Richard Ramirez was a serial killer from California who would murder at least thirteen people in a little over a year
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Richard Ramirez Video Transcript
Richard Ramirez Video Transcript
0:00Summer 1985. Los Angeles locks its windows, buys guns, and sleeps with the lights on.
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8 secondsNot because of a gang, because of one man. They called him the Nightstalker. He didn’t
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16 secondsoperate for decades. He needed just over a year to leave at least 13 bodies across California.
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23 secondsRichard Ramirez was born February 29th, 1960 in El Paso, Texas. The youngest of five to
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32 secondsJulian and Mercedes Ramirez. His father was a former Mexican police officer turned Santa Fe
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39 secondsrailway laborer known to be physically abusive. At 10, Richard idolized his uncle, Miguel, Mike,
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48 secondsa former Green Beret. Mike didn’t just tell war stories. He showed the boy photographs of women
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55 secondshe claimed to have raped and murdered in Vietnam and let Richard smoke marijuana with him. By his
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1 minute, 2 secondsteens, Ramirez worked as a cleaner at a Holiday Inn. He used his pass key to steal from guests.
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1 minute, 10 secondsThat’s when the fantasies about rape began and his interest in Satanism took root. He was fired
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1 minute, 17 secondsafter attempting to rape a guest. Her husband beat him badly, but because they lived out of state, no
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1 minute, 24 secondscharges were filed. Ramirez started with breakins around San Francisco. Then the attacks escalated.
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1 minute, 32 secondsAccording to the article, his first victim was a 9-year-old girl raped and murdered. Her body hung
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1 minute, 40 secondsfrom a pole. The case went cold until 2009 when DNA finally matched Ramirez. Over the next 13
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1 minute, 49 secondsmonths, he broke into homes at random, attacking sleeping families. He used whatever was at hand.
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1 minute, 57 secondsHousehold objects, knives, tools, no pattern except brutality. June 28th, 1984. Jenny Vinkco,
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2 minutes, 6 seconds79. March 17th, 1985. Dale Okazaki, 34. Silianne Veronica U, dragged from car. March 27th, 1985.
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2 minutes, 16 secondsVincent Zazara 64 and Maxine Zazara May August 1985 William Doa 65 Mabel Bell 84 Mary Louise
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2 minutes, 25 secondsCannon 77 Joyce Lucille Nelson 61 Max and Leela Niding Chain Kovvenan Elas Abawath
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2 minutes, 36 secondspolice finally released a sketch it was plastered across California Ramirez saw his own face on the
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2 minutes, 44 secondsnews and tried to run. He didn’t get far. In East Los Angeles, residents recognized him,
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2 minutes, 51 secondschased him down, beat him, and held him until police arrived. Trial began July 22nd, 1988.
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3 minutesRamirez walked in with pentagrams drawn on his palms, shouting, “Hail Satan!” to cameras. A few
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3 minutes, 8 secondsweeks in, a juror was found dead at home. Rumors flew that the nightstalker had reached out from
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3 minutes, 15 secondsjail. The verdict. Guilty on 13 counts of murder, five attempted murders, 11 sexual assaults, and 14
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3 minutes, 25 secondsburglaries. At the time, it was the most expensive trial in California history until OJ Simpson. He
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3 minutes, 34 secondswas sentenced to death and sent to California’s death row. Ramirez spent 23 years on death
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3 minutes, 41 secondsrow. He never faced execution. On June 7th, 2013, he died in a hospital from complications of B
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3 minutes, 51 secondscell lymphoma, a blood cancer. The autopsy also noted chronic substance abuse and hepatitis C.
