FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA
Timeline: Night Stalker Richard Ramirez’s L.A. reign of terror and its aftermath [Los Angeles Times :: BC-VID-NIGHT-STALKER-TIMELINE:LA]
Reports of his brutality left a generation of Angelenos in fear when night fell.
Under cover of darkness in 1985, Richard Ramirez went on a months-long spree of murder, sexual assaults and other crimes that spread terror and anxiety throughout the Southland. Monterey Park, Whittier, Arcadia, Rosemead and Monrovia — no suburban window felt safe from his intrusion. His reign of terror yielded many monikers, including the Walk-In Killer and the Valley Intruder. But the Night Stalker would ultimately become synonymous with his modus operandi.