Category: IT’S RELEVANT
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This Is Good..
In fact, it’s excellent. This is a quick note from me.I wanted to bring this new YouTube channel to your attention, as some of you may not have seen it. @SataysandMash – we are not affiliated with them, but they share the material with our knowledge and permission, crediting and promoting our work in their…
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Richard Ramirez: False Child Abduction Allegations
Richard Ramirez was not responsible for the 1985 child abductions in Los Angeles.
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False Confessions: a Short Follow-up
This is a short sequel to “False Confessions?” from a year ago. In the previous post, Carrillo and Salerno’s misconduct was discussed, in which they violated Ramirez’s rights by interrogating him after he requested a lawyer, and they had read him his Miranda warning. Judge Nelson threw Richard Ramirez’s speculative discussion of the Night Stalker…
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“The Words “Serial Killer” Hung in the Air”
In the book, there are two small sections on Arturo Robles, a suspect who was featured in the Netflix documentary. Although released, Robles is significant in the timeline of Ramirez’s case and the creation of the Night Stalker. This post will put those events in one place. Robles had previously been driving around the streets…
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The Omnipresent Mr. Carrillo
In The Appeal of the Night Stalker, I wrote a section about Detective Carrillo’s enduring obsession with Richard Ramirez, post-arrest. In it, I discussed his and Sergeant Frank Salerno’s constant presence in the courtroom, even when they were not giving evidence, their handing of photographs to the jury, and Carrillo’s attempts at contact with Ramirez…
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“I’d Make Him My Man”
Sometimes victims of horrific crimes are beguiled, induced or traumatised into deliberately making wrongful identifications. This may be attributed to PTSD, manipulation, confabulation or rage. Here is one story where this nearly happened, if it hadn’t have been for a cooler head. The Man on the Mountain Los Angeles Times Magazine, page 11, 1st May…
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ODD ONE OUT
We’re back… The Night Stalker cases should have been split into separate trials to prevent a joinder or “spill-over” where evidence from another case is used to suggest a connection to another. There are several ways to divide the cases. This post will focus on those where Ramirez was prosecuted for rape-burglaries: Kyle, Dickman, Khovananth…
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Child Abductions: Not A Night Stalker Thing
On this blog, we have already established that there is no evidence that Richard Ramirez was abducting children, as mentioned in this general outline of the whole case. Primarily, because it is impossible for anyone to shapeshift in the way Ramirez supposedly did. When DNA supposedly tied Ramirez to the brutal stabbing of nine-year-old Mei…
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False Confessions?
“But he literally confessed!” During the preliminary hearing, Richard Ramirez’s defence team asked Judge Nelson to listen to an hour-long taped police interview from the day he was arrested. Ramirez had repeatedly demanded a lawyer but the police refused and continued questioning him. This violated his Miranda rights. Apparently, Ramirez said some things that could…
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A Bad Seed
So much of what we think we know about Richard Ramirez is based on myths and rumors. It’s like the “telephone” game played in the United States. Someone makes a statement, and that statement becomes so distorted that it doesn’t even remotely resemble what was said to begin with. The story gets changed and no…
Expendable For A Cause. 