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David BULLOCK
Classification:
Spree killer
Characteristics: Asked for a motive, he told the court, "It's
fun"
Number of victims: 6 +
Date of murders: December 1981-January 1982
Date
of arrest: January
1982
Date of birth:
November 13,
1960
Victims profile: James Weber,
42 / Edwina Atkins /
Stephen Hassell, 29 / Michael Winley / Heriberto Morales, 50 / Eric Fuller,
28
Method of murder:
Shooting
(.38 revolver)
Location: New York City, New York, USA
Status: Pled guilty to six counts
of second-degree murder. Sentenced to
six terms of 25 years to life in prison on October 26, 1982
Born in New York City on November 13, 1960, Bullock
had a history of trouble with the law that dated from his adolescent
years.
In February 1977, he was arrested in Monroe, New York,
on charges of criminal mischief and petty larceny. Five months later, in
Manhattan, he pled guilty to attempted grand larceny and was committed
to a home for delinquent youths, receiving a conditional discharge in
November.
A burglary arrest in January 1978 led to his adjudication as a
youthful offender in Goshen, New York. Over the next three years,
Bullock logged adult arrests for robbery and grand larceny, drifting
into the seamy underworld of male prostitution.
Between December 1981 and January 1982, he killed at
least six times, without apparent provocation from his victims.
Number one was 42-year-old James Weber, an actor shot
to death in Central Park the evening of December 4. Nine days later,
Bullock told prostitute Edwina Atkins about the murder and she "laughed
in (his) face," refusing to believe the story. After sex, Bullock
covered her face with a pillow, shot Atkins in the head and set her
apartment on fire.
On December 15, Bullock used a similar method with
Stephen Hassell, a 29-year-old businessman who took him home for sex. As
Bullock told detectives, there was "no particular reason" for
Hassell's murder; it was "something to amuse myself."
Bullock's fourth victim was roommate Michael Winley,
shot in the head on December 23 and dumped in the Harlem River. (Police
accepted Bullock's version of the crime, despite the fact that Winley's
corpse had never been recovered.) Heriberto Morales, age 50, took
Bullock home after a Christmas party and paid for the mistake with his
life.
According to Bullock, Morales "started messing with the
Christmas tree, telling me how nice the Christmas tree was, so I shot
him." As an afterthought, he also set the place on fire.
Thus far, all of Bullock's victims had been murdered
with a .38 revolver, shot without apparent motive. On the fourth of
January, Bullock needed cash and he was carrying a sawed-off shotgun
when he met 28-year-old Eric Fuller in Mount Morris Park.
Charged with
six counts of murder on January 15, Bullock told detectives that there
might be other victims: he had tried to shoot at least four more, but
might have missed. Without specific details, bodies, or complaints from
living targets, no more charges were appended to the list.
On October 26, 1982, Bullock pled guilty to six counts
of second-degree murder. Asked for a motive, he told the court, "It's
fun." To David Bullock, murder was a kind of sport that "makes
me happy." Facing terms of 25 years to life on each murder count,
he was advised of the judge's intention to mete out a sentence that
"guarantees you never get out of jail as long as you shall live.
Michael Newton - An Encyclopedia of Modern Serial
Killers - Hunting Humans
