(1984-1985) The Night Stalker: Richard Ramirez (Part 1/4) | California, U.S.A. - video Dailymotion

Vivi Spinel

Disaster Transbian episode 91

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00:00Oh no, my dear. I'm not going now. I'm going to spend the evening here with you. Just as you want. Say just as I want. Say just as I want.

00:13Just as I want!

00:14That's right, my little bird.

00:30Say just as I want.

01:00Okay, Mikael, hi.

01:07What kind of a person are you?

01:09What kind of person would I describe myself to be?

01:13Hmm, I don't know.

01:17Just an ordinary person, but then again, there's a Jekyll and Hyde to me.

01:30Okay, go ahead. Next question.

01:37Who talks with you? You gave me the formula for the serial kill.

01:41Yes, I believe a serial killer comes about by the circumstances and it's like a recipe.

01:50Poverty, drugs, child abuse, a few other things that I can't recall right now.

02:04But I believe that these things, you know, contribute to a person,

02:14to a person's frustration and anger and at some point in life, he explodes.

02:28They are the women in black, admirers of Richard Ramirez.

02:32Why are you in the courtroom today?

02:34I just wanted to see what he looked like. I think he's cute.

02:37This woman, who gave her name only as Paige, calls herself a Satanist.

02:41She says Ramirez has written letters to her and that she's talked with him in jail.

02:46Everyone makes him look so bad, you know, but I know that he's a nice person because I've met him and I know.

02:52He's convicted of 13 murders.

02:55I know.

02:57Be by hand delivered to the warden of the state penitentiary in San Quentin, California,

03:03within 10 days from the day hereof, in the usual course of his duty,

03:07where he actually bore 29, 30, 32, and 40 of the information,

03:12which you have been found guilty, and that I am few special circumstances have to be found to be true.

03:17That's a good news court. Without your documents, I don't think I would have been able to do it.

03:22Thank you very much.

03:26Yeah, but I thought I'd give you some credit.

03:46Ricardo Leyva Munoz Ramirez, born February 29, 1960,

03:51died June 7, 2013, better known as Richard Ramirez, and nicknamed the Night Stalker,

03:59was an American serial killer and sex offender whose killing spree occurred in greater Los Angeles

04:05and the San Francisco Bay Area in the state of California.

04:09From April 1984 to August 1985, Ramirez murdered at least 14 people during various break-ins,

04:20with his crimes usually taking place in the afternoon,

04:24leading to him being dubbed the Night Stalker, the Walk-In Killer, and the Valley Intruder.

04:29He was convicted and sentenced to death in 1989 and died while awaiting execution in 2013.

04:39Ramirez's crimes were heavily influenced by a troubled childhood.

04:44Frequently abused by his father, he developed brain damage and started abusing drugs at the age of 10.

04:52He began developing macabre interests in his early and mid-teens,

04:57from his older cousin, a Vietnam War veteran with schizophrenia and PTSD,

05:03who extensively bragged about the war crimes he had committed,

05:06and who killed his wife in front of him when he was 15.

05:11Ramirez learned military skills from him that he would later employ during his killing spree.

05:17He also cultivated a strong interest in Satanism and the occult.

05:24By the time he had left his home in Texas and moved to California at the age of 22,

05:30Ramirez began to frequently use cocaine.

05:34He would often commit burglaries to support his drug addiction,

05:38many of which were later frequently accompanied by murders,

05:41attempted murders, rapes, attempted rapes, and battery.

05:47The murder spree terrorized the residents of Greater Los Angeles

05:52and later the San Francisco Bay Area over the course of 14 months.

05:58His first known murder occurred as early as April 1984.

06:03This crime was not connected to Ramirez, nor was it known to be his doing, until 2009.

06:09Ramirez used a wide variety of weapons, including handguns, various types of knives,

06:17a machete, a tire iron, and a claw hammer.

06:21He punched, pistol whipped, and strangled many of his victims,

06:26both with his hands and in one instance, a ligature,

06:29stomped at least one victim to death in her sleep,

06:33and tortured another by shocking her with a live electrical cord.

06:38Ramirez also frequently enjoyed degrading and humiliating his victims,

06:43especially those who survived his attacks,

06:46or whom he explicitly decided not to kill.

06:50In 1989, Ramirez was convicted of 13 counts of murder,

06:54five attempted murders, 11 sexual assaults, and 14 burglaries.

07:01The judge, who upheld his 19 death sentences,

07:04remarked that his deeds exhibited, quote,

07:07cruelty, callousness, and viciousness beyond any human understanding, unquote.

07:14Ramirez never expressed any remorse for his crimes.

07:17He died on June 7, 2013, of complications from B-cell lymphoma

07:23while awaiting execution on California's death row.

07:35Feelings and emotions, like anger, hate, lust, and greed,

07:38where if I didn't give in to them, I would be crushed by them.

07:42When I was young, when I was like, like 5, 6,

07:47I opened the curtains outside the window,

07:50there was a monster, a big, hairy monster.

07:54And did they, did he tell you to do anything?

07:58No, I mean, I used to get scared, scared a lot.

08:02Ricardo Leyva Munoz Ramirez was born in El Paso, Texas,

08:07on February 29, 1960, to Mexican immigrants

08:12Mercedes Munoz and Julián Tapia Ramirez,

08:16the youngest of their five children.

08:18His father, a railway laborer,

08:20was an alcoholic who was prone to fits of anger

08:23that often resulted in physical abuse

08:26towards his wife and children.

08:29Ramirez was brought up a Catholic

08:31and began smoking cannabis and drinking alcohol

08:34at the age of 10.

08:35Psychiatrist Michael Stone describes Ramirez

08:40as a made psychopath,

08:42as opposed to a born psychopath.

08:45He says that Ramirez's schizoid personality disorder

08:48contributed to his indifference,

08:50to the suffering of his victims,

08:52and his untreatability.

08:54Stone also stated that Ramirez

08:56was knocked unconscious and almost died

08:59on multiple occasions before he was six years old.

09:03And as a result, quote,

09:05later developed temporal lobe epilepsy,

09:08aggressivity, and hypersexuality, unquote.

09:12At age 12, Ramirez was taken under the wing

09:15of his older cousin,

09:16Miguel Angel Mike Valles,

09:19a decorated green beret in the U.S. Army

09:22who himself had already become a serial killer

09:25and rapist during his service in the Vietnam War.

09:29Mike often boasted of committing gruesome war crimes

09:33in Vietnam and shared Polaroid photos with Ramirez

09:37showing Vietnamese women whom he had raped,

09:40murdered, and dismembered or decapitated.

09:43It is alleged that many of these photos

09:46depicted women being tied to trees

09:49or wooden posts both before and after

09:52they were sexually assaulted and killed by Valles.

09:57Ramirez would later state while incarcerated

10:00that he was fascinated rather than repulsed

10:03by the images and stories Mike shared with him.

10:06Was your cousin an influence on you?

10:10Yes, I look up to him.

10:12Right?

10:13Because when you're at that age, you know,

10:16superheroes, war heroes are like in comic books, TV.

10:20This f***er, he was vicious, mean, strong, you know.

10:24I didn't mind seeing all that Gordon Byrnes.

10:27Captain, I need his name.

10:31It was a turn-up.

10:33It was exciting.

10:33He used to say there's no thrill like a good kill

10:40and feast on bones.

10:47Mike taught his young cousin some of his military skills,

10:52including stealth and kill tactics.

10:55Around this time, Ramirez began to seek escape

10:58from his father's violent temper

11:00by sleeping in a local cemetery.

11:03His father would tie him to a crucifix

11:06in a cemetery overnight as punishment.

11:10Mike and his wife, Josefina Valles,

11:13had a son named Miguel Valles, Jr.,

11:16who passed away at the age of five

11:18in an accidental gas explosion.

11:20It is unknown if Ramirez as a child

11:22ever interacted with his nephew before his death.

11:26Shortly after Ramirez had turned 14 in 1974,

11:31he began using LSD frequently.

11:34He and Mike resumed bonding

11:36over their shared use of drugs and alcohol.

11:40It was during this period that Ramirez

11:42began to cultivate an interest in Satanism and the occult.

11:46When he reached adolescence, Ramirez began to meld his burgeoning sexual fantasies

11:52with graphic violence, including forced bondage, murder, mutilation, and rape.

11:59While still in school, he took a job at a local holiday inn

12:03and used his master key to rob sleeping patrons.

12:07On at least one occasion, Ramirez molested two children

12:12in an elevator at the hotel.

12:15Why don't you have a seat there and get comfortable?

12:18But he's a really nice guy.

12:20But he was never reported or prosecuted for this act.

12:24His employment ended abruptly

12:26after Ramirez attempted to rape a woman in her hotel room

12:31and was caught in the act by the victim's husband.

12:34Although the husband beat Ramirez at the scene,

12:37criminal charges were dropped

12:38when the couple, who lived out of state,

12:41declined to return to Texas to testify against him.

12:45At the age of 15, Ramirez was present on May 4th, 1975,

12:52when Mike fatally shot his second wife,

12:5526-year-old Josefina Jessie Valles,

12:58in the face with a handgun during a domestic argument.

13:02It was a sunny day.

13:04I had been with Mike that day hanging out

13:09and he got to his house about 3 p.m.

13:19He went and got back down from the top of the roof

13:23for a year and got close to her

13:25and blew her head off.

13:28It struck me that she was dead,

13:44you know, because I knew her pretty good.

13:46That had a very profound effect on me when I saw it.

13:50Like the graphic photos and stories

13:52of his cousin's war crimes in Vietnam,

13:55Ramirez would later similarly remark

13:57that witnessing the murder

13:59was not traumatic for him in any traditional sense,

14:02but rather a subject of fascination.

14:07After the shooting,

14:08Ramirez became sullen and withdrawn

14:10from his family and peers.

14:12Mike was later found not guilty

14:14of Jesse's murder by reason of insanity

14:17with the shooting attributed

14:19to post-traumatic stress disorder

14:21from his military service.

14:23He was confined for several years

14:25at the Texas State Mental Hospital.

14:28After his elder cousin's murder

14:30of his second wife,

14:32Ramirez dropped out of Jefferson High School

14:34in 9th grade,

14:35shortly before the school year ended in 1975.

14:39Shortly after the shooting,

14:40Ramirez moved in

14:42with his older sister, Ruth,

14:44and her husband, Roberto,

14:47an obsessive peeping Tom

14:48who took Ramirez along

14:50on his nocturnal exploits.

14:53After Mike was released

14:54from the mental hospital in 1977,

14:58he sometimes accompanied Ramirez

14:59and Roberto

15:00on these voyeuristic walks

15:02spying on women

15:03in the nearby areas

15:05through their windows.

15:07In 1982,

15:09at age 22,

15:10he moved to

15:11and settled permanently

15:13in California.

15:15It was around this time

15:16that Ramirez began to use cocaine,

15:19which quickly became

15:20his substance of choice

15:22and began to commit theft

15:23and burglaries

15:24to procure money

15:25for sustaining his addiction.

15:28He lived nomadically

15:29between San Francisco

15:31and Los Angeles County

15:32during this time.

15:35Prior to his incarceration,

15:36Ramirez frequently lived

15:38between the northern

15:39and southern areas

15:41of California,

15:42both before and during

15:43his year-long crime spree.

15:45And it was not uncommon

15:46for him to travel

15:48between these areas

15:49between 1983 and 1985.

15:52and now he's going to be

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