Tag: perjury
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A Web of Informants: Part 5. Eva Castillo
Eva Castillo was named by Manuel Hechavarria (Cuba). He guided detectives to her last known residence but she was not there – she had been arrested for burglary in September 1984 and was in prison, using the alias Rosa Solis. When detectives interviewed Castillo in prison, she admitted to committing burglary with Cuba and someone…
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Sophie Dickman and the Shortish Jewellery Expert
By Venning On July 7, 1985, Sophie Dickman was raped and robbed in Monterey Park by a man with a gun and soft curly brown hair. But her case, like many others in the Night Stalker investigation, raises disturbing questions, not only about the suspect’s identity, but about eyewitness unreliability, investigative overreach, and prosecutorial inconsistency.…
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Tsai-Lian Yu: Murder, Medallions & Morphing Suspects
Read about the Night Stalker case where the MO was completely different and where witnesses lied that the short Asian man they saw was Richard Ramirez.
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Night Stalker: The Jennings Pistol
Updated with new information on 10th September 2025. None of the Night Stalker’s guns were recovered except one, a Jennings pistol. In the Netflix documentary Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer, key claims about the gun and an informant, Jesse Perez were made, particularly by Sergeant Frank Salerno. Firstly, what Salerno says does…
