Welcome to very scary people. Im donnie wahlberg. Some Crime Experts call the 1980s the decade of the Serial Killer. According to at least one study, there were about 200 of these murderers on the loose during that time. But one man stood out. His crimes were random and vicious. His victims ranged from toddlers to the elderly. The citizens of los angeles were paralyzed with fear while police struggled to stop him. His name was richard ramirez, and he was the night stalker. Man it happened in this Apartment Building in a groundfloor unit. Yochelson Jennie Vincow was a 79yearold lady living alone in an apartment in northwest los angeles. Jordan she had just turned off the light in her apartment, and because it was the peak of summer, she left the window open. Jennie vincows asleep in her bed, very vulnerable. Jordan while she slept, a shadow appeared at the window, and it was the outline of a man. And then he opened the window further and crept inside. He was looking for items to steal.
he did not utter a word but started moving toward her. she raised her hands to protect her face. he fired. the bullet hit the car keys in her hand. she said she felt a mixture of pain and heat. she was saved by her car keys. she fell to the ground and pretended that she was dead. he left to go inside the house, and leaving her on the concrete floor of the garage bleeding. the suspect makes his way into the condominium, where he encounters 34-year-old dayle okazaki. ms. hernandez heard another gunshot. [ gunshot ] .from inside the townhouse. jenkins: after maria heard the shot, she ran out into the street and hid behind a car. she saw the man come out of the building. he spotted her and approached her, and once again, he pointed his gun directly at her. she begged him not to shoot her.
yochelson: she said, don t kill me. and, inexplicably, he turned and shoved his gun into his belt and left, just like that. she was left alive. yochelson: she went inside and found her roommate, dayle okazaki, dead a gunshot to the head. later, when the police were searching the area, they found a baseball cap on the ground, which was really the first clue that they had come across. it was a baseball-style cap. it had the words ac/dc on the front. so that was thought to have been left by the killer. jordan: even more important than the hat with maria, we have a witness to the crime, and she came face to face with the suspect.
linedecker: los angeles was like any big city. all over the city, they had murders. of course, they were occurring on a daily and nightly basis. but this time, the murders, they were in the suburbs and areas that were generally considered safe areas. people didn t even lock their houses. yochelson: the sheriff s department was investigating the okazaki murders, and the monterey park police department was investigating the yu murders, and the detectives from each agency happened to be at the coroner s office at the same time. after the autopsies of both ms. okazaki and yu, they realized that the bullets that were removed from both victims were fired from the same weapon, so now these two murders were connected. everyone everyone was terrified. it was just so random.