(ominous music)
♪ Hot summer streets ♪
♪ And the pavements are burning ♪
♪ I sit around ♪
- In the 1980s, we were proud of the city.
L.A. was glamorous,
but if you went around to the other side,
L.A. could be a very dark place.
- I was on the freeway, and here comes somebody speeding,
and all of a sudden he just swerves around my car.
It's like he's right there.
Like a moment, stop.
And he has this horrible big grin,
and he's missing all these teeth.
He just stared at me, like a killer clown.
(suspenseful instrumental music)
- We got us a serial killer.
- There was no doubt about it.
This was a pretty sick individual.
- [Reporter] The so-called night stalker
who has terrorized California.
- [Reporter] The man is suspected
in six to eight murders, and 25 to 30 attacks.
- [Woman] He's someone that will go into a home at night,
and will kill.
(door creaking open)
(crickets chirping)
- I woke up a very loud noise, to which I responded, "John?"
And immediately, I knew it wasn't John.
(suspense instrumental music)
That something was there.
(jarring instrumental music)
- [Man] There was no pattern.
Anyone could be a victim.
He went after old people, young people, men, women.
- It's unheard of.
- We've never encountered
anybody like that in criminal history.
- [Woman] Everybody was talking about it.
- I'm scared, and I think everybody else is scared.
(woman gasps)
♪ It's a cruel ♪
- Pressure was on.
♪ Cruel summer ♪
To stop the madman that was doing all this.
- So we start trying to piece all this puzzle together.
We were in for a roller coaster ride.
- It's the only time in my entire life
that I slept with a gun.
- [Man] There's pentagrams on walls.
- [Woman] It just keeps giving creepier.
- [Man] He waited 'til he saw the fear in her eyes,
then he shot her.
- [Man] What causes a person to do what he does?
- [Woman] I said, "I won't scream, I swear upon God."
And he said, "Swear upon Satan."
- [Woman] You could sense it.
There is evil in that man.
♪ It's a cruel ♪
♪ Cruel summer ♪