Richard Ramirez cause of death
Ramirez’s crime was associated with childhood. He was once abused by his father, Ramirez began developing gruesome, macabre interests in his early and mid-teens from his older cousin, Miguel (Mike) Ramirez. Miguel Ramirez allegedly also taught his nephew some of the military skills that he would go on to use during his year-long killing spree. He…
Ramirez’s crime was associated with childhood. He was once abused by his father, Ramirez began developing gruesome, macabre interests in his early and mid-teens from his older cousin, Miguel (Mike) Ramirez.
Miguel Ramirez allegedly also taught his nephew some of the military skills that he would go on to use during his year-long killing spree.
He also cultivated a strong interest in Satanism and the occult. By the time Ramirez had left his home in Texas and moved to California at the age of 22, he had begun frequently using cocaine.
Ramirez would often commit burglaries to support his drug addiction, many of which were later frequently accompanied by murders, attempted murders, rapes, and assaults.
Ramirez’s highly publicized home invasion and murder crime spree terrorized the residents of the Greater Los Angeles area and later the residents of the San Francisco Bay Area from June 1984 until August 1985.
However, his first known murder occurred as early as April 1984. This crime wasn’t connected to Ramirez nor was it known to be his doing until 2009.
Ramirez used a wide variety of weapons and different murder methods, including handguns, various types of knives, a machete, a tire iron, and a claw hammer.
He was also known to attack by punching, pistol-whipping, and strangling many of his victims, both manually with his hands and in one instance a ligature, stomped to death at least one of his victims, Joyce Nelson, in her sleep, and in one case, even tortured an elderly woman, Mabel Bell, by shocking her with a live electrical cord after severely bludgeoning her with a hammer, injuries which Bell died of in the ICU.
Ramirez never expressed any remorse for his crimes. He died on June 7, 2013, of complications from B-cell lymphoma while awaiting execution on California’s death row.
