US serial killer Richard Ramirez dies in hospital". The Guardian. London, England. Associated Press. June 7, 2013. Archived from the original on October 29, 2013 . Retrieved October 24, 2013. He got on the 10 Freeway and drove for a few exits, got off at Alhambra, and looked for a situation he could exploit. He couldn’t find one, returned to the freeway, and drove over to Glassel Park—a small community inhabited by low-income working people. Its population was 42,000. He drove without directions or map, his dark eyes searching the night, looking for a place where he could get in, get what he wanted, and get out. To many LA cops that summer, there were two men stalking the city at night, one a killer of adults, the other a child rapist. “We had a serial killer responsible for kidnapping children, girls, boys; raping adult women, killing adult women, killing males,” recalled a homicide detective, Gil Carrillo. “We’ve never encountered anybody like that in criminal history.” Carrillo courted ridicule from his colleagues by countering orthodoxy and suggesting the two night stalkers were the same person. “The old timers laughed at me.”

At this point Carrillo was thinking the murder involved some kind of love triangle. It seemed the only explanation. Certainly robbery wasn’t the motive, for nothing had been stolen—either from Maria or Dayle. The detectives spoke to all the neighbors they could find. No one had seen or heard anything. A .22 doesn’t make much noise. The first half of the book is great, following the 13 murders and couple of near fatal rape-assaults of Richard Ramirez in LA in 1984-1985. Though some might find him a more dynamic or interesting serial killer because of his allegiance to Satan; I find him more boring and more of a coward than most psychopath serial killers. The author Carlo pushes his oxymoronic subtle sermons (views/themes) all too often and almost seems to make excuses for how Ramirez came about. Richard hit his head and had epileptic fits when he was a boy. The government tested atomic bombs in New Mexico and the fallout effected all their children, some physical, maybe some mental. Richard witnessed a murder at 12. His dad yelled at him and had rage. His brothers were a bad influence. In fact, the only avenue in which Carlo doesn't exploit is Ramirez possibly being possessed (because I'm sure he doesn't himself believe in Heaven or Hell), which is surprising because of all the sensational roots to a serial killer demonic possession has the most appeal. Also, it wouldn't be far fetched because Richard believed Satan would protect him, drew pentagrams at some of the scenes of the crime, and made the victims he raped and murdered continuously swear to Satan as opposed to God.As he was pondering that question, he heard about the Veronica Yu murder and called up Tony Romero at the Monterey Park stationhouse so they could exchange notes. Right off, Carrillo felt it was the same guy. Romero told him one of his witnesses, a Jorge Gallegos, had got a few numbers of the license plate, and they were trying to find the car. Carrillo asked Romero to keep him posted. The Monterey Park detective said he would. As he drove and watched people walking on the sidewalks of Main, Broadway, and Spring, sitting in their cars waiting for red lights, he thought about violent sex and domination. The right time and place were essential for successful murder. He’d later reveal: To be a good killer you have to plan things out carefully. You’ve got to be prepared in every way when the moment comes to strike; you cannot hesitate.

The Night Stalker's wife". CNN. Atlanta, Georgia: Turner Broadcasting System. July 28, 1997. Archived from the original on August 26, 2003 . Retrieved May 22, 2012. Fimrite, Peter; Taylor, Michael (March 27, 2005). "No shortage of women who dream of snaring a husband on Death Row". San Francisco Chronicle. San Francisco, California: Hearst Corporation. Archived from the original on July 10, 2013 . Retrieved May 22, 2012. It would have been nice if the author had given us the highlights of the trial, and not mixed in all the details about The Night Stalkers groupies and eventual wife in with the court transcripts. That should have been a section of the book unto itself. California's 'Night Stalker' serial killer Richard Ramirez dies after decades on death row". The Washington Post. June 7, 2013. Archived from the original on June 16, 2013 . Retrieved June 8, 2013.

I haven't awarded Carlo's book - which is undoubtedly the best-written and most comprehensive on the Night Stalker case thus far (the opening couple of paragraphs are great set-pieces of writing) - five stars, since I was a tad disappointed that he didn't attempt a psychological analysis of Ramirez in the same way that someone like Schlesinger did. Perhaps Carlo does so in his 'The Killer Within', which I have yet to read. The interview with Ramirez at the end of the book, though interesting, is not terribly insightful, and I didn't feel that Carlo pressed him anywhere near enough. There won't be another opportunity to do so, alas, since both men are now dead. After Salerno had done thirteen months at the jail it was time for him to be moved to a beat. He needed to fill out a form listing the three areas he’d like to work. For all three, he requested the East Los Angeles Station.

Fused together by cocaine, his days melted into weeks, then months, and there was no new violence, but there were scores of break-ins and robberies. He felt certain that demons and Satan were protecting him and watching over him—and that he’d never get caught.Worse, there was an actor voicing Ramirez’s boring satanist philosophy that made the cops suspect for a while he was a Charles Manson copycat. Each quotation – “I was was in alliance with the evil that is inherent in human nature,” went one; “Satan was the stabilising force in my life,” went another – was relayed in green capital letters on screen. We may have not seen the face of the killer but we saw and heard his dull mantras in unedifying detail. a b Buchanan, Paul (May 15, 2017). "How a 13-Year-Old Boy Brought Down L.A.'s Most Notorious Serial Killer". Los Angeles. Los Angeles, California: Hour Media Group LLC. Archived from the original on May 15, 2017 . Retrieved May 26, 2017. The gloves made getting the screen off difficult, and he had to remove one. He rarely took off his gloves, but tonight he was wired and jammed with the coming down of the cocaine, and his motor movements were off.

This review is going to be long, it's going to jump around an ramble in places and in some instances I'm going t direct my comments to certain people - like they're sitting reading them right this very second. And I hope they do some day.No, you didn’t. You follow me. Why? What you want? She stared at him with disbelief, her almond-shaped eyes dark and angry above a delicate, lovely jawline. In a book about the Night Stalker, author Philip Carlo claims Richard’s dad was violent towards the children. He himself had been beaten as a child by both his father and grandfather. Despite vowing not to treat his five children the same way, things did turn violent if the children got into trouble. For example Richard’s brother Ruben was arrested for stealing a car, and developing a glue-sniffing habit. His other brother Robert also developed a drug problem. According to Carlo’s book, ‘The Night Stalker: The Life and Crimes of Richard Ramirez’, Richard was scared of his father.