{"id":29107,"date":"2026-05-26T21:06:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T21:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=29107"},"modified":"2026-05-26T21:06:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T21:06:59","slug":"can-a-notorious-serial-killer-go-to-heaven-he-says-yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=29107","title":{"rendered":"Can a Notorious Serial Killer Go to Heaven? He Says &#8216;Yes&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Can a serial killer who committed heinous crimes go to Heaven? That question was raised again recently when the notorious Son of Sam, David Berkowitz, who committed a series of murders in New York City in 1977, recently waived an appeal for parole, saying his home is in Heaven.<\/p>\n<p><em>CBN News\u00a0<\/em>covered the controversy with Billy Hallowell and Tre&#8217; Goins-Phillips on\u00a0<em>Newsmakers\u00a0<\/em>last week, which you can listen to here.<\/p>\n<p>For more on the subject,\u00a0<em>CBN CEO\u00a0<\/em>Gordon Robertson interviewed pastor and author David Capparelli, who spent more than 100 hours with David Berkowitz which was distilled into a book called\u00a0<em>Monster Mirror.\u00a0<\/em>You can see the story and interview below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can a serial killer who committed heinous crimes go to Heaven? That question was raised again recently when the notorious Son of Sam, David Berkowitz, who committed a series of murders in New York City in 1977, recently waived an appeal for parole, saying his home is in Heaven. CBN News\u00a0covered the controversy with Billy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[283,9497,9618,7170],"class_list":["post-29107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jesus","tag-heaven","tag-killer","tag-notorious","tag-serial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}