“Son of Sam” serial killer David Berkowitz is going to rot in prison for at least another two years, officials said Friday.
Berkowitz (pictured), who turns 61 next month, was denied parole by a two-person panel Tuesday at Sullivan Correctional Facility in upstate Fallsburg.
He was a no-show for the hearing, his seventh since he became eligible for parole in 2002.
In their ruling, Parole Commissioners Milton Johnson and Lisa Elovich said there was a “reasonable possibility” the notorious killer, a born-again Christian, “would not live and remain at liberty without violating the law.”
They noted releasing Berkowitz “would so deprecate the serious nature of the crime as to undermine respect for law,” adding he “terrorized the public and therefore seriously threatened public safety.”
They chastised Berkowitz for not showing up.
“Your decision to waive this parole board hearing did not afford this panel the opportunity to discuss your case,” they said.
Berkowitz fatally shot six people and maimed seven others in a 1976-77 rampage that gripped the city.
Using a .44 caliber revolver, he targeted couples sitting in cars in The Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens.
He wrote letters to columnist Jimmy Breslin, taunting police and detailing his escapades while dubbing himself the “Son of Sam.”
Berkowitz was busted at his Yonkers home on Aug. 10, 1977, after cops found his car had been ticketed near the scene of his last shooting.
The pudgy postal worker claimed his neighbor’s dog, named Sam, had told him to carry out the shootings.
Berkowitz pleaded guilty and was sentenced in June 1978 to life in prison with the possibility of parole.
During his decades of incarceration, Berkowitz has claimed he was part of a Satanic cult that assisted him in the shootings. No one else has ever been charged.
His next parole hearing is scheduled for 2016.