Serial Killer Richard Ramirez Died After Spending 24 Years In Prison Korin Miller
Netflix s new true crime docuseries
Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer follows the life of Richard Ramirez, a serial killer who became known as the Night Stalker. Ramirez terrorized San Francisco and Southern California in the mid-1980s before he was eventually caught and convicted of killing 13 people and committing 11 sexual assaults.
After a crime spree, he often cleaned up at the Cecil Hotel, calling the notorious lodging home in Los Angeles. Ramirez would strip off all his blood-soaked clothes, walk through the hotel in plain sight, and head up the stairs to his room in his bloody underwear. This property was also the site of Elisa Lam s disappearance and death the focus of another new Netflix true crime docuseries.