Night Stalker Case

The list below illustrates the complex web of direct and circumstantial evidence against Richard Ramirez, including incriminating statements he made after his arrest. The 43 felony charges involved 13 murders.

On a hot Saturday morning almost three years ago, the capture of the Night Stalker suspect ended an unparalleled reign of fear in Southern California. But for Phil Halpin, the arrest of drifter Richard Ramirez marked only a beginning. The veteran Los Angeles County prosecutor spent that entire Labor Day weekend methodically constructing an air-tight case designed to send Ramirez to San Quentin's gas chamber.

Convicted "Night Stalker" Richard Ramirez was sentenced to death Tuesday but not before the husky-voiced killer delivered a chilling parting monologue in which he warned, "I will be avenged." "You don't understand me. You are not expected to. You are not capable of it. I am beyond your experience," the 29-year-old devil-worshipping drifter from Texas told a courtroom crammed with spectators. "I am beyond good and evil. I will be avenged. Lucifer dwells in us all. That's it."

Richard Ramirez, the Satan-worshiping mass killer awaiting trial on a murder charge, says news reports that hundreds of women line up to meet him are exaggerated. "I'm not a sex symbol," Ramirez told reporters in a jailhouse interview. Jailers had said that Ramirez, 31, gets eight to 10 women callers a week. Ramirez, the so-called "Night Stalker," was convicted of 13 grisly sex slayings in Southern California. The self-proclaimed satanist said his visitors "sympathize with me, they relate."

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors meted out shares Tuesday of a $36,777 bounty for the capture of convicted Night Stalker killer Richard Ramirez, paying rewards ranging from $250 to $10,388 to 19 people. Officials said that the largest sum will go to Jesse N. Perez, 65, of Los Angeles. Perez is a one-time acquaintance of Ramirez, who was convicted Sept. 20 of 13 murders and faces death in the gas chamber. Deputy Dist. Atty.

After four days of deliberations, jurors recommended on Wednesday that Texas drifter Richard Ramirez be sentenced to death for the Night Stalker murders, a rampage of savage, Satanic-tinged slayings that haunted Southern California in the summer of 1985. "We the jury . . . fix the penalty therefor at death," Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael A.

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge appointed an additional lawyer Monday to help defend Night Stalker suspect Richard Ramirez, bringing to three the number of defense lawyers in the case. The appointment of Ray C. Clark was announced by Judge Michael A. Tynan as testimony resumed in the case after a two-week hiatus because of nervous exhaustion on the part of lead defense lawyer Daniel V. Hernandez. Clark's appointment means that the public cost of the much-delayed trial--about $1.

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors meted out shares Tuesday of a $36,777 bounty for the capture of convicted Night Stalker Richard Ramirez, paying rewards ranging from $250 to $10,388 to 19 people, including a 13-year-old Mission Viejo boy. Officials said that the largest sum will go to Jesse N. Perez, 66, of Los Angeles. Perez is a one-time acquaintance of Ramirez, who was convicted Sept. 20 of 13 murders and faces death in the gas chamber. Deputy Dist. Atty.

When a telephone call came for Steve Bennett on the afternoon of July 4, 1985, his daughter, Whitney, opened her bedroom window to summon her father, who was outside watering the front yard. Then she forgot to lock her window.

Heavily guarded and shackled Night Stalker killer Richard Ramirez appeared for the first time in a San Francisco courtroom Friday to answer a murder charge against him in Northern California. Ramirez, 29, already faces execution on San Quentin's Death Row for his convictions last year of 13 murders and a host of other crimes stemming from his satanic rampage in Southern California during the summer of 1985. In addition, Ramirez faces charges of murder and assault for the Aug.

She will wear white lace. He'll be in jeans. Her ring is gold; his is platinum. She is Catholic; he worships Satan. If love does indeed conquer all, and this bride is betting her life that it does, then "Night Stalker" Richard Ramirez and former magazine editor Doreen Lioy should live happily ever after. Or, at least until death do them part--which, in view of the fact that the groom resides on death row, is more likely to occur sooner than later.

Here at Elaine's, America's premier literary salon, the old, smoky walls are filled with framed photos and book jackets touting New York's intellectual elite: Gay Talese, George Plimpton, Lewis Lapham, Nicholas Pileggi, Richard Ramirez. . . . Hold it: Richard Ramirez? "O-o-o just look at him," marvels Debbie Babitt, copy director for Kensington Books, as she ogles an enlarged, red-tinted poster of the Night Stalker, California's most infamous--and feared--serial killer.

Gunshot wounds mark Bill Carns' forehead and neck. His arm rests in a sling. His left leg is strapped in a brace. A bullet remains lodged in his skull. "At first," he says, "I would tell people I fell off a bicycle, because I didn't want to get into it. "But, now, I can tell people I was the final victim of this guy called the Night Stalker."

Frustrated Los Angeles police on Friday stepped up their manhunt for a serial child molester stalking San Fernando Valley schoolchildren, asking for weekend volunteers to help pass out 100,000 leaflets to homes near Valley schools. Police, who convened a meeting of department and outside experts Friday, said the investigation involves the largest deployment of officers since the Night Stalker and Hillside Strangler murder cases. "There is a full commitment to this," said Lt.

Richard Ramirez, the Satan-worshiping mass killer awaiting trial on a murder charge, says news reports that hundreds of women line up to meet him are exaggerated. "I'm not a sex symbol," Ramirez told reporters in a jailhouse interview. Jailers had said that Ramirez, 31, gets eight to 10 women callers a week. Ramirez, the so-called "Night Stalker," was convicted of 13 grisly sex slayings in Southern California. The self-proclaimed satanist said his visitors "sympathize with me, they relate."

The issue: Proposition 115, the anti-crime initiative. Whose ads? Two by proponents; one by opponents. The initiative, known as the Crime Victims Justice Reform Act, would amend the state Constitution to limit the rights of criminal defendants to only those required under the federal Constitution by the U.S. Supreme Court.

The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously Friday to give $25,000 in rewards to 14 people instrumental in the 1985 capture of Richard Ramirez, who was convicted last year in the string of Night Stalker murders. Ramirez, who faces a second murder trial in San Francisco, was convicted Sept. 20 of 13 murders and has been sentenced to death for a series of crimes that terrorized Southern California in 1985.

Heavily guarded and shackled Night Stalker killer Richard Ramirez appeared for the first time in a San Francisco courtroom Friday to answer a murder charge against him in Northern California. Ramirez, 29, already faces execution on San Quentin's Death Row for his convictions last year of 13 murders and a host of other crimes stemming from his satanic rampage in Southern California during the summer of 1985. In addition, Ramirez faces charges of murder and assault for the Aug.

Alejandro Espinoza: Los Angeles County has a $6,388.81 check for you for your help in convicting Night Stalker Richard Ramirez. But authorities don't know where to find you. "Nobody seems to know his whereabouts," said Larry Monteilh, executive officer to the county Board of Supervisors. Monteilh said Espinoza filed a claim for a share of the $36,777 reward but failed to include his address.

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday divided shares of a $36,777.63 reward bounty for the capture of convicted "Night Stalker" Richard Ramirez. Nineteen awards were paid out in amounts ranging from $250 to $10,388.82. Here are the reward amounts and the roles the recipients played. * $10,388.82--Provided investigators with Ramirez's name, facts about the crimes, and assisted in recovery of one of the murder weapons. * $6,388.