At least many of victims saw beautiful face before they were killed?

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several definitely
 
Yes bro I’m sure the 6 year old little boys and girls he brutally raped & killed were very interested in his beauty
uh what? His beauty is probably the reason why they went with him and did what he asked them to do genius @heightmaxxing
 
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This thread is giga weird he murdered and raped women some were children aswell.
 
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muh muh muh rr muh muh rr muh muh beauty muh muh rr
 
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Yes bro I’m sure the 6 year old little boys and girls he brutally raped & killed were very interested in his beauty
I still don’t understand the ramirez worshippers, just seems like a cesspool of edgy retards lol
 
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uh what? His beauty is probably the reason why they went with him and did what he asked them to do genius @heightmaxxing
Are you retarded (
 
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uh what? His beauty is probably the reason why they went with him and did what he asked them to do genius @heightmaxxing
Maybe kids do trust attractive people more this has been proven in studys. Sad to think he used his godlike beauty to manipulate innocent kids.but most of them probably saw his face
 
Maybe kids do trust attractive people more this has been proven in studys. Sad to think he used his godlike beauty to manipulate innocent kids.but most of them probably saw his face
Yeah it’s the reason he was able to lure the children out of their home and into his car because of his pretty face right? That’s the only reason they could have trusted him . I know he lured a girl out her window into his car
 
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Maybe kids do trust attractive people more this has been proven in studys. Sad to think he used his godlike beauty to manipulate innocent kids.but most of them probably saw his face
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Children would trust Barrett of course @LeonidasGui
 
In shadow's grasp, a twisted thought takes wing,
A chilling praise for a killer's grim offering.
"To see beauty before the final breath,"
Speaks a mind lost, entwined with death.

How can one, in darkness, find a light,
In acts so cruel, in terror's blight?
Such words betray a soul untethered, adrift,
In murky depths, where sanity's a gift.

This notion, wild, that madness wears a grace,
Reveals the chasm where empathy finds no place.
For only through a fractured lens, it seems,
Could one find solace in such haunted dreams.

To romanticize the predator's stare,
Is to dance on graves without a care.
A mind that wanders, lost and unchecked,
In dire need of care, lest worse we expect.

Let us weave sanity from compassion's thread,
And seek to understand, not dread.
For in the labyrinth of the human psyche,
Lies the power to heal, to set such spirits free.
 
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Maybe kids do trust attractive people more this has been proven in studys. Sad to think he used his godlike beauty to manipulate innocent kids.but most of them probably saw his face
Nigga, no kids find this drug addict murderer attractive
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Keep being a retard lol
Again why would you choose a picture of him as a middle aged man and not at the age he was when he was committing the crimes his 20s?
 
Yes bro I’m sure the 6 year old little boys and girls he brutally raped & killed were very interested in his beauty
a sane comment in this mumbai asylum of a post
 
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Again why would you choose a picture of him as a middle aged man and not at the age he was when he was committing the crimes his 20s?
Your defending a child rapist
 
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I’m just calling out his false logic and I never said what he did was ok idiot
Nigger stop worshiping a monster.
Delete that image, he deserves no remeberance
 
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Nigger stop worshiping a monster.
Delete that image, he deserves no remeberance
i don’t understand it doesn’t take away from his positives like his face @heightmaxxing
 
Again why would you choose a picture of him as a middle aged man and not at the age he was when he was committing the crimes his 20s?
Find one, thats just first pic i found
 
i don’t understand it doesn’t take away from his positives like his face @heightmaxxing
His face is nothing special
 
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one of the worst users on here by far
 
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uh what? His beauty is probably the reason why they went with him and did what he asked them to do genius @heightmaxxing
weirdo ass nigga
 
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Your coping? His face clearly is with his beautiful cheekbone projection

Night Stalker crimes​

On June 28, 1984, 79-year-old Jennie Vincow was found murdered in her apartment in Glassell Park, Los Angeles.[31] She had been stabbed repeatedly in the head, neck and chest while asleep in her bed, and her throat slashed so deeply that she was nearly decapitated.[32] Ramirez' fingerprint was found on a mesh screen he removed to gain access through an open window.[33] This, his second known murder, established his pattern of breaking into homes, committing particularly vicious murders and frequently burglarizing his victims either before or after killing them, which was mainly to support his drug addiction and pay his rent.[34][33]

Nine months later, on March 17, 1985, Ramirez attacked 22-year-old Maria Hernandez outside her home in Rosemead, shooting her in the face with a .22 caliber handgun after she pulled into her garage.[35] She survived when the bullet ricocheted off the keys she held in her hands as she lifted them to protect herself.[36] Hernandez played dead until Ramirez left the scene. Inside the house, her roommate, 34-year-old Dayle Yoshie Okazaki, heard the gunshot and ducked behind a counter when she saw Ramirez enter the kitchen.[37] When she raised her head to get a look at what had happened, Ramirez shot Okazaki once in the forehead, killing her instantly.[38] Within an hour of the Rosemead attack, Ramirez pulled 30-year-old Tsai-Lian "Veronica" Yu out of her car in Monterey Park, shot her twice with a .22 caliber handgun and fled.[39] She was pronounced dead upon arrival at the hospital.[40] The two murders, and an attempted third, in a single day attracted extensive coverage from news media, who dubbed the attacker, described as curly-haired with bulging eyes and wide-spaced, rotting teeth, the "Walk-In Killer" and the "Valley Intruder".[41]

One week later, at approximately 2 a.m. on March 27, 1985, Ramirez entered a home that he had burglarized a year earlier just outside of Whittier and killed 64-year-old Vincent Charles Zazzara in his sleep with a gunshot to his head.[42] Zazzara's wife, 44-year-old Maxine Levenia Zazzara, was awakened by the gunshot. Ramirez beat her and bound her hands while demanding to know where her valuables were.[43] While he ransacked the room, Maxine escaped her bonds and retrieved a shotgun from under the bed, which she was unaware was not loaded. She pulled the trigger just after he turned around and saw her.[44] The infuriated Ramirez shot her three times with his handgun, killing her, then fetched a large carving knife from the kitchen.[45] He mutilated her body by cutting an inverted cross into her chest, then removed her eyes and placed them in a jewelry box. He attempted to have sex with her body but found himself so shaken by her attempting to shoot him that he was unable to achieve an erection. He took the jewelry box containing her eyes and kept it at his apartment as a souvenir until his arrest.[45] Ramirez left footprints from a pair of Avia sneakers in the flower beds, which the police photographed and cast. Bullets found at the scene were matched to those found at previous attacks, and the police determined that a serial killer was at large.[46][47]

On May 14, 1985, Ramirez returned to Monterey Park and entered the home of 66-year-old Bill Doi and his disabled wife, 56-year-old Lillian Doi.[48] Surprising Doi in his bedroom, Ramirez shot him in the face with a .22 semi-automatic pistol as Doi went for his own handgun.[49] After beating the mortally wounded man into unconsciousness,[50] Ramirez entered Lillian's bedroom, bound her with thumbcuffs, then raped her after he had ransacked the home for valuables.[51] Bill died of his injuries while in the hospital.[52]

Two weeks later, on May 29, Ramirez drove a stolen car to Monrovia and stopped at the house of Mabel "Ma" Bell, age 83, and her disabled sister, 81-year-old Florence "Nettie" Lang.[53] Finding a hammer in the kitchen,[54] he bludgeoned and bound Lang in her bedroom, then bound and bludgeoned Bell before using an electrical cord to shock the woman.[55] After raping Lang, he used Bell's lipstick to draw the Satanic pentagram symbol on her thigh as well as on the walls of both bedrooms.[55] The women were found two days later, alive but comatose and critically injured. Bell died in the hospital from her injuries on July 15. Lang died in August.[56]

The next day, Ramirez drove the same car to Burbank and sneaked into the home of 42-year-old Carol Kyle.[57] At gunpoint, he bound Kyle and her 11-year-old son with handcuffs before ransacking the house.[58] He released Kyle to direct him to where the family's valuables were; he then raped her repeatedly.[59] Ramirez also repeatedly ordered her not to look at him, telling her at one point that he would "cut her eyes out".[60] He fled the scene after retrieving the child from the closet and binding the two together again with the handcuffs.[61]

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]

Three nights later, Ramirez broke into a home in Sierra Madre and bludgeoned 16-year-old Whitney Bennett with a tire iron as she slept in her bedroom. After searching in vain for a knife in the kitchen, Ramirez tried to strangle the girl with a telephone cord.[63] He stated that he was startled to see electrical sparks emanate from the cord, and when his victim began to breathe he fled the house believing that Jesus Christ had intervened to save her.[64] Bennett survived the attack, although 478 stitches were required to close the lacerations to her scalp.[65]

On July 7, Ramirez burglarized the home of 60-year-old Joyce Lucille Nelson in Monterey Park. Finding her asleep on her living room couch, he beat her to death by stomping on her face repeatedly. A shoe print from an Avia sneaker was left imprinted on her face.[66] After cruising two other neighborhoods, he returned to Monterey Park and chose the home of Sophie Dickman, age 63.[67] Ramirez assaulted and handcuffed Dickman at gunpoint, attempted to rape her and stole her jewelry;[66] when she swore to him that he had taken everything of value, he told her to "swear on Satan".[68]

Two weeks later, on July 20, Ramirez purchased a machete before driving a stolen Toyota to Glendale.[69] He chose the home of 66-year-old Lela Kneiding and her husband, 68-year-old Maxon Kneiding.[70] He burst into the sleeping couple's bedroom and hacked them with the machete,[71] then killed them with shots to the head from a .22 caliber handgun. He further mutilated their bodies with the machete before robbing the house of valuables.[72] After quickly fencing the stolen items, Ramirez drove to Sun Valley, Los Angeles, and broke into the home of the Khovananth family.[73] He shot the sleeping 32-year-old Chainarong Khovananth in the head with a .22 caliber handgun, killing him instantly,[74] then repeatedly raped and beat 32-year-old Somkid Khovananth. He bound the couple's 8-year-old son before dragging Somkid around the house to reveal the location of any valuable items, which he stole.[75] During his assault, he demanded that she "swear to Satan" that she was not hiding any money from him.[76]

On August 6, 1985, Ramirez drove to Northridge and broke into the home of 30-year-old Chris Peterson and Virginia Peterson, age 27.[77][78] He crept into the bedroom, startled Virginia and shot her in the face with a .25 caliber semi-automatic handgun.[79] He then shot Chris in the neck and attempted to flee;[80] Chris fought back while avoiding being hit by two more shots during the struggle before Ramirez managed to escape.[81] The couple survived their injuries.[82]

Two nights later, Ramirez drove a stolen car to Diamond Bar and chose the home of Sakina Abowath, age 27, and her husband 31-year-old Elyas Abowath.[83] Sometime after 2:30 a.m. he entered the house and went into the master bedroom.[84] He instantly killed the sleeping Elyas with a shot to the head from a .25 caliber handgun.[85] He then handcuffed and beat Sakina while forcing her to reveal the locations of the family's jewelry, and then brutally raped her. He repeatedly demanded that she "swear on Satan" that she would not scream during his assaults.[86][87] When the couple's 3-year-old son entered the bedroom, Ramirez tied the child up and then continued to rape Sakina.[88] After he left the house, Sakina untied her son and sent him to the neighbors for help.[89]

Ramirez, who had been closely following news coverage of his crimes, left Los Angeles and headed to San Francisco.[90] On August 18, he entered the home of 66-year-old Peter Pan and 62-year-old Barbara Pan. He shot the sleeping Peter in the temple with a .25 caliber handgun, killing him instantly.[91] He then beat and sexually assaulted Barbara before shooting her in the head and leaving her for dead.[92] At the crime scene, Ramirez used lipstick to scrawl a pentagram and the phrase "Jack the Knife" on the bedroom wall.[92] He again left a shoe print at the scene that detectives discovered and matched to a specific pair of Avia shoes that was not common at the time.

Lead detectives Frank Salerno and Gil Carrillo contacted the manufacturer of the shoes and were able to retrieve the soles.[93] Upon the discovery of the make and distribution across the United States, only six of them existed in the men's size 11-1/2.[94] With five of them shipped to locations in Arizona, and one shipped to a shoe store in Los Angeles, it was evident that the one pair of its size and kind in the state of California then belonged to the perpetrator.[95] When it was discovered that the ballistics and shoe print evidence from the Los Angeles crime scenes matched the Pan crime scene, San Francisco's then-mayor Dianne Feinstein divulged the information, including the gun caliber,[96] in a televised press conference.[97] This leak infuriated detectives,[98] as they knew the killer would be following news coverage, which gave him the opportunity to destroy crucial forensic evidence.[97] Ramirez, who had indeed been watching the press, dropped his sneakers over the side of the Golden Gate Bridge that night.[98] He remained in the area for a few more days before heading back to the Los Angeles area.[98]

On August 24, 1985, Ramirez traveled 76 miles (122 km) south of Los Angeles, in a stolen orange Toyota, to Mission Viejo. That night, he arrived at the home of 45-year-old James Romero Jr., who had just returned from a family vacation to Rosarito Beach in Mexico. Romero's son, 13-year-old James Romero III, happened to be awake. While his family was asleep, James went outside of his house to retrieve a pillow inside a truck, which was locked. When he was outside, he heard a rustling noise. Assuming it was an animal, James went to investigate but did not notice anything out of the ordinary. James then went into his garage to begin working on his minibike before hearing Ramirez' footsteps outside the house. Thinking there was a prowler, James, after observing Ramirez through his bedroom window, went to wake his parents, and Ramirez fled the scene. James raced outside and noted the color, make and style of the car, as well as a partial license plate number. Romero contacted the police with this information, believing James had chased away a thief.[99]

With his attack on the Romero residence aborted, Ramirez broke into the home of 30-year-old Bill Carns and his fiancée, 29-year-old Inez Erickson,[100] through a back door.[101] Ramirez entered the sleeping couple's bedroom and awakened Carns when he cocked his .25 caliber handgun. He shot Carns three times in the head before turning his attention to Erickson. Ramirez identified himself as the "Night Stalker" and forced her to swear she loved Satan as he beat her with his fists and bound her with neckties from the closet.[102] After stealing what he could find, Ramirez dragged Erickson to another room before raping her.[100][103] He then demanded cash and jewelry and made her "swear on Satan" there was no more. Before leaving the home, he told Erickson, "Tell them the Night Stalker was here."[104] Erickson untied herself and went to a neighbor's house for help. Surgeons removed two of the three bullets from Carns's head, and he survived his injuries.[105]

Suspected victims​

On the night of June 27, 1985, 32-year-old Patty Elaine Higgins was murdered in her Arcadia home. The crime was not discovered until July 2, when she failed to show up for work.[106] Her attacker had sodomized her, strangled her and slashed her throat.[107] Ramirez was charged with murder and burglary in relation to Higgins' death. However, these charges were eventually dropped due to a lack of concrete physical evidence linking Higgins to the other murders.[107]

Based on a statement Ramirez made to an investigator, he is also a suspect in the San Francisco double murder of 58-year-old Christina Caldwell and 70-year-old Mary Caldwell. The sisters were found stabbed to death in their Telegraph Hill apartment on February 20, 1985.[108] While incarcerated, Ramirez openly bragged to a prison officer and other inmates about having killed "more than 20 people".[109]

Identification of Ramirez​

Erickson gave a detailed description of her assailant to investigators,[110] and police obtained a cast of Ramirez' footprint from the Romero house.[99] The stolen Toyota was found abandoned on August 28 in Koreatown, Los Angeles, and police obtained a single fingerprint from the rear-view mirror despite Ramirez' careful efforts to wipe the car clean of his prints.[105] The print was positively identified as belonging to Ramirez, who was described by police as a 25-year-old drifter from Texas, with a long rap sheet that included many arrests for traffic and illegal drug violations.[111] The identification of Ramirez's print was described as a "near miracle" as the system used to identify him was recently installed, as well as the fact that the system contained the fingerprints of criminals born after January 1, 1960, only a month before Ramirez was born.[112] On August 29, 1985, law enforcement officials decided to release a mug shot of Ramirez from a 1984 arrest for auto theft to the media.[113] At the police press conference, it was announced: "We know who you are now, and soon everyone else will. There will be no place you can hide."[114]

Capture​

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 his 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]

After noticing a group of elderly Hispanic women fearfully identifying him as "el matador", Ramirez saw his face on the front page of the newspaper La Opinión with a headline calling him "Invasor Nocturno"[117] and fled the store in a panic.[119] After running across the Santa Ana Freeway,[120] he attempted to carjack an unlocked Ford Mustang but was pulled out by angry residents Faustino Pinon and Jose Burgoin.[117] Ramirez ran across the street and attempted to take car keys from Angelina De La Torre. Her husband, Manuel De La Torre, witnessed the attempt and struck Ramirez over the head with a fence post in the pursuit. A group of over ten residents (including Jose Burgoin's sons) formed and chased Ramirez down Hubbard Street in Boyle Heights.[117] They soon restrained Ramirez and relentlessly beat him. At around 8 a.m., police were called over a disturbance in the area with few details with indications of a fight.[117] Police quickly arrived on Hubbard Street and took a severely beaten Ramirez into custody.[117][121]

Trial and conviction​

Richard Ramirez being escorted from court by sheriffs
Jury selection for Ramirez's 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.

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.

On September 20, 1989, Ramirez was convicted of all forty-three charges: thirteen counts of murder, five attempted murders, eleven sexual assaults and fourteen burglaries.[125] During the penalty phase of the trial on November 7, 1989, he was sentenced to death in California's gas chamber.[126] He stated to reporters after the death sentences, "Big deal. Death always went with the territory. See you in Disneyland."[127]

The trial cost $1.8 million, which at the time made it the most expensive murder trial in the history of California until surpassed by the O. J. Simpson case in 1994.[128]

Incarceration and death​

While awaiting trial, Ramirez reportedly met actor Sean Penn. Penn, who was jailed for 33 days in 1987 for reckless driving and assault of an extra on Colors (1988), claimed to receive a letter from Ramirez as a fellow inmate, to which he wrote back telling Ramirez he had no sympathy and hoped he died in the gas chamber.[129]
 

Night Stalker crimes​

On June 28, 1984, 79-year-old Jennie Vincow was found murdered in her apartment in Glassell Park, Los Angeles.[31] She had been stabbed repeatedly in the head, neck and chest while asleep in her bed, and her throat slashed so deeply that she was nearly decapitated.[32] Ramirez' fingerprint was found on a mesh screen he removed to gain access through an open window.[33] This, his second known murder, established his pattern of breaking into homes, committing particularly vicious murders and frequently burglarizing his victims either before or after killing them, which was mainly to support his drug addiction and pay his rent.[34][33]

Nine months later, on March 17, 1985, Ramirez attacked 22-year-old Maria Hernandez outside her home in Rosemead, shooting her in the face with a .22 caliber handgun after she pulled into her garage.[35] She survived when the bullet ricocheted off the keys she held in her hands as she lifted them to protect herself.[36] Hernandez played dead until Ramirez left the scene. Inside the house, her roommate, 34-year-old Dayle Yoshie Okazaki, heard the gunshot and ducked behind a counter when she saw Ramirez enter the kitchen.[37] When she raised her head to get a look at what had happened, Ramirez shot Okazaki once in the forehead, killing her instantly.[38] Within an hour of the Rosemead attack, Ramirez pulled 30-year-old Tsai-Lian "Veronica" Yu out of her car in Monterey Park, shot her twice with a .22 caliber handgun and fled.[39] She was pronounced dead upon arrival at the hospital.[40] The two murders, and an attempted third, in a single day attracted extensive coverage from news media, who dubbed the attacker, described as curly-haired with bulging eyes and wide-spaced, rotting teeth, the "Walk-In Killer" and the "Valley Intruder".[41]

One week later, at approximately 2 a.m. on March 27, 1985, Ramirez entered a home that he had burglarized a year earlier just outside of Whittier and killed 64-year-old Vincent Charles Zazzara in his sleep with a gunshot to his head.[42] Zazzara's wife, 44-year-old Maxine Levenia Zazzara, was awakened by the gunshot. Ramirez beat her and bound her hands while demanding to know where her valuables were.[43] While he ransacked the room, Maxine escaped her bonds and retrieved a shotgun from under the bed, which she was unaware was not loaded. She pulled the trigger just after he turned around and saw her.[44] The infuriated Ramirez shot her three times with his handgun, killing her, then fetched a large carving knife from the kitchen.[45] He mutilated her body by cutting an inverted cross into her chest, then removed her eyes and placed them in a jewelry box. He attempted to have sex with her body but found himself so shaken by her attempting to shoot him that he was unable to achieve an erection. He took the jewelry box containing her eyes and kept it at his apartment as a souvenir until his arrest.[45] Ramirez left footprints from a pair of Avia sneakers in the flower beds, which the police photographed and cast. Bullets found at the scene were matched to those found at previous attacks, and the police determined that a serial killer was at large.[46][47]

On May 14, 1985, Ramirez returned to Monterey Park and entered the home of 66-year-old Bill Doi and his disabled wife, 56-year-old Lillian Doi.[48] Surprising Doi in his bedroom, Ramirez shot him in the face with a .22 semi-automatic pistol as Doi went for his own handgun.[49] After beating the mortally wounded man into unconsciousness,[50] Ramirez entered Lillian's bedroom, bound her with thumbcuffs, then raped her after he had ransacked the home for valuables.[51] Bill died of his injuries while in the hospital.[52]

Two weeks later, on May 29, Ramirez drove a stolen car to Monrovia and stopped at the house of Mabel "Ma" Bell, age 83, and her disabled sister, 81-year-old Florence "Nettie" Lang.[53] Finding a hammer in the kitchen,[54] he bludgeoned and bound Lang in her bedroom, then bound and bludgeoned Bell before using an electrical cord to shock the woman.[55] After raping Lang, he used Bell's lipstick to draw the Satanic pentagram symbol on her thigh as well as on the walls of both bedrooms.[55] The women were found two days later, alive but comatose and critically injured. Bell died in the hospital from her injuries on July 15. Lang died in August.[56]

The next day, Ramirez drove the same car to Burbank and sneaked into the home of 42-year-old Carol Kyle.[57] At gunpoint, he bound Kyle and her 11-year-old son with handcuffs before ransacking the house.[58] He released Kyle to direct him to where the family's valuables were; he then raped her repeatedly.[59] Ramirez also repeatedly ordered her not to look at him, telling her at one point that he would "cut her eyes out".[60] He fled the scene after retrieving the child from the closet and binding the two together again with the handcuffs.[61]

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]

Three nights later, Ramirez broke into a home in Sierra Madre and bludgeoned 16-year-old Whitney Bennett with a tire iron as she slept in her bedroom. After searching in vain for a knife in the kitchen, Ramirez tried to strangle the girl with a telephone cord.[63] He stated that he was startled to see electrical sparks emanate from the cord, and when his victim began to breathe he fled the house believing that Jesus Christ had intervened to save her.[64] Bennett survived the attack, although 478 stitches were required to close the lacerations to her scalp.[65]

On July 7, Ramirez burglarized the home of 60-year-old Joyce Lucille Nelson in Monterey Park. Finding her asleep on her living room couch, he beat her to death by stomping on her face repeatedly. A shoe print from an Avia sneaker was left imprinted on her face.[66] After cruising two other neighborhoods, he returned to Monterey Park and chose the home of Sophie Dickman, age 63.[67] Ramirez assaulted and handcuffed Dickman at gunpoint, attempted to rape her and stole her jewelry;[66] when she swore to him that he had taken everything of value, he told her to "swear on Satan".[68]

Two weeks later, on July 20, Ramirez purchased a machete before driving a stolen Toyota to Glendale.[69] He chose the home of 66-year-old Lela Kneiding and her husband, 68-year-old Maxon Kneiding.[70] He burst into the sleeping couple's bedroom and hacked them with the machete,[71] then killed them with shots to the head from a .22 caliber handgun. He further mutilated their bodies with the machete before robbing the house of valuables.[72] After quickly fencing the stolen items, Ramirez drove to Sun Valley, Los Angeles, and broke into the home of the Khovananth family.[73] He shot the sleeping 32-year-old Chainarong Khovananth in the head with a .22 caliber handgun, killing him instantly,[74] then repeatedly raped and beat 32-year-old Somkid Khovananth. He bound the couple's 8-year-old son before dragging Somkid around the house to reveal the location of any valuable items, which he stole.[75] During his assault, he demanded that she "swear to Satan" that she was not hiding any money from him.[76]

On August 6, 1985, Ramirez drove to Northridge and broke into the home of 30-year-old Chris Peterson and Virginia Peterson, age 27.[77][78] He crept into the bedroom, startled Virginia and shot her in the face with a .25 caliber semi-automatic handgun.[79] He then shot Chris in the neck and attempted to flee;[80] Chris fought back while avoiding being hit by two more shots during the struggle before Ramirez managed to escape.[81] The couple survived their injuries.[82]

Two nights later, Ramirez drove a stolen car to Diamond Bar and chose the home of Sakina Abowath, age 27, and her husband 31-year-old Elyas Abowath.[83] Sometime after 2:30 a.m. he entered the house and went into the master bedroom.[84] He instantly killed the sleeping Elyas with a shot to the head from a .25 caliber handgun.[85] He then handcuffed and beat Sakina while forcing her to reveal the locations of the family's jewelry, and then brutally raped her. He repeatedly demanded that she "swear on Satan" that she would not scream during his assaults.[86][87] When the couple's 3-year-old son entered the bedroom, Ramirez tied the child up and then continued to rape Sakina.[88] After he left the house, Sakina untied her son and sent him to the neighbors for help.[89]

Ramirez, who had been closely following news coverage of his crimes, left Los Angeles and headed to San Francisco.[90] On August 18, he entered the home of 66-year-old Peter Pan and 62-year-old Barbara Pan. He shot the sleeping Peter in the temple with a .25 caliber handgun, killing him instantly.[91] He then beat and sexually assaulted Barbara before shooting her in the head and leaving her for dead.[92] At the crime scene, Ramirez used lipstick to scrawl a pentagram and the phrase "Jack the Knife" on the bedroom wall.[92] He again left a shoe print at the scene that detectives discovered and matched to a specific pair of Avia shoes that was not common at the time.

Lead detectives Frank Salerno and Gil Carrillo contacted the manufacturer of the shoes and were able to retrieve the soles.[93] Upon the discovery of the make and distribution across the United States, only six of them existed in the men's size 11-1/2.[94] With five of them shipped to locations in Arizona, and one shipped to a shoe store in Los Angeles, it was evident that the one pair of its size and kind in the state of California then belonged to the perpetrator.[95] When it was discovered that the ballistics and shoe print evidence from the Los Angeles crime scenes matched the Pan crime scene, San Francisco's then-mayor Dianne Feinstein divulged the information, including the gun caliber,[96] in a televised press conference.[97] This leak infuriated detectives,[98] as they knew the killer would be following news coverage, which gave him the opportunity to destroy crucial forensic evidence.[97] Ramirez, who had indeed been watching the press, dropped his sneakers over the side of the Golden Gate Bridge that night.[98] He remained in the area for a few more days before heading back to the Los Angeles area.[98]

On August 24, 1985, Ramirez traveled 76 miles (122 km) south of Los Angeles, in a stolen orange Toyota, to Mission Viejo. That night, he arrived at the home of 45-year-old James Romero Jr., who had just returned from a family vacation to Rosarito Beach in Mexico. Romero's son, 13-year-old James Romero III, happened to be awake. While his family was asleep, James went outside of his house to retrieve a pillow inside a truck, which was locked. When he was outside, he heard a rustling noise. Assuming it was an animal, James went to investigate but did not notice anything out of the ordinary. James then went into his garage to begin working on his minibike before hearing Ramirez' footsteps outside the house. Thinking there was a prowler, James, after observing Ramirez through his bedroom window, went to wake his parents, and Ramirez fled the scene. James raced outside and noted the color, make and style of the car, as well as a partial license plate number. Romero contacted the police with this information, believing James had chased away a thief.[99]

With his attack on the Romero residence aborted, Ramirez broke into the home of 30-year-old Bill Carns and his fiancée, 29-year-old Inez Erickson,[100] through a back door.[101] Ramirez entered the sleeping couple's bedroom and awakened Carns when he cocked his .25 caliber handgun. He shot Carns three times in the head before turning his attention to Erickson. Ramirez identified himself as the "Night Stalker" and forced her to swear she loved Satan as he beat her with his fists and bound her with neckties from the closet.[102] After stealing what he could find, Ramirez dragged Erickson to another room before raping her.[100][103] He then demanded cash and jewelry and made her "swear on Satan" there was no more. Before leaving the home, he told Erickson, "Tell them the Night Stalker was here."[104] Erickson untied herself and went to a neighbor's house for help. Surgeons removed two of the three bullets from Carns's head, and he survived his injuries.[105]

Suspected victims​

On the night of June 27, 1985, 32-year-old Patty Elaine Higgins was murdered in her Arcadia home. The crime was not discovered until July 2, when she failed to show up for work.[106] Her attacker had sodomized her, strangled her and slashed her throat.[107] Ramirez was charged with murder and burglary in relation to Higgins' death. However, these charges were eventually dropped due to a lack of concrete physical evidence linking Higgins to the other murders.[107]

Based on a statement Ramirez made to an investigator, he is also a suspect in the San Francisco double murder of 58-year-old Christina Caldwell and 70-year-old Mary Caldwell. The sisters were found stabbed to death in their Telegraph Hill apartment on February 20, 1985.[108] While incarcerated, Ramirez openly bragged to a prison officer and other inmates about having killed "more than 20 people".[109]

Identification of Ramirez​

Erickson gave a detailed description of her assailant to investigators,[110] and police obtained a cast of Ramirez' footprint from the Romero house.[99] The stolen Toyota was found abandoned on August 28 in Koreatown, Los Angeles, and police obtained a single fingerprint from the rear-view mirror despite Ramirez' careful efforts to wipe the car clean of his prints.[105] The print was positively identified as belonging to Ramirez, who was described by police as a 25-year-old drifter from Texas, with a long rap sheet that included many arrests for traffic and illegal drug violations.[111] The identification of Ramirez's print was described as a "near miracle" as the system used to identify him was recently installed, as well as the fact that the system contained the fingerprints of criminals born after January 1, 1960, only a month before Ramirez was born.[112] On August 29, 1985, law enforcement officials decided to release a mug shot of Ramirez from a 1984 arrest for auto theft to the media.[113] At the police press conference, it was announced: "We know who you are now, and soon everyone else will. There will be no place you can hide."[114]

Capture​

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 his 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]

After noticing a group of elderly Hispanic women fearfully identifying him as "el matador", Ramirez saw his face on the front page of the newspaper La Opinión with a headline calling him "Invasor Nocturno"[117] and fled the store in a panic.[119] After running across the Santa Ana Freeway,[120] he attempted to carjack an unlocked Ford Mustang but was pulled out by angry residents Faustino Pinon and Jose Burgoin.[117] Ramirez ran across the street and attempted to take car keys from Angelina De La Torre. Her husband, Manuel De La Torre, witnessed the attempt and struck Ramirez over the head with a fence post in the pursuit. A group of over ten residents (including Jose Burgoin's sons) formed and chased Ramirez down Hubbard Street in Boyle Heights.[117] They soon restrained Ramirez and relentlessly beat him. At around 8 a.m., police were called over a disturbance in the area with few details with indications of a fight.[117] Police quickly arrived on Hubbard Street and took a severely beaten Ramirez into custody.[117][121]

Trial and conviction​

Richard Ramirez being escorted from court by sheriffs
Jury selection for Ramirez's 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.

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.

On September 20, 1989, Ramirez was convicted of all forty-three charges: thirteen counts of murder, five attempted murders, eleven sexual assaults and fourteen burglaries.[125] During the penalty phase of the trial on November 7, 1989, he was sentenced to death in California's gas chamber.[126] He stated to reporters after the death sentences, "Big deal. Death always went with the territory. See you in Disneyland."[127]

The trial cost $1.8 million, which at the time made it the most expensive murder trial in the history of California until surpassed by the O. J. Simpson case in 1994.[128]

Incarceration and death​

While awaiting trial, Ramirez reportedly met actor Sean Penn. Penn, who was jailed for 33 days in 1987 for reckless driving and assault of an extra on Colors (1988), claimed to receive a letter from Ramirez as a fellow inmate, to which he wrote back telling Ramirez he had no sympathy and hoped he died in the gas chamber.[129]
? I’m well aware of his crimes ?
 
It’s just stating the truth, how that weird? Others have said same thing
Its different when its saying how ted bundy got away with some stuff then saying "I bet they enjoyed seeing their rapist/killers face whilst they died" the hell is wrong with you
 
Keep dreaming of Ramirez facial structure, maybe you’ll get it in the next life
You are a cringy faggot.
 

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