The Night Stalker: Why Los Angeles Stopped Unlocking Its Windows
Summer 1985. Southern California stops sleeping with the windows open. Someone is walking into houses after dark—no single neighborhood, no single type of victim—and leaving pentagrams behind.
This episode of A True Crime Podcast with Alexander Lawson follows Richard Ramirez from the first linked murders through the months-long manhunt, the fingerprint that finally named him, and the East L.A. street where ordinary people stopped the Night Stalker before police could.
Thirteen murder convictions. A death sentence he never served. A city that changed how it lived after sunset.
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