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Most serial killers grow up in a negative environment, and for Richard Ramirez that is very true. Richard Ramirez is a serial killer known as the night stalker or walk-in killer. In California, from 1984-1985 Ramirez killed, raped, and stole from at least 13 people. He would go into peoples houses and kill them, take their valuables, raped them and leave. He was 22 when he left his home in Texas to go to California and become a serial killer. Ramirez grew up with an abusive alcoholic father, he later went to live with his cousin who was already a serial killer Psychiatrist described Ramirez as a “made” or “born” psychopath, he also said that he had schizoid personality disorder which was how he could treat his victims so horribly without remorse. He was also said …show more content…

When Ramirez would enter homes to kill and rape people, he would also steal from their homes and take all their valuables. At the age of twelve he went to live with his cousin who was already a serial killer and rapist, his cousin showed Ramirez his ways and got him interested in it because it intrigued him. In 1984 he killed his first 9 year old victim by first raping her then stabbing her to death. Then in 1985 he went on a killing spree, killing most of his victims. On May 29, 1985, he entered a home, raped the women and with lipstick he drew a pentagram on the walls which to him represented his love for Satan. When Ramirez enters homes with stealing on his mind he will either kill the people or tie them up right away, he then raids the home and makes the victims “ swear on Satan” that he got all the valuables in the home and if he did he leaves. Ramirez is nicknamed the night stalker, the walk-in killer, and the valley intruder. The night Ramirez identified himself as the night stalker, he made a woman swear to love Satan as he beat

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