Richard Ramirez Profile
Criminal Profile
Name: Ricardo Leyva Muñoz Ramírez
Nickname: The Night Stalker, Richard, Rich
Born: February 28th 1960
Died: June 7th 2013
Place of Birth: El Paso, Texas
Charged for:
● Sexual Assault
● Successful Murder
● Attempted Murder
● Burglary Backstory of Ricardo Ricardo was born in El Paso, Texas. He was raised by an abusive father and a loving mother. His family consisted of his father, mother, four other siblings and himself. They all believed in the morals and beliefs of the Catholic faith. Ricardo apparently experienced several blows to the head as a child. When he was two years of age, a dresser had fell on top of him causing him to need stitches on his forehead. Later, when he was five years old, he was knocked unconscious by a park swing. He then began to have episode of epileptic seizures. His father was not father was not well educated. He enforced laws around the household in as if he were a dictator. When he experienced anger, he would release it on himself by inflicting pain upon himself. Sometimes to the point of bleeding. When Ricardo was twelve, he experience witnessed the killing of a woman. His close cousin Miguel, who was later identified as a psychopath, shot his wife in front of Ricardo. Miguel was drafted as a soldier in for the Vietnam War. While at war, he would kidnap, sexually assualt, murder,
Vietnamese women because he believed that all Vietnamese were the enemy. He took pictures of the women as he went through the process. He later showed these pictures to
Ricardo and explained what he was doing. Miguel had taught Ricardo how to kill people using a knife. Miguel also introduced the use of drugs. such as marijuana, to Ricardo, as well as satanism. Miguel was sent to a Mental Institution after pleading insanity in court. After four years, he was released from hospitalization. As Ricardo moved on in life, he took what Miguel had introduced to him and started to use it. He did drugs more often,
Name: Ricardo Leyva Muñoz Ramírez
Nickname: The Night Stalker, Richard, Rich
Born: February 28th 1960
Died: June 7th 2013
Place of Birth: El Paso, Texas
Charged for:
● Sexual Assault
● Successful Murder
● Attempted Murder
● Burglary Backstory of Ricardo Ricardo was born in El Paso, Texas. He was raised by an abusive father and a loving mother. His family consisted of his father, mother, four other siblings and himself. They all believed in the morals and beliefs of the Catholic faith. Ricardo apparently experienced several blows to the head as a child. When he was two years of age, a dresser had fell on top of him causing him to need stitches on his forehead. Later, when he was five years old, he was knocked unconscious by a park swing. He then began to have episode of epileptic seizures. His father was not father was not well educated. He enforced laws around the household in as if he were a dictator. When he experienced anger, he would release it on himself by inflicting pain upon himself. Sometimes to the point of bleeding. When Ricardo was twelve, he experience witnessed the killing of a woman. His close cousin Miguel, who was later identified as a psychopath, shot his wife in front of Ricardo. Miguel was drafted as a soldier in for the Vietnam War. While at war, he would kidnap, sexually assualt, murder,
Vietnamese women because he believed that all Vietnamese were the enemy. He took pictures of the women as he went through the process. He later showed these pictures to
Ricardo and explained what he was doing. Miguel had taught Ricardo how to kill people using a knife. Miguel also introduced the use of drugs. such as marijuana, to Ricardo, as well as satanism. Miguel was sent to a Mental Institution after pleading insanity in court. After four years, he was released from hospitalization. As Ricardo moved on in life, he took what Miguel had introduced to him and started to use it. He did drugs more often,
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