Hello everyone, back with my new post. Stalker? You do know what is the meaning behind the word stalker? If you do, well good for you cause you do have someone stalking you. Creepy huh? Talking about stalker.Have you heard about Richard Ramirez? In the early to mid 1980s, Ramirez terrorized Southern California known as “The Nightstalker” – a nickname created by the media for a serial killer who had claimed at least 14 victims in just over one year.
Born in Texas, Ramirez was the youngest of five children. His father, ironically a police officer, was abusive and his cousin, a veteran, reportedly shared photos from Vietnam with Ramirez that showed him raping and murdering Vietnamese civilians. Ramirez was present when his cousin murdered his own wife by shooting her in the face. I took it somewhere from the internet. Forgot to cite it, but this is all the information I got on how did he turned out to be a serial killer. By observing his cousin's wife murdered in front of him, this is somehow triggered his killer instinct. Most of the serial killers have their own motive right? Lets move on to find out Richard Ramirez motive.
After moving to California as a child, Ramirez became something of a slacker. He dropped out of school in the 9th grade, took up pot smoking which lead to a few charges for possession and subsisted on a diet of junk food so bad that his teeth started to rot out. At some point he took up “devil worship” as a hobby, either legitimately or just for shock value. It would become an influence on his terrible actions later in life. Ramirez began committing petty crimes in and around Los Angeles, various misdemeanor thefts and then later auto theft. This lead to breaking and entering and it’s believed that as he grew better at it he also grew bolder, breaking in when people were home, staying longer, watching them sleep and taking souvenirs of his visits.
Here comes the best part:
His first victim was a 79 years old lady Jennie Vincow on June 28 1984, she sexually assaulted, stabbed and murdered. Ramirez's second known killing occurred after nine months after his first murder. Angela Barrios was attacked but she managed to escape, Ramirez then killed her flatmate, Dayle Okazaki. Not satisfied with these assaults, Ramirez shot and killed Tsai Lian Yu the same evening. 10 days later, on March 27, Vincent Zazzara (64 years old), and Maxine his wife (44 years old) was found brutally assaulted and stabbed to death. Maxine Zazzara's eyes were gouged out by Ramirez.
A full- scale police operation came out with no concrete results. Ramirez attack pattern was likely like kill the male first the assaulted the female. Next two months , his murder increased rapidly, dozen victims- burglary, assault, and brutal violence with some kind of satanic rituals. Los Angeles was in panic situation. Based on the situation, a group of dedicated task force was established with the FBI stepped in to assist. Unfortunately, Ramirez leave Los Angeles on August. Moved to San Francisco, Peter and Barbara Pan was found dead on August 17, his attack pattern and satanic symbolism was well known thus changed his 'Valley Intruder' title to 'Night Stalker' as most of his assaults took place at night in his victim's homes. The media shown each of his attack in order to alert the citizen the danger of this murderous man , The Night Stalker.
To be continued...my next post will be on the capture of the Night Stalker and his final murder.
Stay safe everyone.
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