Category: POOR EVIDENCE
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How Can You Help?
To begin with, I want to thank you once again for the support you’ve already given us, for your encouragement, engagement, and willingness to ask the questions most do not. I’m not going to lie; this case is tricky, and we’ve done our best to break it all down and put it back together in…
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Mark the Card With His Number
And so the Tall, Short, Balding, Blonde, Dark, Moustachioed, Dark or Light Skinned, Asian/Hispanic/Caucasian Man Was Identified. We’ve discussed the infamous lineup many times on this blog and in the book. You can read more about it HERE, HERE and HERE.It’s hard to imagine that anyone with critical thinking could look at the lineup procedure…
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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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A Bit More Ballistics Bollocks
“Robinson was the last of three law enforcement firearms examiners to evaluate the general rifling characteristics of the ballistics evidence. Yet the two other examiners, who did not reach entirely the same conclusions, were not called to testify at trial. For example, in the report prepared by Robert Christansen on March 28, 1985, he concluded…
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The Night Stalker: Negative Serology
Blood Evidence: No Comparison One of the weapons used to kill Mary Cannon was a milk glass lamp stand. The dried blood on the glass was tested in a laboratory. It was discovered that the PGM markers did not match Cannon, nor did they match Richard Ramirez. This might suggest that the killer cut himself…
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The Rodriguez Break-in
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…
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Ballistics Bollocks?
“In one response to a basic question about what the defendant does during the trial, Mr. Ramirez’s irrationality leaks through: “Sit and watch the whole facade – the stupidness of it. You have lay persons giving legal jargon that they don’t go to school for even and pretend to do scientific stuff.” When I asked to whom he…
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Native American Tattoo?
Here is Gil Carrillo, recalling how Anastasia Hronas – the little girl who was allegedly sexually abused by Richard Ramirez – remembered seeing an “Indian headdress tattoo” on the arm of her kidnapper. That is an amazing lead. But Richard Ramirez had no such tattoo. Carrillo insists Hronas actually saw a pentagram pen drawing, which…
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Night Stalker: Why the Khovananth Incident Was a Pivotal Moment
How the Night Stalker’s appearance was engineered and retrofitted.
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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…
