Richard Ramirez was a serial killer in the United States, terrorizing the greater Los Angeles area. His victims were found dead, raped, and/or had all of their valuables taken from their home. He was dubbed “The Night Stalker” during his spree of killings in June of 1984 to August of 1985. He was an avowed “Satanist.”
Ramirez was born in El Paso, Texas on February 29, 1960. Ramirez’s dad was a Mexican nationalist and a former police officer in Juarez, Mexico. He often had “fits” where he would become very mad and beat Ramirez. Ramirez would leave the house, hiding from his father, and sleep in the local cemetery. Since he was 10 Ramirez had smoked weed.
When he 12 he got very close with his cousin Miguel. Miguel was a decorated Green Beret combat veteran. He would often talk about his gruesome killings, and would show Ramirez pictures of him raping Vietnamese women and posing with the dead bodies of the woman with their severed heads. Ramirez witnessed Miguel shoot his wife in the face after a fight
After that he became more withdrawn from the family. Later he moved in with his older sister, Ruth, and her husband who was an obsessive “peeping Tom” and would take Ramirez on his nighttime trips.
Ramirez began to experiment with LSD and also became engrossed with Satanism. He went Jefferson High School but dropped out in 9th grade. He began to experiment with his sexual fantasies, and mixed them with violence, often times with forced bondage and rape. Miguel was found not guilty for the murder of his wife after 4 years of incarceration at a mental hospital, due to reasons of insanity and once again began to be a role model for Ramirez. Ramirez settled permanently in California when he was twenty-two.
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...an elderly couple called him “the Killer” in Spanish. When he went to pay for his things he saw the picture of himself on a magazine cover and fled the store. A group of residents chased his down and held him until the police arrived.
He was found guilty of 13 counts of murder, 5 attempted murders, 11 sexual assaults, and 14 burglaries. He was sentenced to death by gas chamber. After he was convicted some ladies began to form a fan club for him. One of the members of that fan club, Doreen Lioy, wrote him 75 letters, so Ramirez proposed to her and they were wed October 3rd, 1988. Lioy stated that she would kill herself when Ramirez was killed. Soon they got a divorce and Ramirez was engaged to another person. Ramirez soon died of complications secondary to B-cell Lymphoma on June 7th, 2013. He was 53 years old at time of death and was waiting execution for 23 years.
Before coming to the United States illegally with his family, Francisco lived in a small village north of Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. His family left Mexico in hopes of leaving their life of poverty behind them. Francisco and his family moved from place to place throughout California, following the crops and living in migrant labor camps. Unfortunately, Francisco’s father started to have back problems from picking crops for so many years. Francisco’s family lived in Bonetti Ranch in army barracks for a few years ...
In 1980, Julio Gonzalez immigrated to New York and met Lydia Feliciano, who would become his girlfriend. 10 years later, Gonzalez lost his job, was dumped by Feliciano, and got drunk. He visited his ex-girlfriend when she was working as a coat-check at an illegal bar in the Bronx called Happy Land Social Club. After Gonzalez was thrown out by the bouncer, he bought gasoline at a nearby gas station and set fire to the stairs, which was the only exit. 87 people were killed. Gonzalez was visited in his apartment by police officers, he confessed to his crimes, and was taken to the police station where he was promptly arrested. The defense attorney claimed that the defendant was unlawfully arrested so his statements were invalid and that even if
Ernesto Arturo Miranda was born in Mesa, Arizona on March 9, 1941. During his grade school years, Miranda began getting in trouble. His first criminal conviction was during his eighth grade year. The following year, now a 9th grade dropout, he was convicted of burglary. His sentence was a year in the reform school, Arizona State Industrial School for Boys (ASISB). After his release from the reform school, he got into trouble again with the law and was returned to ASISB. Once released for the second time, Miranda relocated to Los Angeles where a few months later he was arrested on suspicion of armed robbery and sexual offenses even though he was not convicted of these crimes. He was eventually extradited back to Arizona a couple
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Knowing the destiny of Montoya Santana, the character played by Edward James Olmos, in growing up and into a revered and lifelong membership in the Mexican Mafia, including 18 years in Folsom Prison, the development of a comprehensive, although hypothetical, human service intervention plan is in order. This hypothetical, culturally appropriate, therapeutic intervention is to take place at the point young (16-year-old) Santana is first institutionalized in (juvie) the juvenile d...
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...l Paso, Texas with his third wife. His original residence in New Mexico was burned down in 1994. He then moved to Ciudad Juarez, Mexico and Uruapan, Michoacan where he met his third wife. His memoirs once only available in Spanish in 1978, published by Mexico’s Fondo Cultural Economico was republished in 2000.
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Thought to have been born in either Alamos, Sonora, Mexico or Quillota, Chile in 1829; Joaquin traveled with his older brother, Carlos and
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...ays of getting out of his punishment including insanity, which was professionally proven not the case, and that someone with black gloves signed for him to do what he did. Which was also proven wrong. Mesa was charged with charged with two counts of felony murder, one while armed, along with some robbery and burglary charges. He went to jail for the rest of his life without parole.