Murder With Friends: The Night Stalker

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Grace Baldridge is joined by Christine Medrano to talk about the L.A. Night Stalker, Richard Ramirez. They explore Ramirez’s troubled childhood and family circumstances–including his interpretation of Satanism–that created the monster we know him as today. Ramirez would go on to assault, rape, & kill dozens of people at random in the greater Los Angeles area. When finally caught, he was nearly beaten to death by an angry mob–only to be saved by the LAPD (what a twist of events).

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  1. So, after watching this episode, I realise that the “murders still happening” my mum always attributed as part of our moving away from the LA area were the Night Stalker slayings. However, since we had moved into an ultra conservative area (Utah), I think she never got the resolution of those murders since we’d moved, and thus just always defaulted to putting blame on the Hillside Strangler, who also operated around where we lived then (even though he’d been caught a couple of years before we moved). In total, 7 of the murders were in or around the exact suburb we lived in, including his original first (not the one added due to DNA testing); I believe the first five had taken place before we’d moved away.

    This is something I’m going to have to show her, just so that there’s some sort of closure to that, and a bit of a correction on the current affairs before we left the area.

  2. I hate that “we’re all evil” bs. We’re all bad. I curse when I shouldn’t. I get mad when I shouldn’t. I get lazy, I overeat, I can be selfish. We are all bad. We are not all EVIL. It’s this twisted and warped version of “we are all sinners” that a lot of religious people are raised with and turn that into “we all have the capacity to be killers”. I’m with you Grace I want to shout you aren’t better than me too. Like the episode overall got a little sporadic at times but that happens. I don’t tend to like stuff about him because more than most killers his whole story gives me the creeps.

  4. “I’ll see you in Disneyland” isn’t that from commercials. After someone did something great, like winning a gold Metal they would say “hey (whoever) you just won the gold metal. What are you going to do now”

    “I’m going to Disneyland” https://youtu.be/sZV1qLRrXcQ

  8. Women who fall for serial killers, rapists, etc is its only special brand of crazy.

    I feel it’s a bit sociopathic in its own right.
    These women think they are the only one who understands or can help or can change these monsters.
    It should also be noted that serial killer groupies have sympathy for the killer, but NOT for the victims.

  9. Just pulled yup for this episode, and DAMN.

    That is the scariest freakin Intro pic I’ve seen in a long time!

    Can’t wait to watch!

  10. last thing i hear about the women that married him was an interview where she said she would kill herself when he was executed but he wasn’t and apparently they divorced so idk

  12. In the quote about death, he’s just saying Disneyland is hell. It’s very cliche. The same could be said of everything he did. While he might not be dumb, he’s not smart either. Perhaps just smart enough to know he isn’t that bright. The interview seems to show that as well. He wants to SOUND smart, so he’s memorized these answers to give. But he’s taking the most shallow interpretation of deeper concepts like good and evil. His impulsiveness and tendency to emotional overreaction call to mind the worst kind of sulky teenage attitude that ties all of it together.

    2. The comment refers to the haunted house ride opened in the California Disneyland in the late 1970’s. This was innovative at the time, with many impressive three-dimensional effects. You rode through the haunted house in a moving car. The final, neat effect was a transparent three dimensional ghost that was projected into the seat of the car next to you. Don’t know how they did it, must have been a virtual image created with mirrors.

      The comment is suggesting that the dead person goes to Disneyland to join the other ghosts there. In the late 1970’s, I had a friend who lost her boyfriend in a traffic accident in the car they were driving. A troll-like person who disliked my friend later sent her a postcard, which I intercepted and threw out, that showed the haunted house ride and said “I didn’t die, I just went to Disneyland”. I presume the troll got the idea from a meme that was spread among some people as a joke and thought it was cool to send the postcard to a person the troll thought was grieving too much.

  13. YES! I’ve been waiting for this. I remember doing a report on Ramirez in my 10th grade law class. Every summer when it’s hot outside and I leave my windows open at night, I always think of this case.

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