I lived in one of the cities where Ramirez committed his crimes. My husband and I were in our 20's then, and we had an infant daughter. It was a terrifying time. The summer was particularly difficult because people wanted to leave their windows open due to the heat, but were too afraid to do so (myself included). I was so relieved when he was caught, and so proud of the brave citizens who took him down!
Same. I think they had rolling blackouts as well. I remember some neighbors just hanging out in the yard to get relief. Safety in numbers, I guess. It was a miserable summer.
7:09 worth noting that it was the family’s 13 year old son who followed Ramirez outside to write down a description of the car 👏🏼👏🏼 May we all be as badass as that kid
I was ten years old in 1984, living in the San Fernando Valley. Myself and three neighborhood friends were playing ball in the street in front my house on a sunny afternoon when we noticed a grungy looking stranger, wearing a backpack, walking down the street towards us. As he got closer, we got spooked and moved out of the street on to the sidewalk in front of my house. He walked in front us, turned his head towards us and snarled, and kept walking. A few weeks later, the news showed his mugshot after he was arrested and it hit me that the grungy, snarling stranger was Richard Ramirez. Do you know that feeling you get when you realize you were snarled at by a serial killer? *I do!*
Fascinating story, but there are definitely strange looking people that would never be serial killers. We shouldn't really generalize like that; even though this strange looking guy turned out to be a serial killer.
That's why It's extremely important watch kids carefully. Head injuries, and influences, drugs. A careful educated parent may have seen a problem coming.
I was hoping someone would say something like this because that’s instantly what I thought. How easy it was to just say oh a dresser fell on him or he fell down the swing. Like omg how did anyone not see these could have been traumatic head injuries from child abuse.
It's a high possibility that they were due to abuse. But his parents were both working long hours and were often not home to watch the kids so it is also likely that the children got hurt due to lack of adult supervision.
Wow my dumbass never thought of that but I was like” how did a swing knock him out” 😑. The fact that his childhood was so bad it’s what makes me sad for him as a child and baby but after him being grown and doing all of what he did it’s a good thing he’s gone so he won’t do it again and harm others and I don’t mean this in a vengeful kind of way.
In the Netflix doccumentary when that librarian described his gaunt, unkempt appearace said h is body odor smelled like a goat. Also when he said Richard Ramirez was looking for books on horoscope and torture. I am just glad they caught him when they did. Seems like he was planning to do some horrendous stuff.
Your very respectful when speaking of the victims, I can hear the sadness in your voice. They aren't just random basic worded "Victims" but real people, who had lives, loved ones and a life that was Stolen from them. Thank you for speaking in a respectful tone about the Victims. Surprisingly it's not always done, the killer is given more attention than the poor peoples lives the perpetrator ruined.
I saw an intervieuw with Ramirez and I noticed his way of fragile self-defense, as a clever small child can do this very intelligently and conflict-avoiding. Close to philosophical .. Probably by nature he was sensitive intelligent if he had not been damaged and abused like he learned in childhood ..
That's because he is not a psychopath! However, he tells us stuff in ways that I wonder what is hiding behind those glasses! J/k Love your videos Dr. Grande
In listening to the excellent Audiobook "The Nightstalker," by Philip Carlo (on youtube also) a teacher who taught him & his siblings English, sounds like he regularly sexually abused the boys, & they went to his house, telling his mother/parents they were doing English homework there, this teacher giving them oral sex, etc.,(describing that his brothers actually didn't mind, even liked/enjoyed it?) & I believe he preyed on Richard also...& when he witnessed his cousin Mike shoot his wife dead in front of him, (Mike made him promise not to say anything about witnessing it) had to keep it secret, & he changed & became even more unusually withdrawn.(he truly needed some real intervention, therapy & help at that point, That's a lot of pressure to put on a boy of just 12-13 years-old, I try to imagine the turmoil that put Richard's psyche through; I don't think he said he witnessed this until after his convictions), .. as well as his brother & Mike teaching him how to kill, burglarize, his father's severe beatings (though I believe the parents loved him & his siblings very much from this book about his life) - (I think Richard kept a lot of tragic, humiliating, harmful things to himself (possible abuse from the teacher as he'd done to his older brothers, witnessing Mike killing his wife, etc.) & also due to his naturally introverted, quiet type nature since he was young -- he could self entertain & make up games to play by himself, a real introvert trait, reminds me because one of my sisters did that when she was young & introverted). I think there were mental illness propensities because you can see the males in his family had a strong temperamental problem, (as well as experiencing/witnessing his father's temper, etc.) I think he was always a shy, introverted type naturally since he was young, with a stubbornness & temper, could have been in his nature or combined with what he grew up around -- After Mike killed his wife making Richard keep secret he was even there, possible sexual abuse from an English teacher, etc., he was becoming more & more withdrawn & making conclusions early on that the world was against him, evil, & not to be trusted, "kill or be killed mentality" (especially, as he never got any therapy, intervention for possible sexual abuse, witnessing his cousin kill his wife & being made to pretend he wasn't there) -- Just like something he said in an interview, "I didn't particularly care much for people." seems very telling for some life experiences-- Even at the end of Philip Carlo's Audiobook, "The Nightstalker," he said, "Well, actually I guess I did know people, women had emotions, feelings, but I had just locked that out," --- I think it stemmed from his growing feelings that people were evil, against him, not to be trusted, so he didn't want to open up, & a kill or be killed mentality may have had some to do with why he showed no mercy, or empathy for victims, because he did not see role models teaching that.. He certainly had a lot of things in life going against him {it definitely didn't help him}, but thousands, thousands also have had trauma, cruelty, etc. growing up, yet they didn't make up their minds to take it out on others & seem to have 0% empathy for hurting others... Many people grow up with so many tragic things, yet they used it to be a better person & convict them more that hurting others would not make 2 wrongs right... He had already made up his mind to strike out in a calculated way... (On doing a Brain Scan, they DID find brain abnormalities, probably mostly prefrontal)-- {I DO think the public needed to be protected from him sadly, I think only God knows how much of it was Nature & what % of it was nurture} Also, Bipolar & many mental illnesses can develop more from the stressors or abuse in life, not necessarily born with it -- {Just speculating, but thinking he suffered times of "Psychosis", "Unable to determine what is real & what is not," cause in court, at first he was scared, shy, but later he just took on a different persona, "cause who wants to see a timid person coming into the court," & he just started acting like a different person at times, like a problem with delusions (to be able to carry out murders like that) or if he just had chosen Evil & Satan's way.. (I do feel bad for the many negative combinations he had dealt to him; but I feel as much sadness for all the victims & loved ones he caused pain to… So I'm glad God knows it all & will be the final judge because he has seen it ALL, so to me, He's the only one who can be completely unbiased & righteous, fair Judge.. Richard let Philip "pick his brain" so to speak in the end interviews.. Learning from Philip Carlo's Audiobook (it's on youtube) It was one of the most interesting stories where you could see much into that person's life, the damage, influences in trying to understand phenomenon like this. (I'm sad how he destroyed his life, but definitely destroyed others' lives also~ ***There is no doubt that his attacks & killings were truly diabolical, so sad killing elderly & 16 yr-olds, etc., & no matter abnormal brain scan his murders were very calculated, diabolical, he chose Satan; when a person keeps going further into evil, at some point God will give them over to a Reprobate mind, no remorse. It will take more evil to satisfy their reprobate, callous minds. Still, I'm glad God knows it all, & will make a righteous, unbiased judgment~*** I think good analysis here from Dr. Grande because there were so many factors at such a young age that compounded so much, & no intervention or help he needed.. I like because it's not to judge, but to try to understand objectively, maybe clues truthfully how people became this way, (because it may help give more conclusive reasons for this happening, maybe prevent more of these for the sake of all people & victims, for society.. Although the evil will always exist in life... Either way, I'm not excusing Richard's gruesome violence & killing, & at the same time I'm not leaving out some possible mental problems or brain trauma- -- But my heart goes out to the victims~
@@ThirteenthGhost I disagree dr Grande never mentioned about the 6 yr old girl Richard took from her home and raped. And the fact that i got to hear it from the actual person it happened to was amazing. Everything Grande said about the case I heard before. But I did like Grande’s speculation on what could be happening in a case like this.
Wow. Hearing his back story breaks my heart. Don't get me wrong, what he did was horrifying and I'm so glad he was arrested, but it's pretty sad. You wonder how he would have turned out if he had been raised by a healthier family.
There's a youtube channel, Soft White Underbelly, which interviews the part of our culture which is often overlooked and perhaps misunderstood. People on skid row in LA is one segment interviewed on this channel, as are Appalachians. So my point: these interviews have revealed frequent child abuse and neglect.
@@annetteyoutube742 I appreciate the Soft White Underbelly channel as well, he gives a voice to the people society forgets about. It's so devastating that there's the repeating pattern or childhood abuse, sexual abuse amongst nearly all of those he interviews
Ramirez has always been the one that scares me the most. I can't look at him without feeling physically ill and I have never slept with a window or door open because of him.
Yes he had a lot of very disturbing things happen to him at a young age. A lot of people have abuse and neglect from a young age yet don’t become serial killers
@@agentjackstone3543 98% of dogs will bark at uninvited strangers unless you have a revolving door of people in/out. My dogs freak out over anyone near the property (but I am a rural hermit).
Dr Grande, seeing as Ramirez and other serial killers get 'fan' mail and sometimes married in prison, I was wondering if you could please do an analysis of the mental health of those types that idolise serial killers? I have always wondered what kind of women would do that.
More than likely women who have some sort of attraction to brutal and sadistic men probably because they have likely been abused by their fathers/men in their lives. Women who have been abused particularly whilst growing up typically gravitate towards men who are very similar to their abusers. From what ive read they feel the need to punish themselves because they believe they deserve it. Basically Jennys from Forrest Gump!
His teeth were half gone and the rest were black. His mouth smelled like death according to survivors and the people he met when caught. He never bathed. Extremely gross.
@@chrysichrysi7889 Oddly enough, he had a big fan club both inside the courtroom and out. Got lots of fan letters with women saying they'd love to have sex with him on top of his corpses, etc. Strange how no matter how depraved someone gets, there's someone else who will fantasize about it approvingly.
Two head injuries as a child as well. I must say, it astonishes me how dismissive people tend to be about the effects of physical insults to the brain. I wonder how many assumed-congenital psychological or personality problems are the result of physical damage to the brain. You hit anyone over the head hard enough, and they are GOING to start acting different. I often wonder if these changes in behavior should really be characterized as “mental illness”. Or should we view them as symptoms of physical damage to the brain. It seems strange to me project new pathology onto a person when the source of their symptoms is already obvious.
Lynn V and how many abused kids don’t turn into rapists and killers? Many, but that doesn’t change the fact that it does happen and that it does greatly increase the chances of having a psycho running around.
Robin Revell Oh of course. Just because someone has a brain injury doesn’t necessarily mean they will become a killer, of course. Or even violent. But some people, they do become violent if the part of their brain that regulates emotions and inhibition gets damaged. It’s sobering to realize that any of us could become an entirely different personality just from one or two hard clunks on the head.
@@lynnv8501 And how many people suffer head injury and start acting different, even if not in a homicidal way? Plenty as well. I don't understand why people are dismissing the obvious signs of head injuries fucking people up mentally. On top of that his childhood was a horrible nightmare in general, which surely affected his already damaged brain
I have surmised that his cousin not only showed him terrifying pictures but enjoyed scaring him...thus his pathology of liking to scare people himself.
@Black Guy He had an uncle who he really looked up to, who bragged to him about all the women he killed in Vietnam. This uncle also murdered his wife in front of Ramirez
There are these other serial killers that are like - you're a monster that I don't understand. He's one that was just damaged. EVERYONE & even from the womb he was damaged. How fucked up could his life be...shit! No one intervened - there's nothing to say it would have helped. But there's nothing to say it wouldn't have. A lot of these other killers had the chance & nothing happened.
@@RYMAN1321 I'm not saying that a head injury could be the sole reason but it doest have to be ruled out, just a possibility. There is this brain trauma condition called CTE. It played a minor role in why Chris Beniot killed his family and himself amongst other things
@@miss__monique I see Aaron Hernandez apparently also had CTE, and he also eventually took his own life, albeit already in prison for the murder of Odin Llyod.
@@RYMAN1321 yes. I just heard Dr Grande mention some potential head trauma injuries and was just wandering if he had any. Clearly this guy was fundamentally flawed. Especially when Dr. G mentioned his brother and father. It was just a thought
Isn't the frontal lobe is where you have emphaty and feelings towards others? If he was injured at that area that explains a few things. I wonder why they didn't scan his brain, we could have studies the affects of brain damage on personality and violence
My heart hurts for his victims :(. My best friend was stalked and harassed by Dennis Rader (BTK) when he was an animal control officer and I am still bothered by how close she came to being one of his victims. I’m new to your channel; I will have to dig in your archives to see if you have a video on BTK.
Fur in the Ink - Mary R not to be completely insensitive but I’ve been writing an essay about outlaws in the Wild West and very near thought “BTK” was an acronym for Billy The Kid. I sat here for a good 2 minutes absolutely puzzled as of to how that would be possible. Despite my stupidity, It’s a relief to hear that your friend is alright!
@Dale Gribble That's crazy man. Shit. My dad kept telling us this story of some white guy who tried to rape him. He said the guy kept asking him to come over to his house during the 70s when he went to this night club. 🙄 I don't know if it was a serial killer or his homophobia talking b/c he later told us his 3 other gay "horror" experiences; where these guys came on to him. For that one though, my sister & I were like...JD was that you? Admittedly, my dad was a pretty good looking guy had that "Magnum P.I./Tom Sellek" - look going on during the 70s & 80s. It also helped he was a black guy bodybuilder with eyes that looked grey. He had the ladies - and I guess the eyes of some gents too. 🤣🤣🤣
I completely agree w/ you. All those people are victims. What Ramirez did is unforgivable. However, if you hear his story - you have to say that Ramirez is a victim as well. He was horribly victimized over and over again.
Richard Ramirez, Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy all suffered serious head trauma in early childhood. There is a strong link betweennhead trauma and violent uncontrollable behaviour.
I’d like to hear your analysis of his cousin Mike. I’m a fan of this case and I believe he was highly influential on what Ramirez became. Those pics he showed him from Vietnam were of him forcing women at gun point to give him oral sex, then in the next picture the woman would be dead. He was also breaking into homes with Richard. He also killed his wife in front of him. Richard ended up assaulting women similarly after breaking into their homes. I believe he was, for lack of a better word, an evolved version of Mike. Just would be interesting to hear your thoughts on Mike.
No doubt Mike was the catalyst for Ramirez crimes. Do believe Ramirez was environmentally created. Although, obviously this extreme cruelty existed within his family. His level of evil, omg!!! Absolutely no one was exempt from his cruelty, as I’ve heard his sister in-law speaking of her experience with Ramirez. She is lucky he did not move on her. Would like to know about his mother and father. He walks that line of being physically attractive and because of what he has done, terrifying! Too bad he went the way of evil.
That’s an interesting take you have. There is definitely a continuity and influence to be seen when you compare the activities over two family generations. “Evolved Version”. I like that.
Cousin genes aren't close enough to say murder is genetic. It's more likely that the poverty, drugs and machismo caused Mike's violence. Richard was damaged in the womb and every day thereafter. He self- medicated early and till the day he died in prison. He was raw human animal. Something many men are and would be without sociatal constraints. But when he got medical attention, food, and rest (all denied him when on the street high on cocaine) he fell in love and was married in a Catholic ceremony by a priest. He was a Christian the whole time, believing in Jesus (who he believed interfered in that 16yr olds attempted murder) and Satan. So he was consistent. His normalizing was a testament to the power of love from a woman, attention from doctors and dentists, nutrition and consistent shelter with subsequent safety (no one dared touch him in prison, even if the wasn't in solitary)... He had known nearly nothing of those things growing up. The groupies were the first time in his life he was desirable... But no one ever tells that part of the story. Humans are extraordinarily complex creatures. Satisfy our basic needs and nearly anyone will turn to the light. Although, to be honest...I don't know of too many serial killers that straightened out like he did. I wish someone had studied THAT. It's much more unique than murdering rapists. Our prisons are full of those.
@@mowthpeece1 Wow this is some major bullshit. Ramirez was not married Catholic and his wife didn't change him. They divorced a few years before he died and he was the exact same man then as he had been before, still an evil Satan worshiping creep. Also, two cousins having similarities can absolutely imply genetic impact.
@@mowthpeece1 Somehow I doubt you, some of his prison inmates do not paint such a rosy picture. Also, he was engaged to a 20-something groupie at the time of his death. His first wife had wandered off long before.
This stuff should have been explored more deeply in the Netflix series. One of the most useful parts of true crime stories is understanding the cause of the perpetrator’s actions so we as a society can work towards preventing them in the future. The Netflix series makes him seem like some sort of inhuman demon whose evil could have never been prevented.
Son of Sam day talked about how Satanism is like a wave that quickly drags you out to sea, and before you know it you have lost control and doing things you’d never imagine. Playing with fire, getting burnt and burning everyone else. People don’t realise the spiritual world is very real. Satan is the father of all lies, and will destroy the participator and use them to destroy others. It was very interesting to watch this interview. He acknowledged complete responsibly and said he would never even try to get out of jail. He recognised it as just. He asked forgiveness from God and victims and accepts his fate. Rare. This interview was years after the crimes.
Derek , I know you won’t believe me, but I have worked around the mental health field for over 25 years. In many cases there is no preventive measures you can take, you can’t make a person who is narcissistic into a normal person. They imitate feelings emotions that they don’t have, I have listened to and had many conversations with people like this , the things that they say and do are disgusting to a normal person. I have stories for days , but I rarely tell them. they are far too gory
I noticed, in your description of the crimes he committed, that Ramirez always let a mother and her son live, and frequently did not assault the son. It makes me think he valued the idea of a son having, requiring and deserving his mother to remain alive. Yet he would not hesitate to kill the fathers. He seemed to value that mother son dynamic. Yet often assaulted and/killed women who weren't with their children... As well as having no problem killing men. I wonder what his dynamic was with his mother? We'll have to revisit learning about the family dynamic of Ramirez, growing up.
He would also kidnap kids from schools but then would set them free. I wouldn’t exactly say he was compassionate, but the fact that he could show any at all is pretty telling, that people choose to be evil imo.
someone’s got a psychology brain 🧠 😅!! love the perspective, very interesting to think about ! like how ted bundy targeted brunette, white women that were in his mind, his “mother”. and ed kemper i think his name is ?
someone’s got a psychology brain 🧠 😅!! love the perspective, very interesting to think about ! like how ted bundy targeted brunette, white women that were in his mind, his “mother”. and ed kemper i think his name is ?
Females are much easier to overpower and control. He had no interest in sodomizing males so for those two reasons he murdered the males before beginning enjoying the females. He slaughtered the females viciously usually slicing their throats. In their death throws the blood spurting out of their sliced arteries would splatter all over as they thrashed about. He took a hammer and smashed in the skulls of other women and in one case smashed her head flat by stomping on it when she fell to the floor. In regards to children few of his victims had a child in the home but in one instance he sodomized an 8 year old boy in one of his victim's homes. I think some of the victims survived because he got what he wanted and satisfied his urge for violence. Killing someone manually is hard work. I think he kicked and beat them as hard as he could and enjoyed every minute of it. He really didn't care if they lived or died. Had he cared he would've shot them in the head after he finished sexually assaulting them. Psychopaths are people with a brain defect that prevents them from having feelings for others. A psychopath's are incapable of distinguishing between an object, insect, animal or human. They extract have no desire to have a relationship with anyone and are mystified by the concept of pets and feelings of love, excitement or sadness.
Nah is because he was a coward so he had to take out the men before they could mess him up he was thin and small. That guy victim who was shot in the head and chased Ramirez and he ran away afraid of this guy while ramirez was the one with the gun
What struck me most about Ramirez is how dysfunctional the adult males in his life were and how he sustained repeated physical and psychological trauma while still a child. Ramirez made a statement in an interview where he said he did not care about himself and never had. What that tells me is that he never had much if any love in his life as a child. That coupled with not only a lack of moral training, but an actual training in perversion from his uncle and sister's husband, shaped this man. He made other statements where he said he was in touch with evil, and what I hear is that all of what we know of his life created a person who felt he was not worth anything and that he was evil. He knew right from wrong, and made statements to that effect, too, saying he did not blame anyone else for what he became. He talks about having urges that needed to be satisfied or they would have destroyed him completely. Sure he had rage. And he acted out all of what he was taught as well as that rage. He could have been stopped way before any of the killing happened, but no one in his life who could have helped him seems to have wanted to go that far for him. It is a tragic case that really is a lesson to us all.
@@LizardCane But Ramirez had a father, who is at least partially responsible for what happened next. ("Ramirez's father, Julian, had been a former policeman in Juarez, Mexico, who after emigrating to the United States, became a laborer on the Santa Fe railroad, and was said to be prone to fits of anger and a temper that Ramirez said made him "physically abusive to his entire family."") Can we "demonize" this father? At least a bit? :D As I noticed in more true crime stories, it almost looks like that similarly traumatized people inter-breed for generations and continue and even worsen the abuse they know from their original families (very often by fathers or grand-fathers!) until the "ultimate" evil is born and raised. There are people telling us how children may turn out bad not having a father around, but I think huge part of this is compared to the idea of a proper father rather than their own biological one (who still is in their blood anyway) - like imagine Ramirez had a child: would it be better for this child to have this particular father around, or not? I certainly agree children need to have role models of good people of both genders around them, but I don't think it's that necessary to be related to them. Just be nice and kind when there are children around. Or be nice in general, even to yourself :)
If we don’t heal from our past traumas, we make trauma-based decisions in all aspects of our lives from who we have relationships with to school/career choices (or lack thereof). If we have children we raise them without the life skills needed to be happy and healthy at least to a degree. I know so much more now than I did when I married young and had children. Now I know why I chose my ex husband. I’m now wiser and trying to be a better guide for my grown children and for my grandchildren.
Did you watch the night stalker on Netflix!? Oh man! I finished the show, went to sleep, and a few hours woke up believing there were unknown noises in the house... 😖
Also, I can’t stop thinking...where were his parents? Especially during 12 to 18 years old? How about his school. His teachers didn’t notice anything? They didn’t try to get him help? He was a US citizen and a minor and was eligible for services. Such a waste all around; could have been avoided. In one of his quotes “I gave up on love and happiness a long time ago”...sooo incredibly sad😔
I was in the 4th grade when this guy was stalking L.A. I remember my mom for the first time ever locking every door and window in the house at night, and one time helicopters flew all over our neighborhood and I was so scared. It was such a relief when he was caught, and in such an epic way.
_The Night Stalker_ was the first serial killer book I ever read when I was 14. I was mortified despite my curiosity. I remember that I couldn't sleep thinking about how easily he entered homes at night while people were sleeping. I loved the fact that it was Latinos in a stalked neighbourhood that recognized him and beat him up. 👍👍 I was also glad when I heard of his death. Thank you, Dr Grande. 👍🌹 Good stuff!
Do you live in the US? I guess for people living in countries where there are actual serial killers walking around reading about that stuff could be enough to keep one up at night. Lol, I don't even wanna travel to the US, even though it's not like people are killing each other right and left, but that I something that is on my mind, so whenever my dad travels to New York I always worry.
I learned about him as an adult and it scared me so much for that very reason that I kept waking up in the middle of the night terrified for like a month after hearing the story. It was awful.
@@The_Tortoise_and_the_Hare Do you feel that way about El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico and the other countries in Central and South America? They have much higher rates of murder than the U.S.
@@MasterMalrubius No, but I have never thought about wanting to go there, and my family doesn't go there, and I never see any news from there either. I saw some messed up stuff in my dad's Bizarre magazines from when I was younger, and that was stuff from Mexico, but I couldn't read English very well back then.
Looking at his early history, especially the two head injuries which undoubtedly caused permanent brain damage with the epilepsy possibly resulting from the brain damage. Seizures also can cause brain damage so the seizures could have resulted in every more brain damage. Starting off with brain injury and/or damage, the rest of his early life was a training by many individuals for what he became. Every person involved in any of that contributed to these heinous crimes he committed. Severe brain damage might also explain the randomness of his crimes not following any pattern of other serial killers. It would have been ideal if an autopsy, especially his brain tissue, would have been done. It would not change what he did but might explain part of it.
i really love how you talk about the mental health AND the general personality traits of a person. it adds a lot + makes it easy to really understand the mental health aspects. stay safe dr grande!!
I think the defining point in Ramirez’s life was when he saw his cousin Mike shoot his wife. Ramirez was going through puberty at this time, and he was going through his sexuality. When he saw his cousin shoot his wife, those two worlds of violence and sexuality fused together. Hints the fact that he needed the violence to be sexually aroused.
Nah,i understand the theory but envionment is only half of it. The individual is the other. There is NO EXCUSE for this shit. YES,He prob had brain damage but it also looks like he had a mean spirit /psychopathy. As far as violence and sex that is also not sufficient reason .For example i was traumatized as a child of 7 by seeing murder after sex . DIRECTLY. It killed me inside when it happened. i also was exposed to gun shootings and lots of other violence and trauma. But hay,i dont use that as an excuse. i chose to do the OPPOSITE of the SHIT i was shown . Why,? SIMPLE. I am a human . i have empathy. i HATED all the abuse and shit i saw . That is KEY. I believe ones natural disposition affects how one reacts. Ramirez was born with psychotic tendecies.HIs environment just fed it.
@@Mars- i don't think anyone is looking for an excuse so much as an *explanation.* it's normal for people to want to understand WHY someone like this does what he does because it's scary and disturbing as shit. but i really don't think ANYONE is trying to _excuse_ his behavior.
My mom had a run in with Richard when she was dating my father at the time. The story goes is that she and my dad were getting food at a taqueria after work and he (Richard Ramirez) came in. He locked eyes with her and she immediately thought “The devil just walked in.” He smiled at my mom and she immediately felt “creeped out” by him. After getting his food, Richard went back to his truck to eat. My dad noticed her change in demeanor and immediately tried to finish and leave. Richard was waiting in his truck blasting metal - which was a genre of music my mom called “Devil’s music” and stalking both of them. My father went to confront Richard, but he left before anything could happen. During that time in L.A., she slept with a gun and knife by her side - my mom was a straight gangster and didn’t fear anyone, but she was creeped out by Richard.
@@laural1784 - That I don’t know. My mom was damn good at reading people and getting a feel at people’s body language. She told me years later that she got a “creepy vibe” off of him. She also told me that his smile felt “off and fake”. Like he was hiding something.
His eyes are pure evil, I paused a video I was watching of him of one of the courtroom moments and zoomed his eyes. They were not human, very evil indeed.
@@jordantheriverman6143 The ramifications of that answer are telling us that Dr. Grande's comment section has supersticious people stuck in the XVII century
The mental gymnastics with understanding Ramirez killing spree is not for the faint hearted but thanks DR for shedding some light on this ONE,always great content
He had a lot of friends as a child,one of his friends said he started changing once he was in high school and started using drugs. He started to seclude him self and hang around shady people.
I don’t know much about him other than the info in this video, but it’s pretty typical for “issues” to emerge around puberty, no matter how far their causes predate that time.
@@waltersobchak7275 Drugs can enhance certain psychological issues that already exist. I drank and smoked weed in high school, and I also killed no one (yet😀)
Hi Dr Grande, Being born in 1962, and I’ve had time now to reflect on those years, it does seem like those years were serial killer hey days! I don’t think there was more out there, I just think it was a far more anonymous world as there wasn’t personal computers or cell phones, let alone social media. When you were out of the house, you really WERE on your own. Forensic Science was certainly not developed, and no DNA testing. All the police had was blood and hair typing and fingerprints. That’s was really all they had to conclusively find the perpetrator. Looking at this with today’s scientific advancements, it really does seem the it was so much easier to elude police. Especially with serial murders, that were strangers to the perpetrator, it’s mind boggling how police caught the amount of them they did! All of this also gave these killers a false sense of anonymity and bravado as well! There wasn’t as much a need to flawlessly cover their tracks! As for Ramirez, I always wondered if he hadn’t gotten into drugs and Satanism, if he would’ve killed at all. It seems when you compare Ramirez to the other serial killers of the time, they were killing sober. As you stated, the others had specific types and methods. The others for the most part didn’t deviate from those two things, as that was part of the point for them. Ramirez seems like because of his chronic drug use, he started with robbery as he needed money and didn’t work. His Satanism would have been a “get out of jail free card” to him, as killing would’ve been a good thing. He didn’t have a type, whoever he encountered was just fine by him. He didn’t stalk victims that fit the fantasy, an unlocked door or window was it. Again going at it more like a robbery and escalating to rape and killing, when he felt like it, or a victim made him mad for whatever reason, or he felt sexual desire for one. I think he lavished on the fear he was causing and the publicity he was getting. It embolden him further. He’d check out what he was dealing with going room too room like a robbery, and got ready in case someone woke up. He had the element of surprise, he only went into homes where it appeared from the outside that no one was up. He was introduced to violence in the home at a young age, and his cousin killing his girlfriend in front of him had to have been an influence. The power his cousin had over life. Even though one would think he’d be steered away from it as his cousin went to prison. I don’t think he was sexually motivated the way Bundy or Gacy and the rest were. I really think in his case it was a combination of the following: Violent childhood, low self esteem, chronic drug use, greed, lack of remorse and sympathy, his religious beliefs, and opportunity. It’s also interesting by all reports he did not change in prison. His remained remorseless and remained a Satanist. Most express remorse on some level. Ramirez never did. In my opinion he was a psychopath for sure. I don’t know if he would’ve escalated to murder if the above factors were absent. Whereas the other serial killers of the time I believe were sexually motivated. As always, thanks for your hard work, and excellent topic. Maybe in the future doing a commentary on women that marry serial killers after they’re in prison would really be interesting! I’ve NEVER understood why this seems to happen, all the time! Even Ramirez married! Thanks again!
Major Allen Espy Thanks. I always thought he was a different breed than the stereotypical serial killer whose a sexual sadist, and that the primary motive. I saw a couple of good documentaries and read some books about him. I remember his case and trial being all over the news! Weird times!
@@erust9465 You might be interested in my uncle, Watt Espy. He was America's leading death penalty historian. You can Google his name. After my uncle died, I inherited some of his books. I read about Richard Ramirez and the Gainesville Ripper, among others. Ramirez would roll up in a neighborhood and find windows that were left open. The Gainesville Ripper was more of a stalker.
Hopefully interesting side note, Ramirez attacked my neighbors when I was a kid. Their house was only three doors down from ours. However, they survived and identified him. Interestingly, we only found out about what happened because an older friend's girlfriend's father was a LASD detective working on the case.
@@Maxwe11Z There's a lot of information in English about Chikatilo. He was one sick son of a bitch. They had to literally keep him in a cage in the courtroom in order to keep the victims' families from trying to tear him limb from limb.
As I recall, there was a good movie made about Andrei Chikatilo. It's called "Citizen X," starring Stephen Rea, Donald Sutherland, and the late great Max von Sydow. Available on TH-cam, free.
As an avid student (or something) of serial killers, I have always found him to be the most frightening of them all. The look in his eyes is perfect evil.
Nah, its his narcisissm that wants you to feel that way, don't fall for it.. he's not frightening unless you are asleep and can't punch him. These guys are all wimps from ramirez to bundy to rader to green river goofball. We can hate them but to fear them is to give them a power they simply do not have otherwise they wouldn't be killing innocent people for thrills. And if they were it wouldn't be girls and women, and the wouldn't use a gun.
This BS about being a loner and preferring to do things alone, or not having close friends somehow ends at a kill kill kill street, is absolute rubbish! Plenty of people are loners, don't have significant others, close friends etc. and live normal lives!
Although I was only 12 or 13 at the time of his crimes, I was hyper aware living in SoCal, everyone was talking about it. The papers, the tv, and everyone one around me. He still terrifies me even though he has been in the ground since 2013. The Netflix documentary was incredibly good at channeling the terror CA residents felt. Because he slipped into friendly, so-called safe suburban neighborhoods.
I can’t think of a more arrogant behaviour than murder. It takes excessive arrogance to steal another’s most precious and irreplaceable possession. I’d put such as off-the-charts in arrogance.
Exactly, I always think who do you think you are?in the end,they're nobodies. When that's all you're known for.they die,most people say thank God.burn in hell
Arrogant? More like unintelligent. You murder someone because you’re extremely dumb and don’t know how to deal with your own issues. You think this guy has any inkling as to why he did what he did? No. It takes a baffling amount of cognitive dissonance to murder someone and then continue living a normal life.
It always seemed pointless to me. We are all going to die at some point. Why would it make someone feel powerful to speed up the inevitable? Why on earth would they want to like themselves to someone in such a destructive manner?
It seems I remember reading that Ramirez actually did stalk a woman. She was returning home one evening and driving into her garage which was attached to the home and had an automatic door opener. He was waiting on the side of the garage and right as the garage door was closing, he managed to slip into the garage without her seeing him. He did get her in the house and I believe that he killed her. To this day, I still peek in my rear view mirror when I am closing the garage door.
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Very interesting and a little hard to sit through because I find Ramirez' crimes particularly heinous. That he had a large female fan base and got married?! after his incarceration just leaves me bewildered. Maybe an analysis of crime or murder groupies would be a good topic? In any case thanks for another fascinating video Dr. Grande!
Like tex watson,charles Manson's main killer .had a wife that had his 4 kids while he was in prison,and mrs labiancas daughter who he murdered wanted him released, pretty sure she just had this huge crush on him.she didnt ask for anyone else to get out of prison. I thought,how creepy is that.i also think she went to him with some religious garbage,and he supposedly found God after he killed all those people. I always find it incredible they dont find God before the murders
@@springfauna1465 It's normal to find a higher being when you are alone with no outside distractions. That is why monks live the way they do- it's to get closer to the world beyond this world.
Some people find serial murder an attractive quality; you know, when they look for a partner shooting someone’s husband and raping and torturing women is something they find acceptable; or perhaps desirable. I mean crushing on someone who beats and tortured women and even elderly women or men who cannot defend themselves makes someone hot. I mean chopping, shooting and stealing are exactly what makes someone desirable.
@@valeriacortez7003 "In 1979, he gives up on personal hygiene altogether." Aaaaaand here is when he completely ceases to be 'hot' for every single woman I know.
I remember. 1985, Santa Monica, California. A very hot summer. Most people who lived on or near the coast didn’t need A/C, thereby leaving the windows open. We were proud of the police & especially in Los Angeles Latino Community that caught him. Great video. My soul prays for the victims and they’re loved ones 🙏🕊
Well Ramirez was a good looking guy so most of them for the looks and charisma but I cant explain attraction to those who killed but look like trash..would like to hear opinion on that too
I wrote to him for years as a teenager. But as an adult I don't know what I was thinking . I would never write to him now. To be honest . I don't know what I was thinking. Maybe it's the whole bad boy thing
He may have had fantasies of being the “best” serial killer & felt envious of killers with great infamy. If so, that would qualify him for additional NPD criteria.
I think everything he was exposed to as a child and teenager played a part in his actions. What I find baffling is the people that have been exposed to the same upbringing and events, and they never commit any crimes and go on to lead regular lives. Why is it that some of us simply cannot move past the ugly we are exposed to as kids and some of us can? We will never completely understand the human mind.
@@lorimiller4301I think he just wanted attention, like he wanted to be cared somehow he didn’t find anything, anyone to be cared. So many kids right in front of there eyes deal with a rough childhood this just terrible.
Silver Bullet, I worked around people like him for years, it really is hard to explain some are mentally ill. Some are flat out evil, I have stories for days most are too gory to say. I don’t think anyone despite their claims can explain the human mind. I have worked with several guys who have been locked up their entire adult lives, they were narcissistic to say the least. They lived for themselves and no one else, they were great at talking to the medical per
Thanks, Dr. Grande. I studied him in high school. He’s at the top of my “Interesting Serial Killers” list. His life, according to Phillip Carlo’s book “The Night Stalker”, is a recommended read for curious minds. In addition to his fingerprints, his shoe size/pattern were key in connecting all of his crimes. Fun fact: he played AC/DC’s album “Highway to Hell” on repeat; his favorite song being “Night Prowler” (great song; especially fitting for his style of deviance).
Justin Die he ain’t a pussy. He isn’t respectable, and I hate him, but he isn’t a pussy. People who scare easily don’t break into houses and kill groups of people. It’s too unpredictable, and people often keep firearms in their house.
Greatest missed opportunity is the unloaded shotgun. There is no reason to not load your gun and have it ready to shoot when you intend to use it to defend your house. Just keep it safe from your kids.
We have the right to keep and bear arms; teach the children respect and keep it locked. But depending on where you live; as long as its legal and you have a license. Protecting one’s family and friends from intruders is a right.
@@pinkpugginz it's even more rare for a homeowner to protect himself from robbers without a force multiplier. And police won't be there in time. The first line of protection is to keep robbers away, get a dog. I've heard a dog makes them take on the next house most of the time.
Well you hinted at the issue yourself. Kids getting the gun. Also, ironically, many people who buy guns for protection end up killing someone else out of rage. Neighbors, souses, themselves. So if have anger issues, maybe skip the gun. But no reason is calm, sane people shouldn’t have one! Hell, get a doggie too. And a guard cat... if they exist. And secure house better. If possible, get windows that open enough for air to get in, but not people. Like the ones you can lock in place a few inches open. Maybe get a sensor that lets you know if someone is creeping around outside your house. Nothing complicated, just don’t make it easy.
I watched it too and I'm just shocked how he didn't care about his victims. He didn't feel bad about his horrible actions (I feel the word "horrible" is not enough...). He kept on doing one crime after another after another.... Unbelievable. So much cruelty....
If anyone had a reasonable excuse to be a serial killer, its Dave Pelzer. I reserve empathy and pity for the ones who have it rough and don't turn evil.
Um…. nobody said that everyone who had a rough childhood will end up murdering people. Obviously, thats not the case. And nobody suggested there was ever a reasonable excuse to be a serial killer & certainly not that Ramirez had one. Did someone delete a comment? If not, it seems likely some of you are responding to a comment that nobody made. And not to be redundant but I did very clearly state that Id feel bad for him IF (I repeat IF) he hadn’t done what he did.
I watched her entire police interrogation. Its most notable for her absolutely terrible acting, her convenient memory loss when it came to people related to the case (including her boyfriend of 4 years, who at the start of the interview, pretended to barely recall), and her ridiculous faces. It wasn’t framed as interrogation since she was in the police force-they said they just wanted help with a case. Still, it was clear she was being interrogated, and when she would try to ask if she needed a lawyer, they would politely deflect. She’s more of a sociopath btw. She got in many heated arguments in PUBLIC, with witness who knew them, before she killed her in a rage.
The Atlanta missing and murdered children case has been controversial since its inception yet few can deny Wayne Williams involvement to the case. He was / is a particularly “ interesting “ personality. A review of this guy would be very interesting and timely. Always love your stuff. Thanks Dr Grande
I remember watching this video when it came out and this was a huge wake-up call for me. My ex-boyfriend was a carbon copy of Richard Ramirez. Everything matched. Their looks, exposure to violence in childhood, early drug addiction, even damage while they still were in their mother’s womb. Criminal behaviour minus the violence. Even worse, when my ex learned about Ramirez he became fascinated with him, even used him as profile picture for a couple of months. Physical violence escalated during the last year too so I decided that this was time to run. I actually had a feeling that he would murder me since 6 months of dating too. You probably saved my life with that video. I’ve been researching aspd since he got diagnosed with F60.2 and this was the sign I needed. Thank you.
Give me a break, your boyfriend might've been a wife beater but certainly not a serial killer. Someone looking like Ramirez doesn't make them dangerous, if anything it makes them Hispanic 🙄
Nature *and* nurture, it seems😔 I don't think he ever stood a chance at having any kind of a 'normal' life. (Not defending him at all, just trying to get my head around the unfortunate 'recipe' of factors that shaped him.)
Yes such a significant factor is his upbringing and the environment he grew up in. I remember learning about the whole nature vs nurture thing yrs ago while taking a child psychology course. People are products of they're environments and unfortunately some don't make it out ok to the good side.
People have had insanely traumatic childhoods and have not turned out to be serial killers and turned out to be normal.. Richard used his free will to embrace evil. To say he didnt have a chance does not take into account his free will.
I don’t think so. I haven’t seen anything that points towards that as apart of his childhood abuse. But if I’m correct, he did groom several children during his murder sprees. I could be wrong though
Is lack of hygiene a symptom of schizophrenia? My brother has been diagnosed. He seems to be afraid to shower or bathe. I wonder if Ramirez was so focused on his compulsive behavior that he didn’t eat or bathe much or if it was another factor.
The man was a drug addict and got by by burglarizing people. Most addicts who are in that deep don’t care much for their appearance. Instead, all their time and energy and focus is poored into getting that next hit. And the lack of hygiene in schizophrenia comes from cognitive impairment, which is also found in disorders such as ADD/ADHD, autism, and even depression.
Bundy was worse cos he never suffered the trauma such as domestic violence, (head trauma, sexual abuse) which made Bundy more evil. Ramirez was a product of his environment where as Bundy was practically born evil. He was also charismatic, highly articulate, intelligent and handsome and could of had a successful professional carreer, where as Ramirez seemed just street smart.
Corplex Ramirez was messy though, he’d also just straight up shoot the guy right away to eliminate the problem. If you want to read about a real scary serial killer, check out the original night stalker, East area Rapist, whom is now known as golden state killer, Joe DeAngelo. Got away with it for over 40 years,
Li Lo ---Excellent point, just the idea the Golden State killer being a cop makes him a scarier proposition. ‘I’ll Be Gone In The Dark’ was really a great read about him. It’s just too bad the author died before finding out how many of her guesses were good.
Not all narcissistic people have a grandiose sense of self. Some know they aren't sh*t, and they feel undeserving of love, so as a result, they hurt those who are capable of getting that because they can't achieve it. In addition they can end up punishing those who give them love and attention because they know they don't deserve it deep down. Then they make the person who tried to love them feel crazy for trying to leave them.
One of the reasons that windows were left unlocked and/or open is that it was an unusually hot spring/summer that year, and many people didn't have air conditioning, therefore affording him entrance.
Also have to wonder if he would have gotten as far as he did if he attempted his spree in an area where people tend to be more self sufficient and weapons minded.
I wonder if the high number of elderly victims in his case was a way for him to enact revenge on his parents. He shot the men immediately and then assaults the women over a longer period of time and murders them mostly with household objects - getting revenge on his father for his abuse and on his mother for failing to protect him from harm. I have little empathy for him though.
I think he just chose weak people that wouldn’t be able to defend themselves. In his fucked up mind he probably thought oh welll they are going to die soon anyway.
Excellent video Doc ! Rameriez was an enigma, even for a "serial killer". There are some interveiws that I have seen, that are particularily bonechilling .
I read that even the other prisoners were scared of him ... and he wasn't that physically imposing a guy at all. And they don't care for baby killers one bit. But people did not want a piece of him.
@@dingfeldersmurfalot4560 I highly doubt that. I don’t think inmates are scared of serial killer types. Like the guy who beat Jeff Dahmer to death. They usually aren’t particularly tough. Probably just didn’t talk to him.
@@dingfeldersmurfalot4560 if Richard was on the main line the south siders would have booked him. You can’t go to prison for raping woman and children. His own race would have tried to kill him.
According to him he was on coke, weed and alcohol and then at some point he stopped the coke because he knew if he kept using it it’d make him slip up and get caught.
I lived in the Los Angeles area during that time. It was so frightening to hear about what he had done. It was a hot hot summer and lots of folks had no air conditioning. Open windows were the only way to sleep. The murders happened so frequently and were so violent. The press gave gruesome details and everyone talked about him at work and social gatherings. When he was caught, everyone was disappointed that the mob were stopped by police.
great video dr. grande. it would be great if one day you could do an analysis of kurt cobain. he was a very interesting lyricist and artist and many speculate on what his mental health condition was and how it influenced his art. thanks for all the great content!
@@yocland8841 with her lack of love and demands( interpersonal) she placed on him. Absolutely impossible to give all that especially if you are a practicing drug addict.
I'll never forget being nine months pregnant, unable to sleep and opening my eyes because there was a light shining right in my face. Our house was elevated and there was someone standing on our patio - which was surrounded by a seven foot fence and locked gate - aiming a flashlight upward into the bedroom window. Fortunately, I had everything locked up tightly. In the morning, we turned on the news to find out that Ramirez had hit a family a few miles down the road. My husband had been skeptical because he had never struck that far west before.
It can't be a coincidence that so many serial killers have suffered head injuries, particularly injuries that included damage to the pre-frontal temporal lobe. There are so few serial killers amongst the populace & yet so many of them have experienced this. Not all of them admittedly - Jeffrey Dahmer didn't, so far as I know. I hope nobody thinks I'm making excuses for them. Just saying.
He's clearly incredibly intelligent, really hard working and has very good teaching skills. :) I'd binge watch his videos while painting but now I've pretty much watched all of them lol.
I’ve always wondered why he spared children’s lives - this wasn’t mentioned here or on the netflix doc. I don’t believe he was a psychopath 100% - maybe a sociopath or someone with psychopathic traits - as he seemed to show some degree of empathy at times. The 6 year old girl he kidnapped but then dropped at a service station says he instructed her to call 911 and ask them to get her parents to come get her...plus she described the look in his eyes during the “whole experience” as if saying “I’m sorry I’m doing this to you but I have to”. It’s so disturbing but I guess it does show some level of empathy in the midst of all the evil.
What's left out is that there was no evidence linking him to those child crimes. They relied on witness testimony but the police line up was flawed. The victims were allowed to converse. And police held up 2 fingers to suggest number 2 was guilty. He had the wound on his head visible which everyone knew about due to the publicised arrest. The media had already declared him guilty. I am not suggesting he was innocent of the child crimes but there are facts that are left out. Also in regards to Mai Lueng, in 2006 I think It was, they matched Richard's DNA to DNA they found at the crime scene on some material along with another person's DNA. Richard is said to have lived in the same area burglarizing. So it's all unclear. There is a conference with the main detectives in which Gil admits there was no physical evidence. You can watch it online. I'm very interested in this case. Again. I'm not suggesting anything here another than highlighting things that I have read and seen. Does anyone have any information to add?
This is an excellent analysis but as for Ramirez lacking superficial charm (15:41), I don't think I agree with you Todd, although I would have had I not heard a recorded telephone conversation between him and a fan, which has been posted on youtube. If you haven't already listened to that please do. Ramirez is a remarkably easy-going and pleasant conversation partner during that phone call, and even laughs somewhat submissively at times. My impression is that the few television interviews he gave and his persona in court are not representative of his day-to-day persona.
@@bbygirl4775 I haven't been able to find it again, annoyingly; but, by chance, there's another recorded phone conversation with him on youtube titled "Richard Ramirez phone call with Richard Dickstein". It doesn't illustrate the point I made as well, but it definitely shows his easy-going conversational style.
Does America have more serial killers? Or are they just more well-known? Because most videos about serial killers always seem to be about Americans (except maybe Jack The Ripper).
In Austria we have quite a few like Jack Unterweger and Franz Fuchs, but I think that the fascination behind true crimes in a pop culture sense is more common in America than in other countries. Criminology in the German speaking countries is also been used differently. We use it purely out of scientific purposes, unlike in America where they also use it as a tool for catching criminal offenders. In my university we have a little criminology museum, where I did a little research two semesters ago and I asked the professor in the interview why in German speaking countries criminology is a part of law school, but not an own major like in the US. That's what he told me.
They seem to be an American phenomenon at first glance. However, it may just highlighted more due to the fact our movies, celebrities, artists and killers get more air time globally. The same for our public freakout videos, political craziness, police shootings, etc.. Our lives get shown more, good and bad. Thailand had a serial killer who preyed on children. Who knows about him? See?!?
There were several serial Killers in England during WW2 and afterward that not a lot of people know about like the Blackout Killer, Neville Heath an ex-RAF pilot killed several women, John Christie an unassuming clerk killed several women blaming the murder of the wife of his neighbor who was hanged for the crime, one of which eventually helps bring an end to the death penalty in the UK and John George Haigh who murdered six people disposing of their bodies in acid. I saw this on the Netflix series "Murder Maps".
I had a distinctly different impression of Ramirez when I saw him being interviewed by a detective before his arrest. He was laughing, comical, and smiling throughout! How weird! It was analyzed on the show with the four guys who each give an analytical opinion of films, bit by bit. They said he was smiling so much because the detective was using a technique that made Ramirez feel special: the detective said things like, "Well I guess now you're in the big leagues with Manson." Ramirez LOVED that line. I hope you will see it because it shows a very opposite aspect and is quite surprising. Btw, you are so gifted at what you do in these videos. Oh, and the time you wore the pink oxford cloth button-down shirt--that was the best of all your shirts, which is saying something!
Timothy Ernst --Or Mike DeBardeleben, famous forger which is what got him caught before they found out the depth of his other deadlier crimes & perversions.
Jay Brewer Yeah... doesn’t matter the age. I’m not going to say “you’re much more than a carnivore” because you ate veal as oppose to grown cows. Meat is meat. You could have made a better argument by saying he was a molester as well.
It freaks me out how attracted society was/is to this man. Even though he was undeniably a monster, apparently he has repulsive dental hygiene. It's been said his breath was horrendous.
Really? When there are millions of Americans idolizing a nyc real estate conman who's managed to make infinite promises and deliver on none of them while insulting and denigrating the entire country and system!??! Many Americans have emotional dyslexia... they refer to their military killers who bomb little kids as heroes!! LOL
I lived in one of the cities where Ramirez committed his crimes. My husband and I were in our 20's then, and we had an infant daughter. It was a terrifying time. The summer was particularly difficult because people wanted to leave their windows open due to the heat, but were too afraid to do so (myself included). I was so relieved when he was caught, and so proud of the brave citizens who took him down!
My moms best friend dated him. More like an aunt though
I remember that summer too!!! I was disappointed that the mob didn't end his life!!
I was one of them!! I flicked his little pecker when he was down !!
Same. I think they had rolling blackouts as well. I remember some neighbors just hanging out in the yard to get relief. Safety in numbers, I guess. It was a miserable summer.
J C I didn’t know he had kids wow.
7:09 worth noting that it was the family’s 13 year old son who followed Ramirez outside to write down a description of the car 👏🏼👏🏼 May we all be as badass as that kid
That kid may have indirectly saved a dozen lives. Give him a Nobel peace price
The Mob kick his ass first
LEGEND
I like your attitude.
Amen to that!
I was ten years old in 1984, living in the San Fernando Valley. Myself and three neighborhood friends were playing ball in the street in front my house on a sunny afternoon when we noticed a grungy looking stranger, wearing a backpack, walking down the street towards us. As he got closer, we got spooked and moved out of the street on to the sidewalk in front of my house. He walked in front us, turned his head towards us and snarled, and kept walking. A few weeks later, the news showed his mugshot after he was arrested and it hit me that the grungy, snarling stranger was Richard Ramirez. Do you know that feeling you get when you realize you were snarled at by a serial killer? *I do!*
Wow! That’s intense and scary 😨
Lies he would have took one for sure
@@clamchoder1386, my story is true. I don’t care if you believe me or not.
Fascinating story, but there are definitely strange looking people that would never be serial killers. We shouldn't really generalize like that; even though this strange looking guy turned out to be a serial killer.
Glad nothing happened to you worse than a snarl. Hope all your years are so blessed. 🙂✌💜
What's done to children, they do to the world. -- Albert Schweitzer, MD
if that were true none of us would be alive
I don’t believe that for one minute. That is an extremely lame excuse for all of the unnecessary violence that occurs in our world.
Cop out
100% true, which is why 100% of human beings are damaged.
This is a true quote , but the vast majority of people don’t become killers
That's why It's extremely important watch kids carefully. Head injuries, and influences, drugs. A careful educated parent may have seen a problem coming.
The parents didn’t care obviously no
One did
That’s why my mom always was scared of me falling and hitting my head as a kid ! I think his parents were absent from his life.
The most abused children have no visible injuries '-)
most people end up like this because of their families, not head injuries and drugs
@@brookechamberrs exactly.
Wonder if those early head injuries were really child abuse injuries covered up.
I was hoping someone would say something like this because that’s instantly what I thought. How easy it was to just say oh a dresser fell on him or he fell down the swing. Like omg how did anyone not see these could have been traumatic head injuries from child abuse.
It's a high possibility that they were due to abuse. But his parents were both working long hours and were often not home to watch the kids so it is also likely that the children got hurt due to lack of adult supervision.
Fr. Like how tf do you get knocked out by a SWING?💀
Wow my dumbass never thought of that but I was like” how did a swing knock him out” 😑. The fact that his childhood was so bad it’s what makes me sad for him as a child and baby but after him being grown and doing all of what he did it’s a good thing he’s gone so he won’t do it again and harm others and I don’t mean this in a vengeful kind of way.
@@c1ara333He was a young child. He saw his sister and ran up to embrace her and didn't see the swing.
“In 1979 he gives up on personal hygiene all together” lmao 😂
this part cracked me UP lmao
Yeah, all of his victims who survived complained about a stench and f'd up teeth.
Probably didn't clean his nether regions before using them on people
@@badcornflakes6374 lol💀💀💀💀💀
In the Netflix doccumentary when that librarian described his gaunt, unkempt appearace said h is body odor smelled like a goat. Also when he said Richard Ramirez was looking for books on horoscope and torture. I am just glad they caught him when they did. Seems like he was planning to do some horrendous stuff.
Your very respectful when speaking of the victims, I can hear the sadness in your voice. They aren't just random basic worded "Victims" but real people, who had lives, loved ones and a life that was Stolen from them. Thank you for speaking in a respectful tone about the Victims. Surprisingly it's not always done, the killer is given more attention than the poor peoples lives the perpetrator ruined.
I saw an intervieuw with Ramirez and I noticed his way of fragile self-defense, as a clever small child can do this very intelligently and conflict-avoiding. Close to philosophical .. Probably by nature he was sensitive intelligent if he had not been damaged and abused like he learned in childhood ..
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That's because he is not a psychopath! However, he tells us stuff in ways that I wonder what is hiding behind those glasses! J/k Love your videos Dr. Grande
I wonder what has happened to the woman in Vietnam? Was his brother investigated?
@@theterriblechildren9018 they found him not guilty by reason of insanity since he was a ‘’ war hero’’
"A child that is not embraced by his village will burn it down to feel its warmth."
Yeah no kidding
Wow. I gotta write that down
Prophesying The Acolyte
That's equivalent to saying a child who is not embraced by his family will burn them down to feel it's warmth...
I live this ❤
An analysis of the Green River Killer AND the Night Stalker just a few days later?? Fantastic content!
James W 💯
I think he had requests from people who were binge-watching true crime shows.
He's spoiling us!
Commenter looks like a serial killer?
@@jojolucas6973 asks dumb questions?
Three components that are considered: Frontal lobe damage; drug usage; dysfunctional family.
Yep. Bad combination!
Mr Liberty Those components are what make evil.
@@mrliberty8468 🙄
In listening to the excellent Audiobook "The Nightstalker," by Philip Carlo (on youtube also) a teacher who taught him & his siblings English, sounds like he regularly sexually abused the boys, & they went to his house, telling his mother/parents they were doing English homework there, this teacher giving them oral sex, etc.,(describing that his brothers actually didn't mind, even liked/enjoyed it?) & I believe he preyed on Richard also...& when he witnessed his cousin Mike shoot his wife dead in front of him, (Mike made him promise not to say anything about witnessing it) had to keep it secret, & he changed & became even more unusually withdrawn.(he truly needed some real intervention, therapy & help at that point,
That's a lot of pressure to put on a boy of just 12-13 years-old, I try to imagine the turmoil that put Richard's psyche through; I don't think he said he witnessed this until after his convictions), .. as well as his brother & Mike teaching him how to kill, burglarize, his father's severe beatings (though I believe the parents loved him & his siblings very much from this book about his life) -
(I think Richard kept a lot of tragic, humiliating, harmful things to himself (possible abuse from the teacher as he'd done to his older brothers, witnessing Mike killing his wife, etc.) & also due to his naturally introverted, quiet type nature since he was young -- he could self entertain & make up games to play by himself, a real introvert trait, reminds me because one of my sisters did that when she was young & introverted).
I think there were mental illness propensities because you can see the males in his family had a strong temperamental problem, (as well as experiencing/witnessing his father's temper, etc.) I think he was always a shy, introverted type naturally since he was young, with a stubbornness & temper, could have been in his nature or combined with what he grew up around --
After Mike killed his wife making Richard keep secret he was even there, possible sexual abuse from an English teacher, etc., he was becoming more & more withdrawn & making conclusions early on that the world was against him, evil, & not to be trusted, "kill or be killed mentality" (especially, as he never got any therapy, intervention for possible sexual abuse, witnessing his cousin kill his wife & being made to pretend he wasn't there) -- Just like something he said in an interview, "I didn't particularly care much for people." seems very telling for some life experiences--
Even at the end of Philip Carlo's Audiobook, "The Nightstalker," he said, "Well, actually I guess I did know people, women had emotions, feelings, but I had just locked that out," --- I think it stemmed from his growing feelings that people were evil, against him, not to be trusted, so he didn't want to open up, & a kill or be killed mentality may have had some to do with why he showed no mercy, or empathy for victims, because he did not see role models teaching that..
He certainly had a lot of things in life going against him {it definitely didn't help him}, but thousands, thousands also have had trauma, cruelty, etc. growing up, yet they didn't make up their minds to take it out on others & seem to have 0% empathy for hurting others... Many people grow up with so many tragic things, yet they used it to be a better person & convict them more that hurting others would not make 2 wrongs right... He had already made up his mind to strike out in a calculated way...
(On doing a Brain Scan, they DID find brain abnormalities, probably mostly prefrontal)-- {I DO think the public needed to be protected from him sadly, I think only God knows how much of it was Nature & what % of it was nurture}
Also, Bipolar & many mental illnesses can develop more from the stressors or abuse in life, not necessarily born with it --
{Just speculating, but thinking he suffered times of "Psychosis", "Unable to determine what is real & what is not," cause in court, at first he was scared, shy, but later he just took on a different persona, "cause who wants to see a timid person coming into the court," & he just started acting like a different person at times, like a problem with delusions (to be able to carry out murders like that) or if he just had chosen Evil & Satan's way..
(I do feel bad for the many negative combinations he had dealt to him; but I feel as much sadness for all the victims & loved ones he caused pain to… So I'm glad God knows it all & will be the final judge because he has seen it ALL, so to me, He's the only one who can be completely unbiased & righteous, fair Judge..
Richard let Philip "pick his brain" so to speak in the end interviews.. Learning from Philip Carlo's Audiobook (it's on youtube) It was one of the most interesting stories where you could see much into that person's life, the damage, influences in trying to understand phenomenon like this. (I'm sad how he destroyed his life, but definitely destroyed others' lives also~
***There is no doubt that his attacks & killings were truly diabolical, so sad killing elderly & 16 yr-olds, etc., & no matter abnormal brain scan his murders were very calculated, diabolical, he chose Satan; when a person keeps going further into evil, at some point God will give them over to a Reprobate mind, no remorse. It will take more evil to satisfy their reprobate, callous minds. Still, I'm glad God knows it all, & will make a righteous, unbiased judgment~***
I think good analysis here from Dr. Grande because there were so many factors at such a young age that compounded so much, & no intervention or help he needed.. I like because it's not to judge, but to try to understand objectively, maybe clues truthfully how people became this way, (because it may help give more conclusive reasons for this happening, maybe prevent more of these for the sake of all people & victims, for society.. Although the evil will always exist in life... Either way, I'm not excusing Richard's gruesome violence & killing, & at the same time I'm not leaving out some possible mental problems or brain trauma- -- But my heart goes out to the victims~
@@tracieratliff2672 if someone had intervened early enough in his life, probably very early, maybe things would have been very different.
People will be coming here soon after watching the Netflix documentary to try to understand why the Night Stalker murdered all these people.
Yes!
Stop calling me out 😅
I think Dr. Grande's video is better than the whole Netflix doc. Way more detail.
@@ThirteenthGhost wow. That's quite a compliment. I think they were both good for different reasons.
@@ThirteenthGhost I disagree dr Grande never mentioned about the 6 yr old girl Richard took from her home and raped. And the fact that i got to hear it from the actual person it happened to was amazing. Everything Grande said about the case I heard before. But I did like Grande’s speculation on what could be happening in a case like this.
Wow. Hearing his back story breaks my heart. Don't get me wrong, what he did was horrifying and I'm so glad he was arrested, but it's pretty sad. You wonder how he would have turned out if he had been raised by a healthier family.
There's a youtube channel, Soft White Underbelly, which interviews the part of our culture which is often overlooked and perhaps misunderstood. People on skid row in LA is one segment interviewed on this channel, as are Appalachians.
So my point: these interviews have revealed frequent child abuse and neglect.
Well simple he wouldnt have turned out this way
@@annetteyoutube742 I appreciate the Soft White Underbelly channel as well, he gives a voice to the people society forgets about. It's so devastating that there's the repeating pattern or childhood abuse, sexual abuse amongst nearly all of those he interviews
@cfjackie46 nature loads the gun nurture pulls the trigger
@@lovewhitey2027 💯
Ramirez has always been the one that scares me the most. I can't look at him without feeling physically ill and I have never slept with a window or door open because of him.
No one creepy crawls though a house with doggos. Makes me glad I am a dog lover.
Yes he had a lot of very disturbing things happen to him at a young age. A lot of people have abuse and neglect from a young age yet don’t become serial killers
Uhh...that's just a little irrational don't you think?
@@anonz975 I just watched a video of a dog greeting an intruder lol
@@agentjackstone3543 98% of dogs will bark at uninvited strangers unless you have a revolving door of people in/out. My dogs freak out over anyone near the property (but I am a rural hermit).
Dr Grande, seeing as Ramirez and other serial killers get 'fan' mail and sometimes married in prison, I was wondering if you could please do an analysis of the mental health of those types that idolise serial killers?
I have always wondered what kind of women would do that.
More than likely women who have some sort of attraction to brutal and sadistic men probably because they have likely been abused by their fathers/men in their lives. Women who have been abused particularly whilst growing up typically gravitate towards men who are very similar to their abusers. From what ive read they feel the need to punish themselves because they believe they deserve it. Basically Jennys from Forrest Gump!
It's the fame. Same women who sleep with famous musicians.
i laughed out loud when you said "he was EXTREMELY low in conscientiousness"
Yeah, no shit.
Low? More like "no Conscientiousness."
His teeth were half gone and the rest were black. His mouth smelled like death according to survivors and the people he met when caught. He never bathed. Extremely gross.
@@dingfeldersmurfalot4560 Given everything else we've all learned about him over the years, he just sounds like a real charmer.🤢🤮☠️😫
@@chrysichrysi7889 Oddly enough, he had a big fan club both inside the courtroom and out. Got lots of fan letters with women saying they'd love to have sex with him on top of his corpses, etc. Strange how no matter how depraved someone gets, there's someone else who will fantasize about it approvingly.
Two head injuries as a child as well. I must say, it astonishes me how dismissive people tend to be about the effects of physical insults to the brain. I wonder how many assumed-congenital psychological or personality problems are the result of physical damage to the brain.
You hit anyone over the head hard enough, and they are GOING to start acting different. I often wonder if these changes in behavior should really be characterized as “mental illness”. Or should we view them as symptoms of physical damage to the brain. It seems strange to me project new pathology onto a person when the source of their symptoms is already obvious.
How many other people endure head trauma and don't turn into serial killers? I bet plenty.
Lynn V and how many abused kids don’t turn into rapists and killers? Many, but that doesn’t change the fact that it does happen and that it does greatly increase the chances of having a psycho running around.
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Oh of course. Just because someone has a brain injury doesn’t necessarily mean they will become a killer, of course. Or even violent. But some people, they do become violent if the part of their brain that regulates emotions and inhibition gets damaged.
It’s sobering to realize that any of us could become an entirely different personality just from one or two hard clunks on the head.
@@NimbusDX and car accidents, contact sports, riding and bicycle accidents, IED assaults on service people .....all dangerous and common.
@@lynnv8501 And how many people suffer head injury and start acting different, even if not in a homicidal way? Plenty as well.
I don't understand why people are dismissing the obvious signs of head injuries fucking people up mentally. On top of that his childhood was a horrible nightmare in general, which surely affected his already damaged brain
I have surmised that his cousin not only showed him terrifying pictures but enjoyed scaring him...thus his pathology of liking to scare people himself.
It’s a really scary cycle it makes me mad as hell.
I feel bad that didn't even have 1 positive male role model in his life. I believe Mike really wanted to groom him into a worse version of himself
Looks like Mike succeeded in that. Ramirez was just as ruthless and sadistic as he was.
His childhood was a nightmare.
That's an understatement
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@Black Guy He had an uncle who he really looked up to, who bragged to him about all the women he killed in Vietnam. This uncle also murdered his wife in front of Ramirez
@@michellesartori6695 me too! Hence my user name😊
There are these other serial killers that are like - you're a monster that I don't understand. He's one that was just damaged. EVERYONE & even from the womb he was damaged. How fucked up could his life be...shit! No one intervened - there's nothing to say it would have helped. But there's nothing to say it wouldn't have.
A lot of these other killers had the chance & nothing happened.
I wonder if they examined his brain. I wonder if they would have found something. I think he suffered some pretty bad trauma to the head as a child
Maybe, but most who suffer head injuries and epilepsy don't do evil shit like he did.
@@RYMAN1321 I'm not saying that a head injury could be the sole reason but it doest have to be ruled out, just a possibility. There is this brain trauma condition called CTE. It played a minor role in why Chris Beniot killed his family and himself amongst other things
@@miss__monique I see
Aaron Hernandez apparently also had CTE, and he also eventually took his own life, albeit already in prison for the murder of Odin Llyod.
@@RYMAN1321 yes. I just heard Dr Grande mention some potential head trauma injuries and was just wandering if he had any. Clearly this guy was fundamentally flawed. Especially when Dr. G mentioned his brother and father. It was just a thought
Isn't the frontal lobe is where you have emphaty and feelings towards others? If he was injured at that area that explains a few things. I wonder why they didn't scan his brain, we could have studies the affects of brain damage on personality and violence
Only way to describe Dr. Grande: Simply the best out there!
Not really he's been wrong on many videos. That being said he's better than the average.
My heart hurts for his victims :(. My best friend was stalked and harassed by Dennis Rader (BTK) when he was an animal control officer and I am still bothered by how close she came to being one of his victims. I’m new to your channel; I will have to dig in your archives to see if you have a video on BTK.
We’re new too, to the channel. Appreciate your comment. Glad your friend wasn’t victim of BTK. Sending kindness from Chicago
Fur in the Ink - Mary R not to be completely insensitive but I’ve been writing an essay about outlaws in the Wild West and very near thought “BTK” was an acronym for Billy The Kid. I sat here for a good 2 minutes absolutely puzzled as of to how that would be possible.
Despite my stupidity, It’s a relief to hear that your friend is alright!
The ghost In the mirror you comment =Not insensitive.... Billy the Kid would seem plausible.
@Dale Gribble That's crazy man. Shit. My dad kept telling us this story of some white guy who tried to rape him. He said the guy kept asking him to come over to his house during the 70s when he went to this night club. 🙄 I don't know if it was a serial killer or his homophobia talking b/c he later told us his 3 other gay "horror" experiences; where these guys came on to him. For that one though, my sister & I were like...JD was that you?
Admittedly, my dad was a pretty good looking guy had that "Magnum P.I./Tom Sellek" - look going on during the 70s & 80s. It also helped he was a black guy bodybuilder with eyes that looked grey. He had the ladies - and I guess the eyes of some gents too. 🤣🤣🤣
I completely agree w/ you. All those people are victims. What Ramirez did is unforgivable. However, if you hear his story - you have to say that Ramirez is a victim as well. He was horribly victimized over and over again.
Richard Ramirez, Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy all suffered serious head trauma in early childhood. There is a strong link betweennhead trauma and violent uncontrollable behaviour.
Maybe it depends what part of the head. I think the pre frontal cortex is responsible for self-control
@@echo-trip-1 Yes.
Weren't many professional boxers who became serial killers?
@@barneyronnie - I've never heard of that
All had religious dominant mothers and were religious themselves, violent male role models and more commonalities.
I’d like to hear your analysis of his cousin Mike.
I’m a fan of this case and I believe he was highly influential on what Ramirez became.
Those pics he showed him from Vietnam were of him forcing women at gun point to give him oral sex, then in the next picture the woman would be dead.
He was also breaking into homes with Richard.
He also killed his wife in front of him.
Richard ended up assaulting women similarly after breaking into their homes.
I believe he was, for lack of a better word, an evolved version of Mike.
Just would be interesting to hear your thoughts on Mike.
an uncle. but would be good to know more about him. surely most serial killers were influenced by something or someone.
I don’t think there is enough information on Mike to do a thorough analysis.
No doubt Mike was the catalyst for Ramirez crimes. Do believe Ramirez was environmentally created. Although, obviously this extreme cruelty existed within his family. His level of evil, omg!!! Absolutely no one was exempt from his cruelty, as I’ve heard his sister in-law speaking of her experience with Ramirez. She is lucky he did not move on her. Would like to know about his mother and father. He walks that line of being physically attractive and because of what he has done, terrifying! Too bad he went the way of evil.
A "fan" of the case???
That’s an interesting take you have. There is definitely a continuity and influence to be seen when you compare the activities over two family generations. “Evolved Version”. I like that.
24:09 Forgot to mention genetics. Major factor; explains his abusive father, his murderer cousin, his breaking-in brother, etc.
Cousin genes aren't close enough to say murder is genetic. It's more likely that the poverty, drugs and machismo caused Mike's violence.
Richard was damaged in the womb and every day thereafter. He self- medicated early and till the day he died in prison. He was raw human animal. Something many men are and would be without sociatal constraints. But when he got medical attention, food, and rest (all denied him when on the street high on cocaine) he fell in love and was married in a Catholic ceremony by a priest. He was a Christian the whole time, believing in Jesus (who he believed interfered in that 16yr olds attempted murder) and Satan. So he was consistent. His normalizing was a testament to the power of love from a woman, attention from doctors and dentists, nutrition and consistent shelter with subsequent safety (no one dared touch him in prison, even if the wasn't in solitary)... He had known nearly nothing of those things growing up. The groupies were the first time in his life he was desirable...
But no one ever tells that part of the story.
Humans are extraordinarily complex creatures. Satisfy our basic needs and nearly anyone will turn to the light. Although, to be honest...I don't know of too many serial killers that straightened out like he did. I wish someone had studied THAT. It's much more unique than murdering rapists. Our prisons are full of those.
@@mowthpeece1 Wow this is some major bullshit. Ramirez was not married Catholic and his wife didn't change him. They divorced a few years before he died and he was the exact same man then as he had been before, still an evil Satan worshiping creep. Also, two cousins having similarities can absolutely imply genetic impact.
@@mowthpeece1 Somehow I doubt you, some of his prison inmates do not paint such a rosy picture. Also, he was engaged to a 20-something groupie at the time of his death. His first wife had wandered off long before.
His peeping Tom brother-in-law too.
@@mowthpeece1 no mames
This stuff should have been explored more deeply in the Netflix series. One of the most useful parts of true crime stories is understanding the cause of the perpetrator’s actions so we as a society can work towards preventing them in the future. The Netflix series makes him seem like some sort of inhuman demon whose evil could have never been prevented.
Son of Sam day talked about how Satanism is like a wave that quickly drags you out to sea, and before you know it you have lost control and doing things you’d never imagine. Playing with fire, getting burnt and burning everyone else. People don’t realise the spiritual world is very real. Satan is the father of all lies, and will destroy the participator and use them to destroy others. It was very interesting to watch this interview. He acknowledged complete responsibly and said he would never even try to get out of jail. He recognised it as just. He asked forgiveness from God and victims and accepts his fate. Rare. This interview was years after the crimes.
Derek , I know you won’t believe me, but I have worked around the mental health field for over 25 years. In many cases there is no preventive measures you can take, you can’t make a person who is narcissistic into a normal person. They imitate feelings emotions that they don’t have, I have listened to and had many conversations with people like this , the things that they say and do are disgusting to a normal person. I have stories for days , but I rarely tell them. they are far too gory
I have a better question: Why does Space Ghost look so much like Batman?
They did talk about this in the documentary
He was a rockstar
Excellent rundown. His cousin Mike sounds like he played a big role in RR’s future behavior. Maybe the biggest factor was this Mike fellow.
I noticed, in your description of the crimes he committed, that Ramirez always let a mother and her son live, and frequently did not assault the son. It makes me think he valued the idea of a son having, requiring and deserving his mother to remain alive. Yet he would not hesitate to kill the fathers. He seemed to value that mother son dynamic. Yet often assaulted and/killed women who weren't with their children... As well as having no problem killing men. I wonder what his dynamic was with his mother? We'll have to revisit learning about the family dynamic of Ramirez, growing up.
He would also kidnap kids from schools but then would set them free. I wouldn’t exactly say he was compassionate, but the fact that he could show any at all is pretty telling, that people choose to be evil imo.
someone’s got a psychology brain 🧠 😅!! love the perspective, very interesting to think about ! like how ted bundy targeted brunette, white women that were in his mind, his “mother”. and ed kemper i think his name is ?
someone’s got a psychology brain 🧠 😅!! love the perspective, very interesting to think about ! like how ted bundy targeted brunette, white women that were in his mind, his “mother”. and ed kemper i think his name is ?
Females are much easier to overpower and control. He had no interest in sodomizing males so for those two reasons he murdered the males before beginning enjoying the females. He slaughtered the females viciously usually slicing their throats. In their death throws the blood spurting out of their sliced arteries would splatter all over as they thrashed about. He took a hammer and smashed in the skulls of other women and in one case smashed her head flat by stomping on it when she fell to the floor. In regards to children few of his victims had a child in the home but in one instance he sodomized an 8 year old boy in one of his victim's homes. I think some of the victims survived because he got what he wanted and satisfied his urge for violence. Killing someone manually is hard work. I think he kicked and beat them as hard as he could and enjoyed every minute of it. He really didn't care if they lived or died. Had he cared he would've shot them in the head after he finished sexually assaulting them. Psychopaths are people with a brain defect that prevents them from having feelings for others. A psychopath's are incapable of distinguishing between an object, insect, animal or human. They extract have no desire to have a relationship with anyone and are mystified by the concept of pets and feelings of love, excitement or sadness.
Nah is because he was a coward so he had to take out the men before they could mess him up he was thin and small. That guy victim who was shot in the head and chased Ramirez and he ran away afraid of this guy while ramirez was the one with the gun
What struck me most about Ramirez is how dysfunctional the adult males in his life were and how he sustained repeated physical and psychological trauma while still a child. Ramirez made a statement in an interview where he said he did not care about himself and never had. What that tells me is that he never had much if any love in his life as a child. That coupled with not only a lack of moral training, but an actual training in perversion from his uncle and sister's husband, shaped this man. He made other statements where he said he was in touch with evil, and what I hear is that all of what we know of his life created a person who felt he was not worth anything and that he was evil. He knew right from wrong, and made statements to that effect, too, saying he did not blame anyone else for what he became. He talks about having urges that needed to be satisfied or they would have destroyed him completely. Sure he had rage. And he acted out all of what he was taught as well as that rage. He could have been stopped way before any of the killing happened, but no one in his life who could have helped him seems to have wanted to go that far for him. It is a tragic case that really is a lesson to us all.
Its almost as if you need a father. Kinda sad how society is now demonizing fathers.
@@LizardCane But Ramirez had a father, who is at least partially responsible for what happened next. ("Ramirez's father, Julian, had been a former policeman in Juarez, Mexico, who after emigrating to the United States, became a laborer on the Santa Fe railroad, and was said to be prone to fits of anger and a temper that Ramirez said made him "physically abusive to his entire family."") Can we "demonize" this father? At least a bit? :D
As I noticed in more true crime stories, it almost looks like that similarly traumatized people inter-breed for generations and continue and even worsen the abuse they know from their original families (very often by fathers or grand-fathers!) until the "ultimate" evil is born and raised.
There are people telling us how children may turn out bad not having a father around, but I think huge part of this is compared to the idea of a proper father rather than their own biological one (who still is in their blood anyway) - like imagine Ramirez had a child: would it be better for this child to have this particular father around, or not?
I certainly agree children need to have role models of good people of both genders around them, but I don't think it's that necessary to be related to them. Just be nice and kind when there are children around. Or be nice in general, even to yourself :)
Ramirez once said "I gave up on love and happiness a long time ago"
@@LizardCane I notice too that there is a withholding of friendship and companionship on purpose--elitism and cliquism.
If we don’t heal from our past traumas, we make trauma-based decisions in all aspects of our lives from who we have relationships with to school/career choices (or lack thereof). If we have children we raise them without the life skills needed to be happy and healthy at least to a degree. I know so much more now than I did when I married young and had children. Now I know why I chose my ex husband. I’m now wiser and trying to be a better guide for my grown children and for my grandchildren.
I went around and locked all my unlocked windows while listening to this.
my dyslexic ass read this as a creepy fan comment for a sec like "i unlocked all my windows :)"
Did you watch the night stalker on Netflix!? Oh man! I finished the show, went to sleep, and a few hours woke up believing there were unknown noises in the house... 😖
@@liliachan3753 same I was so scared !😳
It's fascinating how Ramirez still has an effect on people even after he's dead. I bet the sadistic part of him would be pleased to know that.
@@inhabitantofearth I'm sure you're right!
Also, I can’t stop thinking...where were his parents? Especially during 12 to 18 years old? How about his school. His teachers didn’t notice anything? They didn’t try to get him help? He was a US citizen and a minor and was eligible for services. Such a waste all around; could have been avoided. In one of his quotes “I gave up on love and happiness a long time ago”...sooo incredibly sad😔
The Problem is that in the US mental Health Services especially for severe Cases like this are not easily accessible
I was in the 4th grade when this guy was stalking L.A. I remember my mom for the first time ever locking every door and window in the house at night, and one time helicopters flew all over our neighborhood and I was so scared. It was such a relief when he was caught, and in such an epic way.
when I was a kid all the neighborhood kids would tell me the nightstalkers going to kill you and I couldn't sleep at night was so fucken scared of him
I bet you've outlived all those little shits. You got the last laugh.
I would of moved to other city
That’s fucked up, I’m sorry man...
_The Night Stalker_ was the first serial killer book I ever read when I was 14. I was mortified despite my curiosity. I remember that I couldn't sleep thinking about how easily he entered homes at night while people were sleeping.
I loved the fact that it was Latinos in a stalked neighbourhood that recognized him and beat him up. 👍👍 I was also glad when I heard of his death.
Thank you, Dr Grande. 👍🌹 Good stuff!
Do you live in the US? I guess for people living in countries where there are actual serial killers walking around reading about that stuff could be enough to keep one up at night. Lol, I don't even wanna travel to the US, even though it's not like people are killing each other right and left, but that I something that is on my mind, so whenever my dad travels to New York I always worry.
I learned about him as an adult and it scared me so much for that very reason that I kept waking up in the middle of the night terrified for like a month after hearing the story. It was awful.
@@The_Tortoise_and_the_Hare Do you feel that way about El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico and the other countries in Central and South America? They have much higher rates of murder than the U.S.
14? dayum.
@@MasterMalrubius No, but I have never thought about wanting to go there, and my family doesn't go there, and I never see any news from there either. I saw some messed up stuff in my dad's Bizarre magazines from when I was younger, and that was stuff from Mexico, but I couldn't read English very well back then.
Looking at his early history, especially the two head injuries which undoubtedly caused permanent brain damage with the epilepsy possibly resulting from the brain damage. Seizures also can cause brain damage so the seizures could have resulted in every more brain damage.
Starting off with brain injury and/or damage, the rest of his early life was a training by many individuals for what he became. Every person involved in any of that contributed to these heinous crimes he committed. Severe brain damage might also explain the randomness of his crimes not following any pattern of other serial killers.
It would have been ideal if an autopsy, especially his brain tissue, would have been done. It would not change what he did but might explain part of it.
John Wayne Gacy has always struck me as the most textbook Psychopath personality type
Him and bundy, I agree totally.
Everyone’s a comedian
he wasnt a psychopath his brain was examined after his death and the brain showed no brain abnormalties
Absolutely, he was frighteningly so. He interviewed very well so indignant all the way up to his execution. Any last words.. Kiss my arse!
Garden varity self hating closeted homosexual. Tedious.
i really love how you talk about the mental health AND the general personality traits of a person.
it adds a lot + makes it easy to really understand the mental health aspects.
stay safe dr grande!!
I think the defining point in Ramirez’s life was when he saw his cousin Mike shoot his wife. Ramirez was going through puberty at this time, and he was going through his sexuality. When he saw his cousin shoot his wife, those two worlds of violence and sexuality fused together. Hints the fact that he needed the violence to be sexually aroused.
That does make sense since he would sexually assualt the victims and then kill them. Most of them anyways.
@@s.k.1603 dammnn omg
Nah,i understand the theory but envionment is only half of it. The individual is the other. There is NO EXCUSE for this shit. YES,He prob had brain damage but it also looks like he had a mean spirit /psychopathy. As far as violence and sex that is also not sufficient reason .For example i was traumatized as a child of 7 by seeing murder after sex . DIRECTLY. It killed me inside when it happened. i also was exposed to gun shootings and lots of other violence and trauma. But hay,i dont use that as an excuse. i chose to do the OPPOSITE of the SHIT i was shown . Why,? SIMPLE. I am a human . i have empathy. i HATED all the abuse and shit i saw . That is KEY.
I believe ones natural disposition affects how one reacts. Ramirez was born with psychotic tendecies.HIs environment just fed it.
@@Mars- he had frontal lobe damage at 2 and 5
@@Mars- i don't think anyone is looking for an excuse so much as an *explanation.* it's normal for people to want to understand WHY someone like this does what he does because it's scary and disturbing as shit. but i really don't think ANYONE is trying to _excuse_ his behavior.
The 1980's were a rough time! Thank you for this wonderful analysis of RR. What a horrible horrible horrible person.
It was the 70s, not 80s. Many serial killers were from the 70s.
@@ldrouin27 his span of crimes was in the 80s
Great analysis. More serial killers and mass murderers in future videos please. Btw: still waiting for your take on Columbine.
Vicious Viscount --Excellent suggestion, both privileged kids, not abused but certainly left to their own devices.
My mom had a run in with Richard when she was dating my father at the time. The story goes is that she and my dad were getting food at a taqueria after work and he (Richard Ramirez) came in. He locked eyes with her and she immediately thought “The devil just walked in.” He smiled at my mom and she immediately felt “creeped out” by him. After getting his food, Richard went back to his truck to eat. My dad noticed her change in demeanor and immediately tried to finish and leave. Richard was waiting in his truck blasting metal - which was a genre of music my mom called “Devil’s music” and stalking both of them. My father went to confront Richard, but he left before anything could happen. During that time in L.A., she slept with a gun and knife by her side - my mom was a straight gangster and didn’t fear anyone, but she was creeped out by Richard.
@John McClaine did Richard say anything to your mom..&did she remember him having bad teeth? Glad your mom didn't get hurt.💛
@@laural1784 - That I don’t know. My mom was damn good at reading people and getting a feel at people’s body language. She told me years later that she got a “creepy vibe” off of him. She also told me that his smile felt “off and fake”. Like he was hiding something.
His eyes are pure evil, I paused a video I was watching of him of one of the courtroom moments and zoomed his eyes. They were not human, very evil indeed.
@@goddessglow6996 He was demonically possessed. You wont like the ramifications of that answer most likely, but its the truth.
@@jordantheriverman6143 The ramifications of that answer are telling us that Dr. Grande's comment section has supersticious people stuck in the XVII century
I need to stop watching these before bed OMG! 😭😭
Same...
do y have fb to talk?hello from greece
Omg literally same I’m in bed about to fall asleep and now I’m scared as hell when a sound comes out my parents bedroom 😭😭💀💀
The mental gymnastics with understanding Ramirez killing spree is not for the faint hearted but thanks DR for shedding some light on this ONE,always great content
"in 1979, he gives up on personal hygiene altogether" 😂😂😂😂
He had a lot of friends as a child,one of his friends said he started changing once he was in high school and started using drugs. He started to seclude him self and hang around shady people.
He didn’t have a lot of friends as a child and he started drugs at the age of 10 , not high school.
Did a boat load drugs my whole life never thought about killing anybody
I don’t know much about him other than the info in this video, but it’s pretty typical for “issues” to emerge around puberty, no matter how far their causes predate that time.
Drugs are bad, mmkay.
@@waltersobchak7275 Drugs can enhance certain psychological issues that already exist. I drank and smoked weed in high school, and I also killed no one (yet😀)
Hi Dr Grande,
Being born in 1962, and I’ve had time now to reflect on those years, it does seem like those years were serial killer hey days!
I don’t think there was more out there, I just think it was a far more anonymous world as there wasn’t personal computers or cell phones, let alone social media. When you were out of the house, you really WERE on your own. Forensic Science was certainly not developed, and no DNA testing. All the police had was blood and hair typing and fingerprints. That’s was really all they had to conclusively find the perpetrator. Looking at this with today’s scientific advancements, it really does seem the it was so much easier to elude police. Especially with serial murders, that were strangers to the perpetrator, it’s mind boggling how police caught the amount of them they did!
All of this also gave these killers a false sense of anonymity and bravado as well! There wasn’t as much a need to flawlessly cover their tracks!
As for Ramirez, I always wondered if he hadn’t gotten into drugs and Satanism, if he would’ve killed at all. It seems when you compare Ramirez to the other serial killers of the time, they were killing sober.
As you stated, the others had specific types and methods. The others for the most part didn’t deviate from those two things, as that was part of the point for them.
Ramirez seems like because of his chronic drug use, he started with robbery as he needed money and didn’t work. His Satanism would have been a “get out of jail free card” to him, as killing would’ve been a good thing. He didn’t have a type, whoever he encountered was just fine by him. He didn’t stalk victims that fit the fantasy, an unlocked door or window was it. Again going at it more like a robbery and escalating to rape and killing, when he felt like it, or a victim made him mad for whatever reason, or he felt sexual desire for one. I think he lavished on the fear he was causing and the publicity he was getting. It embolden him further. He’d check out what he was dealing with going room too room like a robbery, and got ready in case someone woke up. He had the element of surprise, he only went into homes where it appeared from the outside that no one was up.
He was introduced to violence in the home at a young age, and his cousin killing his girlfriend in front of him had to have been an influence. The power his cousin had over life. Even though one would think he’d be steered away from it as his cousin went to prison. I don’t think he was sexually motivated the way Bundy or Gacy and the rest were. I really think in his case it was a combination of the following:
Violent childhood, low self esteem, chronic drug use, greed, lack of remorse and sympathy, his religious beliefs, and opportunity.
It’s also interesting by all reports he did not change in prison. His remained remorseless and remained a Satanist. Most express remorse on some level. Ramirez never did.
In my opinion he was a psychopath for sure. I don’t know if he would’ve escalated to murder if the above factors were absent. Whereas the other serial killers of the time I believe were sexually motivated.
As always, thanks for your hard work, and excellent topic. Maybe in the future doing a commentary on women that marry serial killers after they’re in prison would really be interesting! I’ve NEVER understood why this seems to happen, all the time! Even Ramirez married!
Thanks again!
I was just about to comment on women being attracted to killers. also, you made a good point about Ramirez being "jacked up" on drugs when he killed.
Major Allen Espy Thanks. I always thought he was a different breed than the stereotypical serial killer whose a sexual sadist, and that the primary motive. I saw a couple of good documentaries and read some books about him. I remember his case and trial being all over the news! Weird times!
sometimes you can find the most insightful intelligent comments in youtube comments
@@erust9465 You might be interested in my uncle, Watt Espy. He was America's leading death penalty historian. You can Google his name. After my uncle died, I inherited some of his books. I read about Richard Ramirez and the Gainesville Ripper, among others. Ramirez would roll up in a neighborhood and find windows that were left open. The Gainesville Ripper was more of a stalker.
Major Allen Espy Thank you I certainly will!
Hopefully interesting side note, Ramirez attacked my neighbors when I was a kid. Their house was only three doors down from ours. However, they survived and identified him. Interestingly, we only found out about what happened because an older friend's girlfriend's father was a LASD detective working on the case.
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Were they the ones that got shot in head but survived?
I was growing up in LA at the time of Richard Ramirez. Glad you did a breakdown on him!
So I’m assuming you’re 40-60? My guesses lol
Please can you do Andrei Chikatilo? Never seen an analisys of him.
Oh yeah I definitely agree!
Is there enough information in English though?
@@Maxwe11Z There's a lot of information in English about Chikatilo. He was one sick son of a bitch. They had to literally keep him in a cage in the courtroom in order to keep the victims' families from trying to tear him limb from limb.
As I recall, there was a good movie made about Andrei Chikatilo. It's called "Citizen X," starring Stephen Rea, Donald Sutherland, and the late great Max von Sydow. Available on TH-cam, free.
@@thesisypheanjournal1271 I know, I actually read a book about him in Russian.
I read the book. He should’ve gone to jail when he was a teenager for sneaking into that hotel room
As an avid student (or something) of serial killers, I have always found him to be the most frightening of them all. The look in his eyes is perfect evil.
Nah, its his narcisissm that wants you to feel that way, don't fall for it.. he's not frightening unless you are asleep and can't punch him. These guys are all wimps from ramirez to bundy to rader to green river goofball. We can hate them but to fear them is to give them a power they simply do not have otherwise they wouldn't be killing innocent people for thrills. And if they were it wouldn't be girls and women, and the wouldn't use a gun.
imagination he's dead now so I really don't think it matters to him either way.
He looks possessed to me
Candace Casey he was obsessed with „Satanism“ and the imagery, he wanted to look „evil“
No, the look is not evil at all.
This BS about being a loner and preferring to do things alone, or not having close friends somehow ends at a kill kill kill street, is absolute rubbish! Plenty of people are loners, don't have significant others, close friends etc. and live normal lives!
@Liam Quinn In fact I do KNOW what I'm talking about scrubb
Although I was only 12 or 13 at the time of his crimes, I was hyper aware living in SoCal, everyone was talking about it. The papers, the tv, and everyone one around me. He still terrifies me even though he has been in the ground since 2013. The Netflix documentary was incredibly good at channeling the terror CA residents felt. Because he slipped into friendly, so-called safe suburban neighborhoods.
I can’t think of a more arrogant behaviour than murder. It takes excessive arrogance to steal another’s most precious and irreplaceable possession. I’d put such as off-the-charts in arrogance.
Exactly, I always think who do you think you are?in the end,they're nobodies. When that's all you're known for.they die,most people say thank God.burn in hell
Arrogant? More like unintelligent. You murder someone because you’re extremely dumb and don’t know how to deal with your own issues. You think this guy has any inkling as to why he did what he did? No. It takes a baffling amount of cognitive dissonance to murder someone and then continue living a normal life.
It always seemed pointless to me. We are all going to die at some point. Why would it make someone feel powerful to speed up the inevitable? Why on earth would they want to like themselves to someone in such a destructive manner?
Total narcissism.
He was a theif and burglar from a young age. Stealing was literally the least important factor here.
It seems I remember reading that Ramirez actually did stalk a woman. She was returning home one evening and driving into her garage which was attached to the home and had an automatic door opener. He was waiting on the side of the garage and right as the garage door was closing, he managed to slip into the garage without her seeing him. He did get her in the house and I believe that he killed her. To this day, I still peek in my rear view mirror when I am closing the garage door.
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If children live with encouragement, they learn confidence.
If children live with tolerance, they learn to be patient.
If children live with praise, they learn to appreciate.
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Thanks, I've never seen this before...
Very interesting and a little hard to sit through because I find Ramirez' crimes particularly heinous. That he had a large female fan base and got married?! after his incarceration just leaves me bewildered. Maybe an analysis of crime or murder groupies would be a good topic? In any case thanks for another fascinating video Dr. Grande!
Like tex watson,charles Manson's main killer .had a wife that had his 4 kids while he was in prison,and mrs labiancas daughter who he murdered wanted him released, pretty sure she just had this huge crush on him.she didnt ask for anyone else to get out of prison. I thought,how creepy is that.i also think she went to him with some religious garbage,and he supposedly found God after he killed all those people. I always find it incredible they dont find God before the murders
@@renatawarec Yes they always find god after they've been caught.
@@Darrylizer1 I've always wondered what's up with that?? And I never truly believe it.
@@springfauna1465 It's normal to find a higher being when you are alone with no outside distractions. That is why monks live the way they do- it's to get closer to the world beyond this world.
@@starlah8299 Ahhhh, right!! Got it! Thanks!
Ps. all of the 'Richard Ramirez was hot' commenters - seek help. Damn
James W haha no kidding!!!
Shut up
Some people find serial murder an attractive quality; you know, when they look for a partner shooting someone’s husband and raping and torturing women is something they find acceptable; or perhaps desirable. I mean crushing on someone who beats and tortured women and even elderly women or men who cannot defend themselves makes someone hot. I mean chopping, shooting and stealing are exactly what makes someone desirable.
He is hot tho. That's beyond him being a monster. "The prettiest people do the ugliest things"
@@valeriacortez7003 "In 1979, he gives up on personal hygiene altogether."
Aaaaaand here is when he completely ceases to be 'hot' for every single woman I know.
I remember. 1985, Santa Monica, California. A very hot summer. Most people who lived on or near the coast didn’t need A/C, thereby leaving the windows open. We were proud of the police & especially in Los Angeles Latino Community that caught him. Great video. My soul prays for the victims and they’re loved ones 🙏🕊
Dr Grande, can you comment on these “ groupies, fans” that are attracted to people who are highly dangerous.
two words: needy nutters
Well Ramirez was a good looking guy so most of them for the looks and charisma but I cant explain attraction to those who killed but look like trash..would like to hear opinion on that too
I wrote to him for years as a teenager. But as an adult I don't know what I was thinking . I would never write to him now. To be honest . I don't know what I was thinking. Maybe it's the whole bad boy thing
ramirez was good looking, if you forget abt his teeth
He may have had fantasies of being the “best” serial killer & felt envious of killers with great infamy. If so, that would qualify him for additional NPD criteria.
"he may", "if so"...leave the analysis to the Doctor, Joe Maybe
Ya I’ll believe THE DR
Some serial killers just want to live a quiet life.
Those words are according to Frank Salerno. We don't have concrete evidence that Richard actually said that.
@@roosterjackson7258 He worshiped Bundy to the point that Bundy was his goddamn idol.
I think everything he was exposed to as a child and teenager played a part in his actions. What I find baffling is the people that have been exposed to the same upbringing and events, and they never commit any crimes and go on to lead regular lives. Why is it that some of us simply cannot move past the ugly we are exposed to as kids and some of us can? We will never completely understand the human mind.
He needed just one person that cared about him. One person to pray that he was protected and he didn't have that.
@@lorimiller4301I think he just wanted attention, like he wanted to be cared somehow he didn’t find anything, anyone to be cared. So many kids right in front of there eyes deal with a rough childhood this just terrible.
@@lorimiller4301 If he had better parents this would of never happened...😧
Some people can't move on from their childhoods and don't commit violeny crimes
Silver Bullet, I worked around people like him for years, it really is hard to explain some are mentally ill. Some are flat out evil, I have stories for days most are too gory to say. I don’t think anyone despite their claims can explain the human mind. I have worked with several guys who have been locked up their entire adult lives, they were narcissistic to say the least. They lived for themselves and no one else, they were great at talking to the medical per
Thanks, Dr. Grande. I studied him in high school. He’s at the top of my “Interesting Serial Killers” list. His life, according to Phillip Carlo’s book “The Night Stalker”, is a recommended read for curious minds.
In addition to his fingerprints, his shoe size/pattern were key in connecting all of his crimes.
Fun fact: he played AC/DC’s album “Highway to Hell” on repeat; his favorite song being “Night Prowler” (great song; especially fitting for his style of deviance).
he would be interesting if he was actually good at something and not being a pussy
Justin Die he ain’t a pussy. He isn’t respectable, and I hate him, but he isn’t a pussy. People who scare easily don’t break into houses and kill groups of people. It’s too unpredictable, and people often keep firearms in their house.
Why have a list?
@@furiousape7717 why doen describe people in a negative way by using a part of a woman. You are both disgusting
@@PrincessAfrica3 cuz their priorities aren’t straight
Greatest missed opportunity is the unloaded shotgun. There is no reason to not load your gun and have it ready to shoot when you intend to use it to defend your house. Just keep it safe from your kids.
We have the right to keep and bear arms; teach the children respect and keep it locked. But depending on where you live; as long as its legal and you have a license. Protecting one’s family and friends from intruders is a right.
@@pinkpugginz it's even more rare for a homeowner to protect himself from robbers without a force multiplier. And police won't be there in time. The first line of protection is to keep robbers away, get a dog. I've heard a dog makes them take on the next house most of the time.
Well you hinted at the issue yourself. Kids getting the gun.
Also, ironically, many people who buy guns for protection end up killing someone else out of rage. Neighbors, souses, themselves. So if have anger issues, maybe skip the gun.
But no reason is calm, sane people shouldn’t have one! Hell, get a doggie too. And a guard cat... if they exist.
And secure house better. If possible, get windows that open enough for air to get in, but not people. Like the ones you can lock in place a few inches open. Maybe get a sensor that lets you know if someone is creeping around outside your house.
Nothing complicated, just don’t make it easy.
@@csm8245 are you referencing a JCS video ? force multiplier 🙄🙄
@@csm8245 Dog? I’ll get a damn tiger and alligators in a moat. Seriously though, two guard dogs, German Shepard/Doberman would be great.
Watching the Netflix documentary at the moment he was a sick sick man.
Yes, I watched it the other day. GEEZus.....
I watched it too and I'm just shocked how he didn't care about his victims. He didn't feel bad about his horrible actions (I feel the word "horrible" is not enough...). He kept on doing one crime after another after another.... Unbelievable. So much cruelty....
Evil controlled him. Legions of demons .
Whats the doc title please? Thx
@@5asiulenka Night Stalker - The Hunt for a Serial Killer
Jeez... If Ramirez hadn't done what he did, I'd feel kinda bad for him. Sounds like he had a pretty damn rough childhood & adolescence.
If anyone had a reasonable excuse to be a serial killer, its Dave Pelzer. I reserve empathy and pity for the ones who have it rough and don't turn evil.
lots of people have. I don't feel anything but disgust for him,
I did too
He was fucked
Yea but they don’t all end up murdering. He was something else..
Um…. nobody said that everyone who had a rough childhood will end up murdering people. Obviously, thats not the case. And nobody suggested there was ever a reasonable excuse to be a serial killer & certainly not that Ramirez had one.
Did someone delete a comment? If not, it seems likely some of you are responding to a comment that nobody made. And not to be redundant but I did very clearly state that Id feel bad for him IF (I repeat IF) he hadn’t done what he did.
Stephanie Lazarus would be interesting to hear about.
Watched a good mini doc on her, she would take pictures of the dude she was obsessed naked to use later as blackmail.
Check out Jim Can't Swim's video of her interrogation, if you haven't already.
Anonymous Medusa TH-camr True Crime loser goes over her . He calls her crazy eyes!
I never heard of Stephanie Lazarus before 🤔
I watched her entire police interrogation. Its most notable for her absolutely terrible acting, her convenient memory loss when it came to people related to the case (including her boyfriend of 4 years, who at the start of the interview, pretended to barely recall), and her ridiculous faces.
It wasn’t framed as interrogation since she was in the police force-they said they just wanted help with a case. Still, it was clear she was being interrogated, and when she would try to ask if she needed a lawyer, they would politely deflect.
She’s more of a sociopath btw. She got in many heated arguments in PUBLIC, with witness who knew them, before she killed her in a rage.
Richard Ramirez got more LOVE LETTERS in prison from lonely women than any other convict in the United States, I heard......
The Atlanta missing and murdered children case has been controversial since its inception yet few can deny Wayne Williams involvement to the case. He was / is a particularly “ interesting “ personality. A review of this guy would be very interesting and timely. Always love your stuff. Thanks Dr Grande
I remember watching this video when it came out and this was a huge wake-up call for me. My ex-boyfriend was a carbon copy of Richard Ramirez. Everything matched. Their looks, exposure to violence in childhood, early drug addiction, even damage while they still were in their mother’s womb. Criminal behaviour minus the violence. Even worse, when my ex learned about Ramirez he became fascinated with him, even used him as profile picture for a couple of months. Physical violence escalated during the last year too so I decided that this was time to run.
I actually had a feeling that he would murder me since 6 months of dating too. You probably saved my life with that video. I’ve been researching aspd since he got diagnosed with F60.2 and this was the sign I needed. Thank you.
Give me a break, your boyfriend might've been a wife beater but certainly not a serial killer. Someone looking like Ramirez doesn't make them dangerous, if anything it makes them Hispanic 🙄
Of all the serial killers, I find him the most terrifying.
same..
No the most terrifying serial killers are the ones not caught yet... Lol
It’s his eyes!!
look at his 80s picture,,you will take back your words and fall in love witj him i swear😛
@@muanmuan2269 she obviously finds him attractive. Looking scary = alpha predator = attractuve
Nature *and* nurture, it seems😔 I don't think he ever stood a chance at having any kind of a 'normal' life. (Not defending him at all, just trying to get my head around the unfortunate 'recipe' of factors that shaped him.)
Yep.A double whammy.
@Jenny Jen 👍
Yes such a significant factor is his upbringing and the environment he grew up in. I remember learning about the whole nature vs nurture thing yrs ago while taking a child psychology course. People are products of they're environments and unfortunately some don't make it out ok to the good side.
People have had insanely traumatic childhoods and have not turned out to be serial killers and turned out to be normal.. Richard used his free will to embrace evil. To say he didnt have a chance does not take into account his free will.
It sounds kind of like he was " groomed ".
I don’t think so. I haven’t seen anything that points towards that as apart of his childhood abuse. But if I’m correct, he did groom several children during his murder sprees. I could be wrong though
@@WackyWavingArmInflatableTube you are wrong.
@@Fishicecrea I’m not though. He was known for kidnapping children and molesting them.
Is lack of hygiene a symptom of schizophrenia? My brother has been diagnosed. He seems to be afraid to shower or bathe. I wonder if Ramirez was so focused on his compulsive behavior that he didn’t eat or bathe much or if it was another factor.
Very interesting. Sorry about your brother. Sending you love brother. ♥️
The man was a drug addict and got by by burglarizing people. Most addicts who are in that deep don’t care much for their appearance. Instead, all their time and energy and focus is poored into getting that next hit.
And the lack of hygiene in schizophrenia comes from cognitive impairment, which is also found in disorders such as ADD/ADHD, autism, and even depression.
My family lived through this in 1984. It was terrifying. We locked our doors. At the time, we were told that he mostly targeted yellow houses.
did you repaint your house?
baber chowdhry : No. It was already blue.
I live in a yellow house. 😳
Jane Doe : Well, we did keep them closed.
@@MsChappy77 Me too. I hope psychos don’t get any ideas 😭
This serial killer scares me more then them all. Even Bundy.
Bundy was worse cos he never suffered the trauma such as domestic violence, (head trauma, sexual abuse) which made Bundy more evil. Ramirez was a product of his environment where as Bundy was practically born evil. He was also charismatic, highly articulate, intelligent and handsome and could of had a successful professional carreer, where as Ramirez seemed just street smart.
Corplex Ramirez was messy though, he’d also just straight up shoot the guy right away to eliminate the problem. If you want to read about a real scary serial killer, check out the original night stalker, East area Rapist, whom is now known as golden state killer, Joe DeAngelo. Got away with it for over 40 years,
The scariest one for me is Maury taylor.i think that's how you spell his name.look him up.first dawg him on cold case files
Saw him not dawg.crazy phone!
Li Lo ---Excellent point, just the idea the Golden State killer being a cop makes him a scarier proposition. ‘I’ll Be Gone In The Dark’ was really a great read about him. It’s just too bad the author died before finding out how many of her guesses were good.
Not all narcissistic people have a grandiose sense of self. Some know they aren't sh*t, and they feel undeserving of love, so as a result, they hurt those who are capable of getting that because they can't achieve it. In addition they can end up punishing those who give them love and attention because they know they don't deserve it deep down. Then they make the person who tried to love them feel crazy for trying to leave them.
One of the reasons that windows were left unlocked and/or open is that it was an unusually hot spring/summer that year, and many people didn't have air conditioning, therefore affording him entrance.
Also have to wonder if he would have gotten as far as he did if he attempted his spree in an area where people tend to be more self sufficient and weapons minded.
I think Dennis Nilsen the Scottish serial killer who make for an interesting analysis.
Very similar to Jeffery Dahmer's M.O.
And Freddie and Rose west, crazy story.
@@timheavyable Absolutely gruesome
Yes Dennis is very interesting and I've heard less about him than dahmer.
@@mistressofstones he was another kill for company killer. I think theres a book about him with a very similar title.
I wonder if the high number of elderly victims in his case was a way for him to enact revenge on his parents. He shot the men immediately and then assaults the women over a longer period of time and murders them mostly with household objects - getting revenge on his father for his abuse and on his mother for failing to protect him from harm.
I have little empathy for him though.
I think he just chose weak people that wouldn’t be able to defend themselves. In his fucked up mind he probably thought oh welll they are going to die soon anyway.
Apparently, he entered the houses randomly.
Excellent video Doc ! Rameriez was an enigma, even for a "serial killer". There are some interveiws that I have seen, that are particularily bonechilling .
I read that even the other prisoners were scared of him ... and he wasn't that physically imposing a guy at all. And they don't care for baby killers one bit. But people did not want a piece of him.
@@dingfeldersmurfalot4560 I highly doubt that. I don’t think inmates are scared of serial killer types. Like the guy who beat Jeff Dahmer to death. They usually aren’t particularly tough.
Probably just didn’t talk to him.
@@dingfeldersmurfalot4560 if Richard was on the main line the south siders would have booked him. You can’t go to prison for raping woman and children. His own race would have tried to kill him.
This guy is scary. He’s the reason I make sure ALL my windows and doors are shut and locked at nighttime!
Does anyone think Ramirez was on drugs while doing these crimes to be able to go through with them?
He did a lot of drugs... pretty well documented.
According to him he was on coke, weed and alcohol and then at some point he stopped the coke because he knew if he kept using it it’d make him slip up and get caught.
He stopped doing drugs so he could buy a gun, with a clear record. It said it in the documentary
@@ella17734 before his murders, not during.
I lived in the Los Angeles area during that time. It was so frightening to hear about what he had done. It was a hot hot summer and lots of folks had no air conditioning. Open windows were the only way to sleep. The murders happened so frequently and were so violent. The press gave gruesome details and everyone talked about him at work and social gatherings. When he was caught, everyone was disappointed that the mob were stopped by police.
great video dr. grande. it would be great if one day you could do an analysis of kurt cobain. he was a very interesting lyricist and artist and many speculate on what his mental health condition was and how it influenced his art. thanks for all the great content!
Courtney killed him
@@yocland8841 with her lack of love and demands( interpersonal) she placed on him. Absolutely impossible to give all that especially if you are a practicing drug addict.
I really agree that he never had a chance. So sad.
"He believed he was an angel of the devil" and as I watch the number of likes is 666 ...
I'll never forget being nine months pregnant, unable to sleep and opening my eyes because there was a light shining right in my face. Our house was elevated and there was someone standing on our patio - which was surrounded by a seven foot fence and locked gate - aiming a flashlight upward into the bedroom window. Fortunately, I had everything locked up tightly. In the morning, we turned on the news to find out that Ramirez had hit a family a few miles down the road. My husband had been skeptical because he had never struck that far west before.
It can't be a coincidence that so many serial killers have suffered head injuries, particularly injuries that included damage to the pre-frontal temporal lobe. There are so few serial killers amongst the populace & yet so many of them have experienced this. Not all of them admittedly - Jeffrey Dahmer didn't, so far as I know. I hope nobody thinks I'm making excuses for them. Just saying.
How are you able to put out so many level, well thought out videos so fast? I've been playing your videos every day.
He's clearly incredibly intelligent, really hard working and has very good teaching skills. :) I'd binge watch his videos while painting but now I've pretty much watched all of them lol.
@@LuciaInman Yes, he is. Lol, i also listen to him while painting. not looking forward to when I've finished all of his videos!!
I’ve always wondered why he spared children’s lives - this wasn’t mentioned here or on the netflix doc. I don’t believe he was a psychopath 100% - maybe a sociopath or someone with psychopathic traits - as he seemed to show some degree of empathy at times. The 6 year old girl he kidnapped but then dropped at a service station says he instructed her to call 911 and ask them to get her parents to come get her...plus she described the look in his eyes during the “whole experience” as if saying “I’m sorry I’m doing this to you but I have to”. It’s so disturbing but I guess it does show some level of empathy in the midst of all the evil.
What's left out is that there was no evidence linking him to those child crimes. They relied on witness testimony but the police line up was flawed. The victims were allowed to converse. And police held up 2 fingers to suggest number 2 was guilty. He had the wound on his head visible which everyone knew about due to the publicised arrest. The media had already declared him guilty. I am not suggesting he was innocent of the child crimes but there are facts that are left out. Also in regards to Mai Lueng, in 2006 I think It was, they matched Richard's DNA to DNA they found at the crime scene on some material along with another person's DNA. Richard is said to have lived in the same area burglarizing. So it's all unclear. There is a conference with the main detectives in which Gil admits there was no physical evidence. You can watch it online. I'm very interested in this case. Again. I'm not suggesting anything here another than highlighting things that I have read and seen. Does anyone have any information to add?
@@spiritanimal8836 thanks, I didn’t know about any of this
This is an excellent analysis but as for Ramirez lacking superficial charm (15:41), I don't think I agree with you Todd, although I would have had I not heard a recorded telephone conversation between him and a fan, which has been posted on youtube. If you haven't already listened to that please do. Ramirez is a remarkably easy-going and pleasant conversation partner during that phone call, and even laughs somewhat submissively at times. My impression is that the few television interviews he gave and his persona in court are not representative of his day-to-day persona.
what’s the name of this video
@@bbygirl4775 I haven't been able to find it again, annoyingly; but, by chance, there's another recorded phone conversation with him on youtube titled "Richard Ramirez phone call with Richard Dickstein". It doesn't illustrate the point I made as well, but it definitely shows his easy-going conversational style.
Does America have more serial killers? Or are they just more well-known?
Because most videos about serial killers always seem to be about Americans (except maybe Jack The Ripper).
Ivan Milat from Australia.
In Austria we have quite a few like Jack Unterweger and Franz Fuchs, but I think that the fascination behind true crimes in a pop culture sense is more common in America than in other countries. Criminology in the German speaking countries is also been used differently. We use it purely out of scientific purposes, unlike in America where they also use it as a tool for catching criminal offenders. In my university we have a little criminology museum, where I did a little research two semesters ago and I asked the professor in the interview why in German speaking countries criminology is a part of law school, but not an own major like in the US. That's what he told me.
we have far more known and caught serial killers, not necessarily more.
They seem to be an American phenomenon at first glance. However, it may just highlighted more due to the fact our movies, celebrities, artists and killers get more air time globally. The same for our public freakout videos, political craziness, police shootings, etc.. Our lives get shown more, good and bad. Thailand had a serial killer who preyed on children. Who knows about him? See?!?
There were several serial Killers in England during WW2 and afterward that not a lot of people know about like the Blackout Killer, Neville Heath an ex-RAF pilot killed several women, John Christie an unassuming clerk killed several women blaming the murder of the wife of his neighbor who was hanged for the crime, one of which eventually helps bring an end to the death penalty in the UK and John George Haigh who murdered six people disposing of their bodies in acid.
I saw this on the Netflix series "Murder Maps".
I had a distinctly different impression of Ramirez when I saw him being interviewed by a detective before his arrest. He was laughing, comical, and smiling throughout! How weird! It was analyzed on the show with the four guys who each give an analytical opinion of films, bit by bit. They said he was smiling so much because the detective was using a technique that made Ramirez feel special: the detective said things like, "Well I guess now you're in the big leagues with Manson." Ramirez LOVED that line. I hope you will see it because it shows a very opposite aspect and is quite surprising. Btw, you are so gifted at what you do in these videos. Oh, and the time you wore the pink oxford cloth button-down shirt--that was the best of all your shirts, which is saying something!
You should check TH-cam for his episode on the dating game in the 80’s. He showed the smiley charming guy.
Perfect timing! I've been watching American Horror Story the last couple days and this guy's is portraied as one of the main characters!
AHS 1985
It's so interesting to watch these videos! Thank you.
Valley Intruder isn't nearly as catchy as Night Stalker......plus it sounds like a Victorian euphemism for a gay man
"Valley intruder...a Victorian euphemism for gay men.." 🤣🤣🤣🤣😂 made my day fucking hilarious.....
If you're going to cover serial killers, at some point you have to cover Albert Fish.
Who's that?
Kathi A cannibal. He partly influenced Hannibal Lecter.
@@fuhk He was much more than "a cannibal', Albert Fish killed and ate children.
Timothy Ernst --Or Mike DeBardeleben, famous forger which is what got him caught before they found out the depth of his other deadlier crimes & perversions.
Jay Brewer Yeah... doesn’t matter the age. I’m not going to say “you’re much more than a carnivore” because you ate veal as oppose to grown cows. Meat is meat. You could have made a better argument by saying he was a molester as well.
It freaks me out how attracted society was/is to this man. Even though he was undeniably a monster, apparently he has repulsive dental hygiene. It's been said his breath was horrendous.
smelled like the devil
I think he sooo physically hot. Looks like a fallen angel. Hate myself for it tbh lol.
Really? When there are millions of Americans idolizing a nyc real estate conman who's managed to make infinite promises and deliver on none of them while insulting and denigrating the entire country and system!??! Many Americans have emotional dyslexia... they refer to their military killers who bomb little kids as heroes!! LOL
@@overimagination2812 LOL infinite promises?!?! our military killers!!?!? Your handle fits well, pea brain.
@White Chocolate the word is convicted here.