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Warning, the following presentation
is intended for mature audiences.
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descriptions of crime scenes,
adult dialogue, and strong language.
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But other than that, yes,
let's just hop, jump, and skip,
ska-doodle right into it.
I have gotten requested
a lot to do this story.
I kinda was avoiding it
because I try to avoid stories
that are super well known
just because I feel like
it's been told so many times,
what else can I add to
the story, you know?
But I'm doing it anyways.
I like to give into you guys.
His name is Richard Ramirez,
aka The Night Stalker.
So Richard was one of five children
and his father was a former police officer
who was working in Juarez, Mexico.
Here it comes.
But he ended up leaving Mexico
and he went to work on
the Santa Fe Railroad.
The whole family relocated to Texas.
So his father was a very hard working man
and was determined just
to provide for his family,
as a parent should.
But he was prone to bursts of anger
and he would often physically abuse
his wife and his children.
It was like a very toxic environment.
A very angry, angry father.
At the age of two, Richard
was struck in the head
with like a falling piece of furniture,
which doesn't sound
that bad, but, you know,
furniture is so dangerous.
But this falling piece of furniture
ended up cutting a big gash
in his head, on his forehead,
and then when he was five years old,
he was struck again in the
head with a swing at school
and he was knocked unconscious.
And Richard would say at that point on,
he suffered from seizures.
Side note, if any of you
have been paying attention
to these backstories, now mind you,
these backstories have
a lot of consistencies,
a lot of things in common, right?
Usually the killer or the
murderer, the bad guy,
or girl, suffered from some kind of,
or was a victim of some
kind abuse at a young age,
but also there is another theme
tends to happen in these stories.
Do you know what it is?
Well you should, 'cause
I just talked about it.
A head injury.
Last week we talked about Randy Craft.
Head injury.
Edmund Kemper, head injury.
Ed Gein, head injury.
Gary Heidnik, remember him?
I talked about him a while ago.
Head injury.
John Wayne Gacy, we haven't
talked about him here yet,
but, he was the clown
dude, boo, head injury.
And the list goes on.
There's something, right?
Is that not interesting to you?
Because that was like wait a minute,
wait a minute, wait a minute.
Anyways.
Now, because Richard's
home life was pretty toxic,
he would spend a lot of his time
nearby at his cousin's house.
His cousin, his name was Miguel.
Boy this is really hard to do and talk.
So Miguel, this cousin, he
was much older than Richard
and he had been an army
green beret combat veteran
who served in the Vietnam War.
So, pretty hardcore dude.
Now, this cousin was
all sorts of effed up.
They don't really give much to
veterans in the first place,
as far as like, for
their mental well being.
This guy, obviously, Miguel had, just,
he's fucked up is really all I can say.
Richard would go over to his house
and just hang out with him.
Now he was like the cool cousin.
Miguel would tell Richard
just the awful things
that he experienced while away at war,
and he would also tell Richard
the awful and violent rapes
that he committed while
stationed in Vietnam.
He even had photos of, this is the cousin,
he even had photos of him posing
with a severed head belonging to a woman
that he had raped and killed.
So he is like showing this all to Richard,
and Richard is like, "Whoa, that's cool."
Because he's a kid.
He doesn't, you know, like he doesn't know
that this is really awful.
Or he does, but.
At this time Richard was 10 years old,
so he just thought Miguel
was a cool older cousin,
who, I don't know what he thought.
I guess I can't really speak for him.
Really quick I'm just gonna
do the other eye off camera,
'cause it's proving to be very difficult
to do my eyes like this and talk.
I'll be right back.
Anywho, so, Miguel would
end up teaching Richard
some of the skills he had learned
when he was in the military,
including how to kill people
and how to capture people as well.
I guess it's good for
10 year olds to know.
On May 4th, 1973, Richard
was at Miguel's home
and they were just hanging out
when Miguel and his wife
got into an argument.
A very heated argument.
Now, this argument ended up
pushing Miguel over the edge
and Miguel ended up shooting
his wife in the face.
Now Richard was there,
he was just sitting like on the couch,
kind of just staying out of it.
So he witnesses Miguel shooting.
Now, Miguel would end up getting arrested
and taken into prison,
but he was found not guilty
by reasons of insanity
and he would just spend four years
incarcerated in the state mental hospital.
For a while after the shooting,
Richard decided to live with
his sister and her husband.
He really just didn't wanna go home
because it was not a good place to be.
So he ends up moving in with
his sister and her husband.
Now, her husband,
this is just a one big
hot mess of a family.
His sister's husband
was, his name was Roberto
and Roberto over here was a peeping tom.
So Roberto would take
Richard with him at night
to peep in windows of neighbors
where like really pretty or
attractive ladies were living.
So the both of them would go
and just kind of creep through the window
and watch these women undress
or like go to the bathroom
or just simply watch,
fucking creep.
It just kind of seems like for Richard
it was just one bad place,
to another bad place,
to another bad place, you know?
I don't think he knew
what like a "normal",
normal life, or just
normal effing hobbies are.
As a teenager, Richard began
associating his sexual
fantasies with violence.
While he was still at school,
he also worked part time at a
Holiday Inn, which is a hotel.
Holiday Inn is everywhere, right?
It doesn't matter.
It was a hotel.
So he's working part time at
a hotel and going to school.
Now Richard was using
this job to his advantage.
Richard would use his pass
key to enter into hotel rooms
and rob the guests while they were out.
So one night when he was
working at the hotel,
Richard broke into, or
just used his pass key
to get into a guest's hotel room.
Now, it was a couple.
The husband was somewhere, he had left,
and it was just the wife
in there by herself.
So Richard let himself into the room
and he attempted to rape this woman.
The husband ended up walking into the room
and catching Richard attacking his wife.
He tackled him and he
tried to take him out,
holding him down, police were called,
but the charges ended up being dropped
when the couple refused to testify.
And I was trying to figure out,
well why did they refuse to testify,
but they were from out
of state, just visiting,
and they didn't want to
travel to testify against him.
Because of this, Richard
did end up losing his job
at the hotel as he should.
So then Richard ends up
dropping out of high school
in the ninth grade, and
honestly it's a little unclear
what he did from this time,
ninth grade, all the
way up to the age of 22.
There really isn't much, much
said as to what he was doing,
so I don't, I don't really know.
But at the age of 22,
that's when Richard decided
that he was gonna move from
Texas to California permanently.
So when he moved to California,
he went to San Francisco first
and he was staying in
the Tenderloin District.
So it's April 10th, 1984.
Richard is staying at this
hotel in San Francisco.
It's where he ends up
murdering a nine year old girl
in the basement of the hotel.
Sadly he raped and he beat the poor girl
before stabbing her to death, I'm sorry.
And this would be Richard's
first known killing,
but initially it wasn't
connected to him at all.
It went unsolved for many, many years
and it wasn't until 2009
when they were able to get a DNA match
linking him to this horrible murder.
He ends up going down
south to Los Angeles.
So on June 28th, 1984,
a 79 year old woman,
her name was Jennie, she
was found brutally murdered
in her apartment in
Glassell Park in Los Angeles
and it was said that she
had been stabbed repeatedly
while asleep in her bed and her
throat was slashed so deeply
that she was nearly decapitated.
Whoever had done this,
'cause they didn't know it
was Richard at the time,
but they knew whoever had done this
had gone through the window
and they had a fingerprint
but no suspects.
On March 17th, 1985
Richard had attacked a 22 year old woman,
and her name was Maria.
All of these crimes took place
in like the Los Angeles area.
So 22 year old Maria was
pulling into her garage,
Richard ends up like ambushing
her, running up to her,
and he pulls out his handgun
and he shoots her in the face.
She ends up surviving
because the bullet had
ricocheted off the keys
she held in her hands
when she like lifted her
hands up to protect herself.
Richard thought like she was dead,
so he goes inside of the home
and inside of the house was her roommate,
a 34 year old woman named Dayle.
She had heard the gunshot
from inside the house
and she had ducked behind
a counter in the kitchen
and she was just kind
of like hiding there.
She ends up raising her
head over the counter
where she's hiding to kind
of see where Richard is at,
right, so she raises her head
and that's when Richard sees her
and shoots her in the face, killing her.
Richard then looked around the home
and tried to steal any
jewelry or any valuables
and then left.
And it was within the same hour, okay,
within the same hour Richard
had come across a lady
named Veronica, and she
was sitting in her car,
and Richard wanted to steal
her car so he could get away.
So Richard ends up pulling
her out of her vehicle
and he ends up shooting
her twice and then he ran.
It said that he wanted to steal her car,
but he ran on foot after
he shot her, so I'm not.
So then on March 27th, 1985,
Richard broke into a home in Whittier.
He had broken into this house
once before, apparently.
So he goes back and he
breaks into this home.
It's now two AM in the morning.
When he gets in there he
sees 64 year old Vincent
is sleeping in his room.
Next to Vincent was his 44 year old wife,
her name was Maxine.
Richard just shoots Vincent in the head
and of course this wakes up his wife
who's sleeping next to him.
Richard like hops on top
of her and he beats her.
He then bounds her hands
and he demands that she tells him
where all the valuables
are at inside of the home.
She tells him that there's
some jewelry over there,
"Just take whatever you want."
Leaves her on the bed.
He's ransacking the home.
She is actually able to get
her hands out of the bonds,
right, and she knows
like there's a shotgun
underneath her bed.
So she's able to get out of there,
be quiet about it so he doesn't
know that she's getting out,
and she gets up, gets under the bed,
she grabs the shotgun,
Richard comes into the room,
she points it at him,
pulls the trigger, click.
It wasn't loaded.
Oh.
I couldn't imagine her
feeling in that moment.
So of course, this infuriates Richard
and he then proceeds to
shoot her three times.
So then Richard ends up grabbing
a knife from the kitchen,
gouges both of her eyes out of her face
and he puts them in a jewelry box
and he takes the jewelry box.
Just, takes it.
So when Richard is leaving the scene,
he actually ends up leaving his footprints
from his sneakers in the flower beds
which are like outside the home.
When police went out to the home
and they photographed and made a cast,
also police had found
bullets at the scene,
which had matched to those
found at previous attacks.
This is the moment when police realize
that a serial killer was at large.
So then May 14th, 1985,
Richard goes down to like Monterey Park
and he enters the home of 66 year old Bill
and his 56 year old
disabled wife, Lillian,
who Bill was like the main caretaker for.
I know, it's awful.
Bill was in his bedroom and
Richard enters the room.
They kind of have like
a little confrontation.
Bill went to go reach for his own handgun
that he had nearby.
When he was reaching for the gun,
that's when Richard shot him in the face.
Then Richard like goes around
and starts trying to steal stuff
or find valuables but then
he enters Lillian's room
and he finds her there.
He bound her up, he raped her,
then he ransacked the home.
Sadly Bill passed away while
he was in the hospital.
So then, May 29th.
All of these took place in 1985,
so I'm just gonna stop saying 1985.
Richard steals a Mercedes, the car.
He drives out to the
home of 83 year old Mabel
and her 81 year old sister Florence,
both of them lived together.
So Richard breaks into their home
and he goes straight to the kitchen
and in the kitchen is
where he finds a hammer.
He runs into Florence first,
so he beat her with the hammer.
And then he runs into Mabel,
bounds her wrists together,
and he ends up beating her,
and he gets electrical cords
and he gives both women
electric shocks using this cord.
He then proceeds to rape Florence.
(sighing)
And yeah, so, great.
Then he grabs a lipstick he sees
and he draws like a pentagram
on poor Mabel's thigh
as well as one of the
walls in the bedroom.
The women were actually
discovered two days later,
and they were both still alive at the time
and transferred to the hospital.
On July 2nd, Richard stole a Toyota
and he randomly selected the
house of 75 year old Mary.
He quietly entered the home
and found her asleep in her bedroom.
He then beat her until she
was unconscious with a lamp.
He then tried to find any
valuables in the home and left.
She was later discovered
dead at the crime scene.
Oh, it keeps going.
Then, July 7th.
(frustrated breathing)
Richard broke into the
home of 61 year old Joyce.
She was asleep on her living room couch.
Richard beat her to death
and kicked her in the head
which ended up leaving a clear shoe print
from his sneaker on her face
and then after this attack,
Richard decided that
he needed a better tool
to commit these crimes he was doing.
So he goes and he buys a machete.
I don't know, if I'm like
a store owner or something
and some guy comes in and
randomly buys just a machete,
I feel like that would be a red flag.
"Oh you're buying a machete?
"Okay yeah, let me just take
your information really quick."
I haven't heard any good
stories with a machete.
Anyways, so he buys a machete.
Richard keeps stealing cars
and then he wipes them down,
he ditches it somewhere,
and he moves onto the next.
So he drives out to a
home of 66 year old Lela
and her 68 year old husband Max.
Bursts into the couples
bedroom where they were asleep,
kills both of them with the machete,
and then after he knew
that they were dead,
or he thought that they were dead,
he then shoots 'em in the head.
And then robs their house and
takes all of their valuables.
So that same night, July 20th at 4:00 AM,
Richard breaks into another home.
It was a husband and a wife,
and they were asleep in their bed.
Richard shot the husband,
which killed him instantly,
and then he bound and raped the wife.
(thudding)
Then the couple had an eight year old son.
The eight year old son came walking in
because he hears like noise
going on in his parents bedroom.
So he goes into their room
to see what's going on.
Richard sees the eight year old.
He bounds him up and he
drags the eight year old
around the house, telling him
to show him where the valuables were.
And it was said that during this time
when he was dragging
the little boy around,
he demanded that he "swear to Satan"
that he was not hiding any money from him.
He left the child bound in the home.
The child was able to get out
and run to the neighbors house for help.
How are we doing, are we okay?
If you need to leave,
completely understand.
When you read about these,
it's easy to just think of them
as like a character in a
way, or just like not real
and then when you remember
that it's a real person
who really did these things you're like,
"What the?"
What?
You know, it's just, what?
Moving onto August 8th.
Richard steals another car
and he chose the home
of 27 year old Sakina
and her 31 year old husband Elyas.
At this point, some time after 2:30 AM.
So he enters the home
and he just walks into the master bedroom
where they are asleep.
He shoots and kills Elyas,
then he handcuffs Sakina
while forcing her to reveal the locations
of like the family jewelry
and it was said that
Richard repeatedly demanded
that she "Swear on Satan"
that she would not scream
during his assaults.
Sure, Richard.
Sure.
He ends up just taking
any valuables he saw
and then he leaves the home.
Now, during all this time,
I mean police keep finding these victims
and they are linking them all together
thinking that there is indeed
like a serial killer out there.
But they hadn't made any like
public announcement about it,
they didn't wanna draw attention too much
and like scare Richard away,
then a televised press
conference had taken place,
and it was during this conference
which they ended up
giving Richard the name,
the Night Stalker.
Now during this press conference
is when they tell viewers
to lock their doors,
lock their windows
because someone is coming
and it could be any of you.
Like, they were putting some serious fear
into anyone who was watching.
Which I mean they weren't really wrong
because Richard was out
here like killing people
just at random.
This press conference ended up
pissing a lot of people off,
especially the LA detectives,
because they knew Richard
was gonna be watching
and they knew that Richard was
gonna like make a run for it
or destroy any type of
evidence that he may have
in his possession.
So LA detectives were like pissed off
that they had this media
conference about it.
I mean they were right,
Richard was indeed watching.
Richard saw this and knew
that everyone was onto him.
He then took his sneakers
because they had mentioned
in this media conference
that they had, do you remember
when they found like his
footprints in the garden area
when he broke out of a house?
Well they found out like
what kind of sneaker it was
so they made an announcement
about what kind of sneaker it was.
Any little bit of information they had.
Richard then takes his sneakers
that were linked to the crimes,
drives up to San Francisco,
he then goes to the Golden Gate Bridge
and he drops his sneaker off
of the Golden Gate Bridge
into the water.
He, at that time remained
in the San Francisco area
for a few more days and
then for some reason
he goes back to the Los Angeles area.
I don't know why.
I mean it's a good thing he did
because he gets caught
but like you know, mm-hmm.
He drives back to the Los Angeles area
and then on August 24th,
Richard gets that itch or that urge
to break into someone else's house again,
so he drives a little bit
outside of the Los Angeles area
and he is kind of lurking
outside of a home.
Inside was a 13 year old boy named James
and he was awake and he hears
footsteps outside the window.
At this point, everybody had
heard about this Night Stalker,
so everybody was like just freaked out.
This James boy, he hears like footsteps
and naturally he's like,
"It's the Night Stalker."
So he runs and he wakes up his parents
and they're being just really loud
and making sure that whoever's outside
is like hearing them right.
This freaks Richard out and
he gets into a stolen car.
So James, this 13 year
old boy, he runs outside,
brave, had a little notepad
and he noted the color,
the make, and model of the car
that Richard was speeding off in.
And James was also able
to get just a few numbers
and letters from the license plate.
James contacted the police
and handed over what
he knew or what he saw.
The stolen vehicle that
Richard was driving in,
they found it on August 28th.
They were able to get like a fingerprint
from the rear view mirror
even though Richard
was really good at like
wiping down the vehicle,
he just missed like
one little fingerprint.
Police are excited about this,
like they got a fingerprint, okay.
So they go back and they're
able to get a positive ID
on the fingerprint and now they had a name
for this serial killer who's
been just causing chaos.
This fingerprint belongs to
someone named Richard Ramirez.
They see that he's like a 25
year old drifter from Texas
and he had a long rap sheet
that included many arrests for
traffic and drug violations.
So law enforcement decided
to release to the media
a mug shot of Richard
that they had on file.
So they do another media conference
and they publicly address Richard,
'cause they know he's
watching, and they say,
"We know who you are,
everyone else will too,
"and there will be no
place for you to hide."
Which I feel like is such a ballsy move
when you address the killer on camera.
I feel like that, to them, they
take it as like a challenge.
Like "Oh yeah, watch me."
You know?
And I just, I don't know,
I don't know if that's
a good thing or not.
It doesn't matter.
Okay, cool.
So then, August 30th,
Richard decided to take
a bus to Tucson, Arizona.
That's where his brother was living.
So his brother at this time, I guess,
was completely unaware what was going on.
Now every newspaper and
TV program in California
was running this story, okay,
it was everywhere and
you couldn't avoid it.
But I don't know so much
if in Tucson it was.
Anyways, Richard ends up not
meeting with his brother.
So he takes the bus out to Tucson
and then gets back on the bus
and goes back to Los Angeles.
What I've gathered perhaps, maybe,
I'm not really sure,
but I think it's because
he was worried to put
his brother in jeopardy
and then now involve him on his crimes.
But that is still kind of like unclear.
So I don't really know.
But he gets back on the bus and
he goes back to Los Angeles.
So then on August 31st,
Richard gets off of the bus
and he's walking and he looks over
and he sees like a newspaper rack, right,
has magazines, newspapers, everything,
and on the newspaper rack it
was just every single newspaper
had his picture on the front.
So he sees this and it sends
him into a full blown panic.
A meltdown.
He takes off running on foot
and he tries to run across the freeway,
stops a car, it's a woman,
he tries to car jack her.
Other people nearby who have slowed down
and they see this happening
so then they prevent him
from car jacking this woman.
Richard gets like exhausted by all this
so he takes off and he hops
over like several fences,
attempting two more car jackings.
Now, this is the good part,
because he ends up in East LA, rough.
So he ends up in the wrong
part of the neighborhood.
Perfect, right?
Love that.
His dumb ass tries to stop one of the cars
driving down the street.
Luckily there were people outside,
like a group of guys hanging outside.
So they see this happening
and they're like, "No."
And they attack Richard.
One of them had struck
Richard over the head
with a metal bar and it
prevented him from getting away
'cause it like knocked him out, you know.
The group ends up just taking turns
beating the shit out of him
and holding him down until police came.
(clapping)
So Richard gets arrested and put in prison
and is waiting for his court date.
So at his first court appearance,
you know there's press there and stuff,
and Richard had carved
a pentagram on his hand.
So he's showing it to like
the camera's and stuff
and he just yells, "Hail Satan!"
Lots of Satan stuff on his body.
Then on August 3rd, 1988,
the Los Angeles Times
reported that jail employees
had overheard Richard planning to
shoot the prosecutor with a gun.
And then Richard was really bragging
that he was going to smuggle
like a gun into the court room
and how he was gonna do it and all that.
And they install a metal
detector outside the court room.
So then, August 14th,
the trial was interrupted
because one of the jurors did
not arrive to the court room
and later that day she was found
shot to death in her apartment.
So naturally the jury was terrified.
They were all thinking it was Richard,
that he somehow directed this to happen
from inside his prison cell.
And now everyone, especially the jury,
was really afraid for their
own lives because one of the,
I'm just trying to do my duty, you know,
and I don't wanna put my life at risk.
I don't blame them, I wouldn't go.
Heck no.
Later on it was determined that Richard
was actually not responsible
for this lady's death
and it was, it was like her
boyfriend shot and killed her.
Ugh.
Just, what is going on.
Like how awful.
Now, this is the part
that extra pisses me off.
I mean this whole story pisses me off,
don't get me wrong, mm-hmm.
Media was covering this story,
they were showing
Richard's photo everywhere.
A lot of people thought
he was a good looking guy,
that he was very hot.
Richard had fans.
He was getting hundreds of letters.
They loved him, they
were a fan of his work.
There were also a lot of
people paying him a visit
while he was in prison.
One of the ladies who was a big fan,
her name was Doreen,
and she wrote him nearly like 75 letters
during his incarceration
and they were in love.
And then during his trial,
women were just flocking to the court room
to get a glimpse of him
. They were screaming
like it was Justin Bieber.
People don't really scream
for Justin Bieber anymore.
They were screaming like it
was, you know, fan girls.
Now many of these fans
believed that he was innocent.
He's innocent, he didn't do this.
Even though everything points to him.
That one juror, she got shot and she died,
so she ends up being
replaced by another woman.
Her name is Cindy and
Cindy was infatuated,
in love with, obsessed, with Richard.
How she got on the jury, I don't know.
But she is just making googly
eyes with Richard like,
"Oh my god, hi."
And she would write him little notes
and stuff and write him letters in prison.
Richard loved this, okay,
because he thought with her on his side,
he could have a chance
of getting a hung jury.
So he is making sure
to give her eye contact
when he's like in court.
You know.
(kissing)
That kind of stuff.
September 30th, 1989.
Richard was convicted of all charges.
13 counts of murder,
five attempted murders,
11 sexual assaults, and 14 burglaries.
Sorry.
During the penalty phase of
the trial on November 7th,
he was sentenced to die in
California's gas chamber,
which they don't even do
anymore so he just sat there.
Now, Richard ended up being
upset with Cindy, the juror,
because she didn't have his back.
Disappointed that, you know,
that he got the death sentence.
She would later go on to
do a few TV appearances
insisting that he had
been poorly represented
and he wasn't deserving
of the death sentence.
How do you do that?
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls,
just set better standards for yourself.
You deserve better, all right.
I'm glad we had this talk.
In 1988, do you remember Doreen?
They were in love too.
He had a lot of like
girlfriends and stuff.
Anyways, Doreen.
Richard ends up like proposing to her
and they get married on October 3rd, 1996.
They were married
in the California San
Quentin State Prison.
We should just do a
video dedicated to like
San Quentin State Prison,
because that's where they're all at.
Field trip.
But Doreen would eventually leave Richard.
She found out that he had
killed a nine year old
and this upset her, so
she broke it off with him.
But I guess none of the other murders
really mattered to her.
Be better.
And get (clapping)
better (clapping) idols!
Get better idols, okay!
Doreen, darling, hey.
Do better, okay.
Richard was waiting for his execution date
and this is when he became
very unwell, very sick.
His health just fell apart
and he ended up passing away
at the age of 53.
He had been sitting on death
row for more than 23 years.
There's this museum out here,
it's called the Museum of Death.
There's one here in Los Angeles
and there's one in New Orleans as well.
I've been to the one
out here in Los Angeles,
been a couple of times.
You are not allowed to film in there,
take photos, anything,
or I would show you guys
what it looks like inside,
it's intense.
It's intense.
A collection of serial killer stuff,
lots of graphic images,
wall to wall to wall,
every corner is stuffed with something.
When you walk in it's like it's heavy.
Anyways, what I'm getting
at is in the Museum of Death
here in Los Angeles,
they actually have a lot
of letters from Richard,
they're on display, and you
could see a picture book,
all the different pictures
that he got from fan girls
while he was in prison.
These girls just trying
to be all cute and sexy.
Yay, Satan!
And then they would send it to him
and they would write letters
expressing their love.
Oh, it's mind blowing.
Some of the things that
these girls would do for him
was very scary.
Over the years Richard did
keep in touch with his fans
and what not.
I was reading some trivia questions.
Fun facts about Richard Ramirez.
"Hey Richard, what's your,
"what's your favorite food?
"Tell us, your fans wanna know."
Richard's response was, "Women's feet."
"All right, Richard, tell us, tell us,
"what's your biggest like?
"What's something you absolutely love?"
His response, "Cocaine."
"Hey Richard, tell us, what's
your favorite vacation spot?"
Vacation?
Richard said, "Uranus."
Okay.
"Hey Richard, one last
question for your fans.
"If you like a girl, how do
you get her to notice you?"
Richard said, "I pull my gun out."
So that was the Richard
Ramirez fun facts I learned.
Very heavy story I think we can all agree.
It's very sad.
He was the legit boogeyman.
People that a lot of us fear, you know,
someone breaking into your home and just,
oh, that is a lot of our nightmares.
That is the story about Richard
Ramirez, the Night Stalker.
I would love to hear
your thoughts down below.
I appreciate you guys
so much for tuning in
and hanging out with me.
And also a big thank you to June's Journey
for partnering with me on today's video.
I hope you have a wonderful day today,
you make good choices,
be better, and get better idols!
You deserve it!
And I'll be seeing you guys later.
Bye!
And if you need me, I will
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