‘NIGHT STALKER’ SATANIC SERIAL KILLER RICHARD RAMIREZ DEAD AT 53 ; SELF-PROCLAIMED SATAN FOLLOWER LEFT SATANIC SYMBOLS AT MURDER SCENES DIED OF LIVER FAILURE

 

Night Stalker serial killer who terrorized California with a spree of satanic murders dies in hospital after 24 years on death row

• Richard Ramirez, 53, died of liver failure while awaiting execution
• Ramirez was convicted in 1989 of 13 murders and later tied to several more. He was a self-proclaimed follower of Satan
• His trial was a horror show in which jurors heard about one victim’s eyes being gouged out and another’s head being nearly severed
• He earned the nickname Night Stalker

By Associated Press Reporter and Daily Mail Reporter

Richard Ramirez, the demonic serial killer who left satanic signs at murder scenes and mutilated victims’ bodies during a reign of terror in the 1980s, died early Friday in a hospital, a prison official said. Ramirez, 53, had been taken from San Quentin’s death row to a hospital where authorities said he died of liver failure.

He had been housed on death row for decades and was awaiting execution, even though it has been years since anyone has been put to death in California. He was convicted in 1989 of 13 murders, five attempted murders, 11 sexual assaults and 14 burglaries, which terrorized Southern California in 1984 and 1985. His charges included rape, sodomy and oral copulation.

 

Richard Ramirez, center, with attorneys, Randall Martin, right and Daro Inouye, left in a San Francisco courtroom Oct. 5, 1990. Ramirez died on Friday. He was convicted of 13 killings