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http://www.nydailynews.com/front/sto...5p-27706c.html



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Think Hannibal, says Son of Sam

By DAVE GOLDINER
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Son of Sam says he is feeling the sniper's "anger and rage toward law enforcement" and suggested cops look at the Hannibal Lecter movie for clues to the killer's behavior.
David Berkowitz, the serial killer who terrorized New York in summer 1977, wrote Fox News from an upstate prison to say he shares a unique bond with the Beltway Sniper.
"It is as if I am reliving a nightmare," wrote Berkowitz, 49, in a three-page letter released yesterday. "The past - my past - is so painful for me to deal with. It is a time I'd prefer to forget. Now it is all coming back in all its ugliness and horror."
In a fascinating killer-to-killer analysis, Berkowitz wrote, "For more than a week now I have been feeling this person's anger and rage toward law enforcement."
He said the sniper is probably a know-it-all who believes he can trick the police and FBI - just like the big-screen Hannibal.
"If you think about it, the Hannibal series is about a killer who is always trying to outsmart the FBI," Berkowitz wrote. "He's trying hard to stay one step ahead of the law. And now, in a sense, this is happening in real life."
The typed letter noted that the killings started Oct. 2, just before the latest Hannibal movie, "Red Dragon," opened in theaters nationwide.
"I've been wondering if this is a psychopathic person, if he has locked into this Hannibal character and is playing his role?" mused Berkowitz, who said he has never seen any Hannibal movies.
Prison officials confirmed the authenticity of the letter, which Berkowitz wrote to a Fox reporter hours after receiving a letter from her. It bears Berkowitz's distinctive signature and a return address of Sullivan Correctional Facility, where he is serving six 25 years-to-life sentences.
The letter marked the first time Berkowitz has spoken publicly since he was denied parole - at his own request - in July. During his parole hearing, Berkowitz said he was a "soldier of the devil" when he killed six New Yorkers.
Taunting the police
Like the Beltway Sniper, Berkowitz teased investigators with messages to cops during his shooting spree.
Now balding and soft-spoken, the former Yonkers postal worker says he found God in prison and has been a model inmate for 13 years. He comes up for parole again in 2004.
The sniper letter is curious because Berkowitz dismisses as "practically useless" the criminal profilers who have tried to draw a bead on the Beltway Sniper. He also warns he has no real insight into what is driving the sniper. "I'm sure everyone in America has his or her own theories," he wrote.
But Berkowitz then claimed he has an uncanny feeling that the sniper is driven by hatred for cops. He said the victims are merely props in the shooter's hunt for recognition and notoriety.
Even a quarter-century after his outburst of deadly violence, Berkowitz said he still bears a particularly heavy burden over the sniper shootings. "My heart is heavy over the loss of innocent lives," he wrote. "I have been praying for those who are now suffering the loss of a loved one."
Lecter Lecture
Excerpts of letter sent by Son of Sam killer
David Berkowitz to Fox News:
Since these shootings began my life has become very difficult. But with the Lord's help I am enduring and making it through. ...
For me, of course, it is as if I am reliving a nightmare. The past — my past — is so painful for me to deal with. ...
[F]or more than a week now I feel that I have been feeling this person's anger and rage towards law enforcement. ...
I felt this person has a tremendous rage against the FBI (or anyone of the various law enforcement organizations that are in this area), and maybe towards the U.S. government in general.
I have been trying to figure out when the latest Hannibal movie (the Red Dragon) opened at the box offices in relation to the time the shootings began. ... [i]f you think about it, the Hannibal series is about a killer who is always trying to outsmart the FBI." ...I've been wondering that, if this is a psychopathic person, if he has locked into this Hannibal character and is playing his role? Personally I have no interest in the Hannibal stuff. I have never read any of the books or watched the films.
God bless you.
Sincerely
David Berkowitz
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i dont think i'd take any skilled help from a man who said a dog forced him to shoot teenagers either.

ditto...it was a nice read

Personally, I found that to be the dumbest thing I read all day.

How could he be idolizing the character "Hannibal" when he is shooting people from great distances and then running away.

I don't think he hates cops. I think he is more enjoying the feeling of power over so many people and so many lives. He did, after all, send a tarot card to the cops with the words "Dear cops, I am God" on it....

Your opinion is just as dumb in my opinion Hee hee...keep your damn panties on! I think your both right...you and the other nut case. I would also like to add that I think on top of it all....the guy is probably just a mental idiot who got tired of eat'n his lousey boogers all day and decided to act on all the bullshit talk he did on DF......it could happen...You guys are pretty sick bastards.

Oh God Damnit. Who let her back in?