David Berkowitcz
Born as the child of an illicit affair, Berkowitz's mother gave him up to avoid losing the affection of the married man she was having an affair with., Joseph Klineman. Pearl and Nathan Berkowitz, a couple living in the Bronx, adopted the child. His mother died when he was 14, and his childhood with the woman his father remarried was troubled, which likely contributed to his serial killings later in life.
Kristin Davis
After her parents divorced when she was only a baby, her fate was left up to her mother. Eventually, she was adopted by her stepfather, Keith Davis, who was a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder at the time. Her mother, Dorothy, met him when she was working as a university data analyst in 1968. She and her three step-siblings later moved with the family to South Carolina for her stepfather's work.