Category: IT’S RELEVANT
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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…
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Spill-Over
This post will concentrate specifically on Claim 20 of the Writ of Habeas Corpus, filed in 2008: the trial court’s denial of the motion to sever unrelated incidents. Facts: On September 30th, 1987, Richard’s counsel moved to sever counts compromising of fifteen incidents: forty-three charges and nineteen special circumstances. The grounds given were: They wanted…
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Richie
“Rarely do we find people who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. On February 29, 1960, at 2:07 a.m., at Providence Memorial Hospital in El Paso, Texas, a…
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Satan Loves Some Metal.
“We’re on a Highway to Hell!” *Please note: there is use of swear words and sexual references in parts of this post.* Summer 1985, picture the scene: a young addict, a stolen car, cruising through Los Angeles in the darkest hours of the night. Cocaine surging through his veins, adrenaline pumping, he slams a cassette…
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Utter Nonce-sense
The Focus on Okazaki and Yu Why does Detective Gil Carrillo focus on the 17th March 1985 murders of Dayle Okazaki and Tsai-Lian Yu so much? Why did those two crimes dominate the Netflix documentary’s first episode? After all, they are the least ‘Night Stalkerish’ of all the crimes, with their simple hitman-style random shootings,…
Expendable For A Cause. 