Expendable For A Cause.

The Netflix documentary, Night Stalker: the Hunt for a Serial Killer is full of errors which, to be fair, makes it no different to any other Richard Ramirez documentary. They’re all full of lies about what the victims described. But what qualifies the Netflix series for The Most Misleading Award is its use of CGI mock-ups of murder scenes.

When a room is shown from above and the camera zooms upwards, it’s not real. This isn’t limited to rooms. Some images of Max and Lela Kneiding’s bodies aren’t real either. Comparison pictures won’t be posted here out of respect to the Kneidings but if you watch it, look at the feet: totally computer generated. Plastic-y. These were interspersed with real photos of the deceased. Some of the bloody shoeprints from Whitney Bennett’s blanket are fake crime scene images too. The real ones are also shown which makes things extra confusing unless you’re already knowledgeable about the case.

So, it’s difficult to know what’s real and what’s not, including shoeprints purported to come from an attempted break-in at the home of a Sheriff’s Deputy. His name was John Rodriguez and he and his wife, Lorraine, were interviewed on episode 2. They explained how Lorraine awoke and her voice scared the killer off as he busted open a window that had been painted shut. Despite it only being a routine failed burglary, Sheriff’s Homicide, led by Detective Carrillo (of course!) showed up and much drama ensued.

At first, one could be forgiven for thinking this is just another misleading mock-up. If it really is genuine, it has not come from the same type of shoe involved in the Night Stalker crimes. That, according to trial documents, was an Avia Aerobics model 445B. Not the black Aerobics 440 that was zoomed in on in this same documentary. Either way, the print shown above is neither: 445 and 440 shared the same sole design.

The above photo shows the impressions of one circle and three concentric rings, leading to six parallel lines. The ‘Night Stalker Avias‘ have a circle and four concentric rings with eight parallel lines. See below:

If that Netflix photo is really from the Rodriguez break-in, and it’s not the correct shoe, then these people have spent decades believing they were nearly killed that night in mid-June 1985 when it was probably just a burglar. They lived in Pico Rivera: there were more than 700 burglaries there in 1985. Statistically, it was bound to happen to them sometime.

It probably was still made by an Avia. It looks like Aerobics model 460, patented in 1983.

Can you see that the lines and indents sort of match up? It’s still inconclusive but it’s more like a 460 than the 445 (pictured below).

If that’s from the crime scene, then it’s another lie in the Night Stalker case.

The 440 and 445 have the same patent number on the sole because they follow the same cantilever design. In fact, a 460 is shown at close range on the documentary.

In Episode 3, they show a cast of a shoeprint (below). It looks like a different print to the Rodriguez photograph but again, you can clearly see features of the Avia 460.

So again, we are left with more falsehoods. It’s exhausting.

BUY OUR BOOK HERE!

-VenningB-

3/4/2023