Not as close as some people, but the chap who had the room opposite me in my first year at college lived two doors away from Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper.
My great-aunt was a friend of Rosemary LaBianca, who was murdered by the Manson Family.
The younger sister of one of my mom’s friends was killed by Ted Bundy when he was in Utah.
A guy I used to work with stalked and killed a former girlfriend and her 5 year old daughter. He’s on death row in texas right now.
This was about five years ago, wasn’t it? I was visiting my brother in L.A. when that was in the news
Well, Berkowitz claimed that he had gotten into a Satanic murder cult connected with Manson & “The Process”, and while in prison, had come back to faith in the Lord- so if he had been a converted C’tian before it all, he de-converted & then re-converted whew!
My take - he was a psychopathic killer & now he’s a psychopathic liar & blasphemer.
I think the main book about his Satanic-Killer-Cult story is Maury Terry’s THE ULTIMATE EVIL.
One of my husbands was in jail with John Wayne Gacy. And a casual acquaintance of Mark David Chapman. :eek: