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[[File:Ramirez.gif|right|thumb]]'''Richard Ramirez''' is a convicted American serial killer awaiting execution on California's death row. He is one of the most gruesome and disturbing villains in American history; on many accounts said to be much worse than [[Jeffery Dahmer|Dahmer ]] and [[Ted Bundy|Bundy]] .

[[File:Ramirez.gif|right|thumb]]'''Richard {Ricardo} Munoz Ramirez''' {b.Febraury 29, 1960-d.June 7, 2013} aka "The Night stalker" was a convicted American serial killer awaiting execution on California's death row. He is one of the most gruesome and disturbing villains in American history; on many accounts said to be much worse than [[Jeffery Dahmer|Dahmer ]] and [[Ted Bundy|Bundy]] .

==Early life==

Ramirez was born in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Paso,_Texas El Paso, Texas], the youngest of [[Julian Ramirez|Julian ]] and Mercedes Ramirez's five children. His father, a policeman who later became a laborer on the Santa Fe railroad, was abusive and believed in corporal punishment.

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On August 3, 1988 the ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Times Los Angeles Times]'' reported that some jail employees overheard Ramirez planning to shoot the prosecutor with a gun, which Ramirez intended to have smuggled into the courtroom.Consequently, a metal detector was installed outside the courtroom and intensive searches were conducted on people entering. On August 14, the trial was interrupted because one of the jurors, Phyllis Singletary, did not arrive to the courtroom. Later that day she was found shot to death in her apartment. The jury was terrified; they could not help wondering if Ramirez had somehow directed this event from inside his prison cell, and if he could reach other jury members. However, Ramirez was not responsible for Singletary's death; she had been shot and killed by her boyfriend, who later committed suicide with the same weapon in a hotel. The alternate juror who replaced Singletary was too frightened to return to her home.

By the time of the trial, Ramirez had fans who were writing him letters and paying him visits. 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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Quentin_State_Prison San Quentin State Prison] Lioy has stated that she will commit suicide when Ramirez is executed<sup>.</sup> By some estimates, he could be in his early seventies before the execution is carried out, due to the lengthy California appeals process.

By the time of the trial, Ramirez had fans who were writing him letters and paying him visits. 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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Quentin_State_Prison San Quentin State Prison] Lioy has stated that she will commit suicide when Ramirez is executed<sup>.</sup> By some estimates, he could be in his early seventies before the execution is carried out, due to the lengthy California appeals process. He died of liver failure June 7, 2013 while still awaiting death row appeals.

[[Category:Rapists]]

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-[[File:Ramirez.gif|right|thumb]]'''Richard Ramirez''' is a convicted American serial killer awaiting execution on California's death row. He is one of the most gruesome and disturbing villains in American history; on many accounts said to be much worse than [[Jeffery Dahmer|Dahmer ]] and [[Ted Bundy|Bundy]] .
+[[File:Ramirez.gif|right|thumb]]'''Richard {Ricardo} Munoz Ramirez''' {b.Febraury 29, 1960-d.June 7, 2013} aka "The Night stalker" was a convicted American serial killer awaiting execution on California's death row. He is one of the most gruesome and disturbing villains in American history; on many accounts said to be much worse than [[Jeffery Dahmer|Dahmer ]] and [[Ted Bundy|Bundy]] .
 ==Early life==
 Ramirez was born in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Paso,_Texas El Paso, Texas], the youngest of [[Julian Ramirez|Julian ]] and Mercedes Ramirez's five children. His father, a policeman who later became a laborer on the Santa Fe railroad, was abusive and believed in corporal punishment.
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 On August 3, 1988 the ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Times Los Angeles Times]'' reported that some jail employees overheard Ramirez planning to shoot the prosecutor with a gun, which Ramirez intended to have smuggled into the courtroom.Consequently, a metal detector was installed outside the courtroom and intensive searches were conducted on people entering. On August 14, the trial was interrupted because one of the jurors, Phyllis Singletary, did not arrive to the courtroom. Later that day she was found shot to death in her apartment. The jury was terrified; they could not help wondering if Ramirez had somehow directed this event from inside his prison cell, and if he could reach other jury members. However, Ramirez was not responsible for Singletary's death; she had been shot and killed by her boyfriend, who later committed suicide with the same weapon in a hotel. The alternate juror who replaced Singletary was too frightened to return to her home.
-By the time of the trial, Ramirez had fans who were writing him letters and paying him visits. 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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Quentin_State_Prison San Quentin State Prison] Lioy has stated that she will commit suicide when Ramirez is executed<sup>.</sup> By some estimates, he could be in his early seventies before the execution is carried out, due to the lengthy California appeals process.
+By the time of the trial, Ramirez had fans who were writing him letters and paying him visits. 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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Quentin_State_Prison San Quentin State Prison] Lioy has stated that she will commit suicide when Ramirez is executed<sup>.</sup> By some estimates, he could be in his early seventies before the execution is carried out, due to the lengthy California appeals process. He died of liver failure June 7, 2013 while still awaiting death row appeals.
 [[Category:Rapists]]
 [[Category:Male Villains]]