Most serial killers come from dysfunctional families, and they seem to have little love and more abusive tendencies due to a lack of emotional reactions to the horror that they have caused.
These types of people start out sometimes harming animals. They also tend to have issues in school or can’t seem to get anyone to like them. Something in the brain triggers them to go out killing.
Could it be revenge, the thrill of it, or too much anger inside? No one really knows but the serial killer themselves. Serial killers have a weird behavior to them and can’t seem to tell the truth.
Most of them suffer from severe memory problems, and the majority has experienced alcohol or drug abuse at some point in their life.
They tend to have a high sex drive and abnormal sexual behavior. Most of them have a selected place on where they prefer to orchestrate their killings at. Preferable choices include the woods, lakes, amusement parks, and so on. Some of them only choose to go after one sex to where others don’t care who it is. Most serial killers choose victims from their own race, and rarely go outside of it.
February 29th of 1960 Richard Ramirez was born. His parents Julian and Mercedes Ramirez where two hard working immigrants. Them and there five children settled in El Paso. Richards’s father had a job lying down track for the Santa Fe Railroad and his mother worked at the Tony Lama boot factory.
During this time she was pregnant with Richard and in her fifth month she had to quit her job. The fumes from the place had caused her to get nauseated, light-headed, and weak. When he came about he was adored by his family due to him being the youngest.
His older sister took the time and mostly took care of him, being devoted. There parents had high hopes for them and would sacrifice in order to give them a good home. The oldest boy Joseph was in poor health and had serious orthopedic problems.
There two oldest boys Ruben and Robert had learning disabilities and had poor behavior problems in school. It was looking like Richard would escape the problems that his older brothers had. He was his older sister Ruth’s personal doll.
The sister would spend hours playing house with Richard as if he was her son. He was a good baby barely crying and he slept and ate well. He had a love for music. Life wasn’t easy for this family. Every one of them worked hard to make things work.
The two rebellious boys seemed to have had a bad temper and were rebellious just like there father. It didn’t help that the father was always traveling for his job so the boys had lack of supervision which could have helped them through them with being rebellious.
Robert and Ruben began getting into trouble with the law. They started doing grand theft auto, sniffing glue, robbing homes, hanging with the wrong crowd. The father had flown into rage. He was very ashamed that his boys became this way.
The boys had got punishments but did not good. As Richard got older he hit the fifth grade and the family began to realize he had epileptic. At time he would have grand mal seizures and other times he would just stare off and have petite mal seizures. The doctors told his mother he would grow out of it and he eventually did.
They ended when he was thirteen. He did well in school and had over the average grades. Once he hit seventh grade things went down hill. His sister said when he got kicked off the football team it had hurt his pride.
He was proud that he was a good quarterback and felt it wasn’t fair that the coach kicked him off the team because he had blackouts from epilepsy sometimes. Not long after when he had hit the age of twelve he came across a new mentor someone that would influence his behavior.
He had a cousin Mike that was a Green Beret in the Vietnam and had returned for a few tours of duty with four metals on his chest. He had also brought an odyssey of rape, torture and mutilation that had made a huge impression on Richard.
This serial killer and sadist cousin of his had taking him under his wing and taught him how to kill and fight. Mike’s wife Jessie was alarmed at what her husband had become during the war.
She did not want a husband who would brag about his war time brutalities and sexual conquests, smoke marijuana and hang with Richard. The two began to have many heated disagreements and one day in front of Richard Mike had shot his wife in the face. He went to trial for the murder, but had pleaded temporary insanity.
Because of his impressive war record he had some leniency and was awarded to a mental hospital. Mike’s influence on Richard was something he could never wash away. The young boy suddenly had no interest in school.
All he cared about at the age of thirteen was smoking marijuana. He left to Los Angeles for his summer break to stay with his brother Ruben who was a heroin addict and a burglar. The only thing to do now was to steal money and get high.
After he came back to El Paso the problems he had with his father occurred more. The father became heartbroken because he watched his son going down the wrong path. Finally Richard moved in with his sister and her husband Roberto.
Roberto was over sexed. The two of them started going out at night and peeking through windows at women while they undressed. Richard was always some what hyper active and never really needed much rest.
The sister would say her little brother never slept and was one of those people who would function off of very little sleep. During this time in Richards’s life he began taking LSD and other hallucinogenic drugs. At this time he would imagine that he was becoming one with Satan.
He had become a disciple Satan. He had got a job at a hotel while in high school. He had got access to the master key and began to break into the rooms while the guests were sleeping so he could steal there belongings. He was sneaky enough so no one could pin point the thefts on him.
He had grown obsessed with beautiful women and would hide behind curtains in the hotel and watch them undress. He had fantasies of having sex with these women and it grew into assault.
He snuck into a woman’s room came up behind her tied her up then raped her. The woman’s husband came into the room and knocked Richard to the ground. He beat him and then turned him over to the police. The boy’s parents were in denial of this. He had lied to his parents and told them the woman lured him into having sex and that the husband came back unexpectedly.
At this time Richard was only fifteen years of age and the judge was lenient on him. He was giving no punishment and his parents bought into his story. At the end of 1977 his cousin Mike was released from the mental hospital. Richard and he began hanging out again.
By this time Richard had become an effective burglar and thief. Mike had taught him to be tough and he had learned survival tactics. Other then being around his cousin he seen himself as a loner in a hostile and unfair world. Once Richard turned 18 in 1978 he finally left his home in El Paso and went to Los Angeles.
He only had interest in drugs and sexual fantasies. He was very much into the heavy metal music which he would always listen to. When he was in Los Angeles he and his brother Ruben had a falling out over his wife. Richard had become a cocaine addict and survived by being a burglar.
When he was going around stealing to support his habit he would set around fantasying about sexual sadistic relationships. He never had normal relationships with girls. He only had sex with prostitutes.
Richard eventually substituted angel dust for cocaine. This did nothing but deepen his aggression and psychotic episodes. One day he took out his anger on another addict. He had tied her up then ripped off her clothes and raped her several times. He was thrilled by his power over her and it had caused him to want more.
He began reading about Auton La Vey, which was the founder of the church of Satan in San Francisco. He felt driven to join their rituals, but he eventually kept away from the organized cult and preferred to be what he termed a lone practitioner. This belief in Satan was just not odd but a deep seated belief in the power of Lucifer to protect and empower his disciples.
He tried to talk to his sister about this but she was alarmed in the changes that had over come her baby brother. She had asked him why Satan. He had told her Satan represents what he feels. Then he had said he isn’t like other people and that he was in fact different.
He told her he got a trade he was a thief. He admitted to being a good one. He then told her he wouldn’t go to jail and that he was protected. He was at a liquor store buying coffee at the end of August and two Mexican women pointed at him calling him a killer.
He saw his face in a newspaper and ran out of the store. The store owner had got a hold of the police and cars were arriving in every direction. Every where he went people knew who he was immediately.
He attempted to pull a woman out of her car but Carmello Robles and Arthur Benavedes had stopped him. He had jumped a fence and landed in Luis Munoz yard who was grilling meat. The man had hit Richard and then he jumped over the fence. He landed into another yard which was Faustino Pinon.
The man’s daughter’s car was sitting in the driveway and running. Richard yelled to get away and that he had a gun and that he would kill. Faustino grabbed his neck and told him he wasn’t taking the car then made the car go into the chimney.
He took off and tried to steal a car from someone by the name of Angela De La Torre. The car was parked in front of the woman’s home. She had recognized him from newspapers. She had refused to give him the keys to her car he hit her in the stomach. The woman had yelled El matador.
He husband Manuel heard her screams and knew immediately what was going on and picked up a metal bar that was by his front gate. He opened the door to the car and hit Richard in his head.
Richard got away from the car and he ran up a street Manuel and others chasing him. Manuel went to hit Richard again but missed him but he went for it again and hit him and he went down. Manuel and the others held him there until the police arrived. He was finally captured by the Mexican community.
When he we put in jail he had requested to have the electric chair. He asked for a gun to play Russian roulette. He said he would rather die then spend his life in prison. Salerno and Carrillo were exceptionally relieved to have Richard in custody; another out break had come their way. Richard had a leather bag that was found at the bus terminal.
Inside was a .25-caliber and shells he had used on most of his victims. On July 6th The Jury began deliberations; it was interrupted when one of the jurors was murdered by her boyfriend. On September 20th Richard was found guilty on all forty six counts. On October 3rd it was voted for the death penalty.
On the day of the sentencing he insisted on reading a statement he had made. He had a loud and angry voice. He had said that they didn’t understand him and that they were not expected to. They are not capable. He was beyond there experience.
He said he was beyond good and evil and that he would be avenged and Lucifer dwells on all of this. He told them he didn’t believe in hypocritical, moralistic dogma of this so called civilized society. He had said those maggots make him sick.
Hypocrites one and all. He didn’t need to hear of all of society’s rationalizations. He said he heard it all before. Legions of the night, night breed, repeat not the errors of the night prowler and show no mercy he had said to them. Judge Tynan had giving the death sentence nineteen times.
