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    Marin coroner: Serial killer Richard Ramirez died of lymphoma

    Richard Ramirez, the so-called "Night Stalker" serial killer who died this month at Marin General Hospital, died of complications of B-cell lymphoma, the coroner's office said Monday.

    Ramirez, 53, also suffered from the effects of chronic substance abuse and chronic hepatitis C, said sheriff's Lt. Keith Boyd, assistant county coroner.

    Ramirez died June 7 while receiving treatment at the hospital. He had been on death row at San Quentin State Prison since 1989 for 13 murders committed in Southern California in 1984 and 1985.

    Since the death penalty was reinstated in California in 1978, some 94 death row inmates have died while in custody, 59 by natural causes and 22 by suicide. Thirteen were executed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Heidi View Post
    Since the death penalty was reinstated in California in 1978, some 94 death row inmates have died while in custody, 59 by natural causes and 22 by suicide. Thirteen were executed.


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    Night Stalker serial killer Richard Ramirez obsessed with actor who played mass murderer in Silence of the Lambs

    The Night Stalker killer who terrorized California in the mid-1980s, idolized the actor who played a mass murderer who kidnaps and skins women.

    In his final interview, Ramirez spoke of his admiration for Ted Levine's performance as a psychopathic murderer who kidnaps and skins women in the 1991 thriller Silence of the Lambs.

    Speaking from San Quentin Prison shortly before his death last month, the serial killer described his favourite scene from the classic scary movie.

    That guy on the show “Monk”, I really liked him in “Silence of the Lambs”,’ Richard Ramirez told the New York Post.

    ‘That scene where he says, “It rubs the lotion on its skin,” I really like [it]’

    The scene refers to when Levine’s character Buffalo Bill demands his kidnapped victim to moisturize in order to make it easier for him to flay her

    Actor Ted Levine reacted with repulsion when told of his late admirer.

    ‘F*** him. I hope he’s in hell. That’s all I have to say about Richard Ramirez,’ he told The New York Post.

    The newspaper exchanged several letters with Ramirez in his last years on death row, revealing his obsession with Asian women and reluctance to show remorse.

    In a letter written in 2012 the serial killer writes of his life behind bars, saying he spends his days watching television, and in particular sporting events featuring female athletes.

    He writes that he likes beach volleyball, girls gymnastics and wrestling, complaining that girls ‘used to wear more revealing clothes.

    He also asks for the reporter to send a ‘soft core picture book of Asian girls in bikini[s] or/and clothing items.’

    Ramirez had been on death row at San Quentin State Prison since he was convicted in 1989 of 13 murders in 1984 and 1985.

    He also was convicted of rape, sodomy, oral copulation, burglary and attempted murder. Executions have been on hold for years, however, because of ongoing legal challenges.

    Ramirez was a self-proclaimed Satanist whose trial produced gruesome details about his mutilation of his victims.

    He was nicknamed the Night Stalker by the media because residents were warned to lock their doors and windows as the killings peaked during the hot summer of 1985.

    The killer had been entering homes through unlocked windows and doors. He then killed his victims with a gun or knife, burglarized the homes and sexually assaulted his female victims.

    Richard Ramirez died June 7 at age 53 at a hospital where he had been taken for treatment of liver failure.

    Prison guards have told how the notorious murderer turned bright green from liver failure in the hours before he died.

    He died of complications from B-cell lymphoma, a cancer of the lymphatic system, according to the Marin County coroner's office.

    Ramirez was a self-proclaimed Satanist whose trial produced gruesome details about his mutilation of his victims.

    He was nicknamed the Night Stalker by the media because residents were warned to lock their doors and windows as the killings peaked during the hot summer of 1985.

    The killer had been entering homes through unlocked windows and doors. He then killed his victims with a gun or knife, burglarized the homes and sexually assaulted his female victims.

    Richard Ramirez died June 7 at age 53 at a hospital where he had been taken for treatment of liver failure.

    Prison guards have told how the notorious murderer turned bright green from liver failure in the hours before he died.

    He died of complications from B-cell lymphoma, a cancer of the lymphatic system, according to the Marin County coroner's office.



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    Does anyone happen to know what happened to Doreen Lioy, the woman who married him in the 90s? I had read that she had committed to committing suicide when Richard was executed...will she do it because he died of natural causes?

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    According to Wikipedia
    Beginning in 1985, freelance magazine editor Doreen Lioy wrote him nearly 75 letters during his incarceration. In 1988 he proposed to her, and on October 3, 1996, they were married in California's San Quentin State Prison. Before Ramirez's death, Lioy stated that she would commit suicide when Ramirez was executed. However, Doreen Lioy and Richard Ramirez eventually separated and at the time of his death, Richard Ramirez was engaged to a twenty-three year old writer who was residing between Los Angeles and New York City.

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    Thanks JimKay! Interesting to know that Ramirez had yet another woman (almost half his age) willing to marry him. I guess it takes all kinds...

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    Actually, she's less than half his age and INSANE! Glad that's one wedding that's not happening!

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    Ray Clark dies at 82; lawyer in 'Night Stalker' serial-murder case

    Against the wishes of his client, Ray Clark put on a defense in Richard Ramirez's 1989 trial. Clark lost the case, and Ramirez was sentenced to death.

    By David Colker
    The Los Angeles Times

    In 1989, attorney Ray Clark got a telephone call that would make him, for a while, one of the most famous lawyers in Los Angeles.

    The call to his small firm was from the presiding judge in the trial of Richard Ramirez, accused of being the brutal serial killer known as the Night Stalker. The defense team that Ramirez's family had hired was falling apart, and the judge wanted Clark to take over as lead defense counsel. Clark agreed, and soon became a fixture in printed and broadcast news accounts, protesting his client's innocence.

    He lost the case, and Ramirez was given the death penalty.

    In some ways, it was a thankless task to represent a sadistic killer who had terrorized the city. But the Los Angeles County Superior Court judge at the trial, Michael Tynan, said Clark's stance was an honorable one.

    "I think Ray knew that if our system was going to work correctly, even the most vilified defendant was entitled to a good defense," Tynan said last week. "Ray took on the job and did it with courage and professionalism."

    Clark, 82, died Jan. 7 at his home in Los Angeles. The cause was Parkinson's disease, said his daughter, Dawn Clark-Johnson.

    The law was a second career for Clark, and he specialized in death penalty cases. The Ramirez case was especially difficult, not only because of eyewitness accounts and physical evidence, but also because the defendant — a self-proclaimed devil worshiper who tortured some of his victims — didn't much want to be defended.

    "At one point Richard Ramirez forbade us to put on a defense of any sort," said Clark-Johnson, who is also an attorney and aided her father in the case. After consulting with the state bar, they went ahead despite their client's wishes. Clark told reporters the defense tactic would be "S.O.D.D.I." — "some other dude did it." To that end, he challenged eyewitnesses, looking for possibilities that they might have misidentified the killer.

    In a final argument that took 31/2 hours, he invoked Abraham Lincoln, Watergate, Jimmy Hoffa and the assassination of John F. Kennedy, amid other topics. But Ramirez was convicted of 13 murders. He died last year from complications due to blood cancer, while on San Quentin's death row. Under California law, death sentences are automatically appealed, a process that can take decades. Ramirez's appeal to the state Supreme Court was finally turned down in 2006, but there were more legal proceedings pending.

    In 1991, Clark was named criminal defense lawyer of the year by the John M. Langston Bar Assn., the oldest and largest organization of African American lawyers, judges and law students in California. He continued to practice until 2002, when the symptoms of Parkinson's began to interfere with his work. After that, he managed real estate properties he had acquired and did volunteer work.

    Ray Gonzales Clark was born in Old Town, Fla., on Jan. 30, 1931. The unincorporated town, west of Gainesville, was so poor that in the local school photo from Clark's time, none of the children were wearing shoes, Clark-Johnson said. Clark spent four years in the Air Force, then used the G.I. Bill to get an engineering degree at Howard University in Washington, graduating in 1957. He and his wife, Barbara, moved that year to Los Angeles, where he worked for North American Aviation (which later became part of Rockwell) on aviation and aerospace projects.

    With a downturn in the aviation industry, Clark enrolled in Southwestern Law School in 1970, and upon graduating and passing the bar three years later, started his own practice.

    "He was very humble about anything he did," Clark-Johnson said. "But he came from so little to become so much."

    In addition to his wife and daughter, Clark is survived by his brother, Harold Clark, and a granddaughter.

    http://www.latimes.com/obituaries/la...#ixzz2rZwiFSPW

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    The History of AC/DC and the ‘Night Stalker’ Murders

    Richard Ramirez, a transient based in Los Angeles, spent a terrifying portion of 1984-85 slipping into windows and through unlocked doors in California, committing a string of unspeakable crimes under cover of darkness. He would be dubbed the “Night Stalker,” as frustrated authorities tried and failed to capture this ghost-like psychopath over awful two summers.

    But a vicious murder in Rosemead on March 17, 1985, took on special meaning for AC/DC and its fans after the killer left behind a hat bearing the band’s logo. Things only worsened when a childhood friend of Ramirez, eventually linked to 13 brutal killings, said he’d been a huge fan of AC/DC.

    By the end of the decade, Ramirez would be sent to California’s death row, but not before inflicting untold collateral damage on AC/DC, as well. “I thought it was a joke at first,” Malcolm Young told VH-1. “We just thought, ‘This is crazy.’ I mean, why are we connected, anyway?”

    As men, children and women of every age were targeted, that was never made entirely clear. Eventually, Ramirez was jailed not only for more than a dozen murders but also a series of convictions for rape, sodomy, oral copulation, burglary and attempted murder — and his nickname was repeated across the media like a drum beat: “Night Stalker.”

    Of course, that provided another link — though a shaky one — as AC/DC had included a similarly titled track on its breakthrough ‘Highway to Hell‘ album from five years before. “That song is not called ‘Night Stalker,’” Malcolm Young said, in a futile reminder. “It’s called ‘Night Prowler’ — and it’s about things you used to do when you are a kid, like sneaking into a girlfriend’s bedroom when her parents were asleep.”

    Still, as the mysterious, shockingly violent spree continued, those two tenuous links to AC/DC became catnip to a media rabble hungry for a scapegoat to make sense of these senseless crimes.

    It was actually Ray Garcia, who grew up with Ramirez in El Paso, Texas, who confirmed that his boyhood companion followed AC/DC. That turned into a headlines that read, “AC/DC Music Made Me Kill at 16, Night Stalker Admits,” “Mass Killer Driven by Rock and Devil Worship” and “Punk and Metal: Some Youths Love Its Violent Side.” Still another report suggested that AC/DC stood for “Anti-Christ/Devil’s Child.”

    The band’s co-founding Young brothers have long asserted, of course, that they chose the name after they saw those initials on their sister Margaret’s sewing machine. It actually stands for “alternating current/direct current,” an electrical term. They thought it was a great symbol for the raw power they hoped this band would possess. “It’s been called everything since, you know — the meaning of the letters,” Malcolm Young laments. “You tell them a sewing machine story, and they’re still going to think, ‘no, there’s more to this.’”

    Even Ramirez himself, as improbable as it might seem, felt the story cycle had swung out of control. “The world has been fed many lies about me,” Ramirez said later. “I have read very few truths.” He added that serial killers are “a product of their times — and these are bloody-thirsty times.”





    Ramirez’s first victim actually dated back to April 10, 1984, when a nine-year old Mei Leung was found dead in a hotel basement near where Ramirez was living. Later that summer, he killed a 79-year-old who left her window open. It wasn’t, however, until Dayle Okazaki was murdered — on March 17 of the next year, the same night as Tsia-Lian “Victoria” Yu — that the AC/DC hat was found.

    Los Angeles County homicide investigator Gil Carillo released a photograph of that hat to the press — setting off a firestorm of speculation and controversy. “Upon investigating that murder,” Carillo subsequently explained. ”One of the pieces of evidence left behind was a hat bearing the letters ‘AC/DC’ on it. What the significance was, was trying to get attention through the media — to see if anybody knew somebody that wore an AC/DC hat.”

    From there, as Ramirez continued down a devastating path, AC/DC would increasingly become part of the story. The band members were as stunned as they were horrified. “It just sickens you, you know,” Brian Johnson told VH-1. “It sickens you to have anything to do with that kind of thing.”

    The bloodshed was just beginning, it seemed. An eight-year-old girl from Eagle Rock was murdered three days after Okasaki and Yu. On March 27, a man was killed, and his wife mutilated. Six weeks later, Harold Wu was murdered, and his his wife Maxine shot and raped in their Monterey Park home.

    And on and on it went, with metronomic, seemingly unstoppable repetitiveness. An 84-year-old was killed on May 29, 1985, her body — like that of her 81-year-old invalid sister — scrawled with Satanic symbols. Ramirez raped a six-year-old in Arcadia one month later, before slitting the throats of two women. He attempted to beat Deidre Palmer to death on July 5, then succeeded on July 7 with Joyce Lucille Nelson in Monterey Park, before killing a couple in Glendale later in July. He then murdered a man in Sun Valley, and raped both his wife and son. Ramirez shot another man and raped his wife. He killed another man, and tried to kill his wife.

    By August 1985, investigators were now connecting Ramirez to string of other crimes further north in San Francisco. That led to their first concrete lead, when a manager of a seedy motel in the Tenderloin district identified Ramirez as a former guest. There had been other small breaks along the way. On May 30, 1985, for instance, Ramirez had raped (but not killed) his victim, giving her a chance to provide enough details to complete a sketch of the attacker.

    None of these clues, it seemed, had the lasting impact — at least in the mind of the general public — as did the AC/DC hat from back in March. That is, until Aug. 25, 1985, when a witness identified a figure believed to be Ramirez speeding away in an orange Toyota after shooting still another man and raping his fiancee at Mission Viejo. A neighbor, thinking Ramirez looked suspicious, had jotted down the license plate number. Once they found the vehicle, a fingerprint analysis confirmed it had been driven by Ricardo “Richard” Munoz Ramirez.




    Police had a DMV photo now, and a name. Ultimately, however, Ramirez wasn’t undone by smart detective work. Instead, it was a particularly possessive car owner. A week following the Mission Viejo attack, Ramirez was apprehended after a scuffle in the 3700 block of East Hubbard Street in Los Angeles. He was trying to steal a vehicle when the owner discovered Ramirez — and a fight ensued. Ramirez ran but, once he was identified as the Night Stalker, a group of residents in this tightly knit, largely Hispanic area joined together to subdue him. A makeshift tribute was later erected in East L.A. celebrating these neighborhood heroes.

    On Nov. 9, 1989, Ramirez was sentenced to death nineteen times for his role in a total of 43 mind-boggling crimes. Throughout the trial, Ramirez had played up the scarier portions of his grisly resume, blurting out “Hail, Satan,” and at one point carved a pentagram into his own palm. Upon learning of his fate, Ramirez was said to have remarked, “Dying doesn’t scare me. I’ll be in hell. With Satan.”

    Ultimately, AC/DC played no role in his conviction. And yet, even today, their song ‘Night Prowler’ remains inextricably, and they say unfairly, linked to this time, even if its exact relationship to Ramirez’s ritualistic offenses was never adequately established. “You know, the sort of people we are, if you were really interested in being devil worshipers, you would go off and do that,” Angus Young said back then. “You know, it’s an art in itself. [Laughs.] And it’s about as a far away from what we are as anything.”

    And yet, after the AC/DC hat was found, concerts were canceled as the controversy grew. Soon, AC/DC was the target of the Parents Music Resource Center, which again focused on a supposed connection between their music and Satanism. “The press assumed an awful lot,” Carillo said. “And the press put a lot more to the significance of the hat than the homicide investigators.”

    Rock journalists leapt to AC/DC’s defense, though to little avail. “It is very hard for me to swallow the widely printed assertion that their very name is some form of anagram for Anti-Christ,” Billboard’s Sam Southerland said at the time — adding that he always thought the band’s antics were completely tongue-in-cheek.

    Ramirez has since died, but not by government means. He fell victim in 2013 to liver failure at age 53, having spent the intervening years on San Quentin’s death row.

    In the meantime, all AC/DC could do, really, was keep playing. And so, they did. But not without the occasional rueful look back. “I don’t know why they zeroed in on us,” Angus Young added. “I could never see those connections myself.”

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    I think Ozzy Osbourne and/or Judas Priest went through something similar when some kid committed suicide after listening to them.

    I like RATT myself!

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