Sexually excited by the prospect of what he was going to do, he raised the knife and plunged the full length of the blade into Jennie Vincow’s chest. She woke up screaming; he kept stabbing. She tried to fight him off, but that was impossible: he slammed his hand over her mouth, raised her chin, and stabbed, then slashed her throat from ear to ear, cutting so deeply he nearly severed her head. Her body shook violently. She choked and gagged on her blood. The last image her dying eyes registered was of him—standing over her, killing her. The Night Stalker's wife". CNN. Atlanta, Georgia: Turner Broadcasting System. July 28, 1997. Archived from the original on August 26, 2003 . Retrieved May 22, 2012. But, "justice" being what it is, the man is still alive, and lived to find and marry a young, devoted, "Christian" virgin who dogged him along with a gaggle of groupies who fought over his visitation hours for years before, during and after the trial.

After murdering Jennie Vincow, the killer slipped deeper and deeper into intravenous cocaine addiction; the drug became his life, his main preoccupation. To get it he needed money, which he routinely secured by committing burglaries—frequently two and three a day. By the time of the trial, Ramirez had fans who were writing him letters and paying him visits. [130] Beginning in 1985, Doreen Lioy [131] wrote Ramirez nearly seventy-five letters during his incarceration. In 1988 he proposed to Lioy, and on October 3, 1996, they were married in California's San Quentin State Prison. [132] For many years before Ramirez' death, Lioy stated that she would commit suicide when Ramirez was executed. However, Lioy eventually broke ties with Ramirez in 2009 after DNA confirmed he had raped and murdered 9-year-old Mei Leung. [133] By the time of his death in 2013, Ramirez was engaged to a 23-year-old writer. [134] Ramirez in 2007. When Jayne became pregnant, money problems forced Frank to quit school and join his family’s upholstering business. But he found the work boring and repetitious. It was then he spotted a Los Angeles Times ad for a position in the sheriffs office promising good pay, a guaranteed pension, and challenging work. Frank applied and got the job and began his training. Frank married his childhood sweetheart, Jayne, and they had three children—a girl, Terri, and two boys, Frank Jr. and Michael. Following in his famous dad’s footsteps, Frank Jr. was a sheriffs deputy and hoped someday to be a homicide detective. Ramirez is a character in the horror anthology TV series American Horror Story. He first appears as a ghost in the fifth season Hotel, then a fictionalized version of him, played by Zach Villa, is a main character in the 2019 season, the show’s ninth, titled 1984. Ramirez is portrayed as a serial killer stalking counselors at a summer camp.a b Buchanan, Paul (May 15, 2017). "How a 13-Year-Old Boy Brought Down L.A.'s Most Notorious Serial Killer". Los Angeles. Los Angeles, California: Hour Media Group LLC. Archived from the original on May 15, 2017 . Retrieved May 26, 2017. A woman named Christine Lee claimed on Geraldo Rivera’s talk show that she was engaged to Ramirez but didn’t offer any details of their relationship.

Bruno, Anthony. "The Night Stalker: Serial Killer Richard Ramirez: "If You Look At Me Again, I'll Shoot You!" ". TruTV. Atlanta, Georgia: Turner Entertainment Networks, Inc. Archived from the original on June 26, 2012 . Retrieved June 26, 2012. {{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL ( link) Early on in Carrillo’s career, he had taken, at Cal State, an advanced criminal investigation course pertaining to sex crimes, taught by a retired FBI agent, Prof. Bob Morneau, who had helped put together the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit at Quantico, Virginia.Again, you don't belong here. You obviously have no life - why keep living in limbo? Move on. Please. Whist this is not to excuse what Ramirez did, since he surely knew that what he was doing was morally abominable, this explanation provides context and some sort of rational explanation for these acts, since mere excoriation doesn't really get us anywhere. After reading about killers like Bundy and Ramirez, I lean more and more to the sort of explanation presented by Schlesinger and am reminded of Phil Ochs's haunting words: "there but for fortune, may go you, or I". Chen, Edwin (September 21, 1989). "Ramirez Guilty on All Night Stalker Murder Charges". Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, California. Archived from the original on November 7, 2012 . Retrieved September 17, 2007.