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Ricardo "Richard" Muñoz Ramírez (born February 29, 1960^[1]^{[citation needed]} in El Paso, Texas) is a convicted American serial killer awaiting execution on California's death row at San Quentin State Prison. Prior to his capture, Ramírez was dubbed the "Night Stalker" by the news media as he terrorized California. Image File history File links Broom_icon. ... Image File history File links Question_book-3. ... Richard Ramirez is an American noise artist from Houston, Texas, recording and performing both as a solo artist and as part of several groups, including Black Leather Jesus, Priest in Shit, and the static noise solo project Werewolf Jerusalem. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Police mug shot of Richard Ramirez File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... February 29 is a day added into a leap year of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... El Paso redirects here. ... Capital punishment, or the death penalty, is the execution of a convicted criminal by the state as punishment for crimes known as capital crimes or capital offences. ... A serial killer is defined as a person who murders three or more people, in three or more separate events over a period of time. ... is the 179th day of the year (180th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year. ... is the 236th day of the year (237th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year. ... For other uses of terms redirecting here, see US (disambiguation), USA (disambiguation), and United States (disambiguation) Motto In God We Trust(since 1956) (From Many, One; Latin, traditional) Anthem The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington, D.C. Largest city New York City National language English (de facto)1 Demonym American... This article is about the U.S. state. ... is the 242nd day of the year (243rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year. ... February 29 is a day added into a leap year of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... El Paso redirects here. ... Serial killers are individuals who have a history of multiple slayings of victims who were usually unknown to them beforehand. ... Death Penalty World Map Color Key: Blue: Abolished for all crimes Green: Abolished for crimes not committed in exceptional circumstances (such as crimes committed in time of war) Orange: Abolished in Practice Red: Legal Form of Punishment Execution of a soldier of the 8th Infantry at Prescott, Arizona, 1877 Execution... This article is about the U.S. state. ... For information about the Record company see Death Row Records For information about the computer game see Deathrow (game) Death Row is a term that refers to the section of a prison that houses individuals awaiting execution. ... The sprawling San Quentin prison complex. ... News media satellite up-link trucks and photojournalists gathered outside the Prudential Financial headquarters in Newark, New Jersey in August, 2004 following the announcement of evidence of a terrorist threat to it and to buildings in New York City. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ...

Early life and influences

Richard Ramirez was born the youngest of five children to a working class Catholic Mexican-American family. Friends described him as a loner, even in childhood.

A big influence on Richard Ramírez's later murder spree was his cousin, Mike, a Special Forces Vietnam War veteran.^[2] Mike fascinated Ramírez with polaroids of Vietnamese women whom he boasted of killing and torturing.^[2] The two spent time smoking pot and driving around and, according to Ramirez, during that time Mike taught him to shoot and cut people for "maximum effect".^[2]. For other uses, see Special forces (disambiguation). ... Combatants Republic of Vietnam United States Republic of Korea Thailand Australia New Zealand The Philippines National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam Democratic Republic of Vietnam Peopleâ€™s Republic of China Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea Strength US 1,000,000 South Korea 300,000 Australia 48,000...

It was after the murder of Mike's wife that Richard (the epileptic youngest child^{[citation needed]} in a family of three boys and two girls) started skipping school. He began using marijuana and sniffing glue by the eighth grade. He soon took to stealing to support his drug use. He went to Theodore Roosevelt High School in Boyle Heights, though dropped out in the 9th grade; he was arrested twice during that period for drug possession.^[3] Cannabis, also known as marijuana[1] or ganja (Hindi: à¤—à¤¾à¤‚à¤œà¤¾),[2] is a psychoactive product of the plant Cannabis sativa. ...

He thereafter lived the life of a slacker, smoking marijuana and living on convenience store junk food, according to UPI reporters Aurelio Rojas and K. Mack Sisk. His diet was so rich in sugar, but his life so neglectful, that his teeth eventually started to rot, which made his breath foul and offensive. This halitosis fit in with the demonic personality he was intentionally cultivating.^{[citation needed]} His habitual pot-smoking led to several arrests for possession as well as a misdemeanor theft charge. In California he was twice arrested for auto theft, in Pasadena in 1981 and Los Angeles in 1984.

Michael D. Harris, reporting for UPI, wrote that years later Ramírez' father would maintain that Richard was a "good boy" whose marijuana consumption "put him out of control." Richard often drew the five-point pentagram, a symbol sometimes associated with Satanism, on his own body, and at his trial he would shout "Hail Satan!" in open court. He was a big fan of rock bands who sang about Satanism. A pentagram A pentagram (sometimes known as a pentalpha or pentangle or, more formally, as a star pentagon) is the shape of a five-pointed star drawn with five straight strokes. ...

Victims

Jennie Vincow

On June 28, 1984, following a night of shooting cocaine, Ramirez removed a screen and entered the window of 79-year-old Jennie Vincow, of Glassell Park, Los Angeles.^[4] Vincow's son, Jack, discovered her body the next afternoon. She was sprawled out on the bed, stabbed repeatedly, her throat slashed so savagely she was nearly decapitated. The intruder also ransacked her apartment and helped himself to her valuables. Fingerprints were recovered from the window screen, and the autopsy revealed signs of sexual assault.^[5] is the 179th day of the year (180th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year. ... Cocaine is a crystalline tropane alkaloid that is obtained from the leaves of the coca plant. ... Glassell Park is a neighborhood district in northeastern Los Angeles, California. ...

Maria Hernandez and Dale Okazaki

Ramirez stayed under the radar for ten months. Then, on March 17, 1985, 22-year-old Maria Hernandez was accosted as she stepped from her car in the garage of the condominium that she shared with a roommate, Dale Okazaki, age 34, in Rosemead, a middle-class town north-east of Los Angeles. Hernandez described the man who assaulted her as tall and dressed entirely in black, with a baseball cap pulled low over his brow. He was holding a gun. Ramirez stepped forward and shot at her face as she raised her hands in self-defense. The bullet hit Hernandez in the hand, having been deflected by her keys. She fell to the ground and Ramirez pushed her aside and entered the condominium. Hernandez lay still until sometime later. She heard the door closing, whereupon she opened the garage door and went outside. As she approached the front door of the condominium, Ramirez was leaving. She ducked down behind a car as Ramirez raised the gun at her. She asked him not to shoot her again and he lowered the gun and ran away.^[5] is the 76th day of the year (77th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year. ... This article is about the form of housing. ... Location of Rosemead in California Coordinates: Country United States of America State California County Los Angeles Incorporated (city) 1959-08-04 [2] Government - Mayor John Tran[1] Area - City 5. ... Los Angeles and L.A. redirect here. ...

Hernandez entered the condominium through the front door, which was ajar. She found Okazaki lying dead on the kitchen floor. She had been shot through the forehead from a short distance. Her blouse had been pulled up. Hernandez then summoned the police. At a subsequent autopsy, a .22-caliber bullet was retrieved from Okazaki's skull.^[5]

On the ground outside, police found a blue baseball-style cap with the name AC/DC on the front. At trial, a witness testified that the cap looked like one Ramirez wore. Hernandez identified Ramirez as her attacker at a police lineup and later at trial.^[5] This article is about the band. ... A police lineup (in American English) or identity parade (in British English) is a process by which a crime victim or witnesss putative identification of a suspect is confirmed to a level that can count as evidence at trial. ...

Tsia-Lian Yu

Around four days after the assault of Maria Sophia Hernandez and the murder of Dale Okazaki, a car driven by Tsia-Lian Yu was forced to a stop by a car driven by a man later identified as Ramirez, near Monterey Park. Ramirez approached the car and pulled Yu out of her car.^[5] Location of Monterey Park in Los Angeles County, California Coordinates: , State County Government - Mayor David Lau - City council Sharon Martinez (Vice Mayor) Benjamin Frank Venti Mitchell Ing Anthony Wong Area - City 19. ...

Joseph Duenas stepped out onto the balcony of his second-floor apartment after hearing a woman screaming for help. Duenas went inside and called the police, then stepped back onto the balcony. Duenas observed the scene as the man pushed Yu away, got into her car and drove away. As Ramirez drove, he passed a car containing Jorge Gallegos and his girlfriend. Gallegos saw the driver’s profile and noted the number of the license plate of the car. Both men later testified at trial.^[5]

Yu crawled a short way and lay still. Arriving police found Yu breathing but unconscious. Yu stopped breathing and CPR was administered until the ambulance arrived. Yu was pronounced dead at the Lake House Inn. The autopsy revealed that she had been shot twice in the chest at close range. The .22-caliber bullet recovered from Yu's body was fired by the same gun as the one that killed Dale Okazaki.^[5] CPR redirects here. ...

Vincent and Maxine Zazzara

Ramirez's next victims were found a few days later, on the morning of March 27, 1985. Vincent Zazzara, age 64, was a retired investment counselor who operated his own pizzeria. He was found dead that morning by his son Peter, who had come to visit. Peter rang the bell several times, but no one answered, so he let himself in. His father's body was on the sofa in the den, shot through the left temple. He appeared to have died instantly. Vincent's wife and Peter's mother Maxine Zazzara, age 44, was found stretched out in her bed, face up and naked. Her eyes had been gouged out and she had been stabbed repeatedly around the face, neck, abdomen, and groin. There was a large T-shaped knife wound in her left breast. An autopsy later revealed that, like her husband, she had first been shot in the head and probably died instantly, with the stabbing and mutilation done when she was already dead. The house had been ransacked and burglarized. is the 86th day of the year (87th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year. ... Pepperoni is one of the most popular toppings on American pizzas. ...

William and Lillian Doi

On April 15, two weeks after the murders of Vincent and Maxine Zazzara, Richard Ramirez returned to Monterey Park and broke into the home of William and Lillian Doi, ages 66 and 63 respectively, waking them from their sleep. Ramirez first Mr. Doi right above the upper lip, causing the bullet to go through his tongue and become lodged in his throat. Then Ramirez beat him into unconsciousness. After doing this he went into Mrs. Doi's room, slapped her, and warned her not to scream, saying "Shut up or I'll kill you bitch." He bound her hands behind her back with thumb cuffs to keep her still as he searched the house. After he found what he wanted, he returned to the bedroom and raped Mrs. Doi. is the 105th day of the year (106th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...

Mr. Doi, however, was not dead. Despite his severe head wound, he managed to crawl to Mrs. Doi's room where he dialed 911. He was unable to tell the dispatcher what the problem was, but the call was traced and an ambulance and patrol car were dispatched to the Doi's address. William Doi was rushed to the hospital but died in the ambulance. Lillian Doi was treated for her injuries and was able to give the police a description of the couple's attacker. This article is about the emergency telephone number. ... An ambulance in San Jose del Cabo, Mexico A Helicopter used as an Ambulance. ...

Malvia Keller and Blanche Wolfe

The attacks continued, throwing the city of Los Angeles into a state of panic. One police official referred to the killer-rapist as the "Valley Intruder". Several area newspapers dubbed him the "Midnight Stalker". But Ramirez was just getting started. In the spring of 1985, the frequency of his killing escalated, and by that summer reached its peak.

On May 29, Malvia Keller, 83, and her invalid sister, Blanche Wolfe, 80, were found in Keller's Monrovia home. Both women had been beaten so severely with a hammer that when the police found it, the handle was split. Wolfe had a puncture wound above one ear. An inverted pentagram with the tip pointing down had been drawn in lipstick on Keller's inner thigh. A second pentagram was found on the bedroom wall over Wolfe's body. Ramirez had raped Keller, the older sister. Police experts estimated that the sisters had been there about two days after the attack before being discovered. Doctors were able to revive Wolfe, but Keller died soon afterwards. is the 149th day of the year (150th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Monrovia is a city located in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains in the San Gabriel Valley of Los Angeles County, California, United States. ... A pentagram A pentagram (sometimes known as a pentalpha or pentangle or, more formally, as a star pentagon) is the shape of a five-pointed star drawn with five straight strokes. ...

Ruth Wilson

The next Ramirez victim would come two weeks later. On May 30, Ruth Wilson, 41, was awakened in the middle of the night by a flashlight shining in her face. Ramirez had silently broken into her Burbank home and was holding a gun to her head. He ordered her to get out of bed and go to her 12-year-old son's room. Ramirez put the gun to the child's head, warning Wilson not to make a sound. He then handcuffed the boy and locked him in a closet. is the 150th day of the year (151st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Burbank is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. ...

Assuming that he was only a burglar, she offered to give Ramirez her most valuable possession, a gold-and-diamond necklace. She led him to the dresser in her bedroom where she kept it, hoping it would placate him. After rummaging through the house, however, he ordered her to put her hands together behind her back, tying them with pantyhose. He then pushed her onto the bed and raped her. She told Ramirez that he must have had a "very unhappy life" to have done this to her. He reportedly told her that she looked "pretty good" for her age and said he was going to let her live although he had killed many others. When she complained that the pantyhose around her wrists were cutting off her circulation, he loosened them and brought her a robe before releasing her son from the closet and handcuffing them side by side. He left them there and departed. Sheer pantyhose Pantyhose (also called tights) are sheer, close fitting coverings of the body from the waist to the feet, almost exclusively worn by women. ...

Afterward, the boy was able to get to a phone and call 911. When the police asked Wilson to describe her attacker, she told them that he was a tall Hispanic man with long dark hair.

Mary Louise Cannon

Five days later, on July 2, the body of 75-year-old Mary Louise Cannon was found in her Arcadia home. Like Patty Higgins, she had been beaten and her throat slit. The house had been ransacked. is the 183rd day of the year (184th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...

Whitney Bennett

On July 5, Ramirez returned to Arcadia and savagely beat 16-year-old Whitney Bennett, a junior at La Cañada High School, with a tire iron. Identified in some later accounts under the pseudonym "Deidre Palmer", Bennett required 478 stitches but survived her injuries. According to Philip Carlo's 1996 biography, Bennett later married Mike Salerno, the son of LAPD Sergeant Frank Salerno, the lead detective in both the Night Stalker case as well as the case of the Hillside Stranglers, after meeting the younger Salerno while waiting to testify at trial. is the 186th day of the year (187th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... La CaÃ±ada High School is a four year comprehensive high school located in La CaÃ±ada Flintridge, California. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... LAPD and L.A.P.D. redirect here. ... Alternate meaning Hillside Strangler (Illinois) The Hillside Strangler is the media epithet for two men Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono, cousins who were convicted of kidnapping, raping, torturing, and killing girls and women ranging in age from twelve to twenty-eight years old during a four-month period from late...

Joyce Lucille Nelson

Two days later, on July 7, the body of Joyce Lucille Nelson was found in her home in Monterey Park. The 61-year-old had been beaten to death with a blunt object. is the 188th day of the year (189th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...

Sophie Dickman

Later that same night in Monterey Park, Sophie Dickman, a 63-year-old registered nurse, was awakened at around 3:30 a.m. by a "tall, skinny man dressed in black". The man, who fit the description of the "Night Stalker", was pointing a gun at her. He ordered her out of bed and into the bathroom, warning her to be quiet. After ransacking the house, he returned to her, forcing her back onto her bed. He attempted to rape and sodomize her but could not maintain an erection. He was frustrated and humiliated, and she was sure he would kill her. He screamed at her furiously, but then gathered up the valuables he wanted and left. She was astounded that he had spared her life.

Max and Lela Kneiding

Less than two weeks later, on July 20, Ramirez chose a new location in the Los Angeles area, Glendale. He also brought along a new weapon; a machete. High school sweethearts Max Kneiding and his wife Lela, both 66, had been following the crimes in the news. Although all the windows and doors were locked, the killer cut a screen on the French doors, reached in and unlocked them. Ramirez scanned the house and went to the bedroom. He turned on the lights and kicked the bed and said "Rise and shine, (expletive)". The machete came down on Max's neck and then at Lela, but missed. Ramirez figured the new weapon was not going to kill fast enough so he pulled out his .22 pistol. He pulled the trigger but the gun jammed. As the victims begged for their lives, Ramirez cleared the gun and shot them to death. Then, he horrifically mutilated them after death with the machete. The house was ransacked. Ramirez had a police scanner with him and fled the scene when a "shots fired" call came over the radio.^{[citation needed]} is the 201st day of the year (202nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Nickname: Location of Glendale within Los Angeles County and the State of California. ... modern factory-made Machete For other uses, see Machete (disambiguation). ...

Christopher and Virginia Petersen

On August 6, Ramirez targeted another couple, Christopher and Virginia Petersen, ages 38 and 27. Following his pattern, Ramirez broke into the Petersen's Northridge home through a sliding glass door, which led to the living room. Before he entered their bedroom, he cocked his .25 automatic pistol. Virginia was a light sleeper and awoke to this metallic "click". Ramirez advanced towards her with both hands on the gun. She yelled at him and he told her to shut up as he shot Virginia under the left eye. The bullet went through the roof of her mouth and down her throat; exiting out the back of her neck. Chris awoke and in the initial confusion thought it was some kind of game. He looked at his wife's face and was shot by Ramirez in the right temple. The ammunition in the gun was old and the gunpowder had lost its potency, so the bullet could not pierce Chris's skull. He jumped up and attacked Ramirez only to be shot at two more times. Both shots missed. As they wrestled, Chris was flung over the killer's back and onto the floor. Ramirez fled out of the house the same way he gained entry. Chris and Virginia survived the brutal attack. is the 218th day of the year (219th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Northridge is a neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley region of the City of Los Angeles, California. ...

Elyas and Sakina Abowath

Two nights after the attack on the Petersens, Ramirez lashed out again, this time in Diamond Bar. Elyas Abowath, 35, was shot in the head and killed while he slept. With Elyas dead, Ramirez molested Elyas Abowath's wife, Sakina, 29. He raped her, sodomized her, and forced her to perform oral sex on him. Experts who profiled him believe that this was the way he preferred to attack, by killing any men and raping the women. Diamond Bar is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. ...

Peter and Barbara Pan

Los Angeles County was in a state of disarray; the Night Stalker's crimes were becoming more frequent. The off-periods between his crimes were shortening, and his severity was escalating. There was little doubt that he would strike again. But as it turned out, Ramirez decided to abandon his familiar territory. After the attack on the Abowaths, he headed north. Los Angeles County is a county in California and is by far the most populous county in the United States. ...

On August 18, 1985, Peter and Barbara Pan were found in their blood-soaked bed in Lake Merced, a housing development in San Francisco. Both had been shot in the head. Mr. Pan, a 66-year-old accountant, was pronounced dead at the scene. Mrs. Pan, 64, survived but would be an invalid for the rest of her life. Scrawled on the wall in lipstick were an inverted pentagram and the words "Jack the Knife", which is from a song called "The Ripper" by the heavy-metal band, Judas Priest. Local police determined that the killer had come in through an open window. Fearing that Los Angeles's Night Stalker had moved to their precinct, homicide investigators sent a bullet removed from Mr. Pan to a forensic team in Los Angeles. The bullet matched others recovered from two of the Los Angeles County crime scenes. is the 230th day of the year (231st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year. ... San Francisco redirects here. ... Accountant, or Qualified Accountant, or Professional Accountant, is a certified accountancy and financial expert in the jurisdiction of many countries. ... For other uses, see Judas priest (curse). ... A crime scene is a location where an illegal act took place such as molestation, rape or illegal turnip smoking, and comprises the area from which most of the physical evidence is retrieved by [[forensics|forensic scientists] for example the reknowned criminal investigator and skilled forensic scientist, who is unfortunately...

Panic spread through the city of San Francisco. To quell fears, Mayor Dianne Feinstein talked publicly about the hunt for the Night Stalker, but in so doing angered detectives by giving away too many details of his crimes which, they felt, impeded their investigation. They did not want a repeat of the situation Los Angeles had just gone through. Fifteen unanswered attacks, including fourteen murders and five rapes, had been committed by a very elusive perpetrator. Dianne Goldman Berman Feinstein (born June 22, 1933) is the senior U.S. Senator from California, having held office as a senator since 1992. ...

But the San Francisco police caught a break when the manager of the Bristol Hotel in the Tenderloin district came forward and claimed that a young man who fit the Night Stalker's description had stayed at his establishment from time to time over the past year and a half. The manager remembered that the man had rotten teeth and smelled bad. The police checked the room he had last stayed in. On the bathroom door they found a drawn pentagram. The man had checked out during the day on August 17. Mr. and Mrs. Pan had been attacked that night. This article is about the San Francisco neighborhood. ... is the 229th day of the year (230th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...

Investigators then located a man from El Sobrante (east of San Francisco) who said he had purchased some jewelery—a diamond ring and a pair of cufflinks—from a young man who fit the Night Stalker's description. Further investigation revealed that these items had belonged to Mr. Pan.

William Carns and his fiancée

On August 24, while the police in San Francisco were scrambling to find the mysterious young man with rotten teeth, the Night Stalker had found another couple whom he planned to make his victims. However, this couple was not in the Bay Area, but in Mission Viejo, 50 miles south of Los Angeles. Bay Area redirects here. ... â€œMission Viejoâ€ redirects here. ...

Bill Carns and his 29-year-old fiancée had just drifted off to sleep when they were suddenly awakened by loud gunshots in the room. Instinctively, she reached out to her fiancé, but he had already been seriously wounded. Before she realized what was happening, the intruder grabbed her by the hair and pulled her into another bedroom where he tied her ankles and wrists with neckties. The man then asked her if she knew who he was, admitting that he was the killer who was getting all the coverage in the press and on television. He rummaged through the house, looking for valuables, but there was nothing small enough to steal easily. Angry that the couple had so little, he returned to her and raped her twice. For the grappling position, see double collar tie. ...

Afraid of what he might do next, she told him to look in a drawer where she knew her fiancé kept some money. "Swear to Satan", he told her. She did what he wanted and swore to Satan that she was telling the truth. Ramirez found the money, and as he counted it, he allegedly mocked her, telling her that this was what she was worth. She hoped that this was the end of it, that he would leave now that he had the money. But he was not through with her. "Swear your love for Satan", he demanded. Afraid of what he might do next, she did as he asked. "I love Satan", she mumbled. He ordered her to say it again and again. He yanked her by the hair and made her kneel, then forced her to perform oral sex on him. When he was finished, he stepped back and stared at her. Still bound by the neckties, she was certain that he was going to shoot her just as he had shot her fiancé. However, Ramirez suddenly laughed at her and fled. She quickly worked herself free of the neckties and immediately called 911. This article is about the concept of Satan. ...

Pursuit and capture

Earlier that night, a teenager who had been working on his motorcycle in his parents' garage had noticed an orange Toyota driving into the neighborhood, and he noticed it again as it was leaving. It struck him as suspicious, so he wrote down the license plate number. The next morning, he called the police about the car. With the plate number, the police were able to determine that the 1976 orange Toyota had been stolen in Los Angeles's Chinatown while the owner was dining at a restaurant. An alert was put out for the car, and two days later it was located in the Rampart section of Los Angeles. The police kept the car under surveillance for nearly 24 hours in the hope that the Night Stalker would return for it, but he did not. A forensics team scoured the car for evidence and came up with one good fingerprint which they sent to Sacramento for analysis. Hours later the computer had found a match. The print belonged to Ricardo "Richard" Leyva Ramirez. Further analysis revealed that this print matched a print taken from a window sill at the Pans' house near San Francisco. At long last the police knew who their suspect was. Now they had to find him before he struck again. This article is about the automaker. ... Rampart is a police patrol area of the City of Los Angeles, California, United States. ... Sacramento redirects here. ...

On August 31, Ramirez arrived in the downtown Greyhound bus station in Los Angeles, after coming back from his brother's home in Tucson, Arizona. As Ramirez was leaving the bus station, he noticed that the area was flooded with cops, but managed to slip away unnoticed, unaware that he was identified as the Night Stalker. As he walked into a corner store, the owners noticed his face from the mugshots, and one of them shouted out "El Asesino" ("The Killer"). Ramirez turned to the side, saw the newspaper rack with his face on several front covers, grabbed La Opinión, and ran. is the 243rd day of the year (244th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the US bus line. ... Tucson (pronounced ) is the seat of Pima County, Arizona, United States, located 118 miles (188 km) southeast of Phoenix and 60 miles (98 km) north of the U.S.-Mexico border. ... La OpiniÃ³n is a Spanish language daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California and distributed throughout the six counties of Southern California. ...

Ramirez would run two miles in 12 minutes, heading east from downtown Los Angeles. Ramirez then tried to steal Faustino Pinon's red Ford Mustang. Ramirez, who was wearing a black Jack Daniel's t-shirt, had been hopping fences between yards, searching for a car he could steal easily. He had been chased off the property next door to Pinon's home and wound up in Pinon's yard. Ramirez saw that the Ford Mustang parked in the driveway was unlocked and the keys were in the ignition. He jumped in and started the engine, but had not noticed that the car's owner was underneath it, working on the transmission. As soon as Pinon, 56, heard the engine starting, he rolled out from under the car. Angry that someone was touching his prized possession, Pinon reached through the window and grabbed Ramirez around the neck. Ramirez warned Pinon that he had a gun, but Pinon ignored him. Ramirez put the car into gear and tried to drive away, but Pinon would not let go of him. The car crashed into a fence, then into the garage. For other Ford Mustang models and concepts, see Ford Mustang Variants. ... For the running coach, see Jack Daniels (coach). ... â€œGearboxâ€ redirects here. ...

Pinon got the door open, pulled Ramirez out, and threw him to the ground. Ramirez scrambled to his feet and ran across the street just as 28-year-old Angelina de la Torres was getting into her Ford Granada. He ran up to her car and stuck his head through the driver's window, demanding that she give him the keys, threatening in Spanish to kill her if she did not. She screamed for help, and her husband Manuel, 32, came running from the backyard. According to Nancy Skelton in the Los Angeles Times, he grabbed a length of metal fence post as he passed through the gate along the side of the house. In the meantime, Jose Burgoin, who had heard the struggle in Faustino Pinon's driveway, had called the police. He ran outside to help Pinon, and when he heard Angelina scream, he called to his sons (Jaime, 21, and Julio, 17) for assistance. As the brothers ran to help Mrs. De la Torres, they saw the stranger scrambling across the front seat of her car. Jaime recognized him from photographs in the newspapers and on television and yelled that this was the killer, and the men made a mad dash to catch him. Ramirez ran, but Manuel de la Torres caught up with him and hit him across the neck with the metal post he was still carrying. It has been suggested that this article be split into multiple articles accessible from a disambiguation page. ... This just IN !!!:paris hiltons new dog. ...

Ramirez kept running, but de la Torres followed, hitting him repeatedly from behind. Jaime Burgoin caught up with Ramirez and punched him. Ramirez stumbled and fell but quickly got up and continued running with de la Torres and the Burgoin brothers on his heels. Then, unexpectedly, Ramirez stopped and faced them. His eyes flashed as he laughed and stuck out his tongue at them. They lunged at him, and the chase continued. Finally, de la Torres swung hard and hit Ramirez on the head. The Night Stalker collapsed to the ground. Jaime and Jose Burgoin closed in on him to keep him down until the police arrived.

One day after Ramirez's face was made public, the Night Stalker was in custody and behind bars. Upon his arrest, Ramirez, 25, was charged with 14 murders and 31 other felonies related to his 1985 spree. He was also charged with a 15th murder in San Francisco and rape and attempted murder charges in Orange County. Cities in Orange County Orange County is a county in Southern California, United States. ...

Trial and conviction

Jury selection for the case started on July 22, 1988, and on September 20, 1989, Ramirez was found guilty of 13 counts of murder, 5 attempted murders, 11 sexual assaults, and 14 burglaries.^[6] During the penalty phase of the trial on November 7, 1989, he was sentenced to die in California's gas chamber. The trial of Richard Ramírez was one of the most difficult and longest criminal trials in American history. Nearly 1,600 prospective jurors were interviewed. More than one hundred witnesses testified, and while a number of witnesses had a difficult time recalling certain facts four years after the crimes, others were quite certain of the identity of Ramírez. This article can be confusing for some readers, and needs to be edited for clarity. ... is the 203rd day of the year (204th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar). ... is the 263rd day of the year (264th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar). ... is the 311th day of the year (312th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar). ... For other uses, see Gas chamber (disambiguation). ...

On August 3, 1988, the Los Angeles Times reported that some jail employees overheard Ramírez planning to shoot the prosecutor with a gun, which Ramírez intended to have smuggled into the courtroom.^[7] Consequently, a metal detector was installed outside of the courtroom 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 to the courtroom. Later that day she was found shot dead in her apartment. The jury was terrified; they could not help but wonder if Ramírez had somehow directed this event from inside his prison cell, and if he could reach other jury members. However, Ramírez was not responsible for Singletary's death; she had been shot and killed by her boyfriend, who later killed himself with the same weapon in a hotel. The alternative juror who replaced Singletary was too frightened to return to her home. is the 215th day of the year (216th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar). ... is the 226th day of the year (227th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...

By the time of the trial, Ramírez had fans who were writing him letters and paying him visits. Freelance magazine editor Doreen Lioy has written him nearly 75 letters since his 1985 incarceration. In 1988 he proposed to her, and on October 3, 1996, they were married in California's San Quentin State Prison. Lioy has stated that she will commit suicide when Ramírez is executed. is the 276th day of the year (277th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ... The sprawling San Quentin prison complex. ... For other uses, see Suicide (disambiguation). ...

Appeals

On August 7, 2006 his first round of state appeals ended unsuccessfully when the California Supreme Court upheld his convictions and death sentence.^[8]^[5] On September 7, 2006, the California Supreme Court denied his request for a rehearing.^[9] is the 219th day of the year (220th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Justices of the Supreme Court of California (circa May 2005). ... is the 250th day of the year (251st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Quotes

"I don't believe in the hypocritical, moralistic dogma of this so-called civilized society."

"You don't understand me, you are not expected to, you are not capable of it. I am beyond your experience. I am beyond good and evil."

"I love to kill people. I love to watch them die. I would shoot them in the head and they would wiggle and squirm all over the place, and then just stop. Or I would cut them with a knife and watch their faces turn real white. I love all that blood."

"Serial killers do, on a small scale, what governments do on a large one. They are products of our times and these are bloodthirsty times."

"Big deal... Death always comes with the territory. I'll see you in Disneyland." (before being sent to death-row)

References

^ Texas Birth Index, "Richaro Ramirez, born 28 Feb 1960 El Paso County, parents Julian Ramirez, Mercedes Munoz"
^ ^a ^b ^c Interview with Richard Ramirez, the Night Stalker. philipcarlo.com. Access date: 2 November 2007.
^ True Crime: Serial Killers. Time-Life Books Publishing. 1992. ISBN 0-7835-0000-9
^ Carlo, Philip. ‘’The Night Stalker.’’ Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp. 1996.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h People v. Ramirez, 39 Cal. 4th 398. California Supreme Court, 27 September 2006. Access date: 2 November 2007.
^ "Ramirez Guilty on All Night Stalker Murder Charges", Los Angeles Times, September 21, 1989. Retrieved on 2007-09-17.
^ "Night Stalker Prosecutor Tells of Death Threat", Los Angeles Times, August 3, 1988. Retrieved on 2007-09-17.
^ Supreme Court minutes, Monday, August 7, 2006 San Francisco, California
^ Supreme Court minutes, Wednesday, September 27, 2006 San Francisco, California

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