the hora began in June 1984 Los Angeles
was under siege death waited in the dark
at the hands of a man they called The
Night Stalker after a 14 month reign of
terror he was finally caught it was only
then that his true identity was
discovered his name Richard Ramirez
Richard Ramirez whole trip was to hide
in a tree or hide behind a fence and
watch these victims at nighttime and
away into the wee hours of the night and
then while they slept creep in you know
like a coward and kill him the Night
Stalker killed at least 13 times 13
people who were awakened in the night to
face death at least 15 others survived
his brutal attacks I didn't particularly
care for people in a rare interview
Ramirez refused to discuss his own
crimes but had this to say about serial
killers a serial killer comes about by
circumstances and like a recipe poverty
drugs child abuse these things you know
contribute to a person to a person's
frustration and anger and at at some
point in life he explodes
perhaps for Richard Ramirez that anger
and frustration turned to rage which he
in turn took out on his victims his
killings were so sadistic and brutal
that even experienced detectives were
shocked they took a woman in her 60s and
stopped her to death with his foot
leaving an imprint of a shoe on the side
of her face
from that to just executing somebody
upon walking into a room after he
entered a house he strangled he used the
ligature he used a tire iron on a young
girl beat her left her for dead well
your anger subside if you had to wipe up
your mother's blood I couldn't finish it
I had to leave my brother to finish that
short why on earth would you have hurt
those people why did you kill those
people
another comment no comment I I cannot
answer that at this time what was
Richards motive to kill that's it
to kill
it's as simple as that Richard Ramirez
was raised in El Paso Texas the youngest
of five children born to hard-working
strict parents Eddie Milam was Richard's
best friend back then and remembers when
he began to change into a troublemaker I
did start seeing something going wrong
with Ricky Ramirez I think what really
messed him up was that asset people do a
lot of us the stealing you know I
noticed this Tilly and then started as a
peeping tom and things like that Ramirez
is passion for burglary earned him the
nicknames of Ricky the thief and fingers
but Eddie knew Ramirez had other serious
problems when he was fired from a local
hotel he said he was fired he was
dismissed due to the cause that he he
had tried to molest them to little kids
that were going up up the elevator by 18
Ramirez was a high school dropout
drifting around California he stayed in
Skid Row hotels never seemed to work but
always had the money to buy cocaine
friends say the Richard Ramirez
they knew didn't date and wasn't the
type to commit such heinous crimes but
convicted murderer Martin Kip who
befriended Ramirez in prison says he
heard underside of the night Richard
told me he needed to associate gruesome
violence for sex in order to be
completely satisfied he also told me
that he had to violently fantasize about
his victims before he could go away
sexually gratified they are desires
where's where I didn't give in to them I
would be crushed by them I believe in
the in the evil in human nature this is
a wicked wicked world and in a wicked
world you wicked people are born I'm not
gonna blame society my race or people or
anything it is up to the individual like
myself to to keep on knocking on on
whatever door they want to get into
because the victims and the methods of
killing were so diverse
many experts felt there was no one
nightstalker
the
detectives kirill and salerno disagreed
and finally broke the case by matching
shoe prints the subsequent trial turned
into one of America's most notorious
courtroom dramas punctuated by continual
outbursts from Ramirez in that trial
Ramirez is fascination with Satanism
emerged as far as Satan is concerned I
believe you know malevolent being his
description eludes me but I have felt
powers that are evil after an 8 month
trial Ramirez was convicted of all 13
murders and given multiple death
sentences I don't care about myself
really no I don't care about what
happens to me I never did really
you