He was born in a violent family in a violent city. It is not known if his background determined his behavior or if it was all a result of epileptic attacks he had due to an accident that left him unconscious when he was a kid.

Richard Ramirez was an awkward teenager. When he was expelled from high school, he spent his time constantly consuming cannabis. His bad diet rotted his teeth. .

His modus operandi was due to a family member: Miguel Ramirez, a former Vietnam War veteran who told him everything he had learned in the war. During long night walks, he taught him how to get into people’s homes and kill in cold blood. Back then, an important incident changed his life. Richard saw how his cousin shot his wife without hesitating. It is unknown what his first impressions were, but it is claimed that he ended up covered in the woman’s blood.

Besides frequently going to the library to read witchcraft books, there are no direct links between him and satanism. It is known however that his father, a former police officer of Ciudad Juarez, used to tie him up to tombs in cemeteries in that city. That is how Richard Ramirez grew up.

In 1984, LA was victim of his crimes. Inaccurate in his actions, his arrest occurred after thorough investigations and the work by cops and detectives. Without a clear goal, he broke into people’s homes and killed calmly whoever was in the house, unlike other psychopaths who search for a particular race or skin color. The only thing constant about him was the fact that he acted during the night, which is why he was called the Night Stalker.

He acted like this for a year. People ended up panicking and becoming paranoid. Phone calls hounded the police, who received suspicious reports from everywhere.

One day, an informant at a bus station confessed that he managed to make friends with someone who confessed to him that he killed an Asian couple with a .22 semi-automatic rifle. Without knowing the reason, this person gave him the gun and the informant went to Tijuana in order to throw people off his trail. Detectives went all the way to Tijuana looking for this weapon, which had already been purchased by someone else.

In 1985, a series of events ended up with Ramirez being arrested. One of his victims survived the attack and was able to identify the car that he drove. In addition, one of his neighbors was able to memorize his car’s license plates, something that was essential to detaining him. Earl Gregg, another informant, gave the police a bracelet that he thought the Night Stalker had once possessed. The bracelet belonged to Gregg’s mother-in-law. She had received it from Armando Ramirez, who was her partner, and from a close friend from El Paso, Texas named Rick.

This information was essential to arrest this killer. When detectives found him, he said his name was Richard Ramirez after a violent interrogation. Photographs were quickly printed all across media and people knew who he was. That is how he was arrested.

He was charged with 14 murders, 5 attempted murders, 9 rapes (3 against minors), 2 kidnappings (usually children who he abandoned miles away from their homes to make them suffer), 4 acts of sodomy, 2 forced fellatios, 5 burglaries, and 14 home break-ins.

He died of complications from B-cell lymphoma in June 2013 at 53 years old.

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