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- 1960s — Ramirez's Early Life. Richard Ramirez is born on February 29, 1960, in El Paso, to a Mexican immigrant couple. He’s the youngest of five children.
- 1970s — Ramirez's First Crimes. On May 4, Miguel fatally shoots his wife, Jessie, in the face during a fight while Ramirez is present. A few months later Ramirez moves in with his sister, Ruth, and her husband, Roberto.
- 1982 — Ramirez Moves To California. Ramirez relocates to California, where the majority of his crimes occur.
- April 10, 1984 — Ramirez's First Victim. Ramirez’s first known murder happens. Nine-year-old Mei Leung, a Chinese-American girl, is murdered in the basement of the San Francisco hotel where Ramirez was living.
Manhunt: Search for the Night Stalker (1989) is a TV film by Bruce Seth Green, based on the true story of Richard Ramirez and the two Los Angeles police detectives who tried to track him down. The songs "Nightstalker" and "Your Window Is Open" by American death metal band Macabre on their albums Sinister Slaughter (1993) and Carnival of Killers ...
Jan 13, 2021 · Aug. 31, 1985: Police identify stalker suspect. An all-points-bulletin is issued for Richard Ramirez, 25, of Los Angeles, suspected of being the Night Stalker whose rampage of kidnapping, rape and ...
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- His Bloody Murders
- Post-Murderous Snacks
- The Shoe Trail
- Assaults of Children
- Satanic Symbols
- Almost Apprehended
- Dianne Feinstein’s Mistake
- His Childhood
- His Heroes
You probably know how vicious his crimes were — but the true-crime series delves deeply into how bloody and gory they really were. He had a pattern — he killed the man in the house, and sexually assaulted a woman, and always made sure he could see the fear in his victim’s eyes. In the early days of his crimes, he knocked on the car hood of Maria He...
In the docuseries, detective Frank Salerno says, “he got comfortable after killing someone — he would take the time to have a snack. That’s a pretty sick individual.” Indeed, he would help himself to food and drinks in the kitchen after his crime. When he continued his killing spree in San Francisco, Bay Area police said in the docuseries that he k...
One of the only trails investigators had was a shoe print he left in a flower bed in one of his earlier murders. In the process of finding the shoe to match it, investigators found out it was an Avia-brand shoe, an uncommon one at the time. Heading straight to the manufacturer, they looked through spreadsheets where the shoes were distributed in th...
Unfortunately, Ramirez didn’t spare children. Earlier on in his killing spree, there were a series of young children being taken from their beds, assaulted, and then abandoned. One of the 6-year-old survivors would be crucial in identifying Ramirez later on. In some cases, he would sexually assault a kid he came across in the house during a burglar...
It wasn’t until Ramirez left a pentagram, written with lipstick on the wall and on the leg of a victim, that investigators drew the connection to Satanic worship. They were also concerned he was a copy cat of Charles Manson. In the following years, he would leave more of these pentagrams behind, and would also tell his victims to “swear to Satan” i...
Investigators were close to apprehending Ramirez several times. One time, he attempted a kidnapping but it failed, and while he was driving away he committed a traffic violation and a cop saw it happen. While being pulled over, Ramirez heard a broadcast of his kidnapping attempt on the cop’s radio — and drew a pentagram on the hood of his stolen ca...
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. Holding a news conference, she held up a police sketch of the killer, and also went on to describe the evidence from all the cases throughou...
The documentary series also delves into Ramirez’s past and the horrible trauma Ramirez had to face as a child. His dad treated him poorly — he would tie him to a cross in a graveyard overnight as a form of punishment. His cousin killed his wife right in front of him when he was 13 years old. Later, in an interview from jail, he posed the question o...
When Ramirez was finally apprehended, he called Salerno “Mr. Salerno” as a sign of respect, but he also looked up to The Hillside Strangler — a serial killer Salerno had previously apprehended. “He was a student,” Salerno said in the documentary. To persuade him to talk, they put him in the same cell as The Hillside Strangler, and he got excited. H...
May 17, 2023 · Ramirez’s actions on his final night of terror—August 24, 1985, in the Los Angeles area—soon led to his capture. First, he was spotted outside a Mission Viejo home, where he unwittingly left ...
Jan 22, 2021 · How many victims did the Night Stalker attack? The following is a list of Richard Ramirez's victims from the book "Night Stalker" by Clifford L. Linedecker. June 28, 1984 — Jennie Vincow, 79 ...
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2 days ago · When The Night Stalker became, according to Variety, the most viewed made-for-TV movie to date, it led to a sequel about another monster, which in turn gave us a TV show that aired its first ...
