True Crime: Netflix’s Night Stalker is the latest in a genre we can’t escape Tiller Russell, director of Night Stalker on Netflix, and others explain how to create thoughtful true crime without lionizing perpetrators by Radheyan Simonpillai on January 25th, 2021 at 12:00 PM 1 of 4 2 of 4
The latest true crime docuseries creeping onto Netflix this month is
Night Stalker: The Hunt For A Serial Killer. The four-part series revisits the terror Richard Ramirez inflicted on people in Los Angeles in the mid- 80s.
His murder spree lasted from June 1984 to August 1985 and dominated headlines, provoked panic and has had a lasting influence on pop culture. The detectives who worked the Ramirez case consulted on Michael Mann’s 1986 movie