Posted on 10/23/2009 9:49:37 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Two decades after the devil-worshiping "Night Stalker" killer was sentenced to die for 13 Southern California murders, DNA evidence has tied him to the 1984 rape and slaying of a 9-year-old girl in the Tenderloin, San Francisco authorities said Thursday.
The DNA links Richard Ramirez and possibly a second, unknown attacker to the April 10, 1984, killing of Mei "Linda" Leung, whose body was found hanging over a pipe in the basement of her apartment building at 765 O'Farrell St., police said.
The girl was with her 8-year-old brother when she lost a dollar bill and went looking for it, police said. The boy wandered away, then came back to the basement and found his sister dead. Police said she had been beaten, raped and stabbed.
The police cold-case unit recently revived the case. Investigators obtained a confirming sample of Ramirez's DNA Wednesday to compare with what was found at the scene of the killing and to a sample previously taken from the convicted murderer.
The girl was slain more than two months before Ramirez's first known murder, the killing June 28, 1984, of 79-year-old Jennie Vincow in the Glassell Park area of Los Angeles.
illed as they slept
For more than a year afterward, Ramirez terrified Southern California with a string of slayings, earning the "Night Stalker" nickname because he murdered his victims as they slept.
At some of the scenes, Ramirez scrawled pentagrams, often associated with devil worship. Some of his victims were mutilated with the symbols and had their eyes gouged out. Ramirez allowed one victim to live after he made her swear upon Satan that she would not scream for help.
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Uncertainty over whether Richard Ramirez would face trial in new slaying cases
Whew! Thankfully he’s not been put to death - now he can be tried for this one too/sarc CA needs to be more like Texas and Florida with respect to the DP.
Live cremation would be an appropriate method of execution for a crime like this.
Is he out of the general population being on death row? Otherwise child killer/molesters aren’t looked upon to well. Maybe he’ll have an “accident”.
Can someone there explain why this creep is still alive?
That was my question, too. Ganted, it’s Kalifornia but there has to be a limit.
Didn’t they execute him?
Maybe.
INSIDE DEATH ROW (San Quentin)
"He's very well aware that any inmate, if they get a chance, will attempt to kill him," said Lt. Michael Barker, who is in charge of the unit. Richard Ramirez, the satanic killer known as the "Night Stalker," is also in the Adjustment Center, where he has continued to receive fan mail from adoring women even while exposing himself to children in the prison's visiting area, according to Barker... ...The Adjustment Center is where Richard Allen Davis has lived since he was convicted for the kidnap and murder of 12-year-old Polly Klaas in Petaluma in 1993. Davis has been assaulted and spat upon by other inmates at least three times. Besides killing a child, many inmates blame Davis for the three strikes law.
Who exactly used the words "wandered away" - the brother, the police, or this reporter? "Wandered away" brings to mind the boy had left her for only a few moments. This crime took much longer than a few moments.
Do you know how many years we slept with the door to our bedroom locked and jimmied shut because of this man and the horror he brought to the entire Southern California area? Even after he was caught and to this day we sleep with a locked bedroom door and our dogs in the room...
Richard Ramirez is one sick bastard!
We spent the summer of ‘85 with my grandparents in Southern California. It was horrifying. I stayed a night with my great-grandma in Monrovia, where he had killed someone, and I was so scared, I refused to stay another night.
He gets tons of letters from female admirers and got married to one of them.
My BIL was an OC Sheriff deputy and had to go to the scene of the murder down in Mission Viejo he was so freaked out at what he saw there that they had their kids start sleeping in their bedroom until he was caught; the murder in Diamond Bar was only a few miles from our house and that did it for us... we had double doors in our bedroom and my husband made a bar that acted like a chair under the door knobs and we never went to bed without the door locked and that bar in place.
Same thing happened to Richard Speck after he murdered 8 student nurses. The assumption was that he had raped ALL of them before killing them, so.........what a man!!
When he moved to Northern California, San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein held a press conference and angered detectives by giving away information they were holding back. She released that they knew his gun type and had footprints. The next day he threw his gun and shoes off the Golden Gate Bridge.
We were already all doubled up (adults + kids) staying at the grandparents’ house, and I believe there were guns handy, as well. It must have been bad for a cop to change behavior after one event.
Interestingly, when we moved up to the NW that summer, we all fell in love with a completely fortified house (bars on the windows.) I always slept well in that house!
Indeed. San Quentin's Death Row is full of the sickest of sick bastards, most of whom will die of natural causes.
Ramirez was arrested in August 1985 in Los Angeles after he tried to steal a car and was chased down and pummeled by residents. After a trial in which Ramirez giggled in court and yelled, “Hail, Satan,” he was convicted in 1989 of 13 murders and 30 other felonies, among them child rape and sodomy.
Now 49, he remains on Death Row at San Quentin State Prison as his appeals work through the courts.”
Wow. Four years to try him. Twenty plus years of taking care of him in prison ($4,000,000++)
and he still isn’t dead.
Aren’t Democrat defense lawyers great ?????????
Hell, they got Bill Clinton off, why not the devil ??????????
Ah, Kolchak. I remember the show well.
The summer of 85 I was 15 and living in So Cal in Corona my hometown. I totally remember this. WILD.
California could save hundreds of thousands of dollars each year by fullfilling the punishment NOW of these evil persons who have been found guilty.
I'm a native Californian and I have NEVER understood their legal system when it comes to capital punishment. It's truly embarrassing how the liberals have circumvented the laws and the appeals process can go on for decades. It is ridiculous.
“He gets tons of letters from female admirers and got married to one of them.”
How sick and pathetic. What are these “women” thinking?
“Same thing happened to Richard Speck after he murdered 8 student nurses. The assumption was that he had raped ALL of them before killing them, so.........what a man!!”
This case has always perplexed me, there were 9 student nurses in the apartment (one hid and escaped) they should have been capable of subduing a man with a knife (the average apartment has many items that can be used as a weapon/shield). If these nurses had fought him there chance of survival would have been greater and a little prior tactical analysis and becoming proficient in weapons and self defense would have significantly increased their odds.
The stark reality is, the more people prepare themselves to respond, and do respond, to violent attacks, the less likely they are to have to do so.
Ramirez raped some of his female victims (including an 83-year old woman), but, in at least one case, he tried to rape a victim and was impotent.
I remember... Feinstein has always been an idiot, I have no idea how she ever made it to the senate...
It takes an average of 27 years for a convicted criminal to be executed in CA, from the date of conviction to the actual execution, sometimes longer.
Someone should arrange to have his radio “repaired” http://www.angelfire.com/tx3/kjkin/gaskins.html .
ping
It was 1966. Another world. The women had no idea what was coming for them. There was no precedent for what Speck did. If he tried it today armed with just that little pocket knife, the girls would massacre him.
Richard Ramirez
Too bad he just didn't stay put in Texas, where this evil POS came from.
Like Charlie Manson, too bad this guy didn't stay in the state he was born and raised...In this case, Texas.
One of the women on his jury (who voted to convict) left her husband and children and earned her private investigator's license just so she could meet Ramirez behind bars for sex, much to the dismay of Ramirez's wife who wasn't allowed conjugal visits.
maybe lawyers at the “Innocence Project” could show us how DNA can work to execute someone in a matter of weeks besides free someone in a matter of weeks.
I got that 27 year average from the days of the coverage of the Scott Peterson trial. I guess they were underestimating.
Effectively sabotaging the death penalty, which is what liberals have labored to do.
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