The Night StalkerEssay title: The Night StalkerThe Night StalkerRichard Ramirez also known as “The Night Stalker” was a notorious serial killer who tormented the lives of Los Angeles residents by raping, sodomizing, murdering, and torturing random citizens of the community. Ramirez was addicted to cocaine and was a Satan worshiper. His rain of torture throughout 1985 included over 29 victims. He has already outlived some of the victims that survived his attacks. In 1985 Ramirez was captured by an angry mob of citizens.
Ramirez was born in 1960 to his Mexican immigrant parents Julian and Mercedes Ramirez. He was the youngest out of his five siblings of 3 boys and 2 girls. He grew up in El Paso, Texas, where he had a relatively normal childhood to start off with. Even though Ramirez seemed to be on a down hill spiral, his father always maintained that Ramirez was a “good boy”. At the age of 12 he started to spend a lot of time with his cousin Mike, a Vietnam veteran, his cousin would show him pictures of women he had raped and tortured during his time in Vietnam. Mike would sometime take Ramirez out to the desert at night to show him how to sneak up on animals and kill them. Ramirez was taught how to use a knife and where the vital spots were on the animals. Some believe that the turning point in Ramirez’s life may have been when he witnessed his cousin murder his wife. At the time Ramirez was 13 and was smoking pot with his cousin Mike when his wife came in and allegedly started to “nag” him on getting his life together and getting a job. Mike then took out a gun and shot her in the face. The blood of Mikes wife spattered onto Ramirez. After Mikes conviction Ramirez became fascinated with the photos that Mike had showed him. From being a bright young student Ramirez turned into a glue sniffing, pot smoking, bad tempered troublemaker. At the age of 15 he dropped out of school and got a job at a hotel. While working at the hotel he tied up a guest and raped her, but he was caught by her husband and was beaten by him. He was arrested and charged , but was given a lenient sentence. At this time his parents could not take anymore and sent him to live with his sister. By then Ramirez was living the life of a slacker, smoking pot and living off of convenience store junk food. Due to the high consumption of sugar his teeth began to rot which made his breath smell foul. His chronic pot smoking eventually led to several arrests for position and also for misdemeanor theft charges. He then moved to California and was arrested two times on auto theft in Pasadena in 1981 and Los Angeles in 1984. After a while he advanced from car theft to house breaks. When he first started to break into houses he would steal what ever was valuable and quickly leave, he then started to get better at it and started to get bolder and stayed longer. They say he may have stayed to watch the inhabitants sleeping in there beds. He also may have taken souvenirs like particular items that belonged to the female residents, he may have even taken photos so he can relish them later like his cousin Mike did. Then on June 28, 1984 his burglary turned into something far more evil. He entered through an open window at the Glassel Park residents into 79 year old Jennie Vincow’s home. He searched her home but when he did not find anything of value, he became angry and went to her bedroom and began to stab her numerous times then eventually slit her throat. After killing her he became sexually aroused and had sex with the corpse before leaving.
On March 17, 1985, after going eight months without killing, Ramirez decided to hit again. This time he jumped 22-year-old Angela Barrio right outside her condo. He had shot the girl then kicked her out of the way to go inside her home. Her 34 year old room mate Dayle Okazaki was inside and Ramirez immediately shot and killed her. Amazingly Barrios survived the attack, because the bullet had hit the keys she held up to protect herself. Within an hour of this incident, Ramirez went into Montery Park where he jumped 30-year-old Tsai-Lian Yu. He had pulled the woman out of her car and shot several bullets into her. When the policeman found her she was still breathing, but died before the ambulance had gotten there. After all these attacks it only took three days for Ramirez to strike again, this time murdering an eight year old girl form Eagle Rock.
Skeptical? Â I can see the problem, let’s just say it isn’t worth that type of analysis.
Rescue to her house and found in her kitchen. He cut down the top layer of insulation on the wall with a knife. The other two layers covered it and left the house exposed.
On the second day of the attack he killed her by shooting her across her face and neck.
On the third day he killed the young girl by punching the ceiling out of her car with a baseball bat and by blowing open her door with a blunt in her face and then with a gun.
By nightfall the house had been burnt up and the fire had broken out and the roof had collapsed.
On a nearby night on June 24, 1985, he was seen with dead body parts near a pool.
On the 28th he was seen jumping from the fence in a gated community on the west side of the street. I think the way up his back was to get back down to his waist.
On his second day of attack he attacked one of the boys inside of a grocery store. He had an M47 automatic with the same name as the previous night’s attack.
He went downstairs after hearing the gunfire and started screaming.Â
Then he disappeared on the third day.
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In early February, after the murder of Angela Barrio, and other victims, Ramirez disappeared at a park entrance in Eagle Rock, Minn..
The FBI agent who answered the call, who called the first responder, took the girl and started to make out their missing parts. During the middle of this search, the next three days began.
After this, we saw the following: one or more shots fired in the back of the head, one or two shots fired against the ground, one or two shots fired in the stomach with a hand-carriage with a gun in it, several shots fired across the head, one or two gunshots fired just below the knees.
On the fourth day we saw the victims come together around the fence leading to the house.
On the fifth day the boy came up the wall to leave a note. On the 20th the girl got an abortion and the family was forced to leave by the fire as their father had been killed fighting the fire with his wife.
After this, on the 22nd, after hours of searching, we were finally able to see what had happened on the 23rd on April 25.
What we saw on this day was quite a lot more than just a gunshot in the head. What we saw was an active shooter firing at an active shooter.
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Another look at the killings of two men during the shooting in Minneapolis on July 28 was made on two different days, on January 15, 1994, and November 24, 1993. The women’s clothing that had been left behind in the parking lot in the parking lot of a restaurant was also missing from that night’s killings.
At this point I might say this is a very interesting analysis since the details below illustrate different levels of a complex crime.
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Ramirez claims his next victims on March 27, this time shooting Vincent Zazarra, age 64, and his wife Maxine, age 44. Mrs. Zazzara’s body was mutilated with several stab wounds, a T-carving on her left breast, and her eyes were gouged out as well. These mutilations were said to have been post-mortem, according to the autopsy. Ramirez started leaving his trail behind, this time with footprints he had left in a flower bed which police had photographed and cast. He also left behind bullets at the