Ramirez was finally run down and beaten in 1985 by residents of an East Los Angeles neighborhood while attempting a carjacking. Satanic symbols were left at murder scenes and some victims were forced to "swear to Satan" by the killer, who entered homes through unlocked windows and doors. Ramirez was convicted of 13 murders that terrorized Southern California in 19 as well as charges of rape, sodomy, oral copulation, burglary and attempted murder. Courtroom observers wept when survivors of some of the attacks testified. His marathon trial, which ended in 1989, was a horror show in which jurors heard about one victim's eyes being gouged out and another's head being nearly severed. He had been housed on death row for decades and was awaiting execution, even though it has been years since anyone has been put to death in California.Īt his first court appearance, Ramirez raised a hand with a pentagram drawn on it and yelled, "Hail, Satan." Ramirez, 53, had been taken from San Quentin's death row to a hospital where authorities said he died of liver failure.
ROCHARD RAMIREZ SERIAL
LOS ANGELES - Richard Ramirez, the demonic serial killer who left satantic signs at murder scenes and mutilated victims' bodies during a reign of terror in the 1980s, died early Friday in a hospital, a prison official said.
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