Quickie Review: Night Stalker

[Kevin M.]

As I’ve mentioned before, my wife likes the true crime docs, and we both lived in the LA area as kids during the fear that the Night Stalker wrought on the area, so watching this was a given. It was over-dramatic, almost comedically so. 

And that’s NOT how Ramirez was caught. It’s not. It’s not. It’s not.

series available on the Netflix 

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Kevin M. (RPCV)

[Dave Sikula]

I had it on in the background while the wife watched. I was mainly interested in seeing the LA television news people from the period. Until I looked up a "where is she now?" on Lauren Erickson, I had no memory of her leaving KNBC so unpleasantly. I did miss Pete Pepper, though; endlessly wandering streets at 11:00pm telling us a crime had been committed twelve hours ago *right where he was standing*.

This does inspire the question, though, of how you think Ramirez was caught. Every account I've read checks with the version in the series.

--Dave Sikula

[Kevin M.]

On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 1:47 AM 'Dave Sikula' via TVorNotTV <tvor...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

I had it on in the background while the wife watched. I was mainly interested in seeing the LA television news people from the period. Until I looked up a "where is she now?" on Lauren Erickson, I had no memory of her leaving KNBC so unpleasantly. I did miss Pete Pepper, though; endlessly wandering streets at 11:00pm telling us a crime had been committed twelve hours ago *right where he was standing*.

This does inspire the question, though, of how you think Ramirez was caught. Every account I've read checks with the version in the series.

This is one of those stories I’ve shared frequently to the disbelief of others, so I don’t expect anyone here to believe me, either. My mom’s best friend at the time was married to an FBI agent, and he was undercover in Puerto Rico when he was hit in the face by a bullet that ricocheted off a wall. When his wife was flown down to PR to be with him, my mom looked after their kids, and we all stayed in their house until they returned. Also in and out of their house was a substantial portion of the FBI, including the then director of the FBI. One night my mom told me to go outside and get something from the car, and I was too scared, because the tales of the Night Stalker were all over the news. The FBI director sort of giggled and said I didn’t need to worry about the Night Stalker anymore. “How can you be so sure?” the young me asked. And he replied that in a few days he’d be seen coming out of a 7-11 and a group of citizens will apprehend him until the police arrive. “How do you know?” the young me asked. To which he replied that the found the bastard about a week earlier and were basically torturing him for information as to the whereabouts of his victims, which they had to do secretly, which they’d be unable to do if the media knew he was in custody. The “capture” that was reported eventually occurred exactly as he said, staged to explain any residual bruising he received by the Feds. 

You can disbelieve me now; everyone else does. 

--Dave Sikula

On Tuesday, January 19, 2021 at 7:23:40 AM UTC-8 Kevin M. (RPCV) wrote:

As I’ve mentioned before, my wife likes the true crime docs, and we both lived in the LA area as kids during the fear that the Night Stalker wrought on the area, so watching this was a given. It was over-dramatic, almost comedically so. 

And that’s NOT how Ramirez was caught. It’s not. It’s not. It’s not.

series available on the Netflix 

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Kevin M. (RPCV)

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