Tag: Richard Ramírez
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There’s a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He’s Elvis..
“The publicity in Petitioner’s case contained multiple stories and accounts of facts that Petitioner’s jury was never entitled to hear in the courtroom”
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Anatomy of a Manhunt.
This trial is a joke.. So said an infuriated and frustrated Richard Ramirez during the ridiculous charade that passed for a trial and it’s not hard to see why. This went to print July 30th, 1989. As the jury began it’s deliberation, casting was underway for a TV film called “Trackdown: The Anatomy of a…
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But Whose Cat Was It?
What on earth.. It’s something I briefly mentioned in, this post about eyewitness identification, and this one is particularly odd, to say the least. A 32 year old Arcadia housewife testified at the Municipal Court preliminaries that she had, in fact, seen the accused on 27th June, 1985. “He looked strange to me..” Indeed, very…
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Where the “Night Stalker” began: The Murder of Dayle Okazaki
By Venning The story the public is familiar with: on 17th March 1985, Richard Ramirez entered the garage of 22-year old Maria Hernandez and shot her. He proceeded into the condominium and shot Maria’s housemate, 34-year-old Dayle Okazaki, in the head. Ramirez departed without taking anything but left his hat behind, and for reasons unknown,…
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Who Defends The Undefended? Part One.
*Images may require viewing via a desktop for clarity* Unqualified to defend a case of such magnitude. “It is nothing you would understand, but I do have something to say. In fact, I have a lot to say, but now is not the time or the place. I don’t even know why I am wasting…
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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
Arrest On the 30th of August 1985, the final police sketch of the man suspected of being the “Night Stalker” was created with the help of Carol Kyle, who had been brutally raped and robbed at gunpoint on the 30th of May. It was the second composite Kyle had assisted with, the first being produced…
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The Monster Under The Bed
“I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it’s for or against.” Malcom X In the summer of 1985, Los Angeles was in the grip of fear from a spate of seemingly random and brutal killings, all committed by one man, the infamous “Night Stalker”. America in the 70s…
Expendable For A Cause. 