Case number 91-304. I sentence you to death and kids. I would ask that you would point this off. How many people have you killed? Lord, I don’t know. 20 probably 30. It’s up there. 50. You know, YOU’RE PUSHING YOUR LUCK. I HATE YOU, MOTHER. [laughter] I HATE YOU. Don’t go. This is Ricardo Richard Leva Munoz Ramirez, also known as Nightstalker.
He terrorized California from June 1984 to August 1985. Richard Romero’s whole trip was to hide in a tree or hide behind a fence and watch his victims at nighttime and wait into the wee hours of the night and then while they slept creep in and and kill them. Ramirez endured a traumatic and abusive childhood that shaped his gruesome interests.
He delved into Satanism and the occult, often fueling his actions with cocaine. Did the drugs affect his brain functioning? Did it affect the way he saw the world? Probably. But it wasn’t positive. It didn’t lead to make him kill. He was already primed. Ramirez committed a horrifying array of crimes ranging from burglaries to sexual assaults.
The greater Los Angeles area and later the San Francisco Bay area were gripped in fear for 14 long months. The violence he exhibited horrified even seasoned police officers. Really took a a woman in her 60s and her to death with his foot, leaving an imprint of a shoe on the side of her face. From that to just executing somebody upon walking into a room after he entered a house, he strangled, he used a liature, he used a tire iron on a on a young girl.
Ramirez would often force victims to profess love for Satan, using fear to manipulate and control them. One of Richard Ramirez’s particularly horrifying crimes occurred in April 1984 when he murdered 9-year-old May Long in San Francisco. 9-year-old May Long was found dead in the basement of her apartment building where she lived in the Tenderloin.
A DNA sample collected in 1984 at the crime scene. They were able to match it with his DNA. Ramirez’s reign of terror came to an end when passers by identified him, chased, and apprehended him in East Los Angeles. The angry mob severely beat him until the police intervened, took him into custody. What have you been arrested for? Sit up.
How long ago? Right up here. What’s your name? Huh? However brutal the slaying was, wait till you hear how he justified the murder. In court, Ramirez was convicted of 13 counts of murder. Throughout the trial, Ramirez never showed any remorse for his horrendous crimes. Parasites video, you don’t understand me. You are not expected to. You are not capable of it.
I am beyond your experience. I am beyond good and evil. Legions of the night, night breed, repeat not the night, father, and show no mercy. I will be avenged. Lucifer blast within us all. That’s it. While in custody, Ramirez initially claimed not to know why he committed the relentless killings. Why did you kill those people? And no comments. No comments.
I I cannot answer that at this time. But he later provided some insight into his motives. They are desires where if I didn’t give into them, I would be crushed by them. I believe in the in the evil in human nature. This is a wicked wicked world and uh in a wicked world you wicked people are born.
I’m not going to blame society, my race or people or anything. It is up to the individual like myself to to keep on knocking on on whatever door they want to get into. A serial killer comes about by circumstances and like a a recipe. Poverty, drugs, child abuse. These things are contribute to a person’s frustration and anger.
At some point in life, he explodes. On June 7th, 2013, Ramirez passed away in a California hospital due to complications related to B cell lymphoma. However, Ramirez wasn’t the first serial killer to appear in court. Like in the case of Eileen Carol Waros, I’m okay. I’m okay. God is going to be there. Jesus Christ’s going to be there.
all the angels and everything and you know whatever whatever’s on the beyond I think it’s going to be more like Star Trek beaming me up into a space vehicle man. Warnos carried out a series of murders while working as a sex worker along the highways of Florida from 1989 to 1990. She fatally shot and robbed seven of her male clients.
But her claims added a twist to these crimes. She argued they were acts of self-defense. YOU SABOTAGED MY society and the cops and the system. A woman got executed and was used for books and movies and and it and and that’s a hell of a lot of men I went through before the next jerk came along and I used protection. It was self-defense.
Yeah. Did you kill those seven men? I killed them. I didn’t murder them. Explain the difference to me. Okay. Murder is firstdegree murder in intent and killing is something you have to do in defense. So, you’re saying that all seven of those homicides were justifiable? In my belief, yes. Warnos’s father was in prison when she was born, and her mother abandoned her and her brother when she was four.
She suffered abuse from her grandfather and his friend and was pregnant at 14. She had to give up her baby and leave school. She had no one to support her and became a sex worker. Eileen Waro’s killing spree targeted men between the ages of 40 and 65. However, her reign of terror came to an end with her arrest in 1991 due to an outstanding warrant.
Her friend and lover Moore collaborated with the police, aiding in obtaining a confession from Waros and later testified against her. We were sitting on the floor watching TV and she just come out and said, “I have something to tell you.” and I asked her what and she said that she had shot and killed a man that day.
However, what Waros did in the courtroom was even crazier. Initially, during questioning, Waros denied responsibility for her actions. However, after spending a decade on death row, she changed her mind. I robbed him and I killed him as cold as I and I do it again, too. I know I’d kill another person cuz I’ve hated humans for a long time.
No sense in keeping keeping you alive cuz I just would absolutely kill again. I’ve got too much anger, too much hatred in me. Let’s say the cops were following you. Let’s say they were following you. They did everything that you’re you’re saying they did. Uhhuh. Nonetheless, you killed seven men. Yes, you did. I’m asking you what got you to kill the seven.
And I’m telling you because the cops let me keep killing them, Nick. Don’t you get it? I am sorry that my acts of self-defense ended up in court like this, but I take full responsibility for my actions. It was them or me. I am sorry for all the pain that my actions have caused. I am prepared to die if you say it is necessary.
I sentence you in case number 91-463 to death for the murder of Troy Burus. Thank you. Probably see uh I’ll be up in heaven while y’all rotten in hell. Okay. There will be an automatic appeal. You have the right to an appeal. Wife and kids. I would ask that you would find his office. After enduring years on Florida’s death row, she was executed by lethal injection on October 9th, 2002.
However, while some may attribute Waros’s actions to her terrible upbringing, it pales in comparison to the unfathomable behavior of Gary Rididgeway, known as the Green River Murderer, who was charged with multiple murder charges in Washington. He killed at least 48 people, primarily targeting prostitutes and young runaways.
Ridgeway’s upbringing was marked by violent conflicts between his parents. He regularly sought the company of prostitutes, eventually leading him down a path of abduction, murder, and disposing of his victims in the Green River. If you thought Ridgeway’s crimes were reprehensible, brace yourself for his shocking conduct during the proceedings.
In 2003, Gary Rididgeway was arrested. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in prison. I killed the 48 women listed in the state’s second amended information. I picked prostitutes as my victims because I thought I could kill as many of them as I wanted without getting caught. Is that true? Yes. And Mr.
Ridgeway, is it your desire to plead guilty to the 48 charges of aggravated murder in the first degree because you believe that you are guilty of each of those offenses? Yes. The courtroom was filled with emotion as victim’s relatives told him what they thought about him. You had said your memory when it comes to all of the women you took was gone.
Our memory is not. In your words, you said that they didn’t mean anything to you, but she meant everything to us. She was a mother. She was a wife. She was a sister. and we miss her. I wish for him to have a longsuffering cruel death. He’s going to go to hell and that’s where he belongs. Remarkably, in the midst of the seeding emotions, a Christian father named Robert Rule who had lost his daughter Linda Jane to Rididgeway did something different.
To live up to what I believe and that is what God says to do and that’s to forgive. And he doesn’t say to forgive just certain people. He says to forgive all. So you are forgiven, sir. This act of forgiveness from rule moved Rididgeway to tears. That was the only time he displayed any emotion in court. However, as we saw Ridgeway’s discontent with their sentence, it brings to mind the strikingly similar response of Jeffrey Dmer.
I didn’t ever want freedom. Frankly, I wanted death for myself. Jeffrey Dmer was a notorious serial killer and sex offender who terrorized Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Jeffrey Dmer, also known as the Milwaukee Cannibal or the Milwaukee Monster, admitted to killing, mutilating, and eating 17 young men over a period of 13 years, saving the skeletons, preserving other parts. One thing led to another.
It took it took more and more deviant type behaviors to satisfy my urges. And so it just spiraled out of control. Why the cannibalism? That was another step. It it it made me feel like they were permanent part of me. Besides the just mere curiosity of what it would be like, it made them feel that they were a part of me.
And it it gave me a a sexual satisfaction to do that. Dmer’s reign of horror came to an [music] end when Tracy Edwards, a man who was supposed to be his next victim, escaped and alerted the police. The officers followed Edwards to Dawnmer’s apartment where they discovered shocking evidence of his atrocities. [music] Dmer was promptly arrested.
A thorough search of his apartment revealed more horrifying items. Police removed boxes and boxes of body parts, evidence of what appears to be a psychopathic mass murder. Authorities also took out a barrel of what they think is acid. Police are reluctant to reveal exactly how many victims there might be, but knowledgeable investigators say it could be more than a half a dozen.
As if Dawnmer’s offenses weren’t enough, his demeanor in court will leave you dumbfounded. Dmer faced multiple charges of first-degree murder and additional charges in Ohio. Dmer also gave a rare glimpse into [music] his twisted mind and what drove him to become the Milwaukee monster. Was this about some kind of desire to keep these people with you, not to be abandoned, not to have them leave? I think it that did play into it, but uh there was a big element of wanting complete control over someone, not having to to consider their wishes,
being able to keep them there as long as I wanted. Contrary to what one might expect, Dmer said that he did not enjoy killing people. Was it the killing that excited you or is it what happened after the killing? No, the the killing was just a means to an end. That that was the least satisfactory part.
I didn’t enjoy doing that. In 1992, he was found guilty of 15 homicides in Wisconsin and received 15 life sentences. [music] He also got another life sentence for a homicide he committed in Ohio in 1978. Dmer showed little remorse. Even his victim’s families tore into him. Did you ever stop to think that this is someone’s brother, nephew, uncle, cousin, grandson, or just someone’s friend? You almost destroyed me, but I refuse to let you destroy me. I will carry on.
He destroyed the baby of the family and I hope you go to hell. This is how you act when you are out OF CONTROL. I DON’T WANT TO EVER SEE my mother have to go THROUGH THIS AGAIN. NEVER. JEFFREY JUST I HATE YOU MOTHER. I HATE YOU. THIS IS OUT OF CONTROL. DON’T WITH ME JEFFREY. I got I didn’t ever want freedom.
Frankly, I wanted death for myself. This was a case to tell the world that I did what I did not for reasons of hate. I hated no one. I knew I was sick or evil or both. Now I believe I was sick. I tried and failed and created a holocaust. And if I could give my life right now to bring their loved ones back, I would do it.
I am so very sorry. I deserve whatever I get because of what I have done. On November 28th, 1994, Dmer met his end when Christopher Scarver, another inmate at the Columbia Correctional Institution in Portage, Wisconsin, beat him to death. However, Dmer isn’t alone in his actions. Let’s not forget the infamous incident involving Tommy Lynn Cells.
I like to use a knife. Gun is too violent. Just fit my hand. Well, an American serial killer infamous for his heinous crimes and facing charges for multiple murders in Texas. While convicted of one murder, authorities suspect he may be linked to a staggering 22 killings. The cell says he’s not sure about the exact number, but claimed responsibility for ending over 70 lives.
How many people have you killed? Lord, I don’t know. 10? Yeah. 20? Probably. 30. It’s up there. 50. But see, I’m not Billy the kid making notches on on my my holster. So, I know it’s been a lot. Cells had a troubled childhood marked by alcohol abuse, drug addiction, and sexual molestation. His grandfather introduced him to alcohol when he was only 7 years old, and his mother encouraged him to have a sexual relationship with an older man named Willis Clark.
Cells became a wanderer at 14. traveling across the country and committing various crimes. One of his most horrific acts was the murder of Caen Katie Harris on New Year’s Eve 1999. He sexually assaulted her and stabbed her to death. He also tried to kill another girl, Crystal Sirls, but she survived despite having a cut throat.
But brace yourself for an even more disturbing revelation. Cell’s twisted justification for the brutal slaying. Cells admitted that he enjoyed killing because it gave him a thrill. First time I killed somebody, it was such a rush. It was just like that shot adult. Every time I did it, it was that rush again and I started chasing that high.
He also attempted to justify why he targeted children. You also killed children. Some got killed. Yes. Now, why would that happen? I didn’t want him to live through the pain I live through. Cells met his end on April 3rd, 2014 when he was executed by lethal injection at the Texas State Penitentiary.
He stopped moving after less than a minute and he was declared dead after 13 minutes. I suffer more here than I’ll ever suffer in that grave. I have to live with it every day now. When they kill me, at least I’ll be free then. If you thought these reactions were shocking, you’d be amazed at this video of six moms reacting to life sentences.
