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RICHARD RAMÍREZ

Born on February 29, 1960, in El Paso, Texas. He suffered violence from his father, who was an alcoholic abuser. Richard suffered multiple head injuries during his childhood, according to some psychiatrists, this provoked him temporal lobe epilepsy, aggressivity, and hypersexuality. Richard Ramírez was not a born psychopath, but a “made” one, due to his childhood and experiences, THIS DOES NOT TAKE HIM OUT OF RESPONSIBILITY FOR HIS CRIMES. Once he was captured, he was convicted of 43 crimes on 20 September 1989. Ramírez spent the rest of his life at California’s San Quentin State Prison, where he received letters from fans. He even got married!!! He would end up dying on 7 June 2013 of cancer.

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Did Martin's Therapy In Claremont's Psychiatric Facility Actually Have a Positive Effect on Martin?

When we are officially introduced to Martin Whilty in the TV Series "Prodigal Son" we learn that he's been in Claremont Psychiatric Facility for at least 20 years. So that begs the question, did Martin Whilty actually benefit from the therapy and medications he was given in his incarceration in Claremont? It is said numerous times that Serial killers are made not born and therapy is meant to be used as a tool to safely deal with and talk about childhood trauma or any life traumas we may have faced and been affected by.

It's safe to say that Martin was given a mix of solo therapy sessions and group therapy sessions throughout his incarceration in Clarmont (before he escaped in Season 2 Episode 10 I believe). He would have also been given a mild sedative for aggression and/or irritability as well as possibly some mood stabilizers (we don't know what medications Martin was given or if was given any medications besides Benzodiazepines a.k.a Benzos).

However, it's safe to say that Martin was probably given different kinds of drugs to help calm him and stabilize his mood throughout his stay. It's also important to note that therapy would also be implemented in his treatment plan. So the question I have is the following:

Was the therapy actually effective in changing Martin's mindset on murder, and did it allow him to genuinely care for his son, Malcolm?

We don't get a clear answer for this in the two seasons of "Prodigal Son", however, we do get subtexts that suggest that Malcolm is in denial of his father's improved mental state due to Martin being diagnosed as a megalomanic Narcissist who craves power and control. So it's safe to say that Martin's "love" for his son Malcolm became more of an obsessive desire to prove his worth to his son Malcolm.

As the events in "Prodigal Son" unfold we see Martin Whilty desperately trying to do everything in his power to prove to his son Malcolm that he is a changed man. Martin starts to prove this by helping Malcolm solve murder cases. This action alone is enough for Malcolm to become slightly more dependent on his father's input on the cases he's working as well as ensure that Malcolm visits Martin more often.

However, these simple interactions are not enough for Martin to prove to Malcolm that he (Martin) is indeed a changed man. We also see Martin becoming obsessed with the idea of being good, which in itself, is also a quite toxic mindset. This is because obsession, whether over something good or bad can result in toxic, manipulative behaviors that can be more hurtful than good.

In Martin's case, his obsession with proving himself a changed man results in Martin manipulating his fellow inmates into doing actions that result in Malcolm, and at some points Ainsley, being in Martin's cell and giving Martin the ample opportunity to further manipulate his children, mostly Malcolm into believing that he, Martin is a changed man.

Now that's not to say that a part of Martin is indeed a change man in some way. It's a big improvement for Martin to say multiple times that "murder is wrong" given the fact that he killed 23 people when he was an active serial killer. Now, that's not to say he completely changed. After all, psychologically he can't stop being a serial killer because he'll always have the urge to kill someone.

So we have to take into consideration that he can fight the urge to kill someone and that by the time we officially meet Martin in the present day, he's roughly 55 years old, so he doesn't have the physical capacity to continue killing someone, even if he wanted to. He's also been incarcerated in Claremont Psychiatric Facility for 20 years and has grown to only really care for Malcom visiting him.

So, it's safe to say that he's changed somewhat. but not completely. We get to see in the finale of Season 2, that Martin doesn't kill anyone nor does he go into his "old ways". He instead abducts his son Malcolm and attempts to bond with him by solving a missing person's case that ties into a local serial killer (not Martin of course). The goal of this was to ultimately prove to his son that he "doesn't want to murder anymore" and that he's "a changed man" to some degree.

However, when Malcolm finishes solving the case he calls in the location of the victim that they saved, as well as Martin Whitly's location. This action proved to Martin that his son would never accept him in any capacity and also proved that Martin wasn't as changed as he claimed to be. Especially when Martin decided to kill his son. This action proved that he was still "the monster" that Malcolm said he was while also showing that he still craved control, especially over his family.

So, did the therapy that Martin underwent at Claremont really help Martin? Well yes and no. Yes, it helped him realize his own toxic behaviors however it didn't help him to stop those behaviors. Therapy actually helped Martin to better hide those behaviors. Yes, it did help him to somewhat change and understand that murder is wrong, and helped him not want to murder anymore.

It also gave him the tools to become obsessive with his love for Malcolm and his family. Now that doesn't mean that Martin doesn't on some level truly love his family. It just means that Martin struggles between how to love someone and what loving someone actually entails. Due to his nature as a psychopath, he doesn't have the capacity or ability to feel/express empathy, sympathy, or remorse, however, that doesn't mean he can't on some level "love" someone. It just means he can't understand or empathize with someone else.

That said, we can safely say that therapy helped him somewhat but not completely because Martin himself didn't allow the therapy to truly be effective in changing his mindset and personality. Instead, he used it as a tool to further his obsession with Malcolm, and even went as far as manipulating the Claremont staff into getting him a job with a staff member who had a gold card once he learned that a gold card can open ALL areas of Claremont.

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That day of the year.

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Did You Know🤔

The Suzano massacre, also known as the Suzano school massacre, was a school shooting and a failed bombing, that took place on March 13, 2019, at the Professor Raul Brasil State School in the Brazilian municipality of Suzano, São Paulo State, The perpetrators, 17-year-old Guilherme Taucci Monteiro and 25-year-old Luiz Henrique de Castro, murdered five students and two school staff members, Before the attack in a car shop near the school, the pair also killed Monteiro's uncle. After killing most of their victims in the school, Monteiro killed his partner and then committed suicide. Eleven additional people were injured by gunshots, and gunfire was also exchanged with the police. Some were injured while trying to escape. The attack was the second major and second deadliest school shooting in Brazil, after the Realengo massacre in 2011. It is also the ninth fatal school shooting in Brazilian history. The shooting has inspired many copycat killings in and outside of Brazil.

Earlier in the day, at around 9 a.m. local time, the gunmen shot three times and killed Monteiro's uncle, the shopkeeper Jorge Antônio Moraes, in a nearby car shop. The man was taken to the hospital but succumbed to his injuries, dying hours later. According to the investigation, Castro was planning on killing a neighbor of his that was an electrician because they had had a misunderstanding months before. They had a pact, in which each one would kill someone before the school massacre. An hour and half before the school attack, Castro went to his neighbor's house. Finding the gate closed, he persistently called him out, but the man did not answer, and so Luiz went away. In the same day, one of the killers posted a series of photos in a social media platform, where he appeared with a skull mask, holding the firearm he would later use and doing a gun sign with his hand against his head. The two attackers then drove to the school in a white Chevrolet Onix that Castro had legally rented at Localiza. The crime occurred at around 9:40 a.m. local time on a Wednesday, March 13, 2019, in the Professor Rual Brasil State School, in Suzano, Greater São Paulo. Guilherme Taucci Monteiro, 17 years old, and Luiz Henrique de Castro, 25 years old, entered the building hooded, with combat boots and balaclavas with skulls. Monteiro entered the building first. He then turned around and began shooting at two school staff members as well as several students at a distance of approximately 3 feet (0.91 m) in front of him, before entering the main patio in search of more potential victims. He disappeared from camera and then moved on to the institution's linguistics center. By this time, Castro appeared on camera entering the building in a hurry while holding several weapons, including a bow which he eventually left on the floor. He approached the corpses lying on the ground and struck them with a hatchet. Fleeing students started to run from the patio towards the school entrance hall. On the way, they encountered Castro, who was still in the entrance hall. Other students who had hidden themselves when they first heard gunshots were able to avoid being shot. Five students between 15 and 17 years old and two school staff members were killed. According to the 2017 School Census, the institution had 358 students between 6th and 9th grade (middle school and freshman year) and 693 students in secondary school. The school was locked down by police, who searched it and found a caliber 38 revolver, speedloaders, a crossbow, a traditional bow and arrow, possible Molotov cocktails, a hatchet and a wired bag. A bomb squad was dispatched to the scene and found that it was a fake explosive.

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The Unfortunate Story of Ed Gein

Ed Gein was born in Wisconsin on August 27, 1906. He had one older brother named Harry. His parents' names were Philip and Augusta Gein. Unfortunately there was a lot of turmoil in the Gein's marriage. Philip was an alcoholic who hopped from job to job, and Augusta resented him for it.

In later years, the Gein family relocated to a 155 acre farm in Plainfield, Wisconsin. Augusta never allowed visitors to the family farm for fear that they would corrupt her sons. The boys only left the farm to attend school. Their free time was spent doing chores.

Augusta was a strongly devout Lutheran. She often preached to her children about the immorality of the world around them. She often read to the boys from the darkest parts of The Old Testament.

Ed grew into a very shy young man. His teachers and peers thought of him as weird. Any time he started to make friends, he would be punished by his mother.

Although he suffered from poor social development, he did well in school, especially in reading.

Ed's father died on April 1, 1940 due to heart failure caused by his alcoholism. He was 66 years old. To help their mother with living expenses, Ed and Henry began doing odd jobs around town. Ed frequently babysat for his neighbors. He really enjoyed this because he claimed to relate more to children than adults.

Henry later began dating a divorced single mom of 2 children. The two planned to move in together. Henry soon started to worry about Ed and his attachment to their mother. He would often speak badly of her around Ed which hurt him greatly.

On May 16, 1944 the two men were burning away vegetation on their property when the fire got out of control. The fire caught the attention of local firefighters who shortly arrived to put out the flames. After the fire was sequestered, Ed reported his brother Henry missing.

A search party found Henry's body lying face down. He had been dead for some time when he was found. His initial cause of death was ruled as heart failure. He wasn't burned but had a bruise on his head.

Police initially believed that there was no foul play involved, so there was no further investigation. The coroner ultimately ruled his cause of death to be asphyxiation. Many people suspected Ed of being involved in his brother's death.

After Henry's death, Augusta suffered from a stroke, and suffered another shortly afterwards. Her health began to rapidly deteriorate, and she died on December 29, 1945. Ed was devastated. He was quoted saying that he "lost his only friend and one true love. And he was absolutely alone in the world."

After his mother's death, Ed continued to work on the family farm. He boarded up the areas of the house where his mother spent the most time: upstairs, the downstairs parlor, and the living room. Those areas remained in pristine condition while he allowed the rest of the house to become trashed. Ed mostly remained in a small room next to the kitchen. He spent a lot of free time reading magazines and adventure stories about nazis and cannibals.

Ed earned extra money by continuing to work as a handyman and doing odd jobs here and there. He also received a farm subsidy from the government. However, by 1956 he had sold 80 acres of his land.

On November 16, 1957 a Plainfield hardware store owner named Bernice Wooden disappeared. A witness saw her car leaving the store at around 9:30 am. Citizens found it strange that the store was closed all day. Bernice's son Frank, who happened to be the sheriff, walked into the store at around 5 pm. He walked in to find the register wide open and blood stains on the floor. He told investigators that Ed had been in the store the night before the incident. He also returned the day of the incident to get a gallon of antifreeze. The receipt for this transaction was the last transaction recorded by Bernice. Ed was arrested later that night at a local grocery store. This also gave the police enough probably cause to search Ed's farm.

A deputy discovered Bernice's decapitated body in Ed's shed. She had been hung upside down by her legs with a crossbar. She also had ropes around her wrist. Her torso was described as, "dressed out like a deer." Her cause of death was a gunshot wound. The mutilations to her body took place postmortem.

This was only the beginning of the horror that authorities uncovered on Ed's property. Police found: human bone fragments, a wastebasket made out of skin, human skin furniture coverings, skulls on his bedposts, bowls made from skulls, a corset made from skin, leggings made from skin, masks made from skin, Bernice's head in a sack, her heart in a plastic bag near the stove, nine vulvae in a shoebox, a belt made from human nipples, four noses, a pair of lips on a window's drawstring, and a lampshade made from a human face. These items were photographed at the state crime lab before they were ultimately destroyed.

Ed admitted to robbing several graveyards between 1947 and 1956 to exhume bodies that had been recently buried. He stated that he was in a trance like state during his visits, sometimes waking up in the moment and returning home empty handed. He preferred to dig up women who resembled his mother. He took the bodies home to tan their skin which he would then use to make into different household objects. Ed later led investigators to all the burial sites that he disturbed. Two of those graves were found to be empty.

Ed's ultimate goal was to make a "woman suit" out of human flesh. He wanted to literally become his late mother. One of the gruesome objects found on Ed's property was the head of tavern owner Mary Hogan. Ed admitted to shooting her but denied any further memories of her death.

A young witness reported to police that he believed Ed kept shrunken heads in his house. Ed corroborated this, but said they were ancient relics from the Philippines. Police later determined that these were human faces from Ed's victims which he used as masks.

Ed's confession was ultimately ruled as inadmissible due to him being assaulted by a police officer during his interrogation. The officer repeatedly banged Ed's head against a wall.

Ed's trial began on November 21, 1957. He was arraigned on 1 count of first degree murder which he pled not guilty by reason of insanity to. Ed had been diagnosed with schizophrenia, and he was hoping to use his diagnosis to his advantage. He was ultimately found mentally incompetent and was not deemed fit for trial. He was sent to the Central State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. He was later transferred to the Mendota State Hospital in Wisconsin.

It wasn't until doctors reevaluated Ed in 1968 that he was found to be able to participate in his own defense. His trial began on November 7, 1968. The trial lasted for one week. At first Ed tried to play Bernice's death off as an unmeditated accident, but couldn't remember any other details about the day in question.

Ed's defense requested that his trial not be presented to a jury, so it was only a judge there to try to convince of his innocence. Judge Robert Gollmar found Ed guilty on November 14th. There was a second trial held to try to determine Ed's sanity where the same judge ruled that Ed was not guilty by reason of insanity, again. He was admitted to a mental institution. Ed remained in mental institutions for the rest of his life.

Ed's property was appraised at $4,700. This is the equivalent to over $42,000 today. His possessions were sent to auction on March 30, 1958. Due to rumors that the house would be turned into a morbid tourist attraction, it mysteriously burned down on March 20th. The fire was determined to be a "rubbish fire" that was set about 75 feet away from the house. Arson was reasonably suspected, but the potential arsonist was never uncovered. When Ed was given the news about his house, he was fairly unbothered.

Ed's car that he used to transport bodies was sold at auction for $760. This is the equivalent to over $6,700 today. The car was bought by a carnival sideshow operator. He charged the public 25 cents a pop to see it.

Ed Gein died in the Mendola Mental Institue on July 26,1984 due to complications from lung cancer. For many years, people slowly chipped away pieces of his headstone. The entire stone was stolen in 2000. It was later found in Seattle in June 2001. It was ultimately placed in storage. His grave remains unmarked but not unknown. He is buried between his mother and his brother.

Ed Gein's story has had a large influence in modern day pop culture. Many films had antagonists that were based on Ed such as: Psycho, House of 1000 Corpses, The Devil's Rejects, American Psycho, Silence of the Lambs, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Many TV shows also used Ed's likeness such as American Horror Story and Bates Motel.

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Seven - David Fincher

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Richard Ramirez, all'anagrafe Ricardo Leyva Muñoz Ramírez (El Paso, 29 febbraio 1960 – Greenbae, 7 giugno 2013), è stato un serial killer statunitense.

Soprannominato dai media "Night Stalker", il cacciatore della notte, uccise almeno 16 persone dal 10 aprile 1984 al 24 agosto 1985.

Il 31 agosto 1985 è stato catturato ed affidato nelle mani della giustizia. È stato condannato nel 1989 alla camera a gas per 41 crimini, tra cui 16 omicidi. La sua esecuzione doveva avvenire tramite gas letale nell'estate 2006, ma la Corte suprema nel 2007 ha accolto l'ultimo appello di Ramirez, facendo slittare l'esecuzione in data da designarsi, esecuzione mai avvenuta vista la prematura morte dell'assassino. Anche Ramirez ha trascorso gli anni in prigione, come John Wayne Gacy, dipingendo quadri.

Julian e Mercedes Ramirez ebbero cinque figli, e il quinto nato fu Richard Ramirez. La madre era cattolica, e suo padre un ex poliziotto in seguito passato a lavorare come operaio sull'autostrada di Santa Fe. Il padre di Richard credeva fermamente nelle punizioni corporali come metodo educativo. Era molto legato alla sorella Ruth Ramirez.

Ramirez potrebbe essere stato influenzato verso l'assassinio da suo cugino, Mike, un veterano della Guerra del Vietnam che spesso si vantava con lui di aver ucciso e torturato decine di nemici, mostrandogli anche delle foto Polaroid delle vittime. Queste includevano immagini di svariate teste decapitate di donne vietnamite, con le quali in altre foto Mike praticava del sesso orale. Ramirez era presente la notte in cui Mike sparò alla moglie, uccidendola. Richard aveva 13 anni all'epoca.

Il 10 aprile 1984 qualcosa fece scattare nella mente di Ramirez voglia di uccidere e di intraprendere una lunga mattanza che lo vede come protagonista fino al 31 agosto 1985, giorno della sua cattura. Nell'hotel dove lavorava vide una bambina con il fratello più piccolo che piangeva perché aveva perso una banconota. Ramirez attirò la bambina nel seminterrato facendole credere di aver visto la banconota, la violentò, la uccise e appese i suoi vestiti su un tubo di aerazione. Il caso non fu preso in considerazione ma, dopo l'arresto di Ramirez, nel 2009 gli investigatori attribuirono l'assalto come responsabilità di Ramirez, portando il numero delle vittime a 16.

Il 28 giugno 1984 Ramirez decise di intraprendere la furia omicida nuovamente e di spostarsi a Glassell Park, una zona a nord di Los Angeles. Forzò una porta e fece così spaventare Jennie Wincow, una anziana donna. La assalì, la torturò, la uccise e scappò di fretta. A causa della poca risonanza mediatica questo caso fu poco preso in considerazione e, ancora oggi, sono in corso accertamenti dalla parte della polizia per cercare di attribuire questo delitto atroce a Ramirez.

Il 20 febbraio 1985 Ramirez attaccò due donne in età avanzata nella loro casa a Telegraph Hill nella contea di Los Angeles, pugnalandole a morte.

Il 17 marzo 1985, Ramirez attaccò la ventiduenne Maria Hernandez fuori dalla sua abitazione, sparandole prima di entrare nella casa della ragazza. Dentro trovò Dayle Okazaki, 34 anni, che Ramirez uccise immediatamente. La Hernandez invece sopravvisse. Il proiettile sparatole da Ramirez era rimbalzato sopra le chiavi di casa che la ragazza aveva istintivamente portato al petto per proteggersi dal colpo.

Dopo circa un'ora dall'omicidio della Okazaki, Ramirez colpì nuovamente all'interno del Monterey Park. Sulla scena del delitto fu ritrovato un cappellino da baseball con il logo degli AC/DC.

Assalì la trentenne Tsai-Lian Yu, trascinandola fuori dalla sua auto e sparandole due colpi di arma da fuoco prima di fuggire. La ragazza venne ritrovata ancora in vita da un poliziotto, ma spirò poco prima dell'arrivo dell'ambulanza. I due omicidi ebbero una grossa risonanza nei media locali, scatenando il panico tra i residenti delle zone colpite.

Il 27 marzo Ramirez sparò a Vincent Zazzara, 64 anni, e a sua moglie Maxine, 44. Il corpo della signora Zazzara fu violentato e mutilato con diverse coltellate e le venne incisa la lettera T sul seno sinistro, mentre le furono cavati anche gli occhi. I cadaveri di Vincent e Maxine furono scoperti nella loro abitazione di Whittier dal figlio della coppia, Peter. L'autopsia determinò che le varie mutilazioni erano avvenute post-morte. Ramirez lasciò delle impronte di scarpe da ginnastica marca Avia sul luogo del delitto, che la polizia fotografò ed archiviò. All'epoca questi erano gli unici indizi in possesso della polizia. I proiettili trovati sulla scena del crimine furono confrontati con quelli rinvenuti durante i precedenti omicidi, e gli agenti capirono di trovarsi di fronte ad un assassino seriale. Gli omicidi erano infatti opera della stessa persona.

Due mesi dopo l'uccisione degli Zazzara, Ramirez attaccò una coppia di cinesi: Harold Wu, 66 anni, e sua moglie, Jean Wu, 63. L'uomo venne ucciso con un colpo di pistola alla testa, mentre la donna venne picchiata, legata, e ripetutamente violentata. Per ragioni sconosciute, Ramirez decise di lasciarla in vita. Gli impulsi omicidi di Ramirez si facevano di giorno in giorno più violenti. Lasciava dietro di sé sempre più indizi, e fu in questo periodo che venne soprannominato "The Night Stalker" dai mass media. Le vittime sopravvissute descrivevano il killer come un uomo alto di etnia ispanica con lunghi e ricci capelli neri, il viso scarno e allungato e la dentatura in pessime condizioni.

Il 29 maggio 1985 Ramirez assaltò Malvial Keller, 83 anni, e la sorella disabile di lei, Blanche Wolfe, 80 anni, picchiandole entrambe con un martello. Ramirez cercò anche di violentare la Keller, senza però riuscirvi. Utilizzando un rossetto disegnò un pentacolo sulla parete della stanza da letto e su una coscia dell'anziana donna. Blanche sopravvisse all'attacco. Il giorno seguente, Carol Kyle, 41 anni, fu legata, picchiata e sodomizzata da Ramirez, mentre il figlioletto undicenne della donna era stato rinchiuso nell'armadio dal killer.

Durante giugno e luglio, altre tre donne furono uccise. Due ebbero la gola tagliata, una picchiata a morte, tutte e tre furono assalite nelle loro case. Il 26 giugno Ramirez rapì di notte prelevandola dalla sua stanza la piccola Anastasia Hronas, una bambina di 6 anni; dopo averla ripetutamente violentata la lasciò libera abbandonandola nei pressi di un benzinaio.

Il 5 luglio Whitney Bennett, 16 anni, e Linda Fortuna, 63, furono attaccate da Ramirez, ma riuscirono entrambe a sopravvivere. Il 20 luglio Ramirez colpì addirittura due volte nello stesso giorno. A Sun Valley sparò, uccidendolo, a un uomo di 32 anni, Chitat Assawahem, mentre la moglie Sakima, 29 anni, fu picchiata e costretta ad un rapporto orale. Ramirez sodomizzò anche il figlioletto di 8 anni della coppia davanti agli occhi della madre. Più tardi lo stesso giorno assalì una coppia a Glendale, Maxson Kneiding, 66 anni, e sua moglie Lela, anche lei 66 anni; entrambi furono uccisi e i cadaveri mutilati.

Il 6 agosto Ramirez sparò sia a Christopher Petersen, 38, sia alla moglie di lui, Virginia, 27. Miracolosamente, sopravvissero entrambi. L'8 agosto seguente, Ramirez colpì a Diamond Bar, uccidendo Ahmed Zia, 35 anni, e poi violentò la moglie dell'uomo, Suu Kyi, 28 anni.

Successivamente Ramirez lasciò la zona di Los Angeles, e il 17 agosto, uccise un uomo di 66 anni a San Francisco, picchiando e sparando anche alla moglie dell'uomo. La donna riuscì a sopravvivere e fu in grado di identificare il suo assalitore dagli identikit preparati dalla polizia. Sulla scena del crimine, Ramirez utilizzò un rossetto per disegnare un pentacolo e scrivere le parole "Jack the Knife" sul muro della stanza da letto, poi, dopo aver rubato del cibo dal frigorifero, vomitò sul pavimento in cucina e si masturbò sul tappeto del salotto.

La svolta decisiva nel caso ebbe luogo il 24 agosto 1985, Ramirez viaggiò per cinquanta miglia dal sud di Los Angeles a Mission Viejo, ed irruppe nell'appartamento di Bill Carns, 29 anni, e della fidanzata, Inez Erickson, 27. Ramirez sparò in testa a Carns e violentò Erickson. La costrinse ad inneggiare a Satana e poco dopo, la forzò ad un rapporto orale. Poi la legò e se ne andò. Erickson riuscì a strisciare fino alla finestra e a scorgere l'auto di Ramirez, una Toyota station wagon di colore arancio. Fu inoltre in grado di dare una descrizione dettagliata del criminale alla polizia. Un adolescente identificò l'auto della quale aveva sentito parlare al notiziario, e si segnò la targa del veicolo. L'auto rubata venne rinvenuta il 28 agosto, e la polizia riuscì ad ottenere le impronte digitali dell'assassino prelevandole dal finestrino di una portiera dell'auto. Le impronte si rivelarono quelle del già schedato Richard Muñoz Ramirez, descritto come un venticinquenne ispanico con una lunga serie di precedenti per stupro e spaccio di droga.

Due giorni dopo, la sua foto segnaletica venne trasmessa in televisione e stampata sui principali quotidiani della California. Ramirez fu riconosciuto, circondato e quasi linciato da una folla di passanti a East Los Angeles mentre stava cercando di rubare un'auto. Gli agenti accorsi sul posto dovettero disperdere la folla per impedire che i cittadini inferociti uccidessero Ramirez.

L'udienza preliminare per il caso iniziò il 22 luglio 1988, e si concluse il 20 settembre 1989 con Ramirez ritenuto colpevole di 13 omicidi, 5 tentati omicidi, 11 violenze sessuali, e 14 furti con scasso.

Durante la fase penale del processo, il 7 novembre 1989, Ramirez fu condannato a 19 pene di morte. Il processo di Richard Ramirez fu uno dei più lunghi e complessi procedimenti giudiziari della storia americana. Più di 100 testimoni furono chiamati a deporre durante i dibattimenti, e mentre alcuni faticavano a ricordare precisamente avvenimenti accaduti quattro anni prima, altri si dissero sicuri che l'assassino fosse proprio Richard Ramirez, il quale si presentò in aula con un pentacolo tatuato sul palmo di una mano esclamando "Ave Satana!".

Il 3 agosto 1988 il Los Angeles Times riportò la notizia che alcune guardie carcerarie avevano raccontato di aver sentito Ramirez che diceva di voler sparare al procuratore distrettuale in aula, con una pistola che intendeva contrabbandare in tribunale di nascosto.

Di conseguenza, venne installato un metal detector all'entrata dell'aula e furono disposti severi controlli. Il 14 agosto il processo fu interrotto perché uno dei giurati, tale Phyllis Singletary, non si presentò in aula. Più tardi quello stesso giorno la donna venne rinvenuta cadavere nel suo appartamento, uccisa da un colpo di arma da fuoco. La giuria rimase terrorizzata dall'evento; nessuno sapeva se Ramirez aveva avuto indirettamente qualcosa a che fare con l'omicidio, orchestrando il tutto dalla sua cella. In realtà Ramirez non era responsabile della morte della Singletary: la donna era stata uccisa dal suo fidanzato, che in seguito si suicidò.

All'epoca del processo, Ramirez aveva numerose fan che gli scrivevano appassionate lettere d'amore in carcere. A partire dal 1985, la giornalista freelance Doreen Lioy gli scrisse circa 75 lettere durante la sua incarcerazione. Nel 1988 Ramirez le propose di sposarlo, e il 3 ottobre 1996 la coppia si sposò nel carcere di San Quintino. La Lioy ha ripetutamente affermato che si sarebbe suicidata il giorno in cui Ramirez fosse stato giustiziato.

Richard Ramirez è morto per insufficienza epatica nel giugno 2013 all'età di 53 anni, mentre era detenuto nel Carcere di San Quintino.

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Prodigal Son Playlists

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Any Other Character Suggestion? Please comment your character suggestions below!

[pulkitoki]

Absolutely loved Oz Perkins's Longlegs- it scratched that strange Silence-of-the-Lamb-meets-Seven-with-a-handful-of-the-Omen itch I didn't know I had.

Just as moody and atmospheric as his previous entries, though I do think the marketing might have oversold it as the scariest thing ever, Blackcoat's Daughter was much more scarier than this especially those strong pitch black sequences. Nonetheless, a pretty good psychological horror movie.

Also, there were some shots that really reminded me of Alan Wake 2 weirdly.

[murder-and-maryjane]

Did You Know🤔

Joseph Paul Franklin (born James Clayton Vaughn Jr.; April 13, 1950 – November 20, 2013) was an American serial killer, white supremacist, and domestic terrorist who engaged in a murder spree spanning the late 1970s and early 1980s. Franklin was convicted of several murders and received four life sentences, as well as two death sentences. He also confessed to the attempted murders of magazine publisher and pornographer Larry Flynt in 1978 and civil rights activist Vernon Jordan in 1980. Both survived their injuries, but Flynt was left permanently paralyzed from the waist down. Franklin was not convicted in either of those highly publicized cases, and he made his confessions years after the crimes had occurred. Franklin was on Missouri's death row for 15 years awaiting execution for the 1977 murder of Gerald Gordon. He was executed by lethal injection on November 20, 2013.

[idkk-broo]

The ledger of lies: A detective's diary - PROLOGUE (on Wattpad) https://www.wattpad.com/1492226604-the-ledger-of-lies-a-detective%27s-diary-prologue?utm_source=web&utm_medium=tumblr&utm_content=share_reading&wp_uname=kiki__89988 On the cold winter nights of 1989 London, a detective faces a horrifying realization: the city's most elusive killer is someone she once trusted with her life. Known only as "The Unseen," the killer slips through the shadows, carrying his dark trophies in a black bag. As she chases him through the snow-covered streets, the line between friend and foe blurs, forcing her to confront both her own guilt and the darkness lurking in someone she thought she knew. Will she have the strength to end his deadly game, or is she his final masterpiece? {Viewers discretion: All the cases involved are real cases and names involved are not real}