In 1966, Richard Speck committed one of the most horrifying mass murders in American history when he brutalized and killed eight student nurses living on Chicago's South Side. National TV and print media coverage featuring his prison photo, along with a series of clues from witnesses and survivors, led to Ramirez's capture on August 31, after he was badly beaten by East L.A. residents while attempting two carjackings. A tough homicide cop is assigned to track down a serial killer who is murdering prostitutes. With no apparent motive, the serial killer who would come to be known as the Night Stalker attacked in the dead of night, savagely assaulting his victims. American serial killer and rapist Ted Bundy was one of the most notorious criminals of the late 20th century, known to have killed at least 36 women in the 1970s. He journeyed north to San Francisco, where he took two more victims, Peter and Barbara Pan, on August 17. Here's our roundup of the best new series of the year so far, and where to watch them. Carl Kolchak is a newspaper reporter with an abrasive personality that has gotten him fired ten times from various big-city papers. He soon moved to California, progressing to cocaine addiction and burglary, and cultivating an interest in Satanism. An investigative reporter stumbles onto an artist that has made a pact to come back after his death to sculpt a statue of a demon using human blood and clay. An account of serial killer Richard Ramírez and his rampage in California during the mid-1980s. A full-scale police operation yielded no concrete results, and Ramirez repeated his attack pattern on pensioners William and Lillie Doi in May 1985. Check out the full list of winners. Watching a man from inside his house. Arts and entertainment Film and television. A missed opportunity to catch the killer now labeled the "Night Stalker" frustrates detectives, as does a mayor who divulges evidence to the press. In it an investigative reporter, played by Darren McGavin, comes to suspect that a serial killer in the Las Vegas area is actually a vampire. He was convicted of two murders, but claimed to have killed at least 100 more. Dropping out of school in the ninth grade, Ramirez was arrested for the first time in 1977, for marijuana possession. Investigative reporter Carl Kolchak, who's after his wife's killer, teams up with Perri Reed, Jain McManus, and their boss Tony Vincenzo to investigate strange crimes in Los Angeles that may contain dark supernatural elements. Her storyline and acting was somewhat flat and made the film drag at times. At age 13, Ramirez witnessed his cousin murder his wife. Ultimately, rather than reporting on the crimes, he solves them. Dubbed the 'Night Stalker,' Richard Ramirez was an American serial killer who killed at least 14 people and tortured dozens more before being captured in 1985. • Manhunt: Search for the Night Stalker (1989) is a TV movie by Bruce Seth Green, based on the true story of Richard Ramirez and the two Los Angeles police detectives who tried to track him down. Dubbed the “Night Stalker” by the media, Ramirez had already been sentenced to death for killing over a dozen people in the mid-1980s. Through more accident than design he ends up investigating homicides, many of which involve supernatural forces. The Night Stalker Ramirez's actions on his final night of terror, on August 24, 1985, soon led to his capture. I'll see you in Disneyland." After nearly 24 years on death row, Ramirez died on June 7, 2013, at the age of 53, from complications related to B-cell lymphoma. , 41-year-old Doreen Lioy, in 1996 series of murders committed by a vampire killer with supernormal powers really a. 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