The Night Stalker Essay

“We serial killers are your sons, we are your husbands, we are everywhere. And there will be more of your children dead tomorrow.” This quote was said by Ted Bundy, and it explains how anybody can turn out to be a serial killer. A serial killer’s childhood environment plays a major role in why they became a serial killer. Nurture often plays a bigger role in somebody becoming a serial killer, rather than their nature. This statement can be proven by looking at Richard Ramirez’s life, and how it shaped him into becoming a serial killer. Richard Ramirez snuck into people’s homes in California at night and killed them. There are many factors that lead Richard Ramirez to become a serial killer, the main factors include his cousin, parents,

The suspect the night stalker was taken into court for preliminary hearing on multiple murder charges on March 18, 1986 , he feared sixty eight felony counts. On May 21, 1986 Richard was in court for his arrangement for fourteen counts of murder and thirty one other felonies, he pleaded innocent to all the charges. Ramirez was sentenced to die in California’s gas chamber. His trial took so long it was one of the longest trials in American history. Ramirez died in prison on June 7, 2013

Individuality is the supreme catalyst that guides people to feel self-worth and become emboldened in their pursuits. It is the mentality that gives humans clarity and uniqueness that make the world interesting. It is what allows each person to be respected in his/her own way. In the stories Night and Persepolis, the motif of individuality is emphatically expressed. It is portrayed as essential to the hope of the masses. When individuality is suppressed people lose virtues/self respect/humanity, motivation/will to live and faith. In essence, they give up the idea of anything else except their suffering. As thousands die, the protagonists (of Night and Persepolis)

Los Angeles, California went through a time period where serial killings happened and the suspect was on the run for over two decades. Most of the victims were prostitutes in South Los Angeles. The serial killer began his killings in 1987, apparently stopped for 13 years then resumed with his killings. The killer left little to no evidence, besides his DNA from sexually assaulting his female victims. For decades LAPD failed to find the killer or anyone who was related to him (Dolan & Landsberg, 2010).

In June 28, 1984, Jennie Vincow, elderly woman of age seventy-nine, lived in Glassell Park, Los Angeles. His first intention was to steal her valuables; however, when he found nothing to take, he attacked Vincrow with rage. The man stabbed the woman repeatedly in the chest and slashed her throat from ear to ear (Carlo, 1996). He then had intercourse with her body (Richard Ramirez: The Night Stalker, n.d.). Her son, Jack Vincow, discovered his mother’s body later that day and called the police. The evidence at the scene included blood in the sink and fingerprints on the window that he used to enter the woman’s apartment. For a couple months, he stayed dormant, but he resumed his criminal streak in the next year.

Between June 1984 and August 1985, a serial killer by the name of Richard Ramirez aka " The Night Stalker" became notorious in Southern California. Ramirez in his acts of crime would invade houses as the victims were asleep and attack them. He murdered over 13 people and assaulted many other. During the hunt for Ramirez citizens were on high alert so when he was fleeing the scene of the crime a teenager noticed a suspicious vehicle and managed to get most of the license plate number and notified the police. The police were able to find an abandoned vehicle and obtain a finger print and match it to 25-year-old Richard Ramirez and now obtained an image of him to put in the media. A week later, Ramirez was pointed out by citizens and captured

In reading, Night by Elie Wiesel and A Man's Search For Meaning by , many stories of the torturous life in the concentration camps during the second world war. In each book, the reader gets a different point of view from each book because in Night, you get to read about a teenager's view and in the book, A Man's Search For Meaning, you get to read about a middle aged man's view. In the book, Night, Elie, his family and his community go through a system of indoctrination which in each step it makes you seem less and less of a human. The first step is that the Hungarian police made all the Jewish people wear yellow stars, so they could be picked out easily. The next step is that all the Jewish people had to get rid of all their valuable

Hey Ms. Strazzeri, it’s sad to say, but The Night Tourist and I just went on our last date. I'll tell you what happened on the date. When the date started Jack and Euri were traveling to the train station which his mother haunts the most. Traveling there the only thing they found was a man who said “nobody but me haunts this place”. Jack had to make sure he was lying, he couldn't let the only clue about his mom end like that. Jack and Euri split up to search the whole station, and Jack felt with her gone that he wouldn't be able to come back to the living world without her. When Jack had reached the end of the platform he heard Euri shout his name. He started running toward her and saw Cerberus latch onto her neck and swing her body around.

Richard Ramirez was born in El Paso, Texas, on February 29, 1960.Richard Ramirez father was a Mexican national and was also a former Juarez policeman, who later became a laborer on the Santa Fe railroad. Richard Ramirez father Julian Ramirez father was a hard working man who would get extremely angry, because of distress. Because of distress he would physically abuse people in the household including Richard Ramirez. Another person who impacted Ramirez life significantly is his older cousin Miguel Ramirez also known as mike. Mike was a U.S. Army Green, Beret combat veteran who often bragged to Richard Ramirez about the gruesome things he had done in the Vietnam War. Mike showed photos of his victims including woman that he had raped. Richard Ramirez, who had been smoking marijuana since the age of ten, formed a strong connection with his cousin mike over many joints and gruesome war stories. Mike also taught Richard some of his military skills, such as killing with stealth and surety. During this time of connection between the two, Richard began to seek escape from his father’s abuse by sleeping at a local cemetery.

Richard Ramirez, better known as “The Night Stalker,” was a Mexican-American serial killer and rapist known nationally for his awful crime sprees around the Los Angeles area from June of 1984 until August of 1985. During this time frame he tortured, raped and/or murdered an estimated 14 different victims using weapons ranging from handguns, tire irons, knives, a machete and a hammer. Ramirez is a self-proclaimed Satanist who would mark the body and the surrounding areas with pentagrams after he committed the crimes. Many believe that Ramirez took after and was heavily influenced by his cousin Miguel (Mike), who was a Vietnam War veteran. Mike often spoke about killing and torturing his enemies and even showed him pictures of things he had done

The cosmopolitan nature of the narrative and queer characters in Djuna Barnes’ Nightwood shines a light on the diasporic nature of the queer population around the world. By weaving the oppression of the Jewish people into the narrative in the first chapter of the novel, Barnes signals to the oppression of queer people and brings in a relationship to the connotations around the wandering Jew and the queer situation. In describing a privileged globetrotting wandering of the queer characters in Nightwood, Barnes is not whining about the lack of a home for queer people, but instead describing the philosophical sensation of seeking a home or jouissance, while simultaneously and constantly running

As one grows older, the problems he or she is confronted with cannot easily be hugged and kissed away as one could as a child. Religion can present such problems; problems that torment and that are not easily resolved, such as in the play “Traveler in the Dark” by Marsha Norman. “Traveler in the Dark” published in 1984, presents the audience with a man that seems to have an ethnocentric view of life, mainly focusing on the aspects of religion. Internal conflicts such as the one in “Traveler in the Dark,” are not uncommon plots in Norman’s plays. The 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, “‘night, Mother,” has a Jesse, the leading lady, deal with internal conflicts that lead her to end her life in her bedroom, at her mother’s house. Norman’s play,

Tom races down the street to make it to the movies before they start the show. He turns left, then right, then right again dodging people and carefully placing his feet as he flies in the air. Above him, his yellow paper is dancing in the wind going down the street and around buildings. As it flies in the air, it gets stuck multiple times, on clotheslines, peoples shoulders, under people’s feet until finally gliding to Toms work building, up 7 stories and onto Tom’s boss’; Mr. Wilchinski’s; desk. Mr. Wilchinski turns around to face the window as he talks on the phone, smoking a cigar, still unaware of the paper, and feels the wind bellowing through.

Later. Morris gets wheeled out into the hallway from the operation room, his eyes are closed. Sandy smiles with excitement.

Time seemed to pass so slowly in the basement. Each day, often felt like an eternity for the children. And as the months slipped away and became years, it soon became clear that nothing remarkable was going to happen. That was until Anna again heard a disturbance coming from the road below. She climbed up on the chair and put her face to the glass. And to her dismay, she recognized her mother in the group of people that were being hauled out of hiding spots and marched off. Anna felt her stomach tie-up in a knot and all at once she screamed out. Afraid she muffled her cries with both of her hands and whispered, "Oh my God! Mama must have been trying to come and visit us. Where are we taking her? Where are we taking our mother?"