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The Night Stalker
When Richard Ramirez walked into a convenience store in Los Angeles in August of 1985, he failed to notice the group of police officers standing in the street or the stacks of newspapers on the racks outside
It wasn’t until he looked out the window and saw a group of elderly women, fearfully pointing him out to a police officer, that he realized the face on the cover of those newspapers was his own, and fled.
The ensuing chase involved seven police cars, and a helicopter, tracking Ramirez through the streets and alleyways of L.A. Eventually, a group of bystanders finally caught the exhausted Ramirez, and tackled him, beating him with a metal pipe. By the time police arrived, Ramirez was thanking them for arresting him.
After a dramatic chase with an even more dramatic ending, the Night Stalker, a vicious murderer, and rapist who had terrorized Los Angeles residents for over a year, had finally been caught.
Richard Ramirez, dubbed the Night Stalker by the local media, had begun his killing spree exactly 14 months before his arrest. In that time, he had killed 13 people, attempted to kill five more, and assaulted countless others. On top of his physical crimes, he was guilty of burglary, and petty theft. Though his murders only spanned a year, his life of crime began when he was just 13 years old.
Born and raised in El Paso, Texas, Richard Ramirez was often...
It wasn’t until he looked out the window and saw a group of elderly women, fearfully pointing him out to a police officer, that he realized the face on the cover of those newspapers was his own, and fled.
The ensuing chase involved seven police cars, and a helicopter, tracking Ramirez through the streets and alleyways of L.A. Eventually, a group of bystanders finally caught the exhausted Ramirez, and tackled him, beating him with a metal pipe. By the time police arrived, Ramirez was thanking them for arresting him.
After a dramatic chase with an even more dramatic ending, the Night Stalker, a vicious murderer, and rapist who had terrorized Los Angeles residents for over a year, had finally been caught.
Richard Ramirez, dubbed the Night Stalker by the local media, had begun his killing spree exactly 14 months before his arrest. In that time, he had killed 13 people, attempted to kill five more, and assaulted countless others. On top of his physical crimes, he was guilty of burglary, and petty theft. Though his murders only spanned a year, his life of crime began when he was just 13 years old.
Born and raised in El Paso, Texas, Richard Ramirez was often...
