10 Demonic Details Surrounding Richard Ramirez, The “Night Stalker”

6 /10 The Night Stalker Cometh

His first murders in 1985 happened within just an hour. Three victims were attacked. First was Maria Hernandez, who he shot at while she pulled into her garage where Richie was already waiting with a revolver.

Miraculously she survived when the bullet glanced off the keys in her hand that she held up.

Her roommate, Dayle Okazaki, was not as fortunate; Richie killed him when he called from inside the house. After fleeing the scene, he killed Veronica Yu after pulling her from her car and vanished.

5 /10 The Valley Intruder

His next three attempts ended in initial failure. He went after couples, not singled out individuals, for a short time. First, he burglarized the home of Vincent and Maxine Zazzara and killed them where they slept.

Maxine attempted to fight back, and Richie brutalized her further, removing her eyes and placing them in the jewelry box he emptied.

In May, he shot Bill Doi in the head two months later, which was non-fatal, and raped his wife Lillian in the other room.

In May, he attacked Mabel Bell and Nettie Lang, both of whom were over 80 years old, and marked them and their walls with a pentagram.

4 /10 The Walk-In Killer

His spree through Los Angeles and its surrounding cities continued in July. Most of his victims were killed and either raped or brutalized to an inhumane degree. There was no apparent rhyme or reason to his murders.

He went somewhere, stole a car, stole into someone’s house, stole their things while they weren’t there, while they were, and if he could, he would kill. He was stopped once by divine intervention.

When trying to finish off 16-year-old Whitney Bennett after bludgeoning her with a tire iron, he saw sparks coming from the phone cord and thought Jesus Christ was stepping in to stop him. She survived the attack.

3 /10 Satan's Soldier

Richie had a pentagram tattooed on his wrist. He believed that he had a supernatural protector in Satan and swore his services to the Devil.

In the event of a willful survivor, a victim who he would beat but leave alive, he would force them to guide him to the valuables in their house and “swear on Satan” that they weren’t lying.

Some of his burglaries ended in tragedy, others in trauma, as few survived his rampage, but some were given second chances, surviving even shotgun blasts to the head in their sleep.

2 /10 El Matador

Richie killed through August, but some of his victims survived his best attempts. One group, Bill Carns and Inez Erickson, positively identified and described Richie to the police after their attack on August 24th.

Richie, feeling no remorse or fear through his murders in Los Angeles and San Francisco, tried to take a bus to Tuscon, Arizona, to visit his brother.

When he returned, his picture was on every newspaper in every store, and people pointed him out. Spanish-speaking citizens called him “El Matador,” “The Killer.”

1 /10 Down With The Devil

Even under arrest and in court, Ramirez lived up to the evil depictions and even exceeded them. His thoughtless evil overshadowed the media’s best efforts to make him out to be a monster.

He confessed to his crimes without remorse and was sentenced to 19 consecutive death penalties. Even at that, he was unfazed. He was quoted saying, “Big deal. Death always went with the territory.

See you in Disneyland.” to reporters once his sentence was delivered. If he was genuinely doing Satan’s work, meeting him was just the last step of his plan.