Tag: Night Stalker
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A Web of Informants: Part 3. Sandra Hotchkiss
Sandra Hotchkiss was a burglar, drug addict and prostitute who committed burglary with Richard Ramirez in 1985. Significantly, Hotchkiss was yet another burglar who traded with Felipe Solano, in her words, 15 to 20 times. Like Ramirez, Hotchkiss suffered from epilepsy. She spotted him unsuccessfully trying to sell jewellery at a pool hall and exploited…
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A Web of Informants: Part 2. Jesse Perez
As explained in Part One, Detectives were hoping to link the ‘Burglar Rick’ reported by Alejandro Espinoza to the ‘Burglar Rick’ reported by the Gregg family. The same time all this was going on, another informant called the police: Jesse Perez. Jesse Perez had met Ramirez through his older brother Julián, who was his neighbour.…
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A Web of Informants: Part 1. Closing In
The Net Closes A series of events caused detectives to home in on Richard Ramirez. After the Khovananth attack, the LAPD disseminated a police bulletin as well as a ‘wanted poster’ of the suspect. They told the public that this man, a Latino, had attacked a dozen people and was armed and dangerous. His distinguishing…
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A Burglary in Marina
On August 15th, 1985, a burglary occurred in an affluent neighborhood in the Marina District area of San Francisco on Baker Street, at the townhome of dentist Jack Saroyan. While his niece Rosemary Ovian and her friend were sleeping, burglar(s) gained entry to the home, and the house was robbed. At 11:40 p.m., the Saroyan’s…
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California Dreamin’
A Den of Thieves We usually do not write about the charges against Richard Ramirez in San Francisco (SF) because the SF legal documents are unavailable. Most of what we know about the San Francisco charges against Richard comes from news articles available at the time, as well as small pieces of information contained within…
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Richard Ramirez: The Wells Report
Jane Wells was a clinical psychologist that specialized in forensic psychology. She was retained by post-conviction counsel for Richard Ramirez to evaluate his psychological status, the effects of the trauma he experienced, his social history, and cognitive functioning and to form an opinion regarding the significance of these factors on his overall functioning. To accomplish…
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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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The Fragmented Mind -The Watson Report
* Some images may require a desktop for greater clarity* “I’ll describe some characteristics of a man I knew almost ten years ago. When I first met him he was sitting a table. He was thin and somewhat hunched over; he looked like a bird with a broken wing, afraid and isolated. He had a…
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Shapeshifter
When Reasonable Questioning Gets Shut Down. * Images may require a desktop for greater clarity * So many “true crime” podcasts and channels are available to us; a brief scan of my YouTube account reveals countless lists. Checking out the episodes dedicated to Ramirez, you will notice one recurring thing; they are all the same.…
Expendable For A Cause. 