In a chilling voiceover the killer declares: I was in alliance with the evil that is inherent in human nature. He was sitting up in his bed doing stretches.". Bell was killed. May 30, 1985:Carol Kyle, 42, and her son were bound. As recounted in The Night Stalker: The Life and Crimes of Richard Ramirez, young Richard Ramirez's obsession with Satan began at an early age. Despite the investigation into him, Ramirez continued his rampage killing husbands before attacking women and stealing valuables. Therefore, the shoe evidence is inconclusive, and, as we state every time the shoes come up Richard was never proven to have worn such a shoe. As discussed in these posts, [X],[X] & [X], there is a good reason to believe Felipe Solano was protecting other burglars and potential suspects, all with a motive to point the finger at Richard. While stopped at redlight, Ramirez entered Yu's vehicle from the passenger side. Richard became more withdrawn and began getting into trouble at school. "If you can picture Christ on the cross, that's the way she looked," former San Francisco police inspector Ronald Schneider told the New York Post in 2016. IN the dingy light of her garage, Maria Hernandez heard a bang on her car roof and turned to see the wild-eyed stare of a tall, dishevelled man pointing a gun at her face. When he went into one that he'd robbed a year earlier at around 2am one March evening, he immediately shot and killed the homeowner, Vincent Zazzara. Searching for a house to rob, he settled on a shabby, pink apartment building. He then turned his attention to Bill's 29-year-old fiancee Inez Erickson, telling her he was the Night Stalker and beating her, forcing her to say she loved Satan as he did so. Just 40 minutes later, motorist Tsai-Lian Yu, 30, was stopped, dragged from her car and shot in the chest. There was, however, hair on the hammer. This service is provided on News Group Newspapers' Limited's Standard Terms and Conditions in accordance with our Privacy & Cookie Policy. This hurts' and why are you doing this? she says. In his teens, Ramirez began taking LSD, developed an obsession with Satanism and embarked in a string of petty crimes. Not many people believed that, because wed never encountered anybody like that in criminal history.. Night Stalker: The Hunt For A Serial Killer is available on Netflix from Jan 13. Valenzuela went to the neighbours house to call the police. When a single fingerprint from the rearview mirror of a stolen car used by the killer was matched to Ramirez, the police knew they had their man. None of the other Los Angeles crime scenes involved pentagrams; although Sakina Abowath claimed in court that her husbands killer told her to swear on Satan, there was no trademark left at any scenes. With the heat on in L.A., he headed for San Francisco. Enter: Felipe Solano. Closing to a distance of two feet, he fired at her. Most importantly, it was the preferred close-range weapon of professional hit men. August 18, 1985: Peter and Barbara Pan were both killed and Barbara was raped. With Maria Hernandez, he could have crept up silently and shot her. Although Florence Lang survived, she remained unable to communicate and died on 7 th August* (see below for more on this). At 15 he moved to Los Angeles where one of his older brothers introduced him to burglary and cocaine, paying for the drug by selling stolen goods. She survived but had severe injuries. As Ramirez ran, he noticed a crowd was giving chase behind him. Jesse Perez and Felipe Solano were friends. Just 10 days later, Ramirez broke into the home of Vincent Zazzara, 64, and his wife Maxine, 44. 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However, multiple United States death records state that Florence died on 7th August 1985. Suffering from liver failure, Ramirez, who had become increasingly reclusive in his final years, was transported from San Quentin State Prison to Marin General Hospital. During the delays, Ramirez consciously perfected his image as a bad boy outsider. Ramirez's Satanic spree continued with Mabel Bell, 84, who he beat with a hammer before electrocuting her. Therefore, he was still in the frame for this attack. It was easy to conceal and relatively quiet. For other inquiries Contact Us. July 5, 1985: Whitney Bennett, 16, survived after being beaten with a wheel brace by Ramirez. Within days he killed again, this time by taking a hammer he found in the home of two sisters in their 80s, Mabel Bell and Florence Lang, who lived together. Ramirez tormented California between 1984 and 1985, breaking into family homes in the dead of night in random attacks to carry out sick sexual fantasies. And while still in school, he began having violent sexual fantasies which he decided to try and act out. Brandishing a heavy, iron bar, Manuel struck Ramirez in the head. Her captor raped her repeatedly before driving her to a local petrol station and letting her go. Fortunately for Ramirez, the police arrived to take him into custody. The Night Stalker received thousands of letters from the curious and the lovelorn. Aug. 6, 1985: Ramirez shot both Christopher Petersen, 38, and his wife, Virginia, 27, in the head. Mabel died on 15 th July; the coroner ruled that she had been attacked with a hammer. See you in Disneyland". Among the first was a single fingerprint left on a window screen belonging to victim Jennie Vincow. Two months after his first taste of murder, Ramirez began a catalogue of violence which terrified the nation for over a year. "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. An eight-year-old had been taken from her bed, driven to a construction site and sexually assaulted. The new Netflix documentary, Night Stalker, which launches on Wednesday, tells the story of the 1985 manhunt, which resulted in Ramirez being jailed for 13 murders, five attempted murders, 11 sexual assaults and 14 burglaries. She miraculously survived the attack after the bullet bounced off her keys. Gil Carrillo now knew the identity of their serial killer, and issued a mugshot to the press. July 20, 1985: Ramirez shot and killed Maxson Kneiding, 68, and his wife Lela, 66, in their home.Later that day, he shot and killed Chainarong Khovananth, 32, then raped his wife and son. So, for one last time Avias. He stabbed her as she slept, with cops saying he slashed her throat so deeply that Jennie was nearly decapitated when they found her. To inquire about a licence to reproduce material, visit our Syndication site. I recognised it immediately as the same footprint to the one lifted at the Zazarra crime scene, says Gil. She kind of got to me.". Eventually a group of civilians caught up with him, beat him, then held him down until police arrived at the scene. On September 20, 1989, Ramirez was found guilty of all charges and sentenced to death. After hearing a shot and then someone enter the flat, Dayle cowered behind the kitchen counter. Ramirez then repeatedly raped the defenceless mum while threatening to cut her eyes out if she looked at him. July 20, 1985: Maxon and Lela Kneiding were attacked then shot. 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 on his four sons. Head hairs were found on a stocking, bedsheets, the mattress pad and stuck to the electrical tape used to bind Mabels ankles together. Yet, his dark thoughts inspired guilt born of his religion. Devil-worshipper Ramirez targeted men, women and children between six and 84, leaving 13 dead and many more injured. Florence was choked with a cord and raped. Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. Vincow's window was open with only a flimsy screen between her and her killer. Carol was raped. Not many people believed that, because wed never encountered anybody like that in criminal history.. Richard Ramirez was born Ricardo Leyva Muoz Ramrez in El Paso, Texas, on Feb. 29, 1960. July 2, 1985: Mary Louise Cannon was stabbed repeatedly and died. Overwhelmingly, Ramirez's admirers were women. Florence Lang. His cousin Miguel, a Vietnam veteran, subjected the young Ramirez to horrific pictures from the conflict, including one where he gleefully posed with the severed head of a woman he'd raped and decapitated. Mabel Bell, 84, and her invalid sister, Florence Lang, 81, had spent the last 25 years in the modest home framed with roses and a white picket fence on the outskirts of Monrovia. She survived. Mabel Bell was lying on the floor, comatose, with a table on top of her chest. 22-year-old Maria Hernandez was shot at but survived. A pentagram was drawn on the wall above her bed. On August 24, 1985, he fled a burglary scene after house owner James Romero raised the alarm - noting the registration number of the stolen car Ramirez was driving. 17, 1985: On March 17, 1985, Ramrez shot 20-year old Mara Hernndez before shooting Dayle Okazaki, age 34, dead. For other inquiries Contact Us. "Everyone makes him look so bad," one of Ramirez's admirers told San Francisco TV station KRON. With the description and evidence Ramirez left at the scene, police now knew the identity of their serial killer, and issued a mugshot of Ramirez to the press. Simple theft wasn't enough to sate his dark side, however, and he used the key to enter a woman's room intent on assaulting her. To avoid his father's erratic temper, Richard often slept in a nearby cemetery. It was weak evidence. Mabel Bell was born on April 6, 1902 in Kentucky, USA. Sophie Dickman was held at gunpoint and Richard attempted to rape her. Patiently waiting for her to move from her hiding place below a kitchen counter, Ramirez killed her with a single shot to the head. I say prayers a night and I list people. This is the horrifying true story of the Night Stalker. Soon, he started using LSD, mushrooms, and peyote and believed he was developing a personal rapport with Satan. "Tell them the Night Stalker was here," he said. He'd steal a car, head for Mexico, and blend in. May 14, 1985: Bill Doi was fatally shot and Lillian Doi was raped. Pubic hairs were found in the bedroom and, based on microscopic characteristics, were found to be dissimilar to Richards. This was just one of the many horrific crimes committed by Richard Ramirez, a serial killer and rapist who became known as The Night Stalker. Looking into the garage, he saw an old faded car with what looked like a TV in the trunk. But his victims never escaped the trauma of his crimes. Bay Area police were temporarily hamstrung in their investigation when San Francisco mayor Diane Feinstein leaked details about the crimes to the press, including the shoe print evidence. The petition states that Mikity returned two days later, making it 31st May. . While picking up a cup of coffee and pastry at a nearby liquor store, he noticed some elderly Hispanic women staring at him. The Sun website is regulated by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO). March 17, 1985: Dayle Yoshie Okazaki, 34, was shot in the forehead. He would, in most cases, commit his murders in the victims' homes and then steal their jewellery and valuables. I believe in the devil and I believe in evil, he says. Keller was bludgeoned to death, and satanic symbol were scrawed in various placces. For the next five months, Ramirez would hunt at night in stolen cars, looking for homes to invade. Bell actively supported and contributed to the work of her husband, inventor Alexander Graham Bell. The Messed Up Truth About The Night Stalker, The Night Stalker: The Life and Crimes of Richard Ramirez, Night Stalker: A Shocking Story of Satanism, Sex, and Serial Murders. (LogOut/ Most critically, he left behind 15 battered survivors who could provide an accurate, physical description of the killer who made them "swear to Satan.". As recounted in The Night Stalker: The Life and Crimes of Richard Ramirez, by Philip Carlo, Julian was also prone to turn his rage on himself. Ramirez also broke into the house of elderly sisters Mabel Bell, 83, and Florence Lang, 81, that same month. On the same day he shot Chainarong Khovananth and raped Somkid Khovananth. Florence Lang was unresponsive on her bed, and like her sister, in a coma. The little girl wandered off to the building's basement looking for a lost dollar. When Ramirez pulled Angie De La Torre from her automobile parked outside her home, he met his match in her husband, Manuel. Nothing. An 83-year-old Burbank woman is sexually assaulted on May 30, 1985. Although Richard was not named as a suspect at that time (he escaped), his appearance must have been noted, for it was after the Khovananth attack and her reporting that the killer had stained, gapped teeth, that the police began to morph their Night Stalker character into this mysterious Richard Mena. See this post for how the police engineered a change in the suspects appearance. Though he had raped women and stolen before June 1984, the killing spree that led to him being caught took place in the greater Los Angeles area and San Francisco until August 1985. August 6, 1985: Christopher and Virginia Peterson were shot but survived. The same night, he broke into the house of Bill Carns and shot him three times before raping his 29-year-old fiancee Inez Erickson. June 28, 1984: 79-year-old Jennie Vincow was stabbed repeatedly while asleep in bed. No prints were taken from the drinks can, and there is no mention of saliva tests. Whoever it belonged to was not Richard Ramirez and was probably from the victims. Unable to get a grip on the screen, Ramirez had removed his gloves. It fits the modus operandi of another killer, Joseph James DeAngelo. DeAngelo apparently used to snack at the crime scene (the banana and the can of drink) and he would place objects on the victims so that he could hear them if they tried to move. There were slimy food packages and take-out stuff around. He then carved a T in her breast and gouged out her eyes, taking them with him in a jewellery box. Mabel Bell, 83, of Monrovia, bludgeoned to death. 1985: Mabel Bell, 84, and her invalid sister, Florence Lang, 81 . His first adult victim was 79-year-old Jennie Vincow, who was asleep in her home in LA when Ramirez sneaked in through an open window during the night. AFTER fatally shooting her husband in the head as he slept, Richard Ramirez forced Sakina Abowath to "swear on Satan" that she wouldn't scream as he raped her in her bedroom. On August 24, 1985: Bill Carns was shot but survived and his fiance, Inez Erickson, was raped. It's an incredible act of generosity towards a man who committed so much evil - and ruined so many lives. There were no fingerprints on the hammer that could tie the weapon to Richard. She had been repeatedly stabbed and strangled. Sentenced to die in California's gas chamber, Ramirez quipped, "Big deal. There were also palm prints found around the bedroom door and around the window sill not Richards. They were found in a comatose state and Mabel died. View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro . May 14, 1985: Bill Doi was fatally shot and Lillian Doi was raped. Mar. July 5, 1985: Whitney Bennett, 16 was attacked while sleeping, but as Richard tried to strangle her with a phone cord he saw sparks come off it which made him think Jesus was saving her and so he fled. August 8, 1985: Sakina and Elyas Abowath were both attacked, with Elyas fatally shot and Sakina raped. Instead of pointing this out, those wallies Daniel and Arturo Hernandez brought the bad alibi back for the Kyle incident and it failed to convince a second time. View our online Press Pack. Mabel Bell, 83, of Monrovia, bludgeoned to death. To see all content on The Sun, please use the Site Map. Contribute to this page. In 2013, after 23 years on death row, Ramirez died from cancer, at the age of 53. Both women were taken to hospital and sexual assault kits were collected. Bell and Langs nephew identified the stereo at the property line-up. Ramirez, however, kept an eye on the local media. View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro . A Monrovia fire inspector, Steven Mikity, went to the house on the morning of 29th May, to tell the residents to remove brush from their property (it is a fire hazard in hot locations). While living in a hotel in his mid-20s, Ramirez raped and then fatally stabbed Mei Leung in the hotel's basement. Bottom: Lisa DiMeo, Document 7-20. Although Florence Lang survived, she remained unable to communicate and died on 7th August* (see below for more on this). The blood-soaked crime scene of Mabel Bell and Florence Lang's bedroom - with a lipstick pentagram visible on the wall Credit: . Other victims included a six-year-old snatched from school and assaulted and a nine-year-old boy snatched from his bed and raped. He beat Lang with a hammer and assaulted her before beating and electrocuting her older sister. At 13, he witnessed Miguel shoot wife Jessie in the face during an argument, killing her instantly. Yet, Ramirez's brand of Satanism was a far cry from LaVey's theatrical atheism. May 29, 1985: Mabel Bell, 84, and her invalid sister, Florence Lang, 81, are beaten with a hammer in their Monrovia home. After Maxine died, Richard mutilated her body with a knife and gouged out her eyes. July 7, 1985: Joyce Lucille Nelson, 61, was beaten in her home. Mabel died on 15th July; the coroner ruled that she had been attacked with a hammer. Aug. 8, 1985: Elyas Abowath, 35, is shot to death in his home. Hernandez's roommate, Dayle Okazaki, 34, wouldn't be so lucky. Nickname. Just 40 minutes later, motorist Tsai-Lian Yu, 30, was stopped, dragged from her car and shot in the chest. Bystanders intervened and chased him away, then he attempted to carjack twice more. He put it to immediate use by burglarizing rooms. Enraged when he found nothing of value, Ramirez descended on Vincow as she slept. In June of that year his Night Stalker killing spree began and the crimes took place as follows: In August 1985, Richard made a journey from Arizona to California by bus. However, concentric circles are a very common feature of countless shoes. She survived but had severe injuries. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. With Tsai-Lian Yu, the suspect wanted a confrontation, wanted to see that fear. He tied them both up then bloodily beat them before using an electric chord to shock Mabel. To escape his dad's violence, Ramirez would sometimes sleep in a local cemetery. Her captor raped her repeatedly before driving her to a local petrol station and letting her go. August 8, 1985: Sakina and Elyas Abowath were both attacked, with Elyas fatally shot and Sakina raped. Miguel was found not guilty of murdering Jessie by reason of insanity and he was put in a mental hospital for just four years before he was back out, still influencing Ramirez. Growing up in a devoutly Catholic household, Ramirez understood God, Satan, Heaven, Hell, and sin as concrete realities. He continued to mutilate their bodies. Six days after his last sickening crime, Ramirez attempted a carjacking in LA but locals recognised him, chased him and beat him until cops arrived. She survived. Her throat was slashed so severely she was almost decapitated before being sexually assaulted. Four days later, the stolen car was found with fingerprints inside. She was instrumental in giving a detailed description of Richard to the police. 27, 1985: Ramirez shot Vincent Zazzara, 64, and his wife Maxine, 44. After hearing a shot and then someone enter the flat, Dayle cowered behind the kitchen counter. It was a sad sight to see. His first murder was Mei Leung, a nine year old who he beat and raped before stabbing her to death. There is a possibility that he made a mistake in saying he was there on 31st May and that he returned on 1st June, as that is when the sisters were discovered. Maria is one of the few survivors of a spate of Satanic murders by serial killer Richard Ramirez, which terrified the people of Los Angeles over the hot summer of 1985.
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