Richard Ramirez Research Paper

In June of 1984, Richard Ramirez began his famous killing spree. His strategies on how he would kill his victims seem to be unorthodox and unorganized, take his first victim for example. Seventy-nine year old Jennie Vincow was asleep on her bed inside her apartment on Chapman Street in Los Angeles, California, when Richard Ramirez who unintentionally broke into the wrong apartment, was high off coke and angry because of the poverty based apartment he broke into, plowed his six-inch hunting knife into Jennie’s chest. After waking up screaming, she tried defending herself but due to his raging strength it was nearly impossible to do that, Ramirez then covered her mouth as he cut her throat and stabbed her three more times in the chest and once in vaginal area. (Phillip Carlo, The Night Stalker, 1996)

Like Jennie, Richard Ramirez murdered fourteen other victims in the most gruesome and obscene way. He is credited to have said “For a true killer, a good murder is like a good meal: you want it to last and get the most out of it” (Carlo, 25 1996). He would murder his victims by either shooting or stabbing them, then he would try to gouge their eyes out with his hunting knife and before leaving the scene, he would draw a satanic

The incorrect actions that were taken by the justice system were some errors in the evidence presented by the prosecution, and legal delays during the trial. One specific error that the criminal justice system made was the shoe print analysis, according to one of the detectives working on the case, the LAPD ran a test on the shoe print and the results show that the brand name was a white pair of “Avias” and that only one pair of that type of shoe was sold in the Los Angeles County area but was paid for in cash not credit, so that piece of information was quickly disintegrated. (Phillip Carlo, The Night Stalker, 1996,