Tag: true crime
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The Khovananth Incident
July 20, 1985 ****This post contains details of sexual assault and crime scene information. Reader discretion is advised. **** After robbing and killing the Kneidings, seemingly the Night Stalker hadn’t had enough pillaging and murdering for the night, so he headed to Sun Valley. Per Somkid Khovananth’s report to the police, she woke up at…
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The Kneiding Incident
July 20, 1985 **** This post contains crime scene details. Reader discretion is advised. The intention is not to offend but to provide information. Proceed only if you are agreeable to reading sensitive content. **** Allegedly, the Night Stalker was very busy the night of July 20th. The story goes that he made his way…
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You, the Jury
Questioning The word “occult” comes from the Latin “occultus”. Ironically, the trial of an infamous occultist and Satanist is the epitome of the meaning of the word itself: clandestine, secret; hidden. We’ve written many words; a story needed to be told, and we created this place to enable us to do just that.Here, in this space,…
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San Quentin (Part Two)
Life on the Row Death row prisoners are stripped of nearly every freedom while waiting to die. Life is a bleak existence marked by isolation, exclusion from educational and employment programs, restricted visitation, and the ever-looming possibility of execution. Solitary Confinement: Richard spent most of his time alone in a small cell, with limited social…
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And Justice for All
*images may need desktop viewing for clarity* “After a recess, in another hearing held in the court’s chambers which was held outside of the presence of Petitioner, the court and the parties discussed courtroom security. Trial counsel was concerned that there had been no screening of the members of the public which were coming to…
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A Cloak of Competence
The Woods Report George Woods was a neuropsychiatrist who evaluated Richard at the San Francisco County Jail and San Quentin State Prison, interviewing him on five separate occasions for approximately 14 hours. Woods also spent extensive time observing Richard’s interviews and interactions with his San Francisco defense attorneys, screening LA trial footage, and reviewing his…
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Ballistics Bollocks?
“In one response to a basic question about what the defendant does during the trial, Mr. Ramirez’s irrationality leaks through: “Sit and watch the whole facade – the stupidness of it. You have lay persons giving legal jargon that they don’t go to school for even and pretend to do scientific stuff.” When I asked to whom he…
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Murder in Lake Merced
Peter Pan and his wife, Barbara, lived on Eucalyptus Drive in the Lake Merced area of San Francisco. Around 10 a.m. on August 18, 1985, their son stopped by their home and found Peter Pan had been shot and killed, and Barbara had been brutally attacked and sexually assaulted. The house had been ransacked. Initial…
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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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Native American Tattoo?
Here is Gil Carrillo, recalling how Anastasia Hronas – the little girl who was allegedly 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 pentagram pen drawing, which…