Gemini: The Lie They Were Born Into

Signs of Danger: A True Crime Astrology Podcast · May 25, 2026 · 34m

Pearl Berkowitz told her adopted son that his birth mother had died giving him life. He believed it. He carried the guilt of a woman who had, as far as he knew, sacrificed everything for his existence. He was thirteen when he said "I hate you, I hope you die" to his adoptive mother — the last words he ever spoke to her before she died of breast cancer. He was twenty-one when he found his birth mother alive. She hadn't died. She had signed him away because he was illegitimate, because his father hadn't wanted him.

The lie Pearl told was not a small deception. It was the story he had built his…