In this paper you will learn multiple things of a certain serial killer that goes by the name Richard Ramirez. The way he thought and felt as he would take the lives of his victims. How he’d torture them and kill. Richard Ramirez was born in El Paso on the 27th of February 1966 from parents Mercedes and Julian Ramirez. When he was born the parents claimed that Richard had been a good baby and was very quiet, slept well. At the age two richard had climbed a cabinet and fell on him which caused head trauma. According to neurosurgeons and scientists, most serial killers have some form of head trauma done to them that disrupts their way of thought and causes them the way they are. Which explains why richard ramirez may have had thoughts as he did …show more content…
When he returned home it was obvious none of it worked as they hoped. He would start to cut class constantly and his grades dropped drastically. In the years 1978-1984 he was arrested multiple times for possession, breaking and entering, theft, and auto theft. On June 28th 1984 he committed his first homicide. He entered through a window that had been ajar and violently stabbed a woman named Jenny Vincow (age 79) while she had been sleeping. After, he had intercourse with the corpse. A couple months later he shot a woman named Angela Bar (age 22) outside her condo. She survived, but unfortunately her roommate Dayle Okazaki (age 34) was shot and killed by Richard. He’s killed many, but the one that gets me is the victims that had their throats slit by him. A year after the first he beat and slit the throat of a woman named Patty Higgins (age 32) along with another woman later. Mary cannon (age 75) the same thing happened to her as Patty higgins. After the many victims of slit throats and beatings. He kept on with that along with breaking in and enterings, shootings, rape, and robbing. One day he robbed a car and drove off after a robbery. His robbing attempt failed and he fled in the car, but a man Erickson and a teenager wrote down the strangers license plate and got prints that were able to match with Richard. They put a picture of him everywhere for the