David Berkowitz was born on June 1, 1953. His father wanted to get rid of him as soon as his mother had given birth. He was put up for adoption and when he was a couple of days old he was adopted by Nathan and Pearl Berkowitz. They reversed the order of his given name and called him David, he would be their only child. He grew up a solitary child and got teased for being chubby. He was always big for his age and felt different and less attractive than his friends. All through his childhood he was uncomfortable with other people. His neighbors remember him as a nice-looking boy but with a violent behavior, a bully who assaulted neighborhood kids for no reason.

the Vietnam War. He got stationed in Korea and never did see any action, and his attitude began to change. While in the army in 1971, David suffered another psychological blow when his father remarried. He felt separated from Nathan because the last few years were him and David. He had a stepmother and a twenty-five year old stepsister.

In 1973, Berkowitz felt a spiritual rebirth when his unit was moved to Fort Knox, Kentucky. He attended to a church in Louisville and changed to a Christian, this was the first time that felt he belonged somewhere. He later felt that there was no future for him in the army. He learned to use deadly weapons and got the ranking of marksman, and the basic rifle sharpshooter. In 1974, he got an honorable discharge and his pyromaniac ideas returned.

Berkowitz became curious about his real parents and decided to join a group called ALMA, the Adoptee\'s Liberty Movement Association, which helps adopted children search for their birth parents. He was shocked that his parents didn’t want him and that he was an accident. He found his real mother in 1975 before Mother’s Day. His

Anger and frustration with women, coupled by a bizarre fantasy life, started him down to violence when he got out of the Army in 1974. The only sexual experience with a woman that he ever had was with a prostitute in Korea. But the truth is that his

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