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Richard Ramirez (AKA The Night Stalker, AKA the man who had the single most profoundly negative impact on the life of your SFist editor when he was just a wee lad during the summer of 1985) is a suspect in a 1984 San Francisco homicide, according to CBS 5. "Police said a DNA match identified Ramirez as the suspect."
Ramirez was known for torturing, raping and murdering people in their beds, eventually being convicted of 13 murders that took place between 1984 and 1985 in Southern California. (Your editor might or might not have slept with knife under his pillow two years after his capture.)
A 3 pm press conference will reveal the (gory) details.
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Right there with you on the knife under the pillow. Our house fit perfectly with what he liked to hit, ground-level stucco houses with easily opened windows.
Speaking of a generation living in fear, a nice bit from the LA Times way back: http://articles.latimes.com/1989-09-21/news/mn-924_1_hubbard-street
I remember that creep! The media hype he got was out of control. First they called him "The Valley Intruder." Then, he left The Valley...
One late night that summer, when it was unbelievably hot and all our windows were closed for fear he'd sneak in and kill us all in our sleep, I opened my bedroom door and heard a horrible gasping sound coming from our family room. Terrified, I rushed back into my room, grabbed the telephone, and hid under the covers. I called 911 and told them the Night Stalker was in my living room. They offered to send by a patrol car to check it out. I thought of how my parents would react if the cops came to the door, realized my parents were far scarier than the Night Stalker, and told 911 no thanks. I then found the cajones to leave my room and investigate. After all, if the Night Stalker was going to kill us all, me hiding under a blanket wasn't going to stop him. Turns out the the filter on our fish tank was broken and that's where the noise was coming from. Lame!
Spike Lee should make a movie about that summer! It can be a sequel to Summer of Sam. Rick Dees can do the part of Jimmy Breslin.
20 years on death row after a confession and all the DNA evidence you could shake a tree at. Glad my tax dollars are feeding this animal 3 squares a day.
I am going to start a ballot initiative to fund a death penalty tax to pay for the judges and defenders a prosecutors to clear the 650 odd back log of monsters the ACLU had denied us justice upon.
Maybe a porn and gun and pot tax to fund it?
Another Valley denizen here... I, too, remember the Night Stalker's grip of fear on that area: neighbors purchasing guns, staying awake all night to guard their homes, some even going door-to-door each morning to make sure everyone was OK.
I can't believe this SOB is still alive.