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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