More than a dozen people were killed, regardless of gender, age, or race, and there were also Chinese victims. The victims of XQ included a 6-year-old girl, a boy, and a 70-year-old woman. The indiscriminate murder made the police feel pressure. All the cases took place in the dark, and the media named the murderer "Night Stalker". Through first-person interviews with survivors and two police officers, gory raw cinematography and gritty archival footage, this 4-part documentary provides a complete account of the famous Los Angeles serial murders of the 1980s and the arrest of their killers . Created the feeling of people living in fear, a time when anyone, including the police, could be the next victim of a night stalker. The first three episodes talk about the process of solving the case. The interviews of the parties and the photos of the crime scene can attract the attention of the audience, making people look forward to the real murderer.
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The murderer is unscrupulous, the number of victims is gradually increasing, and the police have been unable to solve the case for a long time, and they feel enormous pressure. There are differences between the police and the media, and the media always wants to report it, but the police have not caught the murderer and are unwilling to make a fool of themselves or reveal any information. A similar case also happened in San Francisco, which is close to Los Angeles. The police in the two places exchanged information. Unexpectedly, the mayor of San Francisco held a press conference to reveal all the information the police had. Los Angeles police officers were displeased. The police handling the case also has to face the family members' incomprehension, etc. The situation is reflected, and the film can be described as meticulous.
This time the case was solved mainly by the power of the masses. A handsome guy in Los Angeles noticed the car driven by the murderer. He felt that the car was suspicious, so he remembered the license plate number and called the police, so that the police could extract the fingerprints of the murderer. A Los Angeles woman called the police, saying that her father had made a friend who looked like a night stalker. After the police investigated, it turned out to be the murderer. They also learned the name of the murderer, but not the surname, and got the gun that the murderer had given away. . A man in San Francisco found the bracelet suspicious and called the police. The police followed the trail to find his mother-in-law's boyfriend and learned the killer's full name. So based on the name and handprints, the murderer Richard Rewa Ramirez was locked.
Richard went out to visit his brother in the city, and as soon as he returned to Los Angeles, he was targeted by the citizens, because his portrait was already in the newspapers, and everyone knew that he was a night stalker. He fled, was besieged by angry citizens, and was eventually caught. The court declared 43 convictions and sentenced him to death, but defense lawyers have been delaying the retrial and review of the death penalty, which made Richard live more than 20 years. What's even worse is that some women are willing to be Richard's fans and support him, and another woman actually went to prison to marry him.
A smelly body and rotten teeth are people's impression of a murderer. Richard, apparently a BT, shouted "Long live Satan" in court, and sometimes painted a pentagram symbolizing the devil at the crime scene. Why change? What is the reason for committing the crime? It may have something to do with his family. His father beat him often, which traumatized him psychologically. He was also greatly influenced by his cousin Mike, a returning Vietnam War veteran. Mike would often take Richard with him on drugs and tell him about the brutality of the war, until one day Mike shot his wife in the face in front of Richard when Mike's wife was complaining about the two idle slackers. , blood splattered on Richard's face, life seemed so insignificant and vulnerable at this moment, which brought a huge shock to his young mind.
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