RICHARD "THE NIGHT STALKER" RAMIREZ

Overview

"We've all got the power in our hands to kill, but most people are afraid to use it. The ones who aren't afraid control life itself."

~Richard Ramirez

From out of the darkness he comes, silent and deadly. Cloaked all in black, he moves in shadows, blending and becoming one with them. No one ever sees him...until it is too late.

He is more than one of the most feared serial killers of all time. He is the stealthy intruder who satisfies his savage hungers, not on the city streets, but in the sanctity of people's homes.

He shows no mercy because he has none to give...

He is Richard Ramirez. The Night Stalker. Ten years after the horrific spree that left thirteen people dead and paralyzed in the city of Los Angeles, his name is synonymous with Satanism, torture and sadistic murder. Yet despite the sensational nature of his crimes, no one has ever been able to tell the complex story of the charismatic man millions call the devil himself...

Until now.

Painstakingly researched over 3 years, based on nearly 100 hours of exclusive personal interviews with Ramirez on California's Death Row, "The Night Stalker" is the definitive account of America's most feared serial murderer, Richard Ramirez. You'll follow Ramirez on his odyssey into depravity and mind-numbing violence, from his earliest brushes with the law in El Paso, Texas to his deadliest stalking expeditions. You'll watch an unprecedented police manhunt gather force, driven by one implacable goal: to capture and bring to justice the monstrous Night Stalker. You'll triumph with the brave group of East Los Angeles civilians who, in a moment of unparalleled courage, finally brought his career of mayhem and murder to an end. And you'll be witness to one of the most sensational trials in California history, which resulted in no less than nineteen death sentences for Ramirez.

A killer whose seductive, darkly brooding looks still draw women like moths to flame—from avowed Satanists who worship his perverted credo, to a legion of true crime groupies—including a juror who actually fell in love with the "Death Row Romeo" after helping to convict him—Richard Ramirez continues to fascinate and terrify to this day.

More than an epic nonfiction story at its most brutally reality, "The Night Stalker" is a horrifying journey into the darkest corners of one man's psyche—an eerie and spellbinding descent into the very heart of human evil and the world of serial murder. It is a true crime masterpiece, by a writer with a novelist's gift for drama, suspense and vivid prose...and a serious journalist's unflinching dedication to the truth.