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New York. A demon was among the city. This demon possessed the mind of a twenty-three-year-old pudgy Jewish man. The demon was a six thousand-year-old spirit, which communicated to him through his neighbor, Sam Carr's Labrador retriever. (Reicher 1996) Born Richard David Falco but better known now as the Son of Sam or the .44 Caliber killer had no real sense of identity from birth. The result of an affair between his mother and her married lover he was unwanted even before birth. As soon as he was born adoption papers had been filed. Unlike many children stuck in the system for years, the baby was adopted. Pearl and Nat Berkowitz, a Jewish couple, adopted him and changed his name to David Berkowitz. They loved and cared for David more then he ever felt before; this according to psychologist should have erased all former feelings of being unwanted. When David turned fourteen his adoptive mother died. This tore David up inside. A little over a year after his mothers death his father ...

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notes at his killings, many of them saying he would never be caught and he was an evil demon. Also found in his apartment, they discovered writing all over the walls and floor saying of him being a demon and being imprisoned in his own mind. Psychiatrists believed he was paranoid schizophrenic. Another theory, which contributed to this, was an identity crisis. This was due to his being put up for adoption at birth, his mother dying, father leaving, and never having any real friends. The most common symptoms David had of being a paranoid schizophrenic was the presence of an external force.(Hill 1999) David once wrote his father a letter, which described being hated by all and being cold ...

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