The Night Stalker: The Life and Crimes of Richard Ramirez

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a b Winton, Richard (June 17, 2013). " 'Night Stalker' Richard Ramirez died of complications from lymphoma". The Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on October 3, 2019 . Retrieved January 5, 2014. Bingo! he called out, and the other detectives and tech people came over. He showed them what he’d found—per—haps the clue that would solve the case. Clara lifted the prints with a special tape and glued the tape to a lifting card. He proceeded to dust the window itself and found two more prints, one usable, the other too smudged to be helpful, but he had found four reasonably good prints that could be used to identify the killer. It would take years for fingerprint experts to manually compare these partials with the millions of prints on file with LAPD. Before they could be of any use to them, a suspect would be needed to compare them to. When he reached adolescence, Ramirez began to meld his burgeoning sexual fantasies with graphic violence, including forced bondage, murder, mutilation and rape. [21] While still in school, he took a job at a local Holiday Inn and used his master key to rob sleeping patrons. [22] On at least one occasion, Ramirez molested two children in an elevator at the hotel, but he was never reported or prosecuted for this act. His employment ended abruptly after Ramirez attempted to rape a woman in her hotel room and was caught in the act by the victim's husband. [23] Although the husband beat Ramirez at the scene, criminal charges were dropped when the couple, who lived out of state, declined to return to Texas to testify against him. [24]

Again, you don't belong here. You obviously have no life - why keep living in limbo? Move on. Please. When Jayne became pregnant, money problems forced Frank to quit school and join his family’s upholstering business. But he found the work boring and repetitious. It was then he spotted a Los Angeles Times ad for a position in the sheriffs office promising good pay, a guaranteed pension, and challenging work. Frank applied and got the job and began his training. Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer is available on Netflix now. For all the latest Netflix news, quizzes, drops and memes like The Holy Church of Netflix on Facebook. Related Night Stalker stories recommended by this writer To many LA cops that summer, there were two men stalking the city at night, one a killer of adults, the other a child rapist. “We had a serial killer responsible for kidnapping children, girls, boys; raping adult women, killing adult women, killing males,” recalled a homicide detective, Gil Carrillo. “We’ve never encountered anybody like that in criminal history.” Carrillo courted ridicule from his colleagues by countering orthodoxy and suggesting the two night stalkers were the same person. “The old timers laughed at me.”Sennen, Mark (February 27, 2014). "Murderous love: Why are so many women aroused by serial killers?". Telegraph. Archived from the original on February 28, 2014 . Retrieved May 13, 2020. The killer had held the gun, Maria said, in a combat position, and he had also tried to shoot Maria in the head—a kill shot. Maybe, Carrillo thought, the guy was a veteran, or someone who had been in law enforcement. 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

Elyas Abowath – Ramirez shot and killed the 31-year-old on 8 August, 1985 in Diamond Bar, California, during a burglary of the family home. American Horror Story: Ramirez is featured in the fifth and ninth seasons of the FX horror anthology series, initially being portrayed by Anthony Ruivivar and then later by Zach Villa. Fascinated by what he’d just done—the blood, her gaping wounds, his omnipotent power—he excited himself for nearly an hour, drinking glass after glass of water, the small, hot, humid room filling with the fetid smell of blood, sweat and death. 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 public Joyce Lucille Nelson -The 61-year-old was beaten to death on 7 July, 1985, by Ramirez, who also burgled her home in Monterey Park.On the night of July 2, 1985, Ramirez drove a stolen car to Arcadia and randomly selected the house of 75-year-old Mary Louise Cannon, a widowed grandmother. [62] After quietly entering Cannon's home, he found her asleep in her bedroom. He bludgeoned her into unconsciousness with a lamp and then stabbed her to death using a 10-inch butcher knife from her kitchen. [62] Ramirez repeatedly stabbed Cannon's body after she was already dead. [62] Ricardo Leyva Muñoz Ramirez [5] was born in El Paso, Texas, on February 29, 1960, to Julián Tapia Ramirez (February 16, 1927 – August 19, 1991) and Mercedes Muñoz Ramirez (April 10, 1927 – April 12, 2016), the youngest of their five children. [6] [7] His father, a Mexican national and former policeman who later became a laborer on the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway, [8] was an alcoholic who was prone to fits of anger that often resulted in physical abuse towards his wife and children. [9] Ramirez began smoking marijuana and drinking alcohol at the age of 10. [10] Netflix’s Night Stalker tells the story of Richard Ramirez’s horrific crimes through the lens of the survivors and victims’ families, and detectives Gil Carrillo and Frank Salerno’s investigation. But the documentary barely touches on why Richard Ramirez committed his crimes in the first place, and what turned him into the monster terrorising the men, women and children of Los Angeles in the 1980s. What was the Night Stalker like in his childhood, who were his parents, and did anything happen in the Night Stalker’s upbringing to make him become a killer?

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. In Mandarin, Veronica’s name was Tsai-Lian Yu. She had had lunch at June’s house, and the two women, with June’s one-and-a-half-year-old son, had gone out for dinner at the Edokyl Restaurant in Pasadena. Veronica, like June, had been born in Taiwan. Both women had immigrated to America seven years earlier and each spoke English with a strong accent. Veronica lived-with her parents in Monterey Park. She was looking forward to a good night’s sleep. 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."

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Montaldo, Charles. "The End of the Night Stalker – Richard Ramirez". About.com. New York City: The New York Times Company. Archived from the original on January 10, 2012 . Retrieved May 21, 2012. As Carrillo drove home that morning, a hot, fiery dawn was beginning to color the sky. He was tired and looked forward to a few hours of rest before he returned to work. Often he went about the business of catching murderers with very little sleep. 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.

Delroy Easton Grant, a serial rapist who operated in London during the 1990s and 2000s, sometimes referred to by the British media as the "Night Stalker" He got on the 10 Freeway and drove for a few exits, got off at Alhambra, and looked for a situation he could exploit. He couldn’t find one, returned to the freeway, and drove over to Glassel Park—a small community inhabited by low-income working people. Its population was 42,000. He drove without directions or map, his dark eyes searching the night, looking for a place where he could get in, get what he wanted, and get out. Botelho, Greg (June 9, 2013). "Serial killer, rapist Richard Ramirez -- known as 'Night Stalker' -- dead at 53". CNN. Atlanta, Georgia. Archived from the original on June 7, 2013 . Retrieved March 29, 2014. A small, reserved woman who’d obviously been crying timidly approached one of the deputies. She said she was Maria Hernandez’s mother and that she wanted to go inside the house to get a few things for her daughter. The officer told her he would have to ask one of the homicide detectives if it was all right. He approached Carrillo and told him Maria’s mom was there and what she wanted. Carrillo was deeply engaged in the investigation and asked the officer to tell Mrs. Hernandez he’d be out as soon as he could to talk with her. Carrillo’s huge frame was silhouetted in the doorway. The deputy returned to Mrs. Hernandez and asked her to please wait. At that point she saw Carrillo for the first time and called out, Gilbert ... Gilbert, is that you? Carrillo stopped what he was doing and walked toward Mrs. Hernandez, taking slow, curious steps, wondering who the hell was calling him Gilbert. He was known as Gil. He approached Mrs. Hernandez. a b c d e f "Night Stalker: Police remember the day 'pure evil' was captured – and how they saved his life". June 11, 2016.When Ramirez killed the accountant Peter Pan in his San Francisco home in 1985, evidence of the crime made it all the way up to then-Mayor Dianne Feinstein, which would be a tipping point in the investigation. The Night Stalker is a 2016 film directed by Megan Griffiths and starring Lou Diamond Phillips as Ramirez. Before any Los Angeles sheriffs deputy was allowed to work a beat, he had to put in at least a year as a guard at the L.A. County Jail. The experience the deputies received at the jail gave them insights into human nature and the criminal mentality which made them better cops. Ramsland, Katharine. "The Night Stalker: Serial Killer Richard Ramirez: The Los Angeles Trial". TruTV. Atlanta, Georgia: Turner Entertainment Networks. Archived from the original on May 31, 2008 . Retrieved May 21, 2012. Doreen thinks it was fate that she moved t L.A. and was there for this. Doreen thinks this is why God kept her a virgin. Doreen says that this was her one goal in life - to meet Richard Ramirez.