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Killer Tape

By Molasses Manifesto

26 episodes

Episodes

  1. Sep 29, 2023 · Episode 4
    Bonus

    4: S01B04 JACK'S INTERVIEW NOTES

    Bill and Jack look over Jack's handwritten notes taken at the time of his month's long interview with Berkowitz.

  2. Sep 29, 2023 · Episode 3
    Bonus

    3: S01B03 LETTERS WITH BERKOWITZ PART II

    Bill and Jack examine letters Berkowitz and Jack exchanged after the interview concluded.

  3. Sep 29, 2023 · Episode 2
    Bonus

    2: S01B02 LETTERS WITH BERKOWITZ PART I

    Bill and Jack examine letters Berkowitz mailed Jack asking him to come to the prison and interview him in his official capacity as a reporter.

  4. Sep 29, 2023 · Episode 1
    Bonus

    1: S01B01 THE SON OF SAM LAW

    Bill and Jack look over a collection of documents put together in order to pass the "Son of Sam Law", which Berkowitz asked Jack to get him a copy of.

  5. Sep 29, 2023 · Episode 21

    21: S01E21: A UNIQUE GROUP OF MONSTERS

    As David Berkowitz joins a short list of infamous killers, a movie is being made on his life, a movie, he fears, will encourage others to do what he did.

  6. Sep 29, 2023 · Episode 20

    20: S01E20: IN THE END, EVERYONE SELLS THEIR STORY

    David struggles with the way in which those close to him deal with the attention afforded them due to their association with him, namely his birth mother, Betty Falco.

  7. Sep 29, 2023 · Episode 19

    19: S01E19: GIVING UP THE SON OF SAM

    Adjusting to life in prison, David Berkowitz’s conscious weighs heavy as he looks for someone to tell his story to.

  8. Sep 29, 2023 · Episode 18

    18: S01E18: THE DOCTORS & THE DEMONS

    Ahead of court proceedings, David Berkowitz tells a group of psychologists a very bizarre story about a 6,000 year old demon named “Sam” who ordered him to kill through a talking…

  9. Sep 29, 2023 · Episode 17

    17: S01E17: WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG?

    As a result of a string of near misses and circuitous events, David Berkowitz is arrested.

  10. Sep 29, 2023 · Episode 16

    16: S01E16: A CURIOSITY ABOUT DEATH

    As press coverage reaches a boiling point, David watches the funeral of one his victims on television, exposing a lifelong curiosity about death.

  11. Sep 29, 2023 · Episode 15

    15: S01E15: TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN

    David Berkowitz taunts police and press alike through a series of deranged letters dubbing himself, “The Son of Sam”.

  12. Sep 29, 2023 · Episode 14

    14: S01E14: BECOMING SON OF SAM

    Not being arrested as quickly as he suspected, David Berkowitz decides he’s going to need a story.

  13. Sep 29, 2023 · Episode 13

    13: S01E13: LOCAL HERO, DAVID BERKOWITZ

    The duality of Berkowitz explored, David patrols New York City with homemade emergency rescue equipment hoping to be a hero, while at the same time, looking for a woman to kill.

  14. Sep 29, 2023 · Episode 12

    12: S01E12: THE .44 CALIBER KILLER

    New York City press begins to put together the idea that the recent string of attacks terrorizing the city, may be connected, dubbing the assailant the “.44 Caliber Killer”.

  15. Sep 29, 2023 · Episode 11

    11: S01E11: FAILING AT EVERYTHING

    After murdering a young woman named Donna Lauria, David Berkowitz second attempt to take a women’s life is “unsuccessful”, sending him into a tailspin.

  16. Sep 29, 2023 · Episode 10

    10: S01E10: TAXI DRIVER

    On a trip to visit an old Army buddy in Texas, David Berkowitz sees the film that will change his life forever, picking up the gun featured in the film, the very next morning…

  17. Sep 29, 2023 · Episode 9

    9: S01E09: THE DEADLY TOWER

    As David’s destructive nature continues to turn outward, he looks for a killer to model himself after, and believing his has found one, embarks on his first attempt to murder a…

  18. Sep 29, 2023 · Episode 8

    8: S01E08: THE SEARCH FOR BETTY FALCO

    David Berkowitz launches a heroic effort to locate his birth mother, the encounter with whom, does not go according to plan.

  19. Sep 29, 2023 · Episode 7

    7: S01E07: WHO LET THE DOGS OUT?

    Back in the Bronx following an honorable discharge from the Army, David Berkowitz shakily attempts to settle into civilian life when he finds out his birth mother, Betty Falco…

  20. Sep 29, 2023 · Episode 6

    6: S01E06: GOD, GUNS & GIRLS

    David Berkowitz joins the military, and picks up, along the way, the fundamental tenements of what, would eventually become the “Son of Sam Story”.

  21. Sep 29, 2023 · Episode 5

    5: S01E05: GOODBYE SWEETHEART, HELLO VIETNAM

    A high school age David Berkowitz begins to attempt to navigate the world of dating.

  22. Sep 29, 2023 · Episode 4

    4: S01E04: BERKOWITZ & SON

    Pearl Berkowitz, David Berkowitz’s adoptive mother, and the only person to whom he is close, receives a terminal cancer diagnosis just as David is about to enter high school.

  23. Sep 29, 2023 · Episode 3

    3: S01E03: PHANTOM OF THE BRONX

    David Berkowitz terrorizes his adoptive mother, Pearl Berkowitz, amidst a secretive, one boy attempt to burn down The Bronx in an arson spree that would become legendary.

  24. Sep 29, 2023 · Episode 2

    2: S01E02: THE ADOPTION

    As the interview begins, David divulges the interworking of his nuclear family, as well as the news of the adoption that will serve to derail his fragile psyche.

  25. Sep 29, 2023 · Episode 1

    1: S01E01: MEETING THE SON OF SAM

    Investigative reporter Jack Jones is summoned to Attica Prison to conduct an interview by, and with, the world’s most infamous killer.

  26. Sep 29, 2023
    Trailer

    Killer Tape Season One Trailer

    Killer Tape is a biographical true crime podcast where killers, and hard core criminals, tell their own story, in their own words. In season one, David Berkowitz, AKA The Son of…