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Son of Sam killer wants out of prison

NEW YORK, July 17 (UPI) -- New York's Son of Sam killer, David Berkowitz, has reportedly decided he is ready to leave prison.

At a parole hearing scheduled for Tuesday, Berkowitz's attorney will lay the groundwork for the serial killer to leave Sullivan Correction Facility in two years, the New York Post reports.

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Berkowitz, 53, was sentenced to life in prison for killing six people and wounding seven others during a late 1970s shooting rampage.

Once admitting he wasn't fit to be free, he became a born-again Christian in prison and has been serving as a spiritual adviser, the Post said.

His attorney is expected to tell the parole board that Berkowitz's role as a spiritual adviser to other inmates would have a greater impact if he were working outside the prison.

But that is not what the mother of his last victim, Stacy Moskowitz, thinks.

"He doesn't have to go outside to change people," Neysa Moskowitz told the Post. "I wouldn't let him out. No, not in a million years."

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