RICHARD RAMIREZ WAS BORN IN EL PASO, TEXAS 1960. HE STARTED A LIFE OF CRIME AT THE YOUNG AGE OF 9, IT RANGED FROM DRUG ABUSE TO ROBBERY. BY THE TIME HE WAS 23 HE LIVED IN LOS ANGELES EITHER ON THE STREETS OR IN CHEAP MOTELS. HIS CRIMES CONTINUED ONLY ESCALATING INTO MURDER AND MAYHEM. RAMIREZ'S VICTIMS INCLUDED THE ELDERLY, THE YOUNG, MEN, AND WOMEN. IN THE SUMMER OF 1984, A 79 YEAR OLD WOMAN WAS IN HER HOME WHERE SHE WAS STABBED TO DEATH AND HER THROAT SLASHED. A 6 YEAR OLD GIRL WAS KIDNAPPED FROM HER SCHOOL BUS STOP, SEXUALLY ABUSED AND DUMPED IN A DESOLATE AREA, ALIVE. TWO WEEKS LATER A 9 YEAR OLD GIRL WAS ABDUCTED FROM HER OWN BEDROOM, RAPED AND DUMPED OFF. THE NEXT VICTIM WAS A WOMAN WHO ARRIVED HOME AFTER AN EVENT SHE WAS SHOT BUT NOT KILLED. HER 34 YEAR OLD ROOMATE, WHO WAS IN THE HOUSE, WAS SHOT IN THE HEAD. A FEW VICTIMS LATER RICHARD RAMIREZ SLASHED A 44 YEAR OLD WOMAN'S BODY, AND CUT OUT HER EYES WHILE SHE WAS STILL ALIVE. IN RICHARD'S LAST ATTEMPT TO COMMIT A CRIME HE TRIED TO STEAL, BUT THE HUSBAND OF THE WOMAN HEARD HIS WIFE SCREAMING AND CAME OUTSIDE WITH A PIPE IN HAND TO PROTECT HIS WIFE. NOT KNOWING THE CRIMINAL WAS RICHARD RAMIREZ KNOWN AS THE NIGHT STALKER. A CROWD OF PEOPLE CHASED HIM DOWN AND PROCEEDED TO BEAT HIM. THE POLICE THEN ARRIVED AND ARRESTED HIM. WHEN HIS IDENTITY WAS KNOWN AS RICHARD RAMIREZ THE NIGHT STALKER HE WAS ACCUSED OF 13 MURDERS, 5 ATTEMPTED MURDERS, 6 RAPES, 3 LEWD ACTS ON CHILDREN, 2 KIDNAPPINGS, 3 ACTS OF FORCED COPULATION, 4 COUNTS OF SODOMY, 5 ROBBERIES, AND 14 BURGLURIES. HE WAS SENTENCED TO THE GAS CHAMBER IN 1989. HE IS STILL AWAITING THE EXECUTION. IT IS SAID THAT RAMIREZ CLAIMED THAT SATAN WOULD PROTECT HIM FROM BOTH HARM AND THE LAW, ENSURING THAT HE WOULD NOT BE CAUGHT. FORTUNATELY FOR US SATAN DIDN'T KEEP HIS PROMISE.
IN 1968 GACY WAS ARRESTED FOR SEXUALLY ASSAULTING A LITTLE BOY. HE HANDCUFFED THE BOY IN ORDER TO HAVE SEX WITH HIM. THE BOY LIVED TO TESTIFY AGAINST GACY IN COURT. GACY WAS THEN SENTENCED TO 10 YEARS, BUT WAS OUT BY 1971. HIS WIFE HAD DIVORCED HIM. HE MOVED FROM IOWA TO DES PLAINES, ILLINOIS. HE REMARRIED AND RAN A CONSTRUCTION BUISNESS FROM HIS HOME. IN LESS THAN A YEAR HE WAS ONCE AGAIN ARRESTED, FOR SOLICITING A BOY FOR SEX. THE CHARGES WERE LATER DROPPED BECAUSE THE BOY DIDN'T SHOW UP FOR COURT. GACY TO THE OUTSIDE WORLD PRESENTED HIMSELF AS A CARING AND GIVING INDIVIDUAL. HE BECAME INVOLVED IN POLITICS, HELPED PEOPLE BOTH FINANCIALLY AND PERSONALLY WHO WERE LESS FORTUNATE. HE EVEN DRESSED AS A CLOWN FOR CHILDREN AT SOCIAL EVENTS. EVERYTHING WAS PERFECT IN GACY'S WORLD. IN 1976 HIS SECOND WIFE LEFT HIM. IN MARCH 1978, WHEN AN ABUSED 27 YEAR OLD MALE CHECKED INTO A CHICAGO HOSPITAL, THINGS TOOK A TURN FOR THE WORST FOR GACY. WHEN THE VICTIM DISCUSSED THE INCIDENT THAT HAD OCCURED HIS MIND WAS HAZY DUE TO THE CHLOROFORM THAT WAS USED TO KNOCK HIM UNCONSIOUS. THE VICTIM DID REMEMBER THAT THE PERPETRATOR WAS HEAVY SET AND DROVE A BLACK OLDSMOBILE. THE ONLY THING THE VICTIM COULD REMEMBER WAS THAT HE WAS TAKEN TO A HOUSE AND SEXUALLY ASSAULTED AND BEATEN WITH A WHIP. THE VICTIM COULD NOT RECALL WHERE THE HOUSE WAS. FINALLY THE VICTIM DID SPOT THE CAR AND GAVE THE LICENSE PLATE NUMBER TO THE POLICE. ALTHOUGH ARRESTED, GACY WAS RELEASED DUE TO THE LACK OF EVIDENCE. ON DECEMBER 11, 1978 A 15 YEAR OLD BOY WHO HAD GONE TO DISCUSS DETAILS OF A JOB WITH GACY DISSAPPEARED. HIS NAME WAS ROBERT PRIEST, WHO WAS LAST SEEN BY HIS MOTHER. AFTER ROBERT FAILED TO COME HOME HIS MOTHER NOTIFIED THE POLICE. THIS TIME A WARRANT WAS ISSUED AND GACY'S HOME WAS SEARCHED. THE INVESTIGATORS SMELLED A FOUL ODOR WHICH THEY FOLLOWED UNTIL THEY CAME TO A CRAWL SPACE BENEATH THE HOUSE. THEY DISCOVERED THREE DECOMPOSING MALE HARD BODIES. IMMEDIATELY GACY WAS ARRESTED. HE THEN CONFESSED TO SEXUALLY TORTURING AND MURDERING OVER 30 VICTIMS. THE DETECTIVES REMOVED FLOORS ALL THROUGHOUT THE HOUSE. THEY FOUND SEVERAL BODIES IN SHALLOW GRAVES AND LONG TRENCHES. TO HASTEN THE DECOMPOSITON, GACY HAD COVERED THE BODIES WITH QUICKLIME. THE HOUSE WAS RAISED FROM IT'S FOUNDATION AND MORE BODIES WERE FOUND. THOSE WHICH FILLED THE HOUSE, PLUS 5 MORE HE DUMPED IN THE DES PLAINES RIVER, MADE A TOTAL OF 33 VICTIMS. GACY WAS SENTENCED TO DIE IN 1980 BY LETHAL INJECTION, BUT IT WASN'T UNTIL 10 YEARS LATER THAT THE DEATH SENTENCE WAS ACTUALLY CARRIED OUT.
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