Richard Ramirez

About Richard Ramirez

Ricardo Muñoz Ramírez (born February 29, 1960, in El Paso, Texas) is a convicted American serial killer awaiting execution on California's death row at San Quentin State Prison. Prior to his capture, Ramírez was dubbed the "Night Stalker," named after an AC/DC song, by the news media as he terrorized California.

Ricardo Munoz Ramirez was born in El Paso, the youngest of five children to working class Mexican immigrants Julian Ramirez and Mercedes Munoz. Friends described him as a loner, even in childhood.

A big influence on Richard Ramírez's later murder spree was his cousin, Mike, a Special Forces Vietnam War veteran. Mike fascinated Ramírez with polaroids of Vietnamese women whom he boasted of killing and torturing. The two spent time smoking pot and driving around and, according to Ramirez, during that time Mike taught him to shoot and cut people for "maximum effect"..