Daniel Hernandez and Arturo Hernandez, who have represented Ramirez since the fall of 1985, are retained by Ramirez and his family, although certain defense costs, such as fees for investigators, have been picked up by the county. Advertisement
Mar 07, 1989 · A Los Angeles Superior Court judge appointed an additional lawyer Monday to help defend Night Stalker suspect Richard Ramirez, bringing to …
Jun 07, 2013 · Print. One of the deputy district attorneys who prosecuted “Night Stalker” Richard Ramirez described the serial killer’s death Friday as an “abrupt end to …
Ricardo "Richard" Leyva Muñoz Ramírez, dubbed the Valley Intruder, the Walk-in Killer, and most infamously the Night Stalker, was an American serial killer, serial rapist, kidnapper, child molester, and burglar, convicted in 1989. Ramirez's childhood is considered an influence on his crimes. Abused by his father, Ramirez began developing gruesome, macabre interests in his early and …
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In 1989, attorney Ray Clark got a telephone call that would make him, for a while, one of the most famous lawyers in Los Angeles. The call to his small firm was from the presiding judge in the trial of Richard Ramirez, accused of being the brutal serial killer known as the Night Stalker.Jan 26, 2014
Phil HalpinAlan Yochelson, who prosecuted the case with the late Phil Halpin. A Los Angeles jury convicted Ramirez in 1989 of 13 murders, five attempted murders, 11 sexual assaults and 14 burglaries.Jun 7, 2013
It's unknown whether, at the end, Ramirez became remorseful or troubled by his crimes. But those familiar with his case believe he would not have been repentant. ... Ramirez, a self-professed Satan worshipper, spent 23 years on death row.Jun 4, 2021
SAN FRANCISCO The California Supreme Court upheld the convictions and death sentence Monday for serial killer Richard Ramirez, whose so-called Night Stalker killing spree terrorized the San Gabriel Valley and Whittier area in the mid-1980s.Aug 8, 2006
June 7, 2013Richard Ramirez / Date of death
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He used a wide variety of weapons, including handguns, knives, a machete, a tire iron, and a claw hammer.
Ramirez, who never expressed any remorse for his crimes, died on June 7, 2013 of complications from B-cell lymphoma while awaiting execution on California's death row. Richard Ramirez had spent roughly 24 years on death row before his death from cancer in prison.
Ramirez was born in El Paso, Texas, on February 29, 1960, the youngest of Julián and Mercedes Ramirez's five children. His father Julián, a Mexican national and former Ciudad Juárez policeman who later became a laborer on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, was an alcoholic who was prone to fits of anger that often resulted in physical abuse towards his wife and children.
In 1973, after his cousin Mike was incarcerated for murdering his wife during an argument, which the then 13 year old Richard was in the room to witness, Ramirez moved in with his older sister, Ruth, and her husband, Roberto, an obsessive "peeping Tom" who took Ramirez along on his nocturnal exploits.
Psychiatrist Michael H. Stone describes Ramirez as a 'made' psychopath as opposed to a 'born' psychopath. He says that Ramirez's schizoid personality disorder contributed to his indifference to the suffering of his victims and his untreatability. Stone also stated that Ramirez was knocked unconscious and almost died on multiple occasions before he was six years old and as a result "later developed temporal lobe epilepsy, aggressivity, and hypersexuality ."
Manhunt: Search for the Night Stalker (1989) is a TV movie by Bruce Seth Green, based on the true story of Richard Ramirez and the two Los Angeles police detectives who tried to track him down.
On September 20, 1989, Ramirez was convicted of all charges: thirteen counts of murder, five attempted murders, eleven sexual assaults, and fourteen burglaries. During the penalty phase of the trial on November 7, 1989, he was sentenced to die in California's gas chamber.
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Initially, Richard Ramirez's drug use was limited to marijuana, which he began experimenting with at age 10. He began to use the drug more regularly with his cousin Miguel Ramirez. Miguel's murder of his wife in front of 12 year-old Richard seemed to flick a switch inside the troubled youth.
Richard Ramirez was born Ricardo Leyva Muñoz Ramírez in El Paso, Texas, on Feb. 29, 1960. His father, Julian Ramirez, a former police officer, was a stern man who had been physically abused by his father and grandfather and visited the same treatment on his four sons.
As recounted in The Night Stalker: The Life and Crimes of Richard Ramirez, young Richard Ramirez's obsession with Satan began at an early age. Growing up in a devoutly Catholic household, Ramirez understood God, Satan, Heaven, Hell, and sin as concrete realities. As Ramirez entered adolescence, his sexual fantasies began to focus on violence, ...
Although cautious, Richard Ramirez nevertheless left behind clues. Among the first was a single fingerprint left on a window screen belonging to victim Jennie Vincow. Unable to get a grip on the screen, Ramirez had removed his gloves.
Counting the early murder of Mei Leung, a total of 14 innocent lives would end at the hands of the Night Stalker. Among the dead were 64-year-old retired accountant Vincent Zazzara — shot to death in his sleep.
The Golden State has seen more than its share of violent crime and serial killers in the last half of the 20th century. From Charles Manson to the Zodiac Killer, California seems to be a breeding ground for notorious psychopaths and murderers. Still, nothing could prepare the state for the brutality of a series of gruesome murders that gripped Los Angeles and San Francisco from June 1984 to August 1985.