Ricardo Munoz Ramirez

Introduction Ricardo Munoz Ramirez was born in El Paso, Texas on February 29, 1960. He was unfortunately given a very low class home with three brothers, one sister and a mom and dad. Most people called him Richard while he was young and, that name stuck around with him through his life. His father, Julian, was a very busy and stressed man. Julian had so much built-up anger because of this stress which made him abusive, especially towards Ramirez. His mother, Mercedes appeared to be much different than his father. She was a stay at home mom who cared very much for her children. He pursued the life of a criminal because of his family around him, including his father and especially his cousin, Mike. Mike impacted Ramirez in a way nobody else had. Ramirez committed his first murder on June 28, 1984. He was only 24 at the time. He went on to commit thirteen murders total and many more crimes within the span of two years. He was eventually apprehended on August 30, 1985 and was sentenced to jail for life along with 19 death sentences. While in jail, he suffered from liver failure and died in a hospital bed (Blanco 3).

There are two ways that Ramirez could have been introduced into killing: nature and nurture. Nature is more hereditary or things that people are born with. Nurture is the environmental factors and experiences

The first crime he committed was while he was in highschool working at a local Holiday Inn. He would use his pass key to sneak into guests room and rob them. Ramirez finally got fired from there when he snuck into a couple’s room and tried to rape a man’s wife while he was out. Her husband walked in the middle of it and beat Ramirez badly (Bk42author 3). After this, Ramirez got more and more into crimes. He received a probationary sentence for marijuana possession. Later he got arrested for a car theft (“Richard Ramirez Biography”