Serial killers are often automatically shrugged off, although it is understandable. Learning about them is not what many people want to do, but it is extremely interesting to learn 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. He was born to Julian Ramirez and Mercedes Ramirez. He was born J. Simpson murder case in 1994” (Wiki), Richard Ramirez got the death penalty by California’s gas chamber. Ramirez never actually got executed and stayed in prison until his death in 2013. He died due to complications with lymphoma. But while he was in jail he still did things, not crimes though. Richard did many interviews with the media and had many followers who often wrote letters to him. One interviewer, Doreen Lioy, had a passionate interest in Richard Ramirez. She was so interested in him that the two got married in 1996. She loved him so much that she said she would kill herself when he is executed. Her current whereabouts are unknown, she clearly didn’t want to live up to it. Richard Ramirez was an absolute monster who terrorized the people of Los Angeles for years. He was finally caught and “found guilty of 13 counts of murder, 5 attempted murders, 11 sexual assaults and 14 burglaries” (murderpedia). He was known for his dislike of hypocrites when he in fact was a hypocrite. When he was in jail he bragged about how he loved to murder people, but when he was first caught pleaded to be innocent. He, in fact did, commit crimes from 1982 until 1985. Richard Ramirez was a gruesome man, even his wife figured that
In 1980, Julio Gonzalez immigrated to New York and met Lydia Feliciano, who would become his girlfriend. 10 years later, Gonzalez lost his job, was dumped by Feliciano, and got drunk. He visited his ex-girlfriend when she was working as a coat-check at an illegal bar in the Bronx called Happy Land Social Club. After Gonzalez was thrown out by the bouncer, he bought gasoline at a nearby gas station and set fire to the stairs, which was the only exit. 87 people were killed. Gonzalez was visited in his apartment by police officers, he confessed to his crimes, and was taken to the police station where he was promptly arrested. The defense attorney claimed that the defendant was unlawfully arrested so his statements were invalid and that even if
On the night of November 28th 1976, 28-year-old Randall Adams was hitchhiking on a Dallas road when 16-year-old David Harris picked him up. Harris, a runaway from Texas had stolen the car along with his father’s shotgun. They spent the day together and that night went to a drive-in movie The Swinging Chandeliers. Later that same evening officer Robert Wood was shot and killed when he pulled a car matching the exact description as Harris’s over. Two witnesses-including Harris, named Adams as the murderer. Adams received a death penalty sentence that in 1979 that later was reduced to life in prison. It was early in the 1980’s when director Errol Morris happened upon Adams’s court transcripts whilst shooting a different documentary about a Dallas psychiatrist who was frequently consulted in death row cases. Convinced of Adams innocence and the false accusations made against him Morris began making a film on the subject.
A University of San Diego professor whose daughter’s disappearance become a recurring factor in his life, has finally gotten the peace he deserves. After approximately five years of three unsolved murders, assailant David Allen Lucas, was convicted and sentenced to death. Lucas was a carpet cleaner from Spring Valley, CA and was 23 when he first committed a murder, but this was not his first time being convicted. In 1973, at the age of 18 Lucas was incarcerated after being convicted of raping a 21-year-old maid who had worked for a family friend.
Known, for apparent reasons, as "The Railroad Killer," Angel Resendez (who was known throughout much of the manhunt by the alias Rafael Ramirez) has been called "a man with a grudge," "confused," hostile" and "angry" by the police, the news media and psychiatrists. He is an illegal immigrant from Mexico who crossed the international border at will. Most of his crimes took place in central Texas, but he is suspected of having killed as far north as Kentucky and Illinois.
The day Suarez went missing, coworkers reported an altercation between Toledo and Suarez, learning of an affair his wife was having with a coworker. He went to her place of employment to confront her. Toledo’s temper flared and he slapped Suarez in the face. Yessenia Suarez had an affair with a married coworker named Kevin Dredden (Fernandez, 2014). On the day Yessenia Suarez and her two children went missing, Kevin Dreddin was the last one to talk to her, which was at 12:49 a.m.
David Alan Gore was born in Florida in 1953 on August 21st. David Gore was a Caucasian male that grew up to be around six feet tall and weighed about 275 lbs. Gore’s life ended when he was executed on April 12, 2012. David Gore had only one sister Wendy Gore. David was raised by his mother and father. His father was a manager at Hunter and Fruit Grove which is an orchard and his mother was an assistant librarian at Vero Beach land. Gore never showed signs of abuse from his parents or in school. David wasn’t thought to be good looking and was not very popular in school. Although the only problems he had in school were that he flunked gym class multiple times. When Gore was growing up there is no evidence that he tortured animals, started fires, or wet his bed. These actions can be linked to a majority of serial killers throughout history. Although throughout his life Gore did abuse drugs and alcohol. David Gore’s first encounter with getting in trouble involving girls was when he and his cousin Fred Waterfield watched the girls in their physical education class from an above balcony. Gore’s first experience with sex was when he watched his cousin rape his sister Wendy. It is not completely clear weather the events in Gore’s life were what triggered his violence towards women or the influence...
The crime he committed was terrible and obviously something that could only be done with someone who lacks any good intentions. His behavior during the his trial also showed the extent of his maliciousness. He half-heartedly attempted to defend himself by claiming the prosecutors were using false evidence and that, according the records of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas, “Nobles concludes that he was denied the fundamentally fair and impartial trial guaranteed him by the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment”. He put very little effort into defending himself during the trial and was quickly sentenced to death. In the early years of his time in prison he was far from the ideal prisoner. Earle presents how “He once broke away from guards while returning to his cell from the exercise yard and climbed the exposed pipes and bars in the cell block, kicking down television sets suspended outside on the bottom tier.” and on another occasion he cut himself just so he could hit an officer while they were attending to him before he passed out. This kind of behavior was completely eradicated long before he was executed, procuring him the respect of the prison
Richard Joseph Daley, the grandson of Irish immigrants, was born in the Bridgeport area of Chicago on May 15, 1902. He was graduated from De La Salle Institute in 1918 and worked in the stockyards for several years before studying law. While studying, he worked as a clerk in the Cook County Controller's office. In 1936 Daley married Eleanor Guilfoyle, and the couple had three daughters and four sons. One son, Richard M. Daley, served in the Illinois Senate and as Cook County state's attorney before being elected mayor of Chicago in 1989.
...ays of getting out of his punishment including insanity, which was professionally proven not the case, and that someone with black gloves signed for him to do what he did. Which was also proven wrong. Mesa was charged with charged with two counts of felony murder, one while armed, along with some robbery and burglary charges. He went to jail for the rest of his life without parole.
Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theaters, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Nobles Booksellers” (Brown). When people think of serial killers, names such as Dahmer, Gacy, Bundy, and Gein are cited. During the time Jack the Ripper was executing his victims in London, Holmes began his gruesome career in Chicago (America’s Serial Killers). “Despite being America’s first serial killer, Holmes is hardly a familiar name and until now we haven’t had any popular visual record of his crimes: (Spikol). Why is it that people only think of the more popular killers with higher known profiles? They are all very similar to one another because they share characteristics. H.H. Holmes was a successful serial killer because he was well educated, cunning and charming. Those are just a few traits Holmes ...
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.
On January 9, 1913, on a little lemon ranch in Yorba Linda, California, Francis Nixon and Hannah Nixon gave birth to Richard Nixon. The eventual President Nixon was the second of five brothers whose early death of Harold and Arthur Nixon, would impact is life greatly in later years. After his father's lemon farm eventual failure in 1922, forcing them to move to Whittier, California, his family opened and worked at a gas station to get by.(nixonlibrary.gov).
In order to identify serial killers before they kill repeatedly, a person needs to study the characteristics that make up this type of criminal. Most serial killers have been abandoned, by one or both parents, they are emotionally, physically, and even sexually abused by a family member, or relatives from unstable families who have criminal, psychiatric and alcoholic histories, or tend to have hate for their parents and people in general which makes them have antisocial personality disorder. They have conflicted, pained, or tortured animals at a young age and most are highly interested in gaining control over things. Even though not every serial killer posses these characteristics, most share these characteristics the same way they share the psychological need to have complete control and power over people. Dennis Rader was one normal average citizen until he shocked the public when he was caught as a serial killer who caused tragedy in their town.
A serial killer is a person who murders three or more people over a period of more than 30 days, with a "cooling off" period between each murder, and whose motivation for killing is largely based on psychological gratification. Most people do not understand what can make a person want to kill multiple people for no reason other than own satisfactional gain. In actuality serial killers have been studied for over hundreds of years, and the information that has been documented continues to grow. The research that I have gathered about serial killers focuses on their childhood development, the differences and similarities between men and female serial kills, and finally general information on how their brains operate and their motives for committing such harmful acts.
Born on January 9, 1913, in Yorba, Linda, California was Richard Milhous Nixon. He lived on a lemon ranch owned by his parents Francis Anthony Nixon and Hannah Milhous Nixon. Richard has four other siblings; he was the second of the five brothers. The Nixon family experienced financial hardships and death of his two beloved brothers. The family moved to Whittier, California, there they had a grocery store and a gas station, which all the Nixon family worked in to make ends meet. Nixon spent his three years at Duke’s University law school, he graduated in 1937. He met Thelma Catherine “Pat” Ryan in 1938, Nixon was smitten by her and pursued her, soon enough they married on June 21, 1940. In 1942, the Nixon family moved to Washington, D.C., where Nixon got the opportunity to join the Office of Price Administration. He quickly left to join the Navy in 1942. After his discharge, his political ambition rekindled when Republicans in California where in search for a con...