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| Events | Richard Ramirez was born, and grew up in El Paso Texas. | Discovered that he was epileptic | His new Mentor, his cousin Mike, came around. Mike was a green beret in Vietnam. He showed Richard videos of him killing and raping and torturing vietnamese woman. He later witnessed Mike shoot his wife right in the face, in person. | Interest in school dropped, and all he did was get high. Now he stole money to get high on marijuana. | left house and moved in with sister and husband, Roberto. Roberto brought Richard out at night to peep inother peoples windows to watch girls get undressed. He then started using LSD and thought he was a disciple of Satan and becoming one with Satan. | assaulted and started to rape a woman as her husband came in and beat the sh*t out of him and handed him into the police. | His cousin Mike got out of the hospital | He moved in with his brother Ruben and became addicted to cocaine. He used burglary to support his addiction. He later substituted P.C.P for cocaine and raped another addict several times. | raped and killed 79-year-old woman, Jennie Vincow, in a suburb of Los Angeles | Richard abducts a six-year-old Montebello girl, from a bus stop near her school and carried her away in a laundry bag, he sexually abused her and leaves her behind in lake city. (Alive) | He kidnapped a nine-year-old girl from her bedroom in Monterey Park, he raped her and dumped her in Elysian Park. (Alive) | He shot 34-year-old Dayle Okazaki to death in her Rosemead condominium, wounding her roommate Maria Hernandez before he fled. Hernandez provided police with their first description of a long-faced intruder, notable for his curly hair, bulging eyes, and wide-spaced, rotting teeth. | Another victim on March 17 was 30-year-old Tsa Lian Yu, (a.k.a. Veronica) ambushed near her home in Monterey Park, dragged from her car and shot several times. She was pronounced dead the following day. The press dub Ramiez as 'The Valley Intruder'. | He abducts an Eagle Rock girl from her home, after sexually abusing her he let her go. | 64-year-old Vincent Zazzara is beaten to death in his home. Zazzara's wife, 44-year-old Maxine, was fatally stabbed in the same attack, her eyes carved out and carried from the house. The Zazzaras had been dead two days before their bodies were discovered by their son. | 65-year-old William Doi was shot in the head by a man who invaded his home, in Monterey Park. Dying, he staggered to the telephone and dialed an emergency number before he collapsed, thus saving his wife from a lethal assault by the Stalker. | 84-year-old Mabel Bell and her invalid sister, 81-year-old Florence Lang, were savagely beaten in their Monrovia home. The Stalker paused to ink Satanic pentagrams on Bell's body, drawing more on the walls before he departed. Found by a gardener on June 2, Lang would survive her injuries, but Mable Bell was pronounced dead on July 15, 1985. | 32-year-old Patty Higgins was killed in her home at Arcadia, her throat slashed | 77-year-old Mary Cannon was slain in identical style as Patty Higgin, less than two miles away. | 61-year-old Joyce Nelson was beaten to death at her home, in Monterey Park | The killer struck twice on July 20, first invading a Sun Valley home where he killed 32-year-old Chainarong Khovanath, then beat and raped his wife. Not content with that he took their eight-year son into the next room with a bottle of baby oil. Mrs. Khovanath was forced to listen as Ramirez raped him before escaping with $30,000 worth of cash and jewelry. A short time later, Max Kneiding, 69, and his wife Lela, 66, were shot to death in their home, in Glendale | 38-year-old Christopher Petersen and his wife Virginia, 27, were critically wounded by gunshots in their Northridge home. They were able to give a description of their attacker, which matched that af all othe survivors | 35-year-old Elyas Abowath is shot to dead in his Diamond Bar home, Richard then brutally beats the victim's wife. It is after this attack that the Police announce that they are after a serial killer, the press dub Ramirez as 'The Night Stalker'. | The Stalker deserted his normal hunting ground, gunning down 66-year-old Peter Pan at his home in San Francisco. Pan's wife, Barbara was shot and beaten, but she managed to survive her wounds, identifying suspect sketches of the homicidal prowler. | - In Mission Viejo, he wounded 29-year-old Bill Carns with a shot to the head, then raped his fiancee Inez Erickson, twice. As Ramiez dove away Erickson seen his car. It was an oange Toyota station wagon. A local teenager also noticed the car and it's driver. He wrote down the number plate and gave it to the police | Police recovered the stolen car with a complete clear set of fingerprints belonging to Richard Ramirez, a 25-year-old drifter from Texas whose L.A. rap sheet included numerous arrests for traffic and drug violations. | His mug shots are broadcast on TV and on the cover of every major newspaper in the state | was arrested after trying to flee. | was given the death penalty 13 times. | Married Doreen Lioy in San Quentin's prison waiting room |