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An Entire City Locked Its Windows in a Heat Wave: The Night Stalker Richard Ramirez

An Entire City Locked Its Windows in a Heat Wave: Richard Ramirez, the Night Stalker

Why did a fingerprint from the very first murder scene sit useless in a file for more than a year while people died? What did the Night Stalker do the moment a big-city mayor read out the secret evidence on live television? And how does the biggest manhunt in California end not with a SWAT team, but with ordinary neighbors chasing down the most wanted man in America on a Saturday morning?

In this episode, we follow the Night Stalker case through the summer of 1985: the murder of Jennie Vincow in 1984, the…

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