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Disaster Transbian episode 93
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00:00This is Channel 2 News.
00:16From Los Angeles, this is Channel 2 News Weekend Report.
00:21Officials in Los Angeles are offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the capture of the so-called Night Stalker.
00:28He's the sadistic killer wanted for a series of murders and rapes.
00:33The same man is suspected in 6 to 8 murders and 25 to 30 attacks.
00:38The latest victim, a 35-year-old man, shot in the head last Thursday.
00:42I'm afraid for everybody, elderly, young, everybody.
00:46Sheriff's Department, Martinez, help you.
00:48Callers are flooding the Sheriff's Department with reported sightings, but so far, no solid leads.
00:54A pre-dawn break-in, a male victim shot, the female occupant sexually attacked.
00:59It's all too familiar to investigators who say the so-called walk-in killer has struck again,
01:04attacking single women, elderly couples, children, anyone, any place where windows are left unlocked, the homes poorly lit.
01:11Police are searching for a 6-foot-tall man with dark curly hair and badly stained teeth, dubbed the Night Stalker,
01:24who may have committed 13 murders and 12 grisly assaults in the San Gabriel and San Fernando Valleys since February.
01:31The crimes are different, but the method is always the same.
01:34He enters private homes at night through an unlocked door or open window, and hunts down his prey while they sleep.
01:40Aside from the nature of entry, the approximate time of day that entry is made, beyond that, it's difficult to categorize them.
01:51Victims range between the ages of 16 and 80, from women alone to couples with children.
01:56Some have been strangled, some shot. Most of the women have been raped.
02:00What baffles police is that the attacks are random.
02:03It's like having our neighborhood raped itself. Someone violated our sanctuary.
02:07I've left my windows open before, but not anymore.
02:10Gun stores report they can't keep handguns in stock.
02:13I want to be able to defend myself.
02:16The investigative task force is hampered by a psychological profile that differs for most serial killers.
02:22He doesn't make any substantial efforts to choose a victim and then do whatever it takes to enter.
02:28He seems to enter whenever entry is easy.
02:32The investigation is the largest in Los Angeles County since the Hillside Strangler murdered 13 women in the late 70s.
02:39But the random nature of these attacks, with seemingly no motive, may make this case even more difficult to solve.
02:46Nadine Briget, CBS News, Los Angeles.
02:48News, News, News, News, News, News, News, News, News, News, News, News, News, News, News, News, News, News, News, News, News, News, News, News, News.
02:58On July 20th, Ramirez purchased a machete before driving a stolen Toyota to Glendale.
03:06He chose the home of 66-year-old Lila Needing and her husband, 68-year-old Maxson Needing.
03:13He burst into the sleeping couple's bedroom and hacked them with the machete, then killed them with shots to the head and a .22 caliber handgun.
03:23He further mutilated their bodies with the machete before robbing the house of valuables.
03:30After quickly fencing the stolen items, Ramirez drove to Sun Valley, Los Angeles and broke into the home of the Kavanath family.
03:39He shot the sleeping, 32-year-old Chaynarong Kavanath in the head with a .22 caliber handgun, killing him instantly, then repeatedly raped and beat 32-year-old Samkid Kavanath.
03:53He bound the couple's 8-year-old son before dragging Samkid around the house to reveal the location of any valuable items, which he stole.
04:03During his assault, he demanded that she, quote, swear to Satan, unquote, that she was not hiding any money from him.
04:11On August 6th, 1985, Ramirez drove to Northridge and broke into the home of 30-year-old Chris Peterson and Virginia Peterson, age 27.
04:24He crept into the bedroom, startled Virginia, and shot her in the face with a .25 caliber semi-automatic handgun.
04:33He then shot Chris in the neck and attempted to flee.
04:36Chris fought back while avoiding being hit by two more shots during the struggle before Ramirez managed to escape.
04:46The couple survived their injuries.
04:48Chris and Ginny Peterson, survivors of Richard Ramirez, survivors of the Night Stalker, the man who took over a dozen lives in Los Angeles.
04:58Ginny, why don't you just describe what happened when Ramirez came into your home that night?
05:03He entered through an unlocked door through the back entrance and entered into the bedroom.
05:10I awoke to see a man standing there.
05:13I shouted at him, who are you, what do you want?
05:17We argued back and forth for a moment or two.
05:21Then he leaned over and shot me directly in the face.
05:24As I fell backwards, he leaned over again and shot my husband.
05:28We laid back down on the bed and stunned because we couldn't believe that we had been shot.
05:34It was the furthest thing from our minds.
05:36There was no pain at the time.
05:38Then we became aware that he was standing over us laughing.
05:42At that time, my husband rose up and gave chase.
05:46He chased him down the hallway because we had a small daughter at the other end.
05:51Ramirez fired two more shots to which my husband faked being hit.
05:56He was graced by one of the bullets so that if Ramirez came at him again, perhaps he could tackle him.
06:02At that point, he turned and ran out of the house.
06:05We lost our freedom August 6, 1985.
06:09Every night now when the sun goes down, we don't know what to expect.
06:14There's more than one bad person in this world.
06:16And you say the word, you're free.
06:17Well, I'm glad you're free because mentally I'm not free when that sun goes down.
06:21I have to protect my family and myself.
06:22I can't walk up to a stranger anymore and say hello unless I know that person with any reason.
06:30I'll let my wife finish here.
06:32Living the way we have the last four years is a prison.
06:35And this is a sentence that was handed down to us by someone who did not know us.
06:40We were ordinary people, much like everyone else in this audience.
06:43A violent crime can happen to anyone, mother, father, sister, brother, aunt, uncle.
06:49There is nothing to distinguish you from anyone else.
06:53You live in a prison that this person put you in for reasons known only to him.
06:58He lives in a cell.
07:02He is fed three meals a day.
07:05For at least a year, we did not know where our next meal was coming from.
07:09He was out of work for six months.
07:12I am now out of work due to my injuries.
07:14We have had to reevaluate, move, change our lifestyles.
07:18You know, you talk about a crime that happens in a community.
07:22It just does not happen to people like my husband and myself or the parents of victims.
07:27It happens to all of you.
07:29Two nights later, Ramirez drove a stolen car to Diamond Bar and chose the home of Zakina Appawath,
07:37age 27, and her husband, 31-year-old Elias Appawath.
07:42Sometime after 2.30 a.m., he entered the house and went into the master bedroom.
07:49He instantly killed the sleeping Elias with a shot to the head from a .25 caliber handgun.
07:56He then handcuffed and beat Zakina while forcing her to reveal the locations of the family's jewelry
08:02and then brutally raped her.
08:04He repeatedly demanded that she swear on Satan that she would not scream during his assaults.
08:12When the couple's three-year-old son entered the bedroom, Ramirez tied the child up
08:18and then continued to rape Zakina.
08:21After he left the house, Zakina untied her son and sent him to the neighbors for help.
08:28And in Orange County, where the killer struck last,
08:31more calls, hundreds more, just tonight.
08:33Especially now that word is out about the car he may be driving.
08:36The car the killer may still have was stolen in Elias Chinatown this weekend.
08:50It is a 1976 Toyota station wagon, orange in color, license number 482 RTS.
08:59It has not yet been found.
09:00Ramirez, who had been closely following news coverage of his crimes,
09:05left Los Angeles and headed to San Francisco.
09:09On August 18th, he entered the home of 66-year-old Peter Pan, that's his name,
09:14and 62-year-old Barbara Pan.
09:18He shot the sleeping Peter in the temple with a .25 caliber handgun,
09:23killing him instantly.
09:24He then beat and sexually assaulted Barbara,
09:27before shooting her in the head and leaving her for dead.
09:31At the crime scene, Ramirez used lipstick to scrawl a pentagram
09:35and the phrase,
09:37Jack the Knife, on the bedroom wall.
09:39He again left a shoe print at the scene that detectives discovered
09:44and matched to a specific pair of Avia shoes that was not common at the time.
09:50Lead detectives Frank Salerno and Gil Carrillo
09:53contacted the manufacturer of the shoes and were able to retrieve the soles.
09:59Upon the discovery of the make and distribution across the United States,
10:03only six of them existed in the men's size 11 1⁄2,
10:08with five of them shipped to locations in Arizona
10:11and one shipped to a shoe store in Los Angeles.
10:15It was evident that the one pair of its size and kind in the state of California
10:20then belonged to the perpetrator.
10:23When it was discovered that the ballistics and shoe print evidence
10:27from the Los Angeles crime scenes matched the pan-crime scene,
10:33San Francisco's then-mayor, Dianne Feinstein,
10:36divulged the information,
10:38including the gun caliber and a televised press conference.
10:43This leak infuriated detectives
10:45as they knew the killer would be following news coverage,
10:49which gave him the opportunity to destroy crucial forensic evidence.
10:53Ramirez, who had indeed been watching the press,
10:59dropped his sneakers over the side of the Golden Gate Bridge that night.
11:04He remained in the area for a few more days
11:07before heading back to the Los Angeles area.
11:11On August 24, 1985,
11:14Ramirez traveled 76 miles south of Los Angeles
11:18in a stolen orange Toyota to Mission Viejo that night.
11:23He arrived at the home of 45-year-old James Romero, Jr.,
11:27who had just returned from a family vacation
11:30to Rosarito Beach in Mexico.
11:34Romero's son, 13-year-old James Romero III,
11:38happened to be awake.
11:39While his family was asleep,
11:41James went outside of his house
11:43to retrieve a pillow inside a truck, which was locked.
11:47When he was outside, he heard a rustling noise.
11:51Assuming it was an animal,
11:54James went to investigate,
11:55but did not notice anything out of the ordinary.
11:59James then went into his garage
12:01to begin working on his minibike
12:03before hearing Ramirez's footsteps outside the house.
12:08Thinking there was a prowler,
12:10James, after observing Ramirez,
12:12through his bedroom window,
12:14went to wake his parents,
12:15and Ramirez fled the scene.
12:18James raced outside
12:20and noted the color, make, and style of the car,
12:23as well as a partial license plate number.
12:26482-RTS.
12:27Romero contacted the police with this information,
12:30believing James had chased away a thief.
12:33With his attack on the Romero residence aborted,
12:37Ramirez broke into the home of 30-year-old Bill Carnes
12:40and his fiancée, 29-year-old Inez Erikson,
12:43through a back door.
12:45Ramirez entered the sleeping couple's bedroom
12:47and awakened Carnes
12:49when he cocked his .25-caliber handgun.
12:53He shot Carnes three times in the head
12:55before turning his attention to Erikson.
12:59Ramirez identified himself as the Night Stalker
13:02and forced her to swear she loved Satan
13:05as he beat her with his fists
13:07and bound her with neckties from the closet.
13:11After stealing what he could find,
13:14Ramirez dragged Erikson to another room
13:16before raping her.
13:19He then demanded cash and jewelry
13:21and made her swear on Satan
13:23there was no more.
13:25Before leaving the home,
13:27he told Erikson,
13:28tell them the Night Stalker was here.
13:30Erickson untied herself
13:36and went to a neighbor's house for help.
13:41Surgeons removed two of the three bullets
13:43from Carnes' head
13:44and he survived his injuries.
13:54One of the latest attacks was in San Francisco.
13:57A 66-year-old man and his wife
13:59were both shot in the head
13:59following the break-in of their home.
14:01The man's death was the 14th murder
14:03by the so-called walk-in killer
14:04during the past five months.
14:06Authorities have launched
14:07a multi-agency task force
14:09to find the man they call
14:10a very cunning and dangerous killer.
14:13They also say they have a good description,
14:14a psychological profile,
14:16even a vehicle description,
14:17but nothing more.
14:19Joe Rico for NBC News, Los Angeles.
14:21I can tell you a little bit about Satan.
14:24Well, I'm interested in hearing
14:25what you got to say.
14:26It is undefiled wisdom
14:29instead of hypocritical self-deceit.
14:33It is power without charity.
14:37Satan admits to being evil.
14:39Do you admit to being evil, Richard?
14:41We are all evil
14:42in some form or another.
14:44Are we not?
14:46I'm asking you the questions, my friend.
14:48Yes, I am evil.
14:52Not 100%, but I am evil.
14:54No.
14:56No.
14:56No.
15:00No.
15:03No.
15:04No.
15:04No.
15:05No.
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