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01/18/2023

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Richard Ramirez (1960)

Name:

Ricardo Leyva Muñoz Ramirez

Date of Birth:

February 29, 1960

Place of Birth:

El Paso, Texas, United States

First Crime:

Last Crime:

Murder of 9-year-old Mei Leung; April 10, 1984

Rape and Hostage of Inez Erickson, age 29; August, 1985

More on Ramirez' Life:

Ramirez grew up in El Paso, Texas, the youngest of five children born to Mexican immigrants. According to reports, when he was 12 years old, a cousin who was a Vietnam War veteran showed him pictures of Vietnamese women he had allegedly raped, tortured, and killed.The following year Ramirez was a witness to his cousin’s fatal shooting of his wife. Around this time, Ramirez began breaking into homes. After dropping out of high school, he moved to Los Angeles. He continued to commit crimes and was briefly imprisoned for stealing a car.

Frequently abused by his father, Ramirez began developing gruesome and macabre interests in his early and mid-teens from his older cousin, Miguel ("Mike") Ramirez, who also taught him some of the military skills that he would go on to use during his year-long killing spree. By the time he had left his home in Texas and moved to California at the age of 22, he had begun frequently using cocaine.