Richard Ramirez (Night Stalker) being arrested + rare tapes
Richard Ramirez voice recordings
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Tapes from: "First Blood" and "Night Stalker:The hunt for a serial killer"
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Two more botched attacks happened in Orange County in late August 1985. Then, a young man named James Romero came forward with some information: He'd seen a suspicious car in his Mission Viejo neighborhood.
Romero recalled the make and model of the car and part of the license plate. He reported seeing an orange Toyota station wagon with a license plate that included the numbers 8 and 2.
This turned out to be an enormously valuable tip.
Shortly afterward, Romero's car sighting was shared with the local news media. Then another man came forward. He told investigators that a friend recently had an orange Toyota station wagon stolen in Chinatown.
The plates matched.
Police quickly located the vehicle, a 1976 orange Toyota station wagon, in a parking lot in downtown Los Angeles.
The Orange County crime lab processed the car and hit the jackpot the police had been waiting for these many months: a fingerprint.
Back then, California's fingerprint system was not yet automated. Police needed a suspect to compare the prints from the stolen car.
So, police continued following other leads to track down the man now known as the Night Stalker. Los Angeles detectives followed a tip from a local woman whose father believed he had befriended the killer. He told police about a man from El Paso, Texas, who went by Rick — a man who openly bragged about still-confidential information about the Night Stalker murders.
Meanwhile, San Francisco police were also chasing down a lead surrounding a Rick from El Paso.
That trail of clues, involving a stolen bracelet, led them to a man named Armando Rodriguez, a friend to Ramirez. Rodriguez was the one who told them the Night Stalker's name was Richard Ramirez.
Police finally had a name. There were eight people named Richard Ramirez with fingerprints in the police's records, and one was a perfect match.
Ramirez had previously been booked for grand theft auto and some petty theft. Police took this 1984 booking photo to the informant in San Francisco. He identified the man in the photo as Richard Ramirez — the Night Stalker.
Police released the name and photo to the media, and by the next morning, Richard Ramirez was on the front page of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, and his name and photo were all over the TV news.
That morning, Ramirez walked into a liquor store in downtown Los Angeles and saw his face on the front page of the newspaper. He ran.
As soon as Ramirez started running, people recognized him from the newspapers.
He sprinted across the 5 Freeway, into Boyle Heights, where he unsuccessfully tried to carjack Faustino Pinon.
A few blocks away, he tried to carjack Angelina De La Torre. He screamed at her, in Spanish, to give him the keys. She refused.
Her husband, Manuel De La Torre, ran out of his house and hit Ramirez in the head with a metal pole.
Hearing the commotion, neighbors came outside and surrounded Ramirez.
According to local police who first responded to reports of a fight in the area, the crowd was waving and pointing at newspapers saying that the man they were detaining was the Night Stalker.
Shortly after Ramirez was apprehended, he proclaimed to police, "It's me!"
At this point, little doubt remained that Ramirez was the one behind the Night Stalker attacks.
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In July 1988, Ramirez made his first court appearance. He pleaded not guilty to all of the charges against him.
But before he left the courtroom, Ramirez raised his hand to show a drawing of a pentagram on his palm. "Hail Satan," he said as he exited the room.
In September 1989, Richard Ramirez was found guilty on all charges — convicted of 13 counts of murder, five attempted murders, 11 sexual assaults and 14 burglaries. He was sentenced to 19 death penalties."
via ~ CBSNEWS
