CHENNAI: The world has been inhabited by serial killers for centuries, and Jack the Ripper is one of the earliest recorded but never captured, which is said to have been was involved in the Whitechapel area of London in 1888. Eventually, it became part of folklore and rumors.
In the summer of 1985, Los Angeles was also intimidated by a serial rapist and a murderer, who broke into homes through windows and doors open at night, and before he could seize the cops, there were 13 men. , women and children have fallen prey to it. At times he used a hammer, sometimes a knife, sometimes a telephone string for choking and sometimes getting food from the fridge after he had finished his bloody business.
Netflix’s new docuseries, “Night Stalker: the Hunt for a Serial Killer” from Tiller Russell graphically map the terrifying activity of the criminal, with the real name Richard Ramirez (played by Lou Diamond Phillips) which got Los Angeles residents into a state of fear and panic.
Images are very disturbing in the series and can put movements down the backbone of even the toughest ones, and Ramirez’s serial attacks were not new to the city, which had witnessed this type of crime earlier – the murderers of Black Dahlia and Manson, who killed pregnant Sharon. Tate, American actress and wife of Roman Polanski.
Ramirez was a patternless killer. From June 1984 until his arrest in August 1985, 13 people aged between six and 82 died. They belonged to different genders, ethnicities and classes. The only common feature was open windows and doors, and LA residents took their homes in 100F, blocked their windows and caught large dogs. But the “bogeyman” was not sad for a long time, and when he was last caught on a street with passengers, who saw pictures of him in the papers, he was only 25. He was sentenced to death. he remained on the death row for two decades before dying of cancer.
Russell, is a veteran of a true crime series and has been interested in this since his days as a reporter in a local paper. It introduces us to “Night Stalker” through the memories of two LA explorers, Gil Carrillo and Frank Salerno. Carrillo’s memory 30 years after the night was terribly frightening, and he remembered it in great detail. The two went through hell, neither sleeping nor eating. But in the end, it was worth the sheaf.