Richard Ramirez is one of the most famous serial killers of all time, and a detective who worked on his case has now revealed a gruesome detail about how Ramirez was killed. Detective Frank Salerno, who spoke during a Netflix docuseries, claims that Ramirez would calmly enjoy killing people.
The interesting thing is how comfortable he got after killing somebody he would take the time to have a snack,” the detective said on “Night Stalker: The Hunt For a Serial Killer. Thats a pretty sick individual.
The docu-series showed an open Mountain Dew can, a fruit bowl, and a banana skin at one of the crime scenes.
Other crime scenes featured satanic symbols, and eventually, he was convicted of 13 murders, five attempted murders, and 11 sexual assaults.
Ramirez had been on death row at San Quentin State Prison since he was convicted in 1989 of 13 murders in 1984 and 1985. He also was convicted of rape, sodomy, oral copulation, burglary and attempted murder.
Executions have been on hold for years, however, because of ongoing legal challenges.
Ramirez was a self-proclaimed Satanist whose trial produced gruesome details about the mutilation of his victims.
He was nicknamed the Night Stalker by the media because residents were warned to lock their doors and windows as the killings peaked during the hot summer of 1985.
The killer had been entering homes through unlocked windows and doors. He then killed his victims with a gun or knife, burglarized the homes, and sexually assaulted his female victims.
At his first court appearance, Ramirez raised a hand with a pentagram drawn on it and yelled, Hail, Satan.
His marathon trial, which ended in 1989, was a horror show in which jurors heard about one dead victims eyes being gouged out and anothers head being nearly severed. Courtroom observers wept when survivors of some of the attacks testified.
Ramirez was convicted of 13 murders that terrorized Southern California in 1984 and 1985, as well as charges of rape, sodomy, oral copulation, burglary, and attempted murder.
The killing spree reached its peak in the hot summer of 1985, as the nocturnal killer entered homes through unlocked windows and doors and killed men and women with gunshot blasts to the head or knives to the throat, sexually assaulted female victims, and burglarized the residences.
The press dubbed him the Night Stalker, and residents were warned to lock their doors and windows at night.
Some of the crimes were grisly beyond imagining: A man was murdered in his bed and his wife was raped beside the dead body. The killer beat a small child and attempted to sodomize him.
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There were also signs of devil worship a pentagram drawn on the wall at one murder scene and survivors accounts of being ordered to swear to Satan ” by the killer.
Ramirez was finally chased down and beaten in 1985 by residents of a blue-collar East Los Angeles neighborhood as he attempted a carjacking. They recognized him after his picture appeared that day in the news media.
Ramirez’s trial took a year, but the entire casebogged down in pretrial motions and appealslasted four years, making it one of the most extended criminal cases in U.S. history.
After the conviction, Ramirez flashed a two-fingered devil sign to photographers and muttered a single word: Evil.
On his way to a jail bus, he sneered in reaction to the verdict, muttering: Big deal. Death always went with the territory. See you in Disneyland.
The black-clad killer, unrepentant to the end, made his comment in an underground garage after the jury recommended the death penalty for his gruesome crimes.
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Inexplicably, Ramirez, a native of El Paso, Texas, had a following of young women admirers who came to the courtroom regularly and sent him love notes.
Some visited him in prison, and 1996, Ramirez was married to 41-year-old freelance magazine editor Doreen Lioy in a visiting room at San Quentin prison.
Relatives called Lioy a recluse who lived in a fantasy world.
Two years after his arrest, San Francisco police said DNA linked Ramirez to the April 10, 1984, killing of 9-year-old Mei Leung. She was killed in the basement of a residential hotel in San Franciscos Tenderloin neighborhood, where she lived with her family.
Ramirez had been staying at nearby hotels.
Ramirez was previously tied to killings in Northern California. He was charged in the shooting deaths of Peter Pan, 66, and his wife, Barbara, in 198,5 just before his arrest in Los Angeles, but he was never tried in that case.
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