, official documents and diaries of David Berkowitz

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ISBN 978-1-5011-8380-5

To: Alexander Esau

Christine Freund

Donna Lauria

Stacy Moskowitz

Valentina Suriani

and

Virginia Voskerichian

During the past two and a half years, many people have contributed their time and knowledge to this book. Without their assistance and dedication the book, and the truth it contains, could not have been written.

Foremost among them, Nadine Novis gave of herself to a degree I can never repay, and Myron Arlen, M.D., who saved my life. Also, Id like to thank Ira J. Jultak, who was instrumental in launching the project.

The following members of the New York City Police Department were especially helpful: Chief of Detectives James Sullivan; former Chief of Detectives John Keenan; former Deputy Commissioner for Public Information Ellen Fleysher; Inspector Joseph Borrelli; Captain Kenneth Bamrick, Commanding Officer Police Pension Section; Detective Sergeant Joseph Coffey; Detective Sergeant James Shea; Detectives John Falotico, James Gallagher, Marlin Hopkins, James Justus, Ronald Marsenison, Richard Paul, Joseph Strano; Police Officers Louis Marchini and Michael Speros.

A special thanks to the former Mayor of the City of New York Abraham D. Beame for the time he gave to me and his reading of the pulse of the city during the terrifying fourteen months when David Berkowitz was killing at random.

I would also like to thank the current Mayor of the City of New York, Edward Koch, and his staff for their assistance.

My thanks to former Chief William Poison of the Yonkers Police Department and to Detectives Thomas Chamberlain and Pete Intervallo. Also to former Chief of Detectives Frank Klecak of the Nassau County Police Department, Chief Carl Fulgenzi of the Westchester County Parkway Police, and to the Westchester County Sheriffs Department, Sheriff Thomas Delaney, Chief Salvatore DIorio, and to Craig Glassman. To the New Rochelle Police Department, the New York State Police, the New Jersey State Police, the Connecticut State Police, the Florida State Police, the Houston, Texas, Police Department, and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police.

I would also like to acknowledge the assistance of the following agencies of the United States government: the Department of Defense, the Department of the Army, and the Treasury Departments Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.

My thanks to the Office of the Governor of the State of New York and to the Office of the Governor of the State of New Jersey.

To the librarians of the following institutions: the Library of Congress, the New York Public Library, the Central Library System of Nassau County, the Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library, and the Peninsula Public Library.

A special thanks to members of the victims families who gave of their time and emotions: Maurice and Catherine DeMasi, Nandor and Olga Freund and their daughter Eva Maria, Michael and Rose Lauria, Gerald and Neysa Moskowitz, Pasquale Violante, Yolanda Voskerichian and her daughter Alice, and to Charles and Elenore Lomino.

And of course to the surviving victims: Donna DeMasi, Carl Denaro, Judith Placido, Robert Violante, and Joanne Lomino.

To Valerie Scarpa and Thomas Zaino.

To Davids natural mother Betty Falco and his half-sister Roslyn Rothenberg, and to his adoptive father Nathan Berkowitz.

To Attorneys Leon Stern, Robert Penn, Fred Scheinfeld and the offices of the Attorney General of the State of New York. A special thanks to the offices of the District Attorneys of Queens, Kings, and Bronx counties.

A note of thanks to Warden Harold Smith of New York States Attica Correctional Facility.

My thanks also to Bruce Lee of McGraw-Hill for his patient guidance, and to Catherine Temerson for her most valuable work along with that of Rosemary Carrano, Kristina Lindbergh, David and Marcia Prager.