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,
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