The Night Stalker
What acts could an obsession with Satanism provoke a man to commit? Considering Richard Ramirez’s past of drug abuse, his views on reality and the world were twisted. Consumed by the sense of freedom and power that Satanism provided, he believed Satan would protect him from the consequences of his actions. With little schooling completed, Richard would come to realize that he didn’t have many options besides enlisting in the military. Lacking the self-discipline and readiness to conform to authority, he left Texas at 22 and found a home on the West Coast. Richard Ramirez would begin a life of crime that would lead to murder.
Richard Ramirez did not start out as a killer, his first crime committed was a simple burglary and theft. But, on April 10, 1984, Ramirez would see nine-year-old Mei Leung in their apartment building searching for a lost item. Ramirez would then beat Leung inches from death, raped her, and would ultimately murder the nine-year-old. Ramirez would hang the lifeless body from the water pipe in the
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Vincow was asleep in her Los Angeles home on the night of June 28, 1984, when Ramirez would sneak through her window, she’d left open. Ramirez then found Vincow and repeatedly stabbed her before slicing her throat. Throughout most of the attack, Vincow had been screaming, yet not even one of her neighbors would call the police. After cleaning up some of the blood splatter from the attack, Ramirez would ransack the house and steal what he thought was valuable. Vincows body wouldn’t be found until later that day when her son came to visit, but there was no sign or trace of who her killer was. After taking a nine-month break from killing, Ramirez would strike again, favoring a .22 caliber handgun over a knife like during the first murders. At the end of his run, Ramirez killed 13 people, and had sexually assaulted 11
Ricardo Leyva Muñoz Ramirez, born February 29, 1960, in El Paso, Texas, was one of America's most notorious serial killers, rapists and burglars. Murdering 13 people in California from 1984 to 1985. Ramirez was convicted and sentenced to death but died on June 7, 2013, in Greenbrae, California, while in prison. Born and raised in El Paso, Texas, Ramirez was the youngest child of five siblings. Ramirez was born into a large family and spent most of his childhood with his cousins.
Richard Ramirez, an American man with high gratitude in determination of being a powerful criminal mastermind. Richard Leyva Munoz Ramirez was born on February 29, 1960 in El Paso, Texas. He was an averagely tall man at 6’1 with a mother and father along with one sister and three brothers. His mother’s name was Mercedes Ramirez and his father’s name was Julian Ramirez. Richard’s father had a violent temper and would often beat Richard.
The first time, he shot two women, Donna Lauria and Jody Valenti. It resulted in Donna’s death. Three months after his first killing, David Berkowitz shot at a couple sitting in a parked car. In that same year in November, David attacked two teenage girls who were on their way home. He severely injured one of the girls leaving her paralyzed from the spine down.
Throughout the trials leading up to his death sentence, Ramirez threw every satanic insult, curse of some sort, or confession he could think of at the courtroom members except for his cult of course. In prison, Ramirez got married and had many admirers visiting him every chance they got. He was basically a superstar for them. On June 7th, 2013 Richard Ramirez died of lymphoma in the hospital waiting on the state of California’s death sentence. So many other people were waiting in prison before him that he waited twenty-four years before dying and still waiting on his death
The 79-year-old victim was sexually assaulted, stabbed and murdered in her own home. In just one year Ramirez had murdered over a dozen people and tortured of 25 people. After many delays, in 1989, Richard Ramirez, age 29, was sentenced to the conviction of 13 murders, five attempted murders, 11 sexual assaults and 14 burglaries. Ramirez was sentenced to die in California’s gas chamber. His remarks to this were “Big deal.
In March of 1988, he met Richard Guerrero, who was twenty-three years old. After having oral sex with Richard, he laced his drink with sleeping pills, which made him involuntarily intoxicated and strangled him to death. Anthony Sears, who had become Dahmer’s next victim approximately one year and one day after his last killing, strangled to death before dismemberment. Jeffrey castrated Anthony Sears and kept his genitals as trophies, he then painted the skull gray. His next victim, who later identified as Raymond Smith, also strangled to death.
In the years of 1968 and 1969, The Zodiac Killer committed two separate attacks of two young couples within a seven month period. The first crime happened on December 20th, 1968, in Vallejo, California, where seventeen-year-old David Faraday and sixteen-year-old Betty Lou Jensen were shot to death near their car by Lake Herman. The crime had no motive behind the killing leaving police without a suspect. No further details could be made until his first letter came months later.
Arrested in 1973, he was later convicted in 2003 of murdering at least 71 people and sentenced to 128 years imprisonment. Committing his first killing the age of 14 began a series of burglaries and carried out a murdering spree against local drug dealers, in revenge for his girlfriend being killed by criminals while he was in prison. By the age of 18 years old he had killed 10 people. While imprisoned, the man slaughtered his own father who was also serving time for murder. Remarkably
Richard Trenton Chase was a male American serial killer, born on May 23, 1950. He was born in Santa Clara, California. During his adolescence he showed various signs of being a psychopath, and he had troubling years in his social life as well as in his household. He grew up with both parents, but his household was very abusive, he was often in the middle of discussions between his parents. In high school he attempted to be in a relationship but he was sexually impotent, as a result he distanced himself and became an outsider.
A couple of years later, in 1991, an Austrian, Johann Unterweger, traveled to LA and where would he stay? The Hotel Cecil of course. supposedly, he chose it in honor of Ramirez. Throughout the five week stay at the hotel he reported to have brought three prostitutes back to his room, where he raped and murdered
Richard Ramirez also known as The Night Stalker was a serial rapist, and also a Satan worshiper. He stalked people and broke into their homes while they were sleep and had a plan how to kill them based off their gender. Ramirez was a conflicted individual whose actions lead to extreme heartbreak for numerous families. Richard was a Mexican-American who was born on February 29, 1960 in El Paso, Texas. He had five siblings and was the youngest of them all.
Victims of serial killers that survived Richard Specks 1966 murder spree lasted approximately six hours. After pushing his way into the Chicago home of female student nurses, he methodically robbed, raped, beat, strangled, and stabbed eight of them. The only survivor was Corazon Amurao who had opened the front door to him that unfortunate night. She hid under a bed and played dead. Speck later said he lost count of the women during the carnage because of his intoxication.
Ramirez, dubbed the Night Stalker, was an American serial killer. Although his criminal history was merely two years long, he brutally raped, tortured more than twenty women. He also killed more than a dozen women, most of which were killed in their own homes. It is also
Dubbed the Valley Intruder or Night Stalker, Ricardo Leyva Munoz Ramirez famously known as Richard Ramirez, struck fear through the bones of many during his serial killing spree in the mid-eighties. Ramirez killed at least fourteen people in his spree while raping and torturing many more. His criminal beginnings turned to violence in June of 1984 with his first known slaying of 79-year-old Jennie Vincow. Vincow was sexually assaulted, stabbed and ultimately killed in her home. Authorities had not yet caught Ramirez after this brutal homicide, therefore he was free to continue his spree on countless more helpless victims.
2. The East Area Rapist is believed to have committed at least 12 murders and 51 rapes and a host of other crimes that terrorized California in the 1970s and 1980s (Egel, 2018). He broke in, tied up, raped, bludgeoned, and shot his victims. On multiple occasions, he piled dishes on the individual in the home who he was not going to sexually assault (husband, mother) and instructed them not to move or he would kill them both.