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The 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 to his Mexican immigrant parents Julian and Mercedes Ramirez. He was the youngest out of his five siblings of 3 boys and 2 girls. He grew up in El Paso, Texas, where he had a relatively normal childhood to start off with. Even though Ramirez seemed to be on a down hill spiral, his father always maintained that Ramirez was a "good boy". At the age of 12 he started to spend a lot of time with his cousin Mike, a Vietnam veteran, his cousin would show him pictures of women he had raped and tortured during his time in Vietnam. Mike would sometime take Ramirez out to the desert at night to show him how to sneak up on animals and kill them. Ramirez was taught how to use a knife and where the vital spots were on the animals. Some believe that the turning point in Ramirez's life may have been when he witnessed his cousin murder his wife. At the time Ramirez was 13 and was smoking pot with his cousin Mike when his wife came in and allegedly started to "nag" him on getting his life together and getting a job. Mike then took out a gun and shot her in the face. The blood of Mikes wife spattered onto Ramirez. After Mikes conviction Ramirez became fascinated with the photos that Mike had showed him. From being a bright young stude...
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...began to chase him. While trying to escape, Ramirez attempted to steal a car but was unaware that the owner was under the car trying to fix it. When Ramirez started the car the owner came out from underneath it and began to chase him. The mob was still in pursuit now armed with steal rods. They eventually caught up to him and several people beat him until the police got there. He was arrested and taken into custody. It was because of endless appeals that his trial lasted for 4 years. At the end of everything he was found guilty on 43 counts in the Los Angeles county that included 13 murders, burglary, sodomy, and, rape. He was sentenced to the death penalty in the gas chamber. He is still on death row and will continue to be until he is out of appeals. He is quoted as saying "You maggots make me sick. I will be avenged Lucifer dwells within all of us!".
This criminal case is about Chester Turner, who is a serial killer that lived in the Los Angeles. Chester Dewayne Turner was born in Warren, Arkansas he moved to LA with his mother at the age five. He went to public schools and dropped out of high school found a job at Domino’s Pizza as a cook and delivery person. He lived continue to live with his mother until she moved to Utah and from there it was homeless shelters and missions. Turner was jailed seven times from 1995 to 2002, for which six of the are nonviolent offenses and one assault charge on an office. Turner was charged with the murder of 10 women, and one of the victim’s unborn child. On April 30, 2007, he was convicted of murder and on July 10, 2007 he was sentenced to death.
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.
Carlos Deluna was born on March 15th 1962. Carlos DeLuna, who was arrested for murder, was developmentally disabled and had a low IQ. He dropped out of junior high and took a series of manual jobs. He had a history of petty nonviolent crime, including robbery and car theft. DeLuna also developed a taste for huffing spray paint. He was arrested multiple times holding a can of spray paint with his hands and mouth “smeared with the stuff.” DeLuna was convicted of murder and sentenced to death by the state of Texas. On the night of February 4th,1983 a 24 year old gas station attendant named Wanda Lopez was murdered.Reporters said the young woman had been stabbed multiple time with a buckle knife. At his 1983 trial, Carlos DeLuna told the jury that on the day of the murder he had ran into Hernandez, who he'd known for the previous five years. The two men, who both lived in the southern Texas town of Corpus Christi, stopped off at a bar. Hernandez went over to a gas station, the Shamrock, to buy something, and when he didn't return DeLuna went over to see what was going on.Mrs.Lopez was killed while on the phone with the police, having just called 911 reporting a suspicious person. Police found DeLuna hiding in a truck a few blocks away. DeLuna told the jury that he saw Hernandez inside the Shamrock wrestling with a woman behind the counter. DeLuna said he was afraid and started to run. He had his own police record for sexual assault. "I just kept running because I was scared, you know." When he heard the sirens of police cars screeching towards the gas station he panicked and hid under a pickup truck where, 40 minutes after the killing, he was arrested.(Pilkington) DeLuna always maintained that he didn't do it, but waited until his tr...
Ernesto Miranda was a spanish lower class citizen born and raised in Arizona. As a child Miranda had problems in grade school, a little while after Miranda’s mother died. After his mother died Miranda lost connections with the rest of his family. His criminal record began during his 8th grade year. During the next year, he was arrested and convicted of burglary and was sentenced to be sent to a reform school for one year. About a month from his reform school he committed a crime and was sent back to reform school. The second time he was released he relocated to Los Angeles. Not too long after Miranda arrived in Los Angeles he was arrested there. After 2 and a half years Miranda was evicted and sent back to Arizona, at about age 18. Afterward he traveled through the south for about 3 months, and ended up committing more crimes and served jail time in Ohio, Texas, and California, and Nashville. Miranda was able to stay out of jail for the next couple of years and had many different jobs before he got a stable job as a laborer for Phoenix Produce Company.
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One of the most gruesome serial killers of all time was Andrei Chikatilo. He was born on October 16, 1936 in Yablochnoye, a Ukrainian farming village. One of his clearest memories of his youth was that of his mother telling him his older brother had been stolen and eaten by neighbors during a great famine. This thought remained with him always and he later disclosed he often imagined the torturous ending his brother must have had.
Carlos Fuentes was born on November the eleventh, nineteen twenty-eight; he was the son of a Mexican diplomat. Carlos was very well educated; he attended schools in Washington D.C., later went on to get a law degree from the University of Mexico in Mexico City, and even studied abroad at the Institute of Advanced International Studies in Geneva. He was always inspired by writing; his law degree was merely a way to satisfy his parents. His parents did not see a future in being a writer. Fuentes was also a very well rounded traveler, because of his fathers career Fuentes was able to get a look at other cultures and governments. His travels took him throughout Mexico, the United States, Cuba, into Europe, and most importantly throughout Latin America. He was able to come to understand how governments worked, the way big business used people for their own wealth and power. Fuentes was rather disgusted by corrupt governments and big businesses and actively stood up for what he believed was right. He was very liberal and at one point even joined the communist party. He used his writings to display to people from around the world the way that business and government used and betrayed the average citizen. He was revolutionary in the way he was able to use characters in his writings to disclose the big picture and history of his own home land, the country of Mexico.
A men who craves attention , identified himself as "sin máscara " . He has started killing in Mexico,1986. His name is Rey Chico. He lived in dingy hut small place with his drunken father. Chico's childhood was very trembling , he was abused by his father Bartolome, and ever since then he has developed an aggressive behavior which eventually caused him a trauma. Chico , joined a gang at such a young age . He was fifteen, when he killed his first victim. At age 7, Chico's father beat him up in one of his typical drunken night Bartolomé loss control and cut his sons face with a bottle. Chico had a scar of that night , which was when he decided to wear a mask. He's childhood beating made him a heartless young boy . Seven men were dead.
He started hiding during daylight. At night he would go back on the streets and look for food. After staying a year in Tolmia, he decided to try out the streets of Bogota. One day he was begging for food and an American couple felt sorry for him and decided to help him out. “They brought him to their home an enrolled him in a school for orphans but when he was 12, a male teacher molested him. Shortly afterwards Lopez stole money [from the school office] and fled back into the streets” (Montaldo). Living on the streets Pedro had to find other ways to survive. He then would commit petty theft like.......... In order to survive on the streets; Pedro decided to join a gang for protection. Being in a gang; meant having rivalries. Sometimes Pedro had to fight other different gang members with knifes for a good sleeping spots. He then turned to stealing cars for money. At age 18, he was caught stealing a car and sent to prison. While in prison four inmates gang-raped him. “The anger and rage he experienced as a child rose inside him again, consuming him. He made another vow to himself, to never be violated again” (Montaldo). Pedro full of anger avenged himself by killing “three of the four men” who raped him (Montaldo). Another two years were added to his prison
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Cubillos was born in Genova, Colombia. He was the oldest of 7 siblings. He left school at age 16 and started to move place to place since then. Moving around caused him to live by his own rules (Culture Deviance Theory). He was neglected,emotionally abused and physically abused by his parents (Social Learning Theory). His parents weren't the only one abusing him, his two neighbors. He was psychologically
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If someone ever met Andrew Urdiales he would be the type that one would forget. He is not very outgoing and would keep to himself, during his childhood he did not have many friends and was an average student. Urdiales was a marine stationed in Southern California when he committed his first murder killing Robbin Brandley a twenty-three year old college student. From July 1988 to August 1996 Urdiales would go on to kill seven more women. Most serial killers kill each victim similar to all the other victims, Urdiales was different though his first murder he stabbed the victim to death while his last he shot in the head.
There once lived a boy, Ricardo Martinez. Ricky, the name most people knew him by, was a skinny twelve year old Hispanic boy. He stood at the height of five foot five with long, tangled hair. Ricky lived with a family of five with two loving parents and two mischievous younger brothers. He and his family lived in the poorest area of Mexico. They wore rags for clothes, ate rations of bread for food, drank dirty water from a nearby river, and occasionally drank milk if the parents had enough money to afford it.
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