With Tsai-Lian Yu, the suspect wanted a confrontation, wanted to see that fear. This service is provided on News Group Newspapers' Limited's Standard Terms and Conditions in accordance with our Privacy & Cookie Policy. Other Works | Publicity Listings | Official Sites. Julian claimed his son had been with the family in El Paso on May 29 and 30, the days he raped and killed Florence Lang (81) and brutally raped Mabel Bell (83) and Carol Kyle (42). 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. Ramirez scoured the public library for books on the occult, learning all he could about Satanism and black magic. The same year, he moved in with his sister Ruth and her husband Roberto a peeping Tom who took Ramirez along on his sick nighttime escapades. She was instrumental in giving a detailed description of Richard to the police. However, concentric circles are a very common feature of countless shoes. When she was dead, he hung the nine-year-old's body from a pipe in the basement Mei's eight-year-old brother found her. "Having power over life and death was a high," Miguel told his impressionable cousin. During his trial, several sick fans of Ramirez sent him letters, and he ultimately married one of them while he was imprisoned but she eventually left him. The little girl wandered off to the building's basement looking for a lost dollar. But his victims never escaped the trauma of his crimes. Sentenced to die in California's gas chamber, Ramirez quipped, "Big deal. Gil ends the documentary with his own statement. To inquire about a licence to reproduce material, visit our Syndication site. With the heat on in L.A., he headed for San Francisco. 28 Apr 2023 18:15:37 Other victims included a six-year-old snatched from school and assaulted and a nine-year-old boy snatched from his bed and raped. His wife is beaten. July 2, 1985: Ramirez kills Mary Louise Cannon, 75, by beating her and slashing her throat. 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. Ramirez then raped Lang and drew a lipstick pentagram a five-pointed star associated with devil-worship on her thigh, as well as on the bedroom walls. Both victims survived. Virginia Peterson, who was shot in the face by Ramirez before he shot her husband in the head, described the unending pain he inflicted. Texan-born Ramirez grew up with an abusive dad, prone to violent rages. Initially, Richard Ramirez's drug use was limited to marijuana, which he began experimenting with at age 10. May 29, 1985: Mabel Bell, 84, and her invalid sister, Florence Lang, 81, are beaten with a hammer in their Monrovia home. Police, baffled by the lack of evidence, failed to identify a suspect, and the case went cold until 2009, when DNA evidence found at the scene was positively identified as belonging to Richard Ramirez. The guest's husband soon arrived and severely beat Richard before calling the police. Ramirez was born in Texas in 1960, the youngest son of a former Mexican policeman. He continued to mutilate their bodies. On the same day he shot Chainarong Khovananth and raped Somkid Khovananth. Nickname. 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. 27, 1985: Ramirez shot Vincent Zazzara, 64, and his wife Maxine, 44. May 29 June 1, 1985: Mabel Bell, 84, and her invalid sister, Florence Lang, 81, are beaten with a hammer in their Monrovia home. This hurts' and why are you doing this? she says. Mabel Bell was born on 6 April 1902 in Kentucky, USA. He beat her with a metal wheel brace - leaving her with multiple skull fractures - but miraculously she survived. He clearly heard one of them exclaim, "El matador! Paramedics were in attendance and he could not remember if the garage was open or not. 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. Death always went with the territory. Night Stalker: The Hunt For A Serial Killer is available on Netflix from Jan 13. 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. There was a soundtrack of Madonna going - Holiday and Like a Virgin - over and over, she recalls. His wife is beaten. Guilty of one count of murder, one count of attempted murder, one count of burglary. It was a sad sight to see. Ramirez then murdered 30-year-old Tsai 'Veronica' Lian Yu after pulling her out of her car. She kind of got to me.". Dropping his eyes to a newspaper rack, he saw his own face staring back at him. Fleeing the scene in his stolen car, an emboldened Ramirez followed 30-year-old Tsai-Lian Yu onto North Alhambra Avenue. He would, in most cases, commit his murders in the victims' homes and then steal their jewellery and valuables. There was a shoe print left in concrete at the site. June 28, 1984: 79-year-old Jennie Vincow was stabbed repeatedly while asleep in bed. Ramirez sexually assaulted her after the killing. Nothing. Mrs Zazzara's body was mutilated with several stab wounds and her eyes were gouged out. By the time of the Night Stalker murders, he regarded Satan as a malevolent force to whom he was a willing slave. She survived. But Dr. Leung's records showed that Ramirez had been getting dental work done in Los Angeles on May 30, not in El Paso. He shot Vincent dead before raping Maxine several times and stabbing her. Moments later, the killer - known as the Night Stalker - walked into Marias apartment and shot her flatmate, Dayle Okazaki, between the eyes. 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. With Maria Hernandez, he could have crept up silently and shot her. She had been repeatedly stabbed and strangled. There were slimy food packages and take-out stuff around. 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. The clock had also been picked up by a gloved hand, creating a fabric pattern across the sole, distorting its clarity. Other Works | Publicity Listings | Official Sites. For further details of our complaints policy and to make a complaint please click here. 17, 1985: On March 17, 1985, Ramrez shot 20-year old Mara Hernndez before shooting Dayle Okazaki, age 34, dead. As discussed in this post, the defence presented evidence that Richard was in El Paso at the time of the attack, but he was proven to have visited the dentist on 30th May. 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. Contribute to this page. As Ramirez ran, he noticed a crowd was giving chase behind him. It was weak evidence. Some were raped and in one gruesome case, Ramirez mutilated the body of a 44-year-old woman before cutting out her eyes. I'll see you in Disneyland. I say prayers a night and I list people. The sisters lived right at the bottom of the mountain trails. "I scream in terror. 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. 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. According to some sources, Lioy cut off contact with Ramirez when DNA evidence linked him to the 1984 slaying of 9-year-old Mei Leung. The bite mark on the banana was not matched to Richards teeth there is no information on it at all. Though he's not discussed as often as other murderers, it would be fair to call Richard Ramirez, aka the Night Stalker, one of the most prolific serial killers of the last 50 years. For the next five months, Ramirez would hunt at night in stolen cars, looking for homes to invade. Ramirez's Satanic spree continued with Mabel Bell, 84, who he beat with a hammer before electrocuting her. Fortunately for Ramirez, the police arrived to take him into custody. *There is a strange epilogue to this case: Mabel Bells grandson said he visited his great aunt Florence just before he testified at trial. Now a version of his evil character features in the new FX series of American Horror Story: 1984. while raising his hand in the air, with a pentagram - an ancient symbol that's become associated with the occult - drawn on his palm. Ramirez was now leaving his pentagram calling card at crime scenes and ordering victims to "swear on Satan" they weren't hiding valuables. BELL, Mabel Close passed away July 15, 1985 in Arcadia. His inexperienced attorneys, Arturo and Daniel Hernandez, delayed the trial for years with requests for postponement and pretrial motions. Sure, Bill died of his injuries. On April 10, 1984, 9-year-old Mei Leung and her little brother were playing in the apartment building where they lived in San Francisco's Tenderloin district. When he came home, Miguel would show Ramirez Polaroid pictures of Vietnamese people he'd killed, as well as women he'd raped during the war. In 2013, after 23 years on death row, Ramirez died from cancer, at the age of 53. She had four to five-inch-long cuts down her ribs and a blistered burn mark below her right breast. Florence was choked with a cord and raped. While the two werent instantly linked, Gil had a hunch the seemingly motiveless killings were linked to a sexual deviance that sees the perpetrator turned on by fear. July 7, 1985: Ramirez beats to death Joyce Lucille Nelson, 61, of Monterey Park. June 28, 1984: 79-year-old Jennie Vincow was stabbed repeatedly while asleep in bed. After mortally injuring Bill by beating him unconscious, he put Lillian in thumbcuffs metal manacles that lock round your thumbs and raped her. Aug. 6, 1985: Ramirez shot both Christopher Petersen, 38, and his wife, Virginia, 27, in the head. A dutiful son, Jack lived on the second floor where he could tend to his mother's needs. Men, women, and children ranging in age from nine to 81 fell to the mysterious killer. Sisters Mabel Bell, age 83, and Florence Lang, 81, came face-to-face with evil on May 29, 1985. He said she was still unable to speak and was on a feeding tube. He'd steal a car, head for Mexico, and blend in. During the delays, Ramirez consciously perfected his image as a bad boy outsider. There were also palm prints found around the bedroom door and around the window sill not Richards. Undaunted, lead detective Gil Carillo was certain he was on the trail of a serial killer. Mabel Bell, 83, of Monrovia, bludgeoned to death. Sophie Dickman was held at gunpoint and Richard attempted to rape her. 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. Mabel Bells diary had been filled in for the 29th. It would mean that upon Richards return (via coach) he would have arrived at the Greyhound Bus Depot on 6th Street and travelled 40+ minutes northeast to attack two elderly ladies near the mountains. In my opinion, we had a serial killer who was also responsible for kidnapping children - girls and boys - raping adult women, killing adult women, killing males, he says. Living. A few weeks later, Jennie Vincow, 79, was found dead in her apartment. May 29, 1985: Mabel "Ma" Bell, 83, and her disabled sister, Florence "Nettie" Lang, 81, were both bound and bludgeoned. Of course, Richard also went to the dentist the following day making him a very busy man indeed. He then hung her body from a pipe in April 1984. 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. Under cover of night, he followed Hernandez into her garage. Initially, authorities believed that many of the murders were unrelated because of Ramirez's erratic, motiveless methods. "I know that he's a nice person because I've met him". Growing up in a devoutly Catholic household, Ramirez understood God, Satan, Heaven, Hell, and sin as concrete realities. He left behind a dark blue baseball cap emblazoned with the lightning bolt logo of his favorite band, AC/DC, at the scene of his attack on Maria Hernandez. One of the child abductees was Anastasia Hronner, who was just six when she was taken from her bed in the middle of the night. Wait paramedics on 31st May? Most importantly, it was the preferred close-range weapon of professional hit men. A man came back to his hotel room to find Ramirez attempting to rape his wife. Her head was covered in blood, with brain tissue protruding from her broken skull. 81-year-old Florence 'Nettie' Lang, an invalid, and her sister, 84-year-old Mabel Bell were both brutally beaten with a hammer. A pentagram was drawn on the wall above her bed. Both victims survived. On June 7, 2013, death claimed the Night Stalker. Richard was not charged with a rape count for the Bell and Lang attack so it is safe to say the tests were negative. He also drew a pentagram on Lang and multiple other locations inside the home. Those lucky enough to survive his attacks described a figure out of hell itself a slender phantom in black with rotting teeth who reeked of wet leather. I believe in the devil and I believe in evil, he says. She was driven across LA by a tall, thin man and smuggled into his "dark and dingy" house in a duffel bag. Mar. 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. Mabel died on 15th July; the coroner ruled that she had been attacked with a hammer. After hours, he would skulk around the hotel, peeking in windows. Four days later, the stolen car was found with fingerprints inside. His slayings and rapes continued, sometimes ordering his helpless victims to "swear on Satan" they weren't hiding any more valuables from him. The butchering of Jennie unleashed Ramirez's insatiable blood-lust that would drive him to kill again and again. Death always went with the territory. Surgeons were able to save Bill's life, pulling two of the bullets out of his head, and Inez gave investigators a detailed physical description of her attacker. In a chilling voiceover the killer declares: I was in alliance with the evil that is inherent in human nature. The next day, he broke into the home of Carol Kyle, 41, who he repeatedly raped before leaving her handcuffed to her 11-year-old son. Who were Night Stalker Richard Ramirezs victims? Who was Caversham primary school headteacher Ruth Perry? I recognised it immediately as the same footprint to the one lifted at the Zazarra crime scene, says Gil. March 27, 1985: Vincent Charles Zazzara and Maxine Levenia Zazzara were both shot. That was who I was - walking death.. To Ruth's anger, Roberto, an obsessed peeping tom, took Richard with him on his nightly rounds of spying in the windows of neighborhood women. Furthermore, Richard was convicted of travelling 21 miles west to rape Carol Kyle on the same night, which is strange: Kyle saw him with two guns, so why did he fail to use either gun on Bell and Lang? Also here, for a more detailed look at how they moulded Richard into the Night Stalker. View our online Press Pack. In 2013, after 23 years on death row, Ramirez died at the age of 53 from cancer, escaping the gas chamber. The bloody reign of Night Stalker had begun. Back in Los Angeles after a failed trip to visit his brother in Tucson, Ariz., Richard Ramirez was unaware that he'd become the lead story on every newscast and newspaper in the city. Her throat was slashed so severely she was almost decapitated before being sexually assaulted. Ramirez was now leaving his pentagram calling card at crime scenes and ordering victims to "swear on Satan" they weren't hiding valuables. Moments later, the killer - known as the Night Stalker - walked into Marias apartment and shot her flatmate, Dayle Okazaki, between the eyes. The small gun was perfect, Ramirez thought. When his mugshot was released to the press, the Night Stalker had no place to hide. The children described their attacker as tall, with light brown skin, dishevelled hair, stained teeth and a pungent odour - matching a description given by Maria Hernandez. He then raped her disabled sister Florence Lang, 81, and drew a lipstick pentagram a five-pointed star associated with Satanism on her thigh and the bedroom wall. American Horror Story: 1984 is on FX and Now TV. Murder, burglary. Dayle Okazakis murder on March 17, 1985, nine months after Jennie's death, marked the start of a killing spree which left Los Angeles quaking with fear. On September 20, 1989, Ramirez was found guilty of all charges and sentenced to death. Florence was choked with a cord and raped. Richard once witnessed his father beat himself bloody with a hammer. "Her head was drooped and her chin down. According to author Clifford Linedecker, Ramirez's fascination with Satan ironically intensified after attending a Jehovah's Witnesses' Bible study class with his friends Eddie Milam and Tom Ramos. Among the first was a single fingerprint left on a window screen belonging to victim Jennie Vincow. 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. Brandishing a razor-sharp hunting knife, he viciously stabbed the elderly woman, bringing the blade down again and again with the fury of a man possessed. Mikity drove past the property at 5pm and noticed that the kitchen door and garage were now open. Carol was raped. 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. As Ramirez entered adolescence, his sexual fantasies began to focus on violence, bondage, and death. He didnt, he says. March 27, 1985: Vincent Charles Zazzara and Maxine Levenia Zazzara were both shot. May 29, 1985: Mabel "Ma" Bell, 83, and her disabled sister, Florence "Nettie" Lang, 81, were both bound and bludgeoned. He tied them both up then bloodily beat them before using an electric chord to shock Mabel. There was, however, hair on the hammer. Her captor raped her repeatedly before driving her to a local petrol station and letting her go. Because of the sheer volume of crimes involved in the Night Stalker case, it took two years before Richard Ramirez could be brought before the court for a preliminary hearing on March 6, 1988. Her throat was cut so deeply she was nearly decapitated. 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. Suggest an edit or add missing content. But no horror story can ever be disturbing as what Ramirez really did, with crimes so appalling that he would eventually be sentenced to 19 death sentences. Enter: Felipe Solano. 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. Unable to locate a knife, he bludgeoned both women with a hammer and electrocuted Bell with a frayed electrical cord. He then raped her disabled sister Florence Lang, 81, and drew a lipstick pentagram a five-pointed star associated with Satanism on her thigh and the bedroom wall. I love being Muscle Barbie, Major update as mercy killer grandads confession to smothering dying wife CAN be used as evidence in murder trial. Searching for a house to rob, he settled on a shabby, pink apartment building. Bell was killed. This is the last crime to be covered on this blog. In a Sun Valley attack, he repeatedly ordered a woman to "swear. Bell was killed. His autopsy also stated that a history of drug use and a hepatitis C infection also contributed to his death. Ramirez also broke into the house of elderly sisters Mabel Bell, 83, and Florence Lang, 81, that same month. Clad in his customary black, he pulled down his dark blue AC/DC cap. Ramirez drives a stolen car to Monrovia, CA, and breaks into Mabel "Ma" Bell and Florence "Nettie" Lang's home. There were slimy food packages and take-out stuff around. July 5, 1985: Whitney Bennett, 16, survived after being beaten with a wheel brace by Ramirez. Leaving his mark for the first time,the murderer scrawled a pentagram on Bell's body and bedroom wallswith lipstick. (The table placed on Florence Langs chest). It's an incredible act of generosity towards a man who committed so much evil - and ruined so many lives. Who was the Boston Strangler suspect Paul Dempsey and what happened to him? As of this writing, Lioy's whereabouts are unknown. Guilty of one count of murder, one count of . "Everyone makes him look so bad," one of Ramirez's admirers told San Francisco TV station KRON. Ramirez disposed of his Avias and headed back to L.A. So, for one last time Avias. The 30th is the more likely date, due to dated evidence at the scene: a TV guide had been turned to a page showing late night on 29th, to noon on 30th. The emergency room doctor, Michael Agron MD believed the injuries were two days old, when observing them on 1st June. 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. Head hairs were found on a stocking, bedsheets, the mattress pad and stuck to the electrical tape used to bind Mabels ankles together. Hernandez's roommate, Dayle Okazaki, 34, wouldn't be so lucky. March 17, 1985: Dayle Yoshie Okazaki, 34, was shot in the forehead. As indicated in the image above, the sisters had some property stolen: a cassette player/stereo, last seen by a relative at their house in the month before they were attacked. Lucky to be alive, Hernandez slumped to the floor and played dead. Yet, his dark thoughts inspired guilt born of his religion. Leaving his mark for the first time, the murderer scrawled a pentagram on Bell's body and bedroom walls with lipstick. 17, 1985: On March 17, 1985, Ramrez shot 20-year old Mara Hernndez before shooting Dayle Okazaki, age 34, dead. Top: Lisa DiMeo, Document 7-19. His first murder was Mei Leung, a nine year old who he beat and raped before stabbing her to death. It was also during his teens that Ramirez started taking LSD and sniffing glue, while also developing an unsettling obsession with Satanism. It was only when Detective Gil Carrillo linked the killings to a spate of child kidnappings that the LA police began to track Ramirez down. To see all content on The Sun, please use the Site Map. She survived but had severe injuries. Not many people believed that, because wed never encountered anybody like that in criminal history..
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