Halpin himself had uncovered the deception and said it was not damaging to the case. Beginning in June 1984 Richard Ramirez, the ill-famed "Night Stalker," went on a killing spree in California, mutilating and murdering at least 13 people. The jury was terrified; they could not help wondering if Ramirez had somehow directed this event from inside his prison cell. He was the youngest of the seven children born to his mother Mercedes Ramirez, and father Julian Ramirez. Becoming a Find a Grave member is fast, easy and FREE. "I love all that blood," a sheriff's deputy quoted him as saying. Ramirez had made the appointment under the name of Richard Mena. And Mena, Leung told police, had a lot of dental problems. On July 21, 1988, jury selection began. When he wanted to do something, he did it. Personalities shine at A+E Networks EMEA. The first arrest occurred in 1977, when he was 17. After nearly a year, the jury finally started deliberations on July 26, with 8,000 pages of trial transcripts and 655 exhibits to consider. I will be avenged. While some victims were in their 60s and older, others were in their 20s and 30s. The family lived in a modest home in a working-class neighborhood. During that time, the Night Stalker had raped and killed 81-year-old Florance Lang and raped 83-year-old Mabel Bell and 42-year-old Carol Kyle. The youngest of seven children born to Mercedes and Julian Ramirez. Halpin said that, by asking Gilbert Carrillo about other cases the detective had investigated during the Night Stalker crime spree, Hernandez would have elicited from Carrillo testimony about the child kidnaping and molestation charges against Ramirez that were later dropped. "The case must not go down the drain," he insisted. In 1989, he told the El Paso Times that he could not believe his son committed those crimes. Former El Paso Times reporter David Hancock was asked by prosecutors in the Richard Ramirez trial to testify about a 1985 article he had written after interviewing the defendant's father. Hancock, who is now with CBS, worked for the Miami Herald when he testified in 1989 that Ramirez's father said he had not seen his son in a couple of years, which contradicted the alibi testimony presented by the defense. He attacked men and women, the young and the old, couples, young families, and people living alone. He became a laborer on the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway when he immigrated to El Paso, Texas from Mexico. Before his run-ins with the law in California, the El Paso police had arrested him at least three times on suspicion of possessing marijuana, according to newspaper archives. The father also said he believes key evidence was ignored by prosecutors. Criminal. Julian and Mercedes were Mexican immigrants. Jose Ramirez has been charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of Susan Brill de Ramirez and Antonio Ramirez Barron,Peoria County Sheriff Brian Asbell said Monday. [CDATA[// >
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