I don't think Ditko's beliefs would have allowed him to commit murder. Now maybe if he came across a murder or violent assault in progress he wouldn't mind killing the perp, but then again what a creator has his characters do and what he himself does are often two different things. For instance, John Wayne won the war on screen but so far as I know he never served in real life.
Steve Ditko is out there but I don't think he would ever do something like that.
Well, obviously Steve Ditko wasn't Son of Sam, since they CAUGHT the guy, all I heard was he was a Son of Sam
suspect.To be honest, I'm quite surprised that this was the only time Ditko was suspected of being a serial killer. I remember Gary Groth of the Comics Journal describing how he had had a disagreement with Ditko in the course of an interview, and Ditko had countered angrily by opening a large trunk filled to the brim with Ayn Rand books, more Ayn Rand books than Groth even suspected existed. "It was the single scariest moment in my life", he wrote.
Then again, the very fact that it sounds "likely" that he might be a serial killer may be evidence that he isn't. Don't the neighbors always say "he was such a nice man?" For my money, the only two comics professionals that are most likely to be serial killers are Paul Levitz, Tom Peyer, and Kurt Busiek.
Although it would be darkly hilarious if Chuck Austen, pushed to the edge by bad reviews, decided to murder one by one all of his critics in ironic ways, like in that Vincent Price movie.