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Son of Sam or David Berkowitz was a mistake. He was the product of an affair between his mother and a married man. His father, Joseph Kleinman refused to pay child support and demanded that his mother give up. Before David was even born he was up for adoption. His new parents were Nat and Pearl Berkowitz, a childless couple who devoted their lives to their new son. He had a normal childhood in the Bronx with no clear warning sign for what he had become. Perhaps the most significant factor in his life was that he was a loner. His parents were very socially active either though. After Pearl’s death, David began to deteriorate. His grade average nose-dived. His faith in god was shaken. He began to imagine that her death was a part of some plan to destroy him. In 1971, Nat married a woman that didn’t like David at all. The couple moved to a Florida retirement community without him. Absent of a purpose or a goal, Dav