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He was labelled as the 'night stalker' by the media. This name might have inspired him to carry on with the murders, as it almost glorified what he was doing.

He had access to a lot of his victims when he worked at a Holiday Inn and was able to rob sleeping matrons by using his staff key. He also aimed for vulnerable victims, many older women. This enabled him to carry out his fantasies without having anyone to stop him.

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As a child, Ramirez sustained two serious head injuries. When he was two years old a dresser fell on top of him, causing a forehead laceration requiring 30 stitches to close. When he was five years old, he was knocked unconscious by a swing at a park, after which he experienced frequent epileptic seizures that persisted into his early teens.

He was very ruthless and had no empathy, which is demonstrated in his first official victim, a 9-year-old girl.

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Richie, as he was known to his family, was present on May 4, 1973, when his cousin Mike fatally shot his wife, Jessie, in the face with a .38 caliber revolver during a domestic argument. After the shooting Richie became sullen and withdrawn from his family and peers.

Later that year, he moved in with his older sister, Ruth, and her husband, Roberto, an obsessive peeping Tom who took Richie along on his nocturnal exploits. Ramirez also began using LSD and cultivated an interest in Satanism

He was a very social child, which links to the psychological explanation that serial killers are extroverted.

In 1991, he idolized the actor Ted Levine, who played Buffalo Bill in the film 'the Silence of the Lambs' whokidnaps &skins women in the 1991 thriller Silence of the Lambs.

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Richard Ramirez, was an American serial killer, rapist, and burglar.

On April 10, 1984, Ramirez murdered 9-year-old Mei Leung in a hotel basement. He raped and beat the girl before stabbing her to death, and hanging her body from a pipe. This was his first known killing.

On June 28, 1984, 79-year-old Jennie Vincow was found brutally murdered in her apartment in Glassell Park. She had been stabbed repeatedly while asleep in her bed, and her throat slashed so deeply that she was nearly decapitated.

On March 17, 1985, Ramirez attacked 22-year-old Maria Hernandez shooting her in the face with a  handgun after she pulled into her garage. She survived when the bullet ricocheted off of her keys. Inside the house was her roommate, Dayle Okazaki, 34, who heard the gunshot and went to investigate, upon seeing her Ramirez shot her in the
head, killing her.

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How did people who knew the serial killer describe them? 

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How did people who knew the serial killer describe them? 

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His niece, who was 7 at the time of conviction has said that the actions of her uncle made her feel sick, and felt free when he died.  He Was heavily influenced by his older cousin, who was an army veteran- and told him gruesome details of the Vietnam war. Most of the people who knew him personally described him as a horrible person, although he still had thousands of people who believed that he was innocent, and even got married behind bars.
He seemed to be a bit of a loner, yet was fascinated over gory events, such as his cousins time in Vietnam. He smoked marijuana from age 10, which could have had issues on his developing brain