Richard Ramirez - The Night Stalker
Serial Killer Masterlist
General Information
Full Name: Ricardo Leyva Muñoz Ramírez
Born: 29th of February 1960, El Paso, Texas, United States.
Died: 7th of June 2013, MarinHealth Medical Center, Kentfield, California, United States.
Cause of Death: B cell lymphoma
Faith: Satanism
Heavy drug abuse from around the age of 14 and a highly sugar filled diet caused his teeth to practically rot away, many victims described one of his most notable features as the putrid smell he gave off.
Family
Parents:
Julian Ramirez (Father)
Mercedes Ramirez (Mother)
Siblings:
Ruben Ramirez (Oldest brother)
Jospeh Ramirez (Brother)
Robert Ramirez (Brother)
Ruth Ramirez (Sister)
Wife:
Doreen Lioy (m. 1996–2013)
Children:
None
Physical Description
Height: 6′0 or 1.85
Weight: When caught he was 155lbs/11 stone but once put on a more consistent diet in prison he weighed 182lbs/13 stone.
Ethnicity: Latino
Hair Colour: Black
Eye Colour: Dark Brown
IQ: N/a
Mental/Physical Illnesses
He suffered with antisocial personality disorder and after two significant head injuries he was diagnosed with Temporal Lobe Epilepsy in 5th grade. Some sources also claim he was a diagnosed schizophrenic or had severe bipolar.
Crimes
Known Crimes: Murder, attempted murder, assault, sexual assault, rape, attempted rape, sodomy, abduction, theft, grand theft auto, possession of drugs.
Nickname(s): ‘The Night Stalker’, ‘Valley Intruder’ and ‘The Walk-in Killer’.
Span of Known Murders: 10th of April 1984 - 24th of August 1985.
Known Number of Murder Victims: 15
Possible Number of Murder Victims: 20+
Youngest Murder Victim: 9 years old.
Oldest Murder Victim: 84 years old.
Caught and Arrested: 31st of August 1985
Trial: 22nd of July 1988 - 20th of September 1989
Charged with:
14 counts of burglary
11 counts of sexual assault
5 counts of attempted murder
13 counts of murder
Sentenced to: Sentenced to death 19 times.
M.O: Most of his victims were chosen at random when he would break into someone house. Usually he would go for houses with no alarm system or no dogs. If in a house with a couple he would kill the man first, usually by shooting, and then assault the women in various horrific ways. He wouldn’t always kill the women though which allowed for some reports of his appearance to police although most of these proved to be inaccurate. His methods of killing varied from shooting, strangulation, stabbing, bludgeoning and in one case he even stamped an old women to death. At many crime scenes he left Satanic symbols on the victim or on walls such as pentagram and at one he left the phrase ‘Jack the knife’ on a bedroom wall. In one attack he told a women not to scream she said ‘I swear upon God I’m not going to scream’ to which Richard responded ‘Don’t swear upon God, swear upon Satan.’
What created the Killer: He grew up with a very abusive father, the abuse often got so bad that Richard would sleep in the graveyard not far from his childhood home to avoid it. His cousin Miguel came back from Vietnam and would often tell stories of the atrocities that he committed against women there, he showed Richard who was around 12 at the time polaroids of decapitated women or of him raping them. It only got worse when Richard witnessed Miguel shoot his own wife in front of Richard and Miguel’s own children. Richard’s brothers were victims of sexual abuse from one of their teachers however its unconfirmed if Richard too was a victim of this. Injuries he sustained to his frontal lobe as a child can also have contributed to personality defects and he abused drugs from 14 up until his arrest at age 25. Read more about his childhood here.
Quote
“Serial killers do, on a small scale, what governments do on a large one. They are products of our times and these are bloodthirsty times.”- Richard Ramirez
A/N
This is a rewrite of my original summary on Ramirez as Tumblr deleted it not long ago. I really wish I could put more time into this blog but school has become very overwhelming, I am hoping to continue my Ramirez series though but no promises on when that will finally be published. Now time to back up files just in case anything else gets deleted lmao.
