Blumhouse Prods. will develop the six-hour mini series, “Son of Sam,” with Fox TV Studios (“The Killing”), reports Deadline.
Written by Steven Katz (“The Knick,” “From the Earth to the Moon”), “Son of Sam” juxtaposes David Richard Berkowitz’s murder confession of Satan worship and human sacrifice with the actual police investigation of December 1975-1977. For almost two years, the jason blumself-proclaimed Son of Sam terrorized New York City, killing six people while eluding a massive manhunt and taunting the police with brazen letters. The spree finally came to an end in August 1977 when Berkowitz was arrested and confessed to the crimes claiming he was possessed by demons. In the 1990s, while serving six life sentences, he recanted part of his original confession, insisting that he was part of of a Satanic cult with fellow members carrying out some of the killings, but those claims were never substantiated.
On screen, the case was the focus of Spike Lee’s 1999 movie Summer of Sam, and the 1985 CBS movie Out of the Darkness.
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