Richard Ramirez Research Paper

Have you ever sat down with an elder to discuss their life story? Do you know anyone that has developed habits because of a traumatic event that has taken place in their lives? Has a relative of yours ever been affected by a historical event? I sat down with my father for about an hour, and I came to find out that his life is a lot more interesting than I thought. My father has a habit of locking everything in the house even if we’re home. He gets extremely upset if we forget to lock something if we leave the house. I had no idea my father was affected by the serial killer Richard Ramirez. This is my father’s story and how he was affected by the “Night Stalker.”

Richard Ramirez, known as the “Night Stalker” was an American serial killer. Ramirez spent over two years of his life sexually assaulting and torturing over 25 victims and killing more than a dozen people. Most of these crimes were committed in the victims California homes. Richard, the son of Mercedes and Julian Ramirez, was born in El Paso, Texas on February 28, 1960. Growing up Richard was a kid that was constantly getting into trouble. A lot of this was due to his older cousin, Mike, who had just returned from fighting in Vietnam. Ramirez’s cousin would tell him gruesome stories and

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. Death always went with the territory. See you in Disneyland.” Twenty-four years after this sentence, Ramirez had been on death row for more than 23 years, Ramirez died from B-cell lymphoma at age 53 on June 7,