The story was originally posted on August 11, 2017. It was updated on August 2, 2025.
Shaina Glasman knows that her family does not want her to write and go with her David BerkovitzNotorious “Sam’s son” serial killer. “My family said to me,” Shaina – don’t chase it, “he said.
And she definitely knows how her deceased father will feel. “A relative said to me,” Your father will be so mad at you, “said Shaina Glasman.
But more than anything, he is aware of pain that he is the “type of Berkovitz.”
“I would have been his main goal,” he told CBS News in 2017. “I am a young, attractive long -haired woman and I am the daughter of the person she thought she is a devil. Some deep psychological thing is happening between us.”
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Nevertheless, none of these Shaina prevents Glasmann from writing and leaving a prisoner in New York in the maximum security jail. They have been disorganized for nearly 50 years to shoot and kill six new yorkers and Injure up seven other people The city was terrorized in a deadly competition in 1976 and 1977.
Shaina Glasman explained, “I needed to deepen something.” “This is my way to be with my father. This was the story that he left me.”
In 1977, Shayana’s father, Craig Glasman, lived in 35 Pine Street at Yonkar in 6E. His straight above was the neighbor Berkovitz, then a young postal worker.
Craig Glassman was a nursing student and a volunteer deputy sheriff with the Westchester County Sheriff Office. He often wore his police uniforms, which is why Shaina Glasman believed that Berkovitz focused on him and came to hate him.
The entire story of Craig Glassman was told in 1990 in an out-off-print book titled “Off the Wall”. A part of the cause of the title is the writing police found on the walls of Berkovitz’s apartment, some of which have mentioned “Craig”. “Sam’s son” also mentioned “Craig” to the police when he wrote: “Because Craig is Craig, the roads should be filled with craig (death).”
It was back in the summer of ’77 – which is locally known as Sam’s summer – when Craig Glasmans received threatened letters. He was written in the script and was not the same as the printed letters of Berkovitz sent to the police and New York Daily News columnist Jimmy Breslin.
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“One of them had a picture of a volcano,” said Shaina Glasman. All letters were taken by New York City Police after Berkovitz was arrested.
At that time, Craig Glasman did not know who was sending the letter, but he suspected Berkovitz as he often heard the neighboring pacing above and once got an angry call to shut down his television.
The most serious incident occurred on August 6, 1977, when someone left a bucket full of gunpowder and .22 caliber bullets outside the door of Craig Glasman and set it on fire. “Father heard the flames and thought that there was a fire in the building,” said Shaina Glasman. “He called the neighbors who called the fire department.”
The bullets never burst, but Craig Glasman filed a complaint of harassment against Berkovitz and said Shaina Glasman. He told friends on the strength that he felt that his madman could be the “son of Sam”. Of course, that year many people felt that they knew that he could be a killer; The police were submerged with tips and leads.
A few days later, NYPD detectives appeared in 35 Pine Street and asked a shocking Craig Glasman’s if he was David Berkovitz. It was pre-internet, pre-fasbook era. The police had obtained the name and address of Berkovitz from a parking ticket in the previous shooting scene, but they did not know what he looked.
“Dad said,” I can show you who he is, “Shaina Glassman remembered. “He was sitting with him, waiting for Berkovitz to come out and when he did, my father took out his gun and said,” Freeze – put your hands up. ” He rode with him in a car with Berkovitz and he said, “You are Craig Glasman.”
When the Craig Glassman was promoting his book in 1990, he died and left a suitcase behind, which he left a suitcase with information collected on “Sam’s son”. Shaina Glasman was only 4 years old, but she says that she always took a keen interest in the killer.
“This is my way to be with my father,” he told CBS News. “One thing he left me was this story.”
In December 2016, Shaina Glasman started writing to Berkovitz and eventually shown to meet her dilapidated. She was allowed to enter, when she went to one seat two feet away from him, she introduced herself. “He said that ‘Shaina is great to see you,” he said. “I am sorry to hear about your father.” ,
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She spoke for more than two hours, she said, and, since then, she went to meet her three times. He even bought a manual typewriter to write a letter to him “because I wanted to get into her mind.”
Asked if anything was romantic among them, Shaina Glasman said, “I am not sure what word to use to describe our relationship. There is no romance, but it is romantic because I was reporting a book about her from eighth grade. He was always part of my consciousness.”
She said that she is going through some difficult times and depression and thinks of Berkovitz what she could do when she was only 24 years old.
Berkovitz, he said, is working well after decades in captivity: “He is still a human and he is happy. He has a lot of humor. Yes, he killed people, it is not to be taken lightly, but the deepest depth is always a light that can be presented.”
