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Serial Killers: Richard Ramirez And John Wayne Gacy

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Death is the great unknown journey that most humans are horrified by. For the normal human being, death is a sad experience that often stems us to feel a wide variety of emotions. Normal humans feel sad, but not every human looks at death as a sad experience. Serial killers love and embrace death, and look at it in a spiritual way. They follow the principle of the power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can’t kill you are always subject to those who can (Blakie). Serial killers Richard Ramirez and John Wayne Gacy understand that allegory. They also understand the feeling they get when they kill someone and the feeling of dominance and power the feeling both of them …show more content…

Richard was raised by his parents Julian and Mercedes Ramirez.Julian was an abusive parent as his father was before him. If Mercedes or any of the children did anything that Julian considered ëwrongí they were physically beaten (Grise). Richard spent all his time hanging out with his cousin Mike. Mike was a vietnam veteran and often told Richard tales of killing people in war, and the thrill that killing someone gave you (Deutsch). Michael had the most influence over Richard. Anyone living in an environment like this is bound to be a killer. Richard was also present the day Mike killed his wife (Blanco). Richard was intoxicated by the sight of all the blood. Mike told Richard not to tell anyone about what he saw. This secret was a heavy burden on Richard's shoulders. He wanted to talk about what he saw and get help, but he couldn't because his idol Mike would get in trouble for it. After this event he spent a lot of time with his cousin and it even influenced the way he would kill his victims. Just like how John Wayne Gacy kills little boys and rapes them before he does because of his father. Richard just like Mike uses Gorilla War tactics to kill his victims. Richard would stalk his victims at night, creep into their houses before or sometimes after they get home and would kill you. Thus, creating his nickname the Night Stalker. Which brings the same question into mind. If Richard didn’t grown up in that environment would he have committed all those

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Yes. So, why isn’t he in jail? That’s the same question Matt asked himself everyday. Matt’s son, Frank, lost his life because of Richard. Later in the story, Richard talks about how we will go to jail, and be an old man if he were ever to get out.

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Insanity Richard Ramirez, known as the night stalker, was a serial killer in Los Angeles. I think that Richard Ramirez suffered from insanity. Insanity is when one is seriously mental ill. Richard Ramirez spent a lot of his childhood with a family cousin Michael. Michael was a Vietnam green beret that told Richard of how he found pleasure in raping and murdering Vietnamese women while deployed.

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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.

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Richard Chase was born on May 23, 1950 in Santa Clara, California. He was born into a strict family and subject to much physical abuse by his father. Richard Chase began showing signs of mental illness early. He became dependent on alcohol in his childhood and made a habit of starting fires and mutilating animals. As a teenager, he could not sustain normal sexual function without the aid of disturbing practices, such as necrophilia and animal murder.

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Edward Spreitzer Edward Spreitzer was born on January 5, 1961 in Chicago Illinois and is a known serial killer. Throughout his whole life, Spreitzer did not get along with his stepfather and was often bullied as a child. Around 18 years old, Spreitzer was asked to leave home when he was involved in a horrific car accident. After leaving, Spreitzer eventually met Robin Gecht, where he joined his satanic cult. Due to Spreitzers’ low IQ of 76, many people believe this was a factor in why he was so easily manipulated.

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At 5, he was hit by a swing which knocked him unconscious after this he began having epileptic seizures. Growing up, his father physically abused him. At age 12 his cousin who was a Vietnam War Verten showed him very disturbing photos of a woman who had been killed, raped, and tortued. Later that same cousin shot and killed his wife in front of Richard. Later on in life

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It’s hard to not think that if he had been in a good home with good friends he would have ended up as a valuable member of society. Ramirez was influenced by drugs, his murderous uncle, and music to become a Satanist. Because he worshiped the devil, his crimes were full of evil intent that made the court, the news, and his victims far from pity. The Night Stalker murdered fourteen people and had thirty-one other felonies from his murder, rape, and robbery spree. To sum all of this up, Richard Ramirez was going to be in prison for a very long time.

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Richard Ramirez would begin a life of crime that would lead to murder. Richard Ramirez did not start out as a killer, his first crime committed was a simple burglary and theft. But, on April 10, 1984, Ramirez would see nine-year-old Mei Leung in their apartment building searching for a lost item. Ramirez would then beat Leung inches from death, raped her, and would ultimately murder the nine-year-old. Ramirez would hang the lifeless body from the water pipe in the

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The best example of Richards’s compulsive characteristics is the way he killed Frank. The Author writes very bluntly, “Richard shot Frank in front of the boys” (570). We can infer that the author writes this way, because he wants the reader to wonder why Richard is obsessed with his wife, and he loves her more than anything. She is his pride, and he will do anything to keep her, even if it means killing her lover in front of his children. This is why he is so compulsive when he kills frank.

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Richard has always felt the unjust of race, and has felt how segregation made it hard for him to have a future. But when he gets a chance to get revenge on the whites, he refuses when he thinks ”Who wanted to look them straight in the face, who wanted to walk and act like a man.(200)” Stealing went against his morals of the right way to succeed and would not help the community appearance to the whites. The community as a whole is very religous but Richard does not share these beliefs, even with the persistence of his friends and family he says ”Mama, I don't feel a thing.(155)” This caused his friends to beg him, but in face of rejection they leave him alone.

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