Serial Killer Richard Ramirez
Crescendo of Terror
Late in the 20th Century, Hell glutted on humanity. Its first
bloodletting of that season of the Devil occurred on the warm
evening of June 28, 1984, when an earth-bound Lucifer found his
way into the small Glassel Park apartment of 79-year-old Jennie
Vincow. Throughout the Los Angeles area a damp humidity had
oppressed the air that day, and when the evening came and the
temperature slightly cooled, Jennie left her window open to invite
what little breeze there might be into her flat. Like a fallen leaf,
decayed and tossed from its source, a fallen angel, dark, angry and
also decaying, blew across the sill of that open window. When the
demon departed through that same window, he left behind Jennie
Vincow, raped, beaten and nearly decapitated.
"Her body was found by her son, who lived above her ground-floor
apartment, just south of...Forest Lawn Park," reports the Los
Angeles Times. "Her throat had been slashed and she had been
stabbed repeatedly."
The police were baffled. But, in the months to come, they were to
encounter a madman whose lust for killing and depravity equaled, if
not surpassed, that of Jack the Ripper or, more contemporary, the
Hillside Strangler. Soon to be named the "Night Stalker" by the
press, this madman bore, according to true crime author Richard L.
Linedecker, "the horror in his soul of a Stephen King or a Clive
Barker fright novel – and more." A Freddy Kruger. For real.
Less than a year later, the monster reappeared. This time, he waited
in the shadows of an upscale condominium outside LA. The date
was March 17, 1985, time 11:30 p.m., when pretty-faced Maria
Hernandez pulled her auto into the security garage, unaware the
monster was watching her from behind a pillar. When she alighted
from her car, the killer stepped from the darkness, gun upraised and,
despite her pleadings, he pressed the trigger. She stumbled. And the
killer, thinking she was dead, stepped over her to enter the side door
of the condo. But, Maria had been lucky – very lucky – for the bullet
had deflected off the car keys she held in her hand, causing a hand
wound, but nothing more.
Inside the building, Maria's roommate was less fortunate. For, when
Maria finally made her way to the safety of her place, breathless, she
discovered that her friend, Dayle Okazaki, had al...
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and the housewife - they had bought guns, and loaded them. Or they
had as their weapons shovels, or pickaxes, or kitchen knives, or any
one of dozens of homemade utensils pointing their way to a night
stalker's heart.
Suddenly, the Night Stalker realized that things had changed. He
found their lights burning at night, a silhouette in the window.
Suddenly he found apartment buildings with hired guards pacing the
lobby. Suddenly he found citizens' committees strolling roundabout
and in and out in the alleys, the parks, the streets. Suddenly he found
their windows nailed shut, porch lights left on, back yards illumined
by safety beams. Suddenly he found defiance.
The civic forces, too, were out in droves. Patrol cars were
everywhere, marked and unmarked vehicles. Townsfolk volunteers
had been deputized, as well, to drive in the dark, licensed to throw
their search beams at anything that moved or crept or crawled - and
if it resembled the Night Stalker, to step on it.
The devil, the ghost, the ghoul, the phantom, the stalker. It was time
for him to leave Los Angeles.
He shrugged. After all, no matter. He would go elsewhere. He could
kill anywhere.
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