Richard Ramirez was a serial killer in the United States, terrorizing the greater Los Angeles area. His victims were found dead, raped and/or had all their valuables taken from their homes. He was nicknamed "The Night Stalker" during his killing spree from June 1984 to August 1985. He was an avowed "Satanist." Ramirez was born in El Paso, Texas on February 29, 1960. Ramirez's father was a Mexican nationalist. and a former police officer in Juarez, Mexico. He often had "fits" where he would go very crazy and beat Ramirez. Ramírez left the house, hid from his father and slept in the local cemetery. Since the age of 10, Ramírez smoked weed. At age 12, he became very close to his cousin Miguel. Miguel was a decorated Green Beret veteran. He often talked about his gruesome murders and showed Ramirez photos of him raping Vietnamese women and posing with the corpses of the woman with the severed head. Ramirez saw Miguel shoot his wife in the face after a fight. After that, he withdrew more from the family. He later moved in with his older sister, Ruth, and her husband who was an obsessive "voyeur" and took Ramirez on his nightly trips. Ramirez began experimenting with LSD and also became absorbed in Satanism. He went to Jefferson High School but dropped out in the 9th grade. He began experimenting with his sexual fantasies and mixing them with violence, often forced servitude and rape. Miguel was found not guilty of the murder of his wife after 4 years of incarceration in a psychiatric hospital, due to insanity, and once again began to be a role model for Ramírez. Ramirez moved to California permanently at the age of twenty-two. Two years after he moved in... in the middle of an article... an elderly couple called him "the killer" in Spanish. When he went to pay for his things, he saw his photo on the cover of a magazine and ran out of the store. A group of residents chased him and detained him until police arrived. He was convicted of 13 counts of murder, 5 attempted murders, 11 sexual assaults and 14 burglaries. He was sentenced to death by gas chamber. After his conviction, some women began to form a fan club for him. One of the members of this fan club, Doreen Lioy, wrote him 75 letters, so Ramirez proposed to her and they were married on October 3, 1988. Lioy said she would commit suicide when Ramirez was killed. Soon, they divorced and Ramirez became engaged to another person. Ramirez soon died of B-cell lymphoma on June 7, 2013. He was 53 years old at the time of his death and had been awaiting execution for 23 years..