Category: POOR EVIDENCE
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Native American Tattoo?
Here is Gil Carrillo, recalling how Anastasia Hronas – the little girl who was 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 drawn pentagram, which looks very…
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Why the Khovananth Incident Was a Pivotal Moment
The Khovananth Incident, on 20th July 1985, was developed into the most important Night Stalker case of all. This is because the perpetrator’s appearance seemingly matched the description the police had been giving since June, of a tall, thin Latino male with dark curly hair and dental problems, including a gap between his top front…
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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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The Gallery of Horrors
Some people have watched the Netflix documentary and were left with the question: how did all those varied composite drawings lead to Richard Ramirez? He looked nothing like most of them, yet Ramirez had many distinguishing features, like scars and unusual eyebrows. Here is a quick rundown of some the composites involved in the Ramirez…
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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,…
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The Wrong Gun (There Was No Gun)
Have you ever watched Night Stalker: the Hunt for a Killer and thought ‘something isn’t quite right’? Well, there are a lot of things about it that are not quite right, such as the inclusion of crimes Ramirez was never convicted of: the child abductions and the murder of Patty Higgins. Then there are things…
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Serial Delusions
“A series of crimes involves distinctive features, offences or signature mark to indicate that particular individual likely committed all of the crimes. Distinctive features of a modus operandi include cause of death, type of weapon used, or victim. By definition, a series of crimes requires similarity among the criminal acts; crimes linked together because of…
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The Shoe Prints: Avia, a Cinderella Story
*Some images are better viewed on a desktop due to size and for clarity* “I need not look beyond this room to see all the liars, the haters, the killers, the crooks, the paranoid cowards. Truly the trematodes of the earth, each of one his own legal profession.” Richard Ramirez, taken from transcripts during his…
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Identity Charade
“The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.” JFK For the purpose of this article I will be referring to the expert witness statement of Dr Kathy Pezdek, document 16-7 from the Federal Petition of the Writ of Habeas Corpus, filed…
Expendable For A Cause. 