Tag: forensic science
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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 Khovananth Incident
July 20, 1985 This post is part of a series analyzing the prosecution of Richard Ramírez, known as the “Night Stalker.” We examine each case attributed to him to assess whether the evidence truly supported his conviction using his 2008 Federal Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus and its supporting documents. ****This post contains details…
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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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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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Eight Richard Ramirezes
The unreliability of fingerprint forensics was previously discussed in Kaycee’s article on the Vincow Incident. Vincow’s was the only murder scene that supposedly linked Ramirez to a crime scene – or at least the outside of it – for the incriminating print was on a window screen. This was a latent print (invisible to the…
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The Light-Haired Man Who Attacked the Abowaths
This article will argue that the evidence in the Abowath case was deeply flawed in three areas: forensic science (bodily fluids), physical (shoeprints/firearms) and eyewitness identification. These raise serious doubts about Ramirez’s guilt for this crime. Diamond Bar, Los Angeles County 8th August 1985 Some time after 2:30am, Sakina Abowath was woken by a loud “pop”…
Expendable For A Cause. 