The Night Stalker: The Life and Crimes of Richard Ramirez

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a b "Judge Dismisses Murder Count Against Ramirez; 13 Remain". Los Angeles Times. November 24, 1987. Archived from the original on January 22, 2021 . Retrieved January 16, 2021. Yu, a thirty-year-old law student, was tired. She’d been visiting a close childhood friend, June Wang, and they had talked for many hours. She had gone to June’s house in Arcadia at 10 The Valley Intruder: PATTY ELAINE HIGGINS: Arcadia, June 27". Los Angeles Times. August 25, 1985. Archived from the original on January 21, 2021 . Retrieved January 16, 2021. The Hillside Strangler, as it turned out, was actually two cousins, Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi, who’d impersonated policemen and abducted, tortured, sexually abused, and killed ten women whose nude bodies had been left—often in obscene positions—on hillsides scattered around Los Angeles communities. Several of the bodies were found in Glendale, which was where Angelo Buono had a car upholstery shop. It was Frank Salerno who’d found in the first victim’s eyelid a tiny piece of thread that was matched with fabric used to upholster furniture—and so eventually tied Buono to the crimes.

As an adolescent, Ramirez was heavily influenced by his older cousin Miguel, who had recently returned from fighting in the Vietnam War. The two smoked marijuana together as Miguel told Ramirez about the torture and mutilation he had inflicted on several Vietnamese women, corroborating these stories with photographic evidence. At age 13, Ramirez witnessed his cousin kill his wife. Miguel Ramirez was found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity and released four years later. Jury selection for Ramirez' trial began on July 22, 1988. At his first court appearance, he raised a hand with a pentagram drawn on it and yelled, "Hail Satan!" [122] On August 3, 1988, the Los Angeles Times reported that some jail employees overheard Ramirez planning to shoot the prosecutor with a gun, which he intended to have smuggled into the courtroom. [123] Consequently, a metal detector was installed outside and intensive searches were conducted on people entering. Jennie Vincow – The 79-year-old was killed by Ramirez on 27 June, 1984, when he also burgled her home in Glassell Park LA. California's 'Night Stalker' serial killer Richard Ramirez dies after decades on death row". The Washington Post. June 7, 2013. Archived from the original on June 16, 2013 . Retrieved June 8, 2013. Two weeks later, the same jury recommended the death sentence on 19 counts. Leaving the courtroom, Ramirez responded, “Hey, big deal, death always comes with the territory. I’ll see you in Disneyland.” The convicted murderer was formally sentenced to death by gas chamber on November 7, 1989, and was sent to San Quentin Prison in California to spend the remainder of his days. Richard Ramirez's TeethOn April 10, 1984, Ramirez murdered Mei Leung, a nine-year-old Chinese-American girl, in the basement of his apartment building in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco. Leung was with her eight-year-old brother and looking for a lost one-dollar bill when Ramirez approached the girl and told her to follow him into the basement to find it. Once they were in the basement, Ramirez beat, strangled and raped Leung before stabbing her to death with a switchblade, hanging her partially nude body from a pipe by her blouse. [28] The clinical tenacity of Carrillo’s memory of the case prompted Russell to wonder, he said, about “the human story of this – what’s it impact on the people who lived it?” For the cops, surviving victims and family members, he asked, “What’s the human soul toll on them?” I love true crime and serial killers and the first half of this book was OK. Great detail about the individual crimes and the men and women hunting the killer. No, you didn’t. You follow me. Why? What you want? She stared at him with disbelief, her almond-shaped eyes dark and angry above a delicate, lovely jawline. On August 30, 1985, Ramirez took a bus to Tucson, Arizona, to visit his brother, unaware that he had become the lead story in virtually every major newspaper and television news program across California. [115] [116] After failing to meet his brother due to him not being home, [117] he returned to Los Angeles early on the morning of August 31. [118] He walked past police officers, who were staking out the bus terminal in hopes of catching the killer should he attempt to flee on an outbound bus, and into a convenience store in East Los Angeles. [119]

In a book about the Night Stalker, author Philip Carlo claims Richard’s dad was violent towards the children. He himself had been beaten as a child by both his father and grandfather. Despite vowing not to treat his five children the same way, things did turn violent if the children got into trouble. For example Richard’s brother Ruben was arrested for stealing a car, and developing a glue-sniffing habit. His other brother Robert also developed a drug problem. According to Carlo’s book, ‘The Night Stalker: The Life and Crimes of Richard Ramirez’, Richard was scared of his father. During a court appearance, he held up the pentagram and after pleading not guilty, he said, “Hail Satan.” 6. Almost Apprehended Joseph James DeAngelo, a.k.a. the Original Night Stalker, who began his crime spree in California in 1976, and shared a similar moniker to the publicNight Stalker: The Hunt For a Serial Killer is a 2021 documentary released by Netflix featuring first-person interviews, archival footage, newly shot reenactments, and original photography related to the case. [140] When he continued his killing spree in San Francisco, Bay Area police said in the docuseries that he killed an accountant named Peter Pan and raped his wife Barbara, ate everything in the fridge, threw up on the kitchen floor and masturbated on the living room floor — and then wrote a satanic symbol on the wall. 3. The Shoe Trail The definitive account of the notorious California serial killer examines the psychology of a murderer, his crimes, and his cult following

As a result of arrests he’d made, Salerno began to meet with the detectives frequently. They handled all the real crimes, and dealing with them made him want to be one so badly he could taste it. His interview with the killer was equally boring and repetitive. There were whole paragraphs in this book I swear he wrote twice. And why is there no update on the status of The Night Stalkers marriage? Is he still married? Is her family still shunning her? What happened with the female juror who had the hots for him that he confessed his love to? She just dropped out It was really important to me not to fall prey to what I felt like was false mythology,” said Tiller of the phenomenon. “This guy is not the Jim Morrison of serial killers. There’s nothing cool about this.” In Night Stalker, Russell paired the detectives’ recollections with family member testimonies to “deliberately not fall prey to the exploitative or sensationalistic nature of the Ramirez myth, by immersing you in the stories of these people whose lives were massively and dramatically and irrevocably impacted by Ramirez.” Theft turned to violence with Ramirez’s first discovered murder on June 28, 1984; the victim was 79-year-old Jennie Vincow, who was sexually assaulted, stabbed, and killed during a burglary in her home. What followed was a spree of brutal murders, rapes, and robberies, leaving dozens of victims in his wake. On August 14, the trial was interrupted because one of the jurors, Phyllis Singletary, did not arrive at the courtroom. Later that day, she was found shot to death in her apartment. The jury was terrified, wondering if Ramirez had somehow directed this event from inside his prison cell, and whether or not he could reach other jurors. However, it was ultimately determined that Ramirez was not responsible for Singletary's death, as she was shot and killed by her boyfriend, who later committed suicide with the same weapon in a hotel. [124] The alternate juror who replaced Singletary was too frightened to return to her home.

He was certain that Satan, archenemy of Christ, of all things good, was traveling with him, and that Satan would protect him so long as he stayed evil in his heart and showed no mercy. Carlo’s interviews with Ramirez are featured in Netflix’s Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer. Doreen, the trashy, piece of shit broad who married Ramirez, the one who actually touched this mans hands, the same hands that did these awful, awful, awful things, said this, "There's something in his eyes - like a little boy who needs help. He's so sexy."