Was Richard Ramirez Pure Evil? - with Gil Carrillo | Ep 28

Richard Ramirez also known as the Night Stalker is regarded by many to be pure evil and he will go down in history as one of the most brutal serial killers in history!

Former detective Gil Carrillo who was one of the detectives on the case discusses the characteristics of Richard Ramirez as well some aspects that was not covered in the Netflix documentary Night Stalker: A Hunt for a Serial killer. Detective Gil Carrillo was sworn in as a Deputy Sheriff in 1971, started the first plain clothes gang unit in East Los Angeles, and continued working gangs for several years. Detective Carrillo worked as a Homicide Investigator for 21 years where he was called upon to investigate all types of murders to include serial killings as well as officer involved shootings.

In April 2004, he was promoted to the Rank of Lieutenant, and transferred back to the Homicide Bureau where he retired from on November 30, 2009.

Richard, the son of Mercedes and Julian Ramirez, was born in El Paso, Texas on February 28, 1960. Growing up Richard was a troubled kid. A lot of this was due to his older cousin, Miguel (also known as "Mike"), who had just returned from fighting in Vietnam. Ramirez’s cousin would tell him gruesome stories and show pictures of the torture he would inflict upon Vietnamese women. Mike introduced Richard to drugs, which consequently resulted in Ramirez committing petty crimes. He also became interested in Satanism.

The first serous crime that Ramirez was involved in was the murder of his cousin’s wife. Although Mike was the one who murdered his own wife, Ramirez was at the scene of the crime and didn’t do anything to stop it. In 1977, Ramirez was sent to a juvenile detention center for a series of petty crimes. In addition, he was put on probation for marijuana possession in 1982. Soon after these two crimes, Ramirez moved to California and continued to commit crimes such as burglary and possession of cocaine, as well as a car theft charge, which resulted in a jail sentence.

On June 28, 1984, Ramirez’s committed his first murder. The 79-year-old victim was sexually assaulted, stabbed and murdered in her own home. In just one year Ramirez had murdered over a dozen people and tortured of 25 people. After many delays, in 1989, Richard Ramirez, age 29, was sentenced to the conviction of 13 murders, five attempted murders, 11 sexual assaults and 14 burglaries. Ramirez was sentenced to die in California’s gas chamber. After being sentenced he merely stated “Big deal. Death always went with the territory. See you in Disneyland.” After being on death row for more than 23 years, Ramirez died from B-cell lymphoma at age 53 on June 7, 2013.

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