Richard Ramirez had been a ghost for over a year. Then his mugshot hit the front page, and a neighborhood in East LA caught him themselves, chasing him down the street and pinning him to the pavement before police arrived.


In the final part of our three-part series, Katie Ring covers the capture, the trial that became a circus, and the death sentence he brushed off with just five words. This episode contains descriptions of murder, sexual assault, and violence, and briefly references the death of a child. Please listen with care.

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