Richard Ramirez Research Papers

During 1985 the neighborhoods of Los Angeles endured the spine shivering fear of “the night stalker.” Richard Ramirez nearly murdered 25 people during his alarming killing spree. He also viciously sexually assaulted _____ women late at night in their homes. At this time the night stalker had no face just a nickname, it would be 2 years before a face and name could be put on the night stalker. Richard Ramirez was born in El Paso, Texas in 1960 was always a troubled child who looked up to his older cousin Mike, who was a green beret that had recently returned from combat in Vietnam. Mike shared stories about the rape and mutilation he had participated in. Mike was very detailed and even brought Ramirez polaroids to show him. Soon enough Mike’s influence on Ramirez had transformed from conversations about rape to conversations about how to worship Satan. Mike’s negative influence on Ramirez pushed his towards drugs, and intern it distanced himself from his extremely religious Roman Catholic parents. In order to feed his

On June 17, 1985 murdered and raped his first victim Jennie Vincow. An elderly woman who was raped then stabbed to death during a robbery of her personal items in her home. After his first heinous act Ramirez kept under the radar for 9 months before going on a streak of shootings. On March 17, 1985 he attempted to kill Angela Barrios not knowing she lived he also shot her flatmate Dayle Okazaki. Still having the thirst of blood he searched for another victim, Tsai Lian Lu unfortunately was caught in his crosshairs and was shot and killed that same evening. 10 days later he attacked an elderly man and his middle aged wife with a murder style that would soon be seen as a pattern in many of his murders. Over the next two months Ramirez committed a dozen murders while burglarizing homes in Los