Richard Ramirez, The Night Stalker

Richard Ramirez, “The Night Stalker” Richard Ramirez was born on February 29, 1960, in El Paso, Texas. The mother that gave birth to him was Mercedes Munoz and the father of Richard is Julian Tapia Ramirez. They both met each other when they were fourteen and eventually fell in love and got married in 1948. Richard was the youngest of five children and as he was going up he had a bad childhood life. He always hung around with his older cousin named “Mike”, Mike always told Richard stories about him killing people in Vietnamese and also smoked cannabis with each other. Richard was an American Railroad worker till his cousin Mike brainwashed him with satanic information and pictures of him torturing, raping, and killing women in Vietnamese. He also taught him how to keep hidden and kill in stealth. When Richard was thirteen he witnessed Mike kill his wife right in front of his eyes and was affected by it for the rest of his life. He than began burglarizing people's homes, committing petty theft, skipping school , and becoming addicted to cannabis. During his burglaries he began enjoying walking around the resident’s homes and looking through their belongings. He learned how to …show more content…
As it progressed, Ramirez garnered several female "fans" who became utterly devoted to him. On October 3, 1989, the jury found him guilty and he was sentenced to death. On October 3, 1996, seven years to the day after he was found guilty, he married one of his female fans, a freelance magazine editor named Doreen Lioy, whom he remained married to until his death; she once stated that she will commit suicide if he is executed. In 2009, his DNA was linked to the 1984 murder of nine-year-old Mei Leung, who was beaten, raped, and stabbed. On June 7, 2013, after spending decades on death row, Ramirez died of liver failure in a hospital, at the age of