He moved closer to the car, a plan of abduction, sadistic sex, and murder crystallizing in his mind. Suddenly, he reached out and grabbed Veronica by the shoulders and tried to pull her right out of the car window. She began to scream. On the night of July 2, 1985, Ramirez drove a stolen car to Arcadia and randomly selected the house of 75-year-old Mary Louise Cannon, a widowed grandmother. [62] After quietly entering Cannon's home, he found her asleep in her bedroom. He bludgeoned her into unconsciousness with a lamp and then stabbed her to death using a 10-inch butcher knife from her kitchen. [62] Ramirez repeatedly stabbed Cannon's body after she was already dead. [62] Carrillo was standing in the vestibule near the front door. All the lights in the house were on, and the tech people had brought in spotlights. A few neighbors still lingered at the taped barrier and talked about how dangerous the world had become, and what a nice woman Dayle Okazaki had been. He kept coming. When the gun was two feet from her face, the garage door finished closing and the light automatically went out, putting them in sudden darkness. At that instant he fired, but Maria had raised her right hand in defense and the bullet was miraculously deflected by the keys. Ramsland, Katharine. "The Night Stalker: Serial Killer Richard Ramirez: The Los Angeles Trial". TruTV. Atlanta, Georgia: Turner Entertainment Networks. Archived from the original on May 31, 2008 . Retrieved May 21, 2012.

Botelho, Greg (June 7, 2013). " 'Night Stalker', mass murderer, dies". CNN. p.3. Archived from the original on June 7, 2013 . Retrieved June 8, 2013. Martin, Douglas (June 7, 2013). "Richard Ramirez, the 'Night Stalker' Killer, Dies at 53". The New York Times. New York City. Archived from the original on June 11, 2013 . Retrieved June 10, 2013. Edith’s cousin, Joseph, came down from upstairs and told them he’d summoned the police. He had heard the screams for help and had gone to a veranda off his bedroom that faced Alhambra. He had seen the killer trying to pull Veronica out of the car and had immediately called the police. Other people came out of their homes and apartments and gathered around the dying woman. At this point Carrillo was thinking the murder involved some kind of love triangle. It seemed the only explanation. Certainly robbery wasn’t the motive, for nothing had been stolen—either from Maria or Dayle. The detectives spoke to all the neighbors they could find. No one had seen or heard anything. A .22 doesn’t make much noise. Woodham, Lucy (January 2021). "How did the police catch the Night Stalker? The evidence that finally led to his arrest". The Tab . Retrieved February 21, 2021.When he was satisfied he was unobserved—he had a sixth sense about such things—he got out of the car and walked along the dark green cemetery wall, staying in shadows, taking long, silent steps. As an adolescent, Ramirez was heavily influenced by his older cousin Miguel, who had recently returned from fighting in the Vietnam War. The two smoked marijuana together as Miguel told Ramirez about the torture and mutilation he had inflicted on several Vietnamese women, corroborating these stories with photographic evidence. At age 13, Ramirez witnessed his cousin kill his wife. Miguel Ramirez was found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity and released four years later. Later that day, Ballistics reported the rounds removed from Dayle Okazaki and Veronica Yu had more than likely been fired from the same gun, but the one extracted from Dayle had been too damaged for them to make an absolute ID. Gil Carrillo now sought the advice of Sgt. Frank Salerno.

Doreen, the trashy, piece of shit broad who married Ramirez, the one who actually touched this mans hands, the same hands that did these awful, awful, awful things, said this, "There's something in his eyes - like a little boy who needs help. He's so sexy." Jump! Did we know that some criminals are allowed to have crime scene photos of their victims in their cells? To help with their defence of course! Oh, and also to masturbate to. Oh, and to scare other inmates and guards with. Can't forget those little benefits. And this is legal. Why you ask? Because criminals have more rights than a victim ever has, dead or alive. That's why in a nutshell. Carrillo often went to the sheriff’s East L.A. office, where sheriffs detectives from different homicide teams would meet, using it as an informal annex to their office at the Justice Building. Still, the corrective focus on law enforcement, who serve in Night Stalker, as in most crime shows both real and fictional, as the guiding protagonists of the story, has its own limitations. Namely, the persistent centering of police in American crime stories, and the assumption, on TV, that cops are always the main characters – a trope which, inadvertently or not, works to sanitize police work and normalize police as the default good guys, even when America’s grisly record of racist policing, and the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor this summer, indicate otherwise.Whether through retracing the police investigation, replaying the ample man-on-the-street local TV interviews, or reliving the feverish summer in cutaways to family members and bit players in the eventual arrest of Ramirez, Night Stalker aims for a tableau of Los Angeles, 1985, rather than a serial killer mystery. The story “became this tapestry of Los Angeles, and a portrait of place and time,” Russell said, the series thus about “the carnival of people … whose lives were affected by it.” Before any Los Angeles sheriffs deputy was allowed to work a beat, he had to put in at least a year as a guard at the L.A. County Jail. The experience the deputies received at the jail gave them insights into human nature and the criminal mentality which made them better cops.

As he was pondering that question, he heard about the Veronica Yu murder and called up Tony Romero at the Monterey Park stationhouse so they could exchange notes. Right off, Carrillo felt it was the same guy. Romero told him one of his witnesses, a Jorge Gallegos, had got a few numbers of the license plate, and they were trying to find the car. Carrillo asked Romero to keep him posted. The Monterey Park detective said he would. After murdering Jennie Vincow, the killer slipped deeper and deeper into intravenous cocaine addiction; the drug became his life, his main preoccupation. To get it he needed money, which he routinely secured by committing burglaries—frequently two and three a day. Decades after Richard Ramirez left thirteen dead and paralyzed the city of Los Angeles in the 1980s, his name is still synonymous with fear, torture, and sadistic murder. Philip Carlo’s classic The Night Stalker, based on years of meticulous research and extensive interviews with Ramirez, revealed the killer and his horrifying crimes to be even more chilling than anyone could have imagined. From watching his cousin commit murder at age eleven to his nineteen death sentences to the juror who fell in love with him, the story of Ramirez is a bizarre and spellbinding descent into the very heart of human evil. Schram, Jamie (March 14, 2016). "Mystery 'second suspect' tied to infamous Night Stalker serial killer". New York Post. New York City: News Corp. Archived from the original on March 14, 2016 . Retrieved September 22, 2018.

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Ricardo " Richard" Leyva Muñoz Ramirez ( / r ə ˈ m ɪər ɛ z/; February 29, 1960 – June 7, 2013), dubbed the Night Stalker, the Walk-In Killer and the Valley Intruder, was an American serial killer and sex offender whose crime spree took place in California from June 1984 until his capture in August 1985. He was convicted and sentenced to death in 1989, and died while awaiting execution in 2013.