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    Timeline: Night Stalker Richard Ramirez's L.A. reign of terror and its aftermath

    Reports of his brutality left a generation of Angelenos in fear when night fell. Under cover of darkness in 1985, Richard Ramirez went on a months-long spree of murder, sexual assaults and other crimes that spread terror and anxiety throughout the Southland. Monterey Park, Whittier, Arcadia, Rosemead and Monrovia — no suburban window felt safe from his intrusion. His reign of terror yielded ...
    by Los Angeles Times staff, Los Angeles Times Jan 13, 2021 5 minutes

    Reports of his brutality left a generation of Angelenos in fear when night fell.

    Under cover of darkness in 1985, Richard Ramirez went on a months-long spree of murder, sexual assaults and other crimes that spread terror and anxiety throughout the Southland. Monterey Park, Whittier, Arcadia, Rosemead and Monrovia — no suburban window felt safe from his intrusion. His reign of terror yielded many monikers, including the Walk-In Killer and the Valley Intruder. But the Night Stalker would ultimately become synonymous with his modus operandi.

    Now, Netflix has turned its true crime lens on the startling period. Out now, "Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer" traces the full toll of the terror inflicted by Ramirez through the people whose lives were forever altered by his gruesome crimes.

    The four-part series, which was directed

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