Night Stalker Is Dead

[St1ck]

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/07/18829118-night-stalker-serial-killer-in-1980s-dies-in-prison?lite

 

 

I remember losing a few nights sleep when I was a kid while this dude was on the loose.

[The Ghost of Bob Starr]

St1ck, right there with you.  

 

I was just reading about this.

 

I was terrified of this dude as a kid.

 

The day he was caught, one of my old cameramen got the exclusive video in the cop car, and he said Ramirez turned and gave him the scariest look ever.   Didn't sleep for weeks.   He said it was hard to believe someone in handcuffs, inside a police cruiser could scare him.

[fan_since79]

Same here. He was partial to yellow houses near freeways.

 

I was renting a room in a yellow house near the 405 in Long Beach and the owner was thinking of changing the color.

 

It was hot as hell that summer yet I slept with my bedroom window and door locked.

[NJHalo]

[fan_since79]

That was a great show. 

[Chili83]

Same recollections. The only OC attack out in tranquil Mission Viejo was about a half mile from our house and scared the double-shit out of our housing tract. All us kids kept thinking he was gonna come back and do it again. There was an abandoned house we used to dare each other to go into, saying, "The Night Stalker's in there!" And being a gullible kid -- and before The Night Stalker moniker stuck -- they were calling him The Intruder, The Invader, The Night Prowler, The Valley Slasher... 

 

So I thought five different guys were running around slaying people.

[Ray McKigney]

I was just a kid and I slept with a baseball bat next to my bed while this guy was on the loose. I'll never forget the feeling of relief the day they caught him. 

 

This picture pretty much sums up why we were all terrified:

 

[gotbeer]

I hope he died painfully.  Sadly, if he did it in Texas, he would have died a long long time ago.  

[TobiasFunke]

This is ridiculous

 

"Since 1978, when California reinstated capital punishment, only 13 condemned inmates have been put to death, according to Robinson. Fifty-nine more have died from natural causes, 22 have committed suicide and six have died from other causes."

[fan_since79]

Ramirez was sentenced to death in 1989 but was not even assigned a lawyer to handle his appeal until 2006, 17 years later! I recall reading an article from the SF Chronicle that estimated he was only halfway through the appeals process. Taxpayers are going to save a lot of money with his early demise.

 

There are condemned inmates at San Quentin that were sent there in 1979. Thirty-four years later and not close to an execution date.

 

It's a travesty.

[fan_since79]

 

His youngest victim, 9-yr old Mei Leung.

 

She was beaten, raped, and stabbed, and was found hanging over a pipe in her basement.

[Sam Sanchez]

My parents live in a yellow house in the 80s and recall being nervous throughout his terrible run. I was born I believe year after he was caught so it was before my time, but I'm very familiar with his crimes.

[DowningRules]

I always hoped someone would have beat the you-know-what out of him when he was in prison, Jeffrey Dahmer style.  He probably spent his last days being catered to in a hospital bed, unlike his victims.  Too bad he didn't get teh Doyyer stadium treatment in the pen.

[Taylor]

He looks a lot like the Ice Truck Killer from Dexter.

[Lhalo]

I always hoped someone would have beat the you-know-what out of him when he was in prison, Jeffrey Dahmer style.  He probably spent his last days being catered to in a hospital bed, unlike his victims.  Too bad he didn't get teh Doyyer stadium treatment in the pen.

He got the Doyyer Stadium treatment buy the public before he was arrested. They were beating the piss out of him when the police arrived in East LA.

[Mudville]

The one time the East LAPD arrived too soon.

[VariousCrap]

RIP

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

j/k

[BaseballMom]

My ex-husband and I lived in a yellow house in Huntington Beach at the time.  He had a baseball bat at the side of the bed.  He told me that if the guy came in and got him to "reach over his dead body, grab the bat and hit the guy over the head".  

[The Ghost of Bob Starr]

My house was too yellow, and single story.   We had a very long sliding window along the wall in the family room.    I was 13 and my parents would go out, and I'd stay up until midnight or so and i'd watch TV thinking that the Night Stalker was outside the window of my yellow house watching me watch TV.    That summer was terrifying.

 

This was a pretty good read.

 

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-nightstalker-morrison-20130608,0,6796336.story â€¦

[stevestevens]

I remember my parents took the commando 8 out of the window and we just had a ton of fans all over the house.

[katie]

I, too, lived in a yellow house on a corner in the 80s. I was born the year before though, so I do not remember these events.

He died at 53 of natural causes?

[Glen]

I'm shocked at how many people lived in yellow houses.  I know it was the late 70s/early 80s but WTF?

[katie]

If it makes you feel better, the little yellow house I lived in in Sierra madre is now a 2 story blue house. RIP little yellow house

[Taylor]

I'm shocked at how many people lived in yellow houses.  I know it was the late 70s/early 80s but WTF?

 

Exactly what I was thinking. Maybe he wasn't keen on yellow houses after all; it's just that 99% of the houses in Southern California at the time were yellow.

[Futch Winkleman]

Good riddance.

 

That guy was one sick f*ck.