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Nightstalker is a 2002 American crime horror film written, directed, and produced by Chris Fisher about Richard Ramirez. It was nominated for two Fangoria Chainsaw Awards. Cast. Bret Roberts as Night Stalker; Roselyn Sanchez as Gabriella Martinez; Danny Trejo as Frank Luis; Brandi Emma as Adrianne Deloia; A. J. Buckley as Somo
Nov 10, 2002 · Nightstalker: Directed by Chris Fisher. With Bret Roberts, Joseph McKelheer, Roxanne Day, Julian Garcia. Richard Ramirez, aka the Nightstalker, who terrorized people in Los Angeles during the 1980s, and the police had no clue with him.
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The Night Stalker is a 2016 American drama film about the serial killer Richard Ramirez. It was directed by Megan Griffiths, who wrote the screenplay, and stars Lou Diamond Phillips, Bellamy Young, Chelle Sherrill, and Benjamin Barrett. The film was produced by Alisa Tager and Matthew Brady.
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Ricardo Leyva Muñoz Ramirez was born in El Paso, Texas, on February 29, 1960, to Julián Tapia Ramirez (February 16, 1927 – August 19, 1991) and Mercedes Muñoz Ramirez (April 10, 1927 – April 12, 2016), the youngest of their five children. His father, a Mexican national and former policeman who later became a laborer on the Atchison, Topeka, and San...
Leung killing
On April 10, 1984, Ramirez murdered Mei Leung, a nine-year-old Chinese-American girl, in the basement of his apartment building in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco. Leung was with her eight-year-old brother and looking for a lost one-dollar bill when Ramirez approached the girl and told her to follow him into the basement to find it. Once they were in the basement, Ramirez beat, strangled and raped Leung before stabbing her to death with a switchblade, hanging her partially nude body...
Night Stalker crimes
On June 28, 1984, 79-year-old Jennie Vincow was found murdered in her apartment in Glassell Park, Los Angeles. She had been stabbed repeatedly in the head, neck and chest while asleep in her bed, and her throat slashed so deeply that she was nearly decapitated. Ramirez's fingerprint was found on a mesh screen he removed to gain access through an open window. This, his second known murder, established his pattern of breaking into homes, committing particularly vicious murders and frequently bu...
Suspected victims
On the night of June 27, 1985, 32-year-old Patty Elaine Higgins was murdered in her Arcadia home. The crime was not discovered until July 2, when she failed to show up for work. Her attacker had sodomized her, strangled her and slashed her throat.Ramirez was charged with murder and burglary in relation to Higgins' death. However, these charges were eventually dropped due to a lack of concrete physical evidence linking Higgins to the other murders. Based on a statement Ramirez made to an inves...
On August 30, 1985, Ramirez took a bus to Tucson, Arizona, to visit his brother, unaware that he had become the lead story in virtually every major newspaper and television news program across California. After failing to meet his brother due to his not being home, he returned to Los Angeles early on the morning of August 31. He walked past police ...
Jury selection for Ramirez's trial began on July 22, 1988. At his first court appearance, he raised a hand with a pentagram drawn on it and yelled, "Hail Satan!" On August 3, 1988, the Los Angeles Times reported that some jail employees overheard Ramirez planning to shoot the prosecutor with a gun, which he intended to have smuggled into the courtr...
While awaiting trial, Ramirez reportedly met actor Sean Penn. Penn, who was jailed for 33 days in 1987 for reckless driving and assault of an extra on Colors(1988), claimed to receive a letter from Ramirez as a fellow inmate, to which he wrote back telling Ramirez he had no sympathy and hoped he died in the gas chamber. By the time of the trial, Ra...
Manhunt: Search for the Night Stalker (1989) is a TV movie by Bruce Seth Green, based on the true story of Richard Ramirez and the two Los Angeles police detectives who tried to track him down.Nightstalker is a 2002 film written and directed by Chris Fisherbased on Ramirez.Nightstalker is a 2009 film written and directed by Ulli Lommelbased on Ramirez."Richard Ramirez Died Today of Natural Causes" is a 2013 song by Sun Kil Moon, on the album Benji, dealing with cultural and personal impact of Ramirez's unsensational death relative to the fear hi...Crime Library: The Night Stalker (Archived from the originalon 2008-05-29. Retrieved 2016-08-29.)Interview with Stela Vasques, Supporter and Friend of Serial Killer Richard Ramirez, "The Night Stalker" (Archived from the originalon 2013-05-19. Retrieved 2016-08-29.)History Channel: Richard Ramirez, the Night Stalker (Archived from the originalon 2009-06-09. Retrieved 2016-08-29.)Richard Ramirez at IMDbA stylish horror film based on the life of Richard Ramirez aka the Nightstalker who terrorized people in Los Angeles during the 1980s. Starring Danny Trejo Bret Roberts Joseph McKelheer. Director...
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Where to watch. Currently you are able to watch "Nightstalker" streaming on Runtime for free with ads or buy it as download on Amazon Video. It is also possible to rent "Nightstalker" on Amazon Video online.
A rookie detective (Roselyn Sánchez) plays cat-and-mouse games with Los Angeles serial killer Richard Ramirez (Bret Roberts).
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