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46: The Son of Sam’s Prison Prophecy: David Berkowitz Predicts a Satanic Halloween Execution | True Crime Sleep Stories
Four years after David Berkowitz was locked away for life, the Son of Sam—chained in an upstate prison—whispered a chilling prophecy to a fellow inmate: “A ritual killing is coming soon near Greenwich Village. They’ll be shot in the head.”
Weeks later, on Halloween 1981, it happened exactly as he foretold.
Photographer Ronald Sisman and 20-year-old Smith College student Elizabeth Platzman were beaten, executed, and left in a ransacked Chelsea apartment. The killers took only two things: Sisman’s .25-caliber pistol, and both victims' IDs… amid rumors they were hunting a snuff film said to show…
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