He punched, pistol whipped, and strangled many of his victims, both with his hands and in one instance a ligature, stomped at least one victim to death in her sleep, and tortured another victim by shocking her with a live electrical cord. Ramirez used a wide variety of weapons and different murder methods, including handguns, various types of knives, a machete, a tire iron, and a claw hammer. However, his first known murder occurred as early as April 1984 this crime was not connected to Ramirez, nor was it known to be his doing, until 2009. Ramirez's highly publicized home invasion and murder spree terrorized the residents of the Greater Los Angeles area and later the San Francisco Bay Area over the course of fourteen months. Ramirez would often commit burglaries to support his drug addiction, many of which were later frequently accompanied by murders, attempted murders, rapes, attempted rapes, and assaults. By the time he had left his home in Texas and moved to California at the age of 22, he had begun frequently using cocaine. Ramirez also cultivated a strong interest in Satanism and the occult. Frequently abused by his father, Ramirez began developing gruesome and macabre interests in his early and mid-teens from his older cousin, Miguel ("Mike") Ramirez, who also taught him some of the military skills that he would go on to use during his year-long killing spree. Ramirez's childhood is considered an influence on his crimes. He died in 2013 while awaiting execution. ![]() He was convicted and sentenced to death in 1989. ![]() Ricardo " Richard" Leyva Muñoz Ramirez ( / r ə ˈ m ɪər ɛ z/ Febru– June 7, 2013), dubbed the Night Stalker, the Valley Intruder (as his attacks were first clustered in the San Gabriel Valley), and the Walk-In Killer was an American serial killer and sex offender whose crime spree took place in California between June 1984 and August 1985.
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