Although he originally intended on killing her roommate, Maria Hernandez, she managed to survive - Ramirez's bullet deflected off of her car keys, saving Hernandez's life.
Ramirez’s first identified crime was the shooting of 34-year-old Dayle Okazaki in her apartment. His incentives aren't evident and his victims are randomly selected.
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His unpredictability, combined with an unusual range of crimes including (but not restricted to) burglary, assaults, pedophilia, abductions and rapes at the hands of one man, distinguishes the Night Stalker from all other notorious serial killers. Unlike previous documentaries about serial killers like Jeffrey Dahmer and Ted Bundy, there isn’t a pattern behind Ramirez's gruesome crimes. Upon hearing and seeing the killer’s heinous crimes, I felt utter disgust and rage, and that's exactly what motivated me to keep watching - I was waiting to finally see him captured.ĭespite being apprehended in the end, I was shocked at how Ramirez was able to repeatedly slip out of law enforcement’s grasps - he was able to flee on foot after being pulled over for driving recklessly and narrowly evades capture when a burglary alarm installed at his dentist’s office for notifying the police of his arrival fails to go off. The homes he invaded and committed monstrosities in were repeatedly described as "a bloodbath," and there are many images to prove it.
The docuseries follows head detectives Gil Carrillo and Frank Salerno on the Night Stalker investigation team and brings viewers along their entire journey with detailed recollections of the cases and stages along their agitating investigation.īetween the victims’ chilling accounts of their interactions with Ramirez, disturbing crime scene footage and vivid sound effects like a bloody hammer falling to the ground, the docuseries' haunting cinematography brings these events to life and enables viewers to feel as though they were part of the hunt.īe warned, though, for this docuseries is not for the faint at heart - graphic imagery and details of Ramirez’s crimes are the backbone of the documentary. This true crime docuseries is comprised of four 50-minute episodes that detail the investigation of the murders and atrocities committed by serial killer Richard Ramirez, who was dubbed the moniker “Night Stalker” by the local Los Angeles community. Netflix’s “Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer” may be one of the many crime documentaries on the media streaming platform, but it's notably distinct from all the ones that came before it.