Richard Ramirez Essays

  • Richard Ramirez

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    Richard Ramirez, also known as “The Night Stalker” or “The Valley Intruder” terrorized the greater Los Angeles area in the mid-1980s. He was a serial rapist, killer, burglar, and self-described Satanist. The man spent a year breaking into people’s homes, robbing them, then raping and mutilating – often after he had already killed them. Despite the countless murders and sexual assaults that he committed, not once did Ramirez ever show a hint of remorse or fear of the consequences of his actions. When

  • Richard Ramirez: A Brief Biography

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    Richard Ramirez was a serial killer in the United States, terrorizing the greater Los Angeles area. His victims were found dead, raped, and/or had all of their valuables taken from their home. He was dubbed “The Night Stalker” during his spree of killings in June of 1984 to August of 1985. He was an avowed “Satanist.” Ramirez was born in El Paso, Texas on February 29, 1960. Ramirez’s dad was a Mexican nationalist and a former police officer in Juarez, Mexico. He often had “fits” where he would become

  • Richard Ramirez The Night Stalker

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    Night Stalker Richard Ramirez also known as "The Night Stalker" was a notorious serial killer who tormented the lives of Los Angeles residents by raping, sodomizing, murdering, and torturing random citizens of the community. Ramirez was addicted to cocaine and was a Satan worshiper. His rain of torture throughout 1985 included over 29 victims. He has already outlived some of the victims that survived his attacks. In 1985 Ramirez was captured by an angry mob of citizens. Ramirez was born in 1960

  • Richard Ramirez "The Night Stalker"

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    murderer, rapist, and burglar was born Ricardo Leyva Ramirez. He was commonly referred to as Richard. However, in May of 1985 he was immortalized in the media as “The Night Stalker”. The night-time rampage started in June of 1984. While sleeping in her bed, Jennie Vincow was awakened with repeated stabs in the chest. this shadow of the night slit her throat and nearly decapitated her as the finishing blow. However, the nightmare did not end until Ramirez had intercourse with the seventy-nine year old's

  • Richard Ramirez Research Paper

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    In June of 1984, Richard Ramirez began his famous killing spree. His strategies on how he would kill his victims seem to be unorthodox and unorganized, take his first victim for example. Seventy-nine year old Jennie Vincow was asleep on her bed inside her apartment on Chapman Street in Los Angeles, California, when Richard Ramirez who unintentionally broke into the wrong apartment, was high off coke and angry because of the poverty based apartment he broke into, plowed his six-inch hunting knife

  • Richard Ramirez And The Serial Killer

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    During his teenage years, Ramirez committed a staggering amount of misdemeanors and felonies that consisted of possession, breaking and entering, theft, and auto theft. Once the teenager grew into his adult years, he still performed misdemeanors; however, the felonies became more deadly and sadistic. Around 28 victims unfortunately encountered him. Some of the people from the 28 experienced horrible events, but they were able to live through his discretion. However, thirteen to fourteen other

  • Richard Ramirez: The American Serial Killer

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    serial killer, Richard Ramirez was born on February 29, 1960 in El Paso, Texas. Ramirez was known for being a satanic worshiper and for going on a two-year raped and torture rampage, harming more than 25 victims and murdering more than a dozen. Ramirez, also known as the "Night Stalker," turned to satanic worship at an early age by his cousin, a soldier who had recently returned from the war in Vietnam. Following a four-year trial, in 1989, Ramirez was convicted of 13 killings. Ramirez received the

  • Richard Ramirez

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    Criminals: Project Childhood and background (family life, friends) Richard Ramirez was born to Julian and Mercedes Ramirez on February 29, 1960 in EL Paso Texas. His mother Mercedes was a devoted catholic and once she crossed the border from Mexico into America, began to work in a boot factory, while his father a former police officer became a labourer for the Santa-Fe railroad. Ramirez was the youngest of five children. When Richard was young, he was ironically described as an angel - innocent and

  • The Night Stalker

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    from June 28, 1984 until August 24, 1985 Richard Ramirez killed sixteen people going as far as seventy six miles south of Los Angeles. He was known as the “Night Stalker”. Richard Ramirez was born on February 29, 1960 in El Paso, Texas; his father’s name was Julian. His father Julian was a railway worker, and formerly a policeman in Juarez, Mexico (Richard Ramirez). His mother’s name is Mercedes, she worked in a boot making factory while pregnant with Richard. At the boot factory they used chemicals

  • The Night Stalker

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    Stalker Richard Ramirez is an infamous serial murderer who terrorized Los Angeles, California in 1985. The media gave him the name the “Night Stalker” when he was on his vicious rampage of forcing himself into the homes of his victims late at night and committing his heinous crimes. Though he was only convicted of thirteen murders, he had many more victims. His crimes were so random, disorganized, and impulsive that the law enforcement officials of Los Angeles had no luck finding Ramirez for months

  • Richard Ramirez Research Paper

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    why they did the things they did. Richard Ramirez, the Night Stalker, is an example of someone who is unusually interesting. Richard Ramirez is a serial killer who was found guilty of 13 murders, a couple of sexual assaults, and burglaries. He was sentenced to death by California’s gas chamber, but he died in prison in 2013. Richard was a worshiper of the devil, had poor hygiene, and was overall a terrible person. Why and how did he get this way? Richard Ramirez was born on the 29th of February 1960

  • Serial Killer Richard Ramirez

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    Serial Killer Richard Ramirez Crescendo of Terror Late in the 20th Century, Hell glutted on humanity. Its first bloodletting of that season of the Devil occurred on the warm evening of June 28, 1984, when an earth-bound Lucifer found his way into the small Glassel Park apartment of 79-year-old Jennie Vincow. Throughout the Los Angeles area a damp humidity had oppressed the air that day, and when the evening came and the temperature slightly cooled, Jennie left her window open to invite

  • Richard Ramirez: Characters And Characteristics Of A Serial Killer

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    Psychological Profile Ramirez had many characteristics that could be similar to a typical serial killer. There are a great number of traits that can make a serial killer who they are. There are also upbringings that can make a serial killer act a certain way. Experiences and certain events can cause them to become the serial killer they are. Serial killers can also become who they are not just because of their surroundings, but because they want to. Sometimes they want revenge on somebody and then

  • Serial Killer Richard Ramirez: Night Stalker

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    Richard Ramirez, also known as “Night Stalker”, was a serial killer in the 1980’s convicted of 14 murders over a 2 year span. Born on February 29, 1960, he was about 24 years of age when he started his killing spree but was 17 when he dropped out of high school and committed his life to crime. At the age of 18, he became a Satanist. Ramirez was deeply influenced by his older cousin at a young age when he told personal stories of rape and torture during his time as a U.S Army Green Beret combatant

  • The Different Types Of Serial Killers By Richard Ramirez

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    According to Richard Ramirez,“Normal, ordinary people do not think like a serial killer. They have no conception of what is going on in a killer’s mind, how he operates”. Ramirez was a notorious serial killer who killed at least 14 people and tortured many more. Serial killers like Ramirez are why for many years psychologists and law enforcement officials have been trying to figure out just why people behave in this way. It is a very common fact that normal people do not think the same way that a

  • Lightning Quotes

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    Emerson’s quote of “The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine” has been told to me in many, various ways, such as grow a spine, let it be water on a duck’s back, it’s water under the bridge, and assume yourself some thick skin. This quote follows those words as such, showing that when it comes to your problems, you must stand tall and don’t let them get to you. The lightning symbolizes the incoming strike from others, who wish to go against someone and their ideals or morality

  • John Fowles

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    John Fowles It's A Boy! Robert and Gladys Richards Fowles give birth to a baby boy on March 31, 1926, in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex County, England. The proud parents have high hopes for their son and send him to two prestigious schools, Alleyn Court School (1934-1939) and Bedford School (1939-1944), where he excels in scholarship and sports. After his primary education is complete, the family moves from London to the Devon countryside, to avoid the invasion of troops in World War II. After serving

  • the beach

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    The beach 1.     people - Richard: a british traveller, who comes to Bangkok and gets a map to a secret hidden beach. He has seen every movie about Vietnam, and he sometimes believes being there. He also is addicted to video games. - Daffy Duck: the man who gives Rich the map; he had been on the beach before and had left it for some reason. After his death, he often appears in Richs daydreams. He always speaks about Vietnam, and he knows everything before it happens. - Etienne and Françoise: a french

  • Irony in Kate Chopin's The Story of an Hour

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    characters in this story, but they all play an important part. The characters are Mrs. Mallard, Josephine, Richards, and Brently Mallard. Mrs. Mallard and Brently Mallard are married and live together in the house that the story takes place in. Josephine is Mrs. Mallard’s sister and she is the one who would break the news to her about Brently Mallards death in the railroad accident. Finally Richards who is Brently Mallards good friend, and he is the one who found out about Brently Mallards death. The

  • Feminist Foundations

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    movement has progressed through several generations it has shifted quite a bit in its general approach and theory. Contemporary writers such as Baumgardner and Richards, and Henry have illustrated a generational shift away from structurally aimed actions, and towards individual acts of subversion and small political actions (Baumgardner and Richards 126-202). This current course is very similar to the direction of other highly organic movements such as sustained dialogue. Feminism though, is particularly