Richard Ramirez, the ‘Night Stalker’
Richard Ramirez, the "Night Stalker" serial killer convicted of killing 13 people, died of natural causes Friday at a Bay Area hospital, corrections officials confirmed.
A Los Angeles jury convicted Ramirez in the 13 killings that terrorized Southern California in the mid-1980s. He was sentenced to death and had been serving time on death row in San Quentin since 1989.
Ramirez went on a months-long rampage of sexual assault and murder that generated widespread fear throughout Southern California.
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On Nov. 8, 1989, The Times reported that convicted “Night Stalker” Richard Ramirez was sentenced to death but not before the husky-voice killer delivered a chilling parting monologue in which he warned, “I will be avenged.”
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Sept. 21, 1989
On Sept. 21, 1989, The Times reported that Richard Ramirez was found guilty of all 43 “Night Stalker” crimes, including 13 murders.
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On Jan. 31, 1989, The Times reported that amid heavy security and after three years of legal preliminaries the “Night Stalker” trial opened.
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Jan. 30, 1989
On Jan. 30, 1989, The Times reported that “Night Stalker” suspect Richard Ramirez, who has spent 3 years in jail will go on trial today.
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On May 7, 1986, The Times reported that “Night Stalker” suspect Richard Ramirez was ordered to stand trial on 14 murder charges and 36 other felonies stemming from a brutal crime spree that gripped Los Angeles County in a wave of terror last year.
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Sept. 1, 1985
On Sept. 1, 1985, The Times reported that a 25-year-old drifter identified as the “Night Stalker” was chased, beaten with a steel rod and captured by angry citizens.
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Aug. 31, 1985
On Aug. 31, 1985, The Times reported that an all-points-bulletin was issued for Richard Ramirez, 25, of Los Angeles, suspected of being the “Night Stalker” whose seven-month rampage of kidnapping, rape and murder has spread fear from Orange County to San Francisco.
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Aug. 28, 1985
On Aug. 28, 1985, The Times reported that after responding to “hundreds and hundreds of phone calls since Sunday from fearful residents,” Orange County Sheriff Brad Gates said deputies are randomly stopping suspicious-looking motorists and bolstering neighborhood patrols to reduce the chance of a second attack in the county by a killer dubbed the “Night Stalker.”
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Aug. 25, 1985
On Aug. 25, 1985, The Times reported on the victims of the “Valley Intruder” or “Night Stalker” as detectives have dubbed him.
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Aug. 14, 1985
On Aug. 14, 1985, The Times reported that San Fernando Valley residents frightened by the brutal attacks of the so-called “Valley Intruder,” are phoning police with false sightings of prowlers and with questions about forming neighborhood watch groups and securing their homes.
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Aug. 14, 1985
On Aug. 14, 1985, The Times reported that Sheriff’s Sgt. Frank Salerno, the lead detective in the so-called “Valley Intruder” case, is everybody’s idea of a good homicide cop.
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One Aug. 10, 1985, The Times reported that the March 17 shooting death of a 35-year-old woman in her Rosemead condominium may have been the first in a countywide series of at least six slayings linked to a killer who enters unlocked home at night to attack his victims as they sleep.
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