The Messed Up Truth About The Night Stalker

With no apparent motive, the serial killer who would come to be known as the Night Stalker attacked in the dead of night, savagely assaulting his victims. Richard Ramirez was a self-styled devil worshipper who killed at random. This is the horrifying true story of the Night Stalker.

Richard Ramirez was born Ricardo Leyva Muñoz Ramírez in El Paso, Texas, on Feb. 29, 1960. His father, Julian Ramirez, a former police officer, was a stern man who had been physically abused by his father and grandfather, and visited the same treatment upon his four sons. As recounted in The Night Stalker: The Life and Crimes of Richard Ramirez, by Philip Carlo, Julian also turned his rage upon himself. Richard once witnessed his father beat himself bloody with a hammer. To avoid his father's erratic temper, Richard often slept in a nearby cemetery.

A reclusive child prone to epileptic seizures, Richard became close to his cousin Miguel Ramirez, a decorated Vietnam veteran. Miguel regaled a teenaged Richard with violent tales and showed him graphic photographs of decapitations and war crimes. Ramirez would later quote his older cousin as saying:

"Having power over life and death was a high. You controlled who lived and who died — you were God."

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A bizarre childhood | 0:00
An early life of crime | 1:49
First murders | 2:51
The first Night Stalker murder | 3:27
Two murders in a day |4:33
More victims | 5:51
Satanic connections | 7:05
The hunt for the Night Stalker | 8:23
A terrified community takes action | 9:54
Richard Ramirez’s trial | 11:19
Life behind bars | 12:22
Cancer before execution | 13:25

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