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When Richard Ramirez died in 2013, he took with him a reputation as one of the most fundamentally vile human beings to have existed on the planet in recent memory; dubbed the Night Stalker, Ramirez terrorized Los Angeles and San Francisco from 1984 to 1985, robbing, raping, and killing more than a dozen people (and that’s just the ones that the authorities were able to connect him to). It’s the stuff of bloody, horrific nightmares—and also, now, a weird anecdote from one of the guys who wrote
Bill And Ted.
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By way of explanation, let us direct your attention to a Twitter thread posted earlier today by Ed Solomon, a prolific screenwriter whose credits include