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♪♪

Martin:
There is a minute fraction of a percent of human beings

that just aren't wired right.

It's not because
they're not sane.

He was an intelligent human
being, fairly well-spoken.

I don't think there's any --
any doubt about his sanity.

This was just
a vile human being.

♪♪

♪♪

Welcome to "Very Scary People."

I'm Donnie Wahlberg.

Some crime experts call
the 1980s

the decade of the serial killer.

According to at least one study,

there were about
200 of these murderers

on the loose during that time.

But one man stood out.

His crimes were random
and vicious.

His victims ranged from toddlers
to the elderly.

The citizens of Los Angeles
were paralyzed with fear

while police
struggled to stop him.

His name was Richard Ramirez,
and he was the Night Stalker.

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♪♪

Man:
It happened in this apartment building in a ground-floor unit.

Yochelson: Jennie Vincow was
a 79-year-old lady living alone

in an apartment
in Northwest Los Angeles.

Jordan: She had just turned off
the light in her apartment,

and because it was
the peak of summer,

she left the window open.

Jennie Vincow's asleep
in her bed, very vulnerable.

♪♪

Jordan:
While she slept, a shadow appeared at the window,

and it was the outline
of a man.

And then he opened the window
further and crept inside.

He was looking for items
to steal.

He would look for specifically
things of high value, jewelry.

Jordan: But there was little
of value in the home.

Martin:
After he ransacks the house,

he approaches a sleeping
Jennie Vincow.

He's armed with a knife.

♪♪

Martin: The next afternoon,
Jennie's son,

Jack Vincow, came to the
apartment to visit his mother.

Man: The victim, 79-year-old
Jennie Vincow,

her throat had been slashed.

It appears the suspect
got in through an open window.

He found her horribly mutilated
and murdered, called the police.

Just a horrible thing for him.

She was raped
and otherwise abused.

Jordan: Jennie had been stabbed
repeatedly,

and she was nearly decapitated.

Investigators considered
that this was

one of the most brutal slayings
they had ever seen.

Dietz:
There are so many reasons

for brutally stabbing
a person to death.

One of the possibilities
is that

it's an intense
personal relationship --

a family member, a lover.

Another possibility is that
this is someone

who hates women
or hates elderly women,

and that she is killed
in this way

because of a hatred toward
whatever she symbolizes.

Man: On the window screen,
police found a fingerprint.

The only clue was the
fingerprint found on the screen.

It appeared to have come
from the killer.

But because they couldn't make
an immediate make on it,

it was kind of just filed away.

♪♪

Well, two sisters,
Mary and Christina Caldwell,

were both living together.

Mary was 58,
and Christine was 71.

The house was ransacked.

I think that
it might've been viewed

initially as a burglary
that went bad

when the old ladies woke up.

I did respond to the Caldwell
sisters homicide scene.

The sisters were killed
by multiple knife wounds.

Linedecker: There weren't
a lot of leads at that time.

It was just another murder.

Double murder.

At the time, it wasn't tied
into any other homicide.

There were no suspects,
and the case went cold.

It would be a long time
before this fell into place.

In the beginning, it was
an isolated murder here

and an isolated one there,

but then, that summer,
it was just constant, constant.

She described him
with "dead eyes."

♪♪

By early 1985,
three elderly women

had been brutally stabbed
to death,

but both in Southern
and Northern California,

so there's really no way

that the police can make
a connection between the crimes,

and what they don't know is that
a killing spree has just begun.

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It was a night of sheer terror
for a young woman

from Rosemead, California.

Linedecker: At about 11:30 P.M.,
a young woman named Maria

was parking her car
in the garage.

And as she drove in,

the killer slipped in
behind her.

But this time, he had a gun.

Yochelson:
She got out of the car.

Linedecker: A figure appeared
out of the darkness.

She heard a noise and turned to
see a man pointing a gun at her.

Linedecker:
And seemed that he was going to try to steal the car.

He did not utter a word
but started moving toward her.

She raised her hands
to protect her face.

He fired.

The bullet hit the car keys
in her hand.

She said she felt a mixture
of pain and heat.

She was saved by her car keys.

She fell to the ground
and pretended that she was dead.

He left to go inside the house,

and leaving her on the concrete
floor of the garage bleeding.

The suspect makes his way
into the condominium,

where he encounters
34-year-old Dayle Okazaki.

Ms. Hernandez heard
another gunshot...

...from inside the townhouse.

Jenkins:
After Maria heard the shot,

she ran out into the street
and hid behind a car.

She saw the man
come out of the building.

He spotted her
and approached her,

and once again, he pointed
his gun directly at her.

She begged him not to shoot her.

Yochelson:
She said, "Don't kill me."

And, inexplicably, he turned
and shoved his gun into his belt

and left,
just like that.

She was left alive.

Yochelson:
She went inside and found her roommate, Dayle Okazaki,

dead --
a gunshot to the head.

Later, when the police
were searching the area,

they found a baseball cap
on the ground,

which was really the first clue
that they had come across.

It was a baseball-style cap.

It had the words "AC/DC"
on the front.

So that was thought to have
been left by the killer.

Jordan: Even more important
than the hat --

with Maria, we have a witness
to the crime,

and she came face to face
with the suspect.

Maria:
I can tell you dark clothes, dark-color hair.

The first police composite
drawing of the killer

came from the memory
of Maria Hernandez.

Martin: It was the first sketch
of this attacker that was made.

As it turned out,
the first of many.

She described her assailant
as a tall, skinny man.

With a thin face and,
most notably, "dead eyes."

"Dead eyes" in my mind means
that they are very fixed,

not a lot of movement to them,
have that perception

that they're
looking right through you.

From a law enforcement
standpoint,

when you receive
a description like that,

your hopes is that it will lead
to something productive,

specifically the arrest
of the shooter in this case.

Jordan:
Police began checking cars and questioning any lone males

that were seen loitering
in the area.

But there was
no new information.

Martin: So while law enforcement
has this great clue

as to who it is
that might have done this,

they also know that
the clock is running.

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Linedecker:
Later that night,

while they were still
investigating the break-in,

they got another call
that a young woman

named Tsai-Lian Yu
had been attacked.

But these were not
in the same jurisdiction,

so police weren't able
to make the connection.

She was a 30-year-old
law student,

an immigrant from Taiwan.

Yochelson:
She was parking her car on a street.

A man parked behind her,
jumped out of his car,

tried to drag her
out of her car,

and so he shot her,
and then left the location.

When police arrived, they found
her sprawled on the concrete

next to her car.

Martin:
She'd been shot multiple times.

Terrible scene in the middle
of the night in Monterey Park.

Jordan: Officers on the scene
called for an ambulance,

but by the time it arrived,
it was too late.

Yu had died.

They found one of her shoes
in the car.

Other one was lying
next to her body.

It isn't really the most
adaptive way to commit crimes,

without forethought,

without making sure
there are not witnesses,

without cleaning crime scenes.

That suggests that something
is not functioning well

about his ability to plan
and execute things.

Detectives, they're gonna need
a lot of evidence

to catch this guy,

and it won't be long
before the entire community

knows about
these horrific crimes.

Linedecker: Los Angeles was like
any big city.

All over the city,
they had murders.

Of course, they were occurring
on a daily and nightly basis.

But this time, the murders,
they were in the suburbs

and areas that were generally
considered safe areas.

People didn't even
lock their houses.

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Yochelson: The sheriff's
department was investigating

the Okazaki murders,

and the Monterey Park
Police Department

was investigating
the Yu murders,

and the detectives
from each agency

happened to be at the coroner's
office at the same time.

After the autopsies
of both Ms. Okazaki and Yu,

they realized that the bullets
that were removed

from both victims were fired
from the same weapon,

so now these two murders
were connected.

Everyone --
everyone was terrified.

It was just so random.

The killer leaves the pentagram,
the mark of the devil.

Zazzara: It's just evil.

It's just pure, pure evil.

It was just a summer of terror.

Jordan:
The quiet Los Angeles suburbs

have been really shaken
by these shootings

which happened within
one hour of each other.

We have one witness who
describes the assailant

as a tall,
thin, dark-haired man.

But is it enough
of a description for police

to stop him before
he goes on the attack again?

Martin: He was looking for
a point of entry

that would be relatively simple,

specifically looking
at open doors, open windows.

♪♪

It was about 10 days
before another attack occurred.

Martin:
64-year-old Vincent Zazzara and 44-year-old Maxine Zazzara,

Italian restaurant owners,

were enjoying a quiet night
at their home in Whittier...

...when the killer
quietly forced entry

into their home
through a window.

The following morning,
their son, Peter,

came over to visit his parents.

Martin: And as he's approaching
the house,

he discovers
the front door's open.

Unfortunately for Peter,

when he made his way
through the front door,

he found both his parents.

- What happened, Peter?
It's just evil.

It's just pure, pure evil.

He broke in through a window.

Yochelson: Mr. Zazzara
was found on a couch

in the living room.

There was a single gunshot
wound to the head.

Mrs. Zazzara was found
in her bedroom shot to death.

After the shooting,
took the time

to literally
butcher Maxine Zazzara.

And she was sexually assaulted.

Martin: She was nude.

Not only was she nude,
her eyes had been gouged out.

Linedecker: Even the
case-hardened detectives

had to have some special
nightmares of their own

after they looked
at the body of the woman.

Is this person paranoid?

Because people who are paranoid

don't like others
looking at them,

imagine that people
are staring at them,

and have a thing about eyes.

It was the first of what
became a pattern

where the perpetrator
would invade a house,

dispatch the male, and then
sexually assault the wife,

and then either
kill her or not.

This is done by someone
who sees the man

as more of a threat
than the woman,

and so the man is killed first,
and that's done cleanly.

Then he has more time
to take with the woman.

Martin:
When law enforcement arrives at the crime scene

at the Zazzara home,

they discover a .45-caliber
handgun and a bullet.

Yochelson:
What was also significant about the crime scene --

there was a bucket
found upside down

that had a shoe print on it.

The shoe print was unusual.

It turned out to be an Avia
aerobic shoe,

I think size 10 1/2 or size 11.

Detectives question family,
business associates,

and neighbors,
but found no suspects.

Linedecker:
It's almost unimaginable.

The investigators had to know
that this was going to happen

again because this is
a homicidal maniac.

You have to wonder about
the kind of mind and motivation.

♪♪

Jordan: Ricardo Leyva Ramirez
was born February 29, 1960,

in El Paso, Texas,

to a working-class
Mexican-American family.

Hancock: Like many border areas,
El Paso/Juárez

is generally
a pretty poor area.

Richard's mother worked
in a boot factory,

and his father worked
for the Santa Fe railroad.

We met when he was like
5 years old,

and I would've been 8 years old.

His dad and my mother went
to school in Camargo together.

Richard was the youngest
of five kids.

Milam: I met Ricky
in the second grade.

He was just a normal kid
like everybody.

We would all hang around
and play baseball,

just like normal kids
would do.

Do certain activities like
swimming, having a little party,

get-together,
things like that in the barrio.

He was brought up Catholic.

His mom got him as an altar boy,

but he would tell me that he was
not way into being an altar boy,

but he did it for his mom.

Jordan: Those who knew Richard
growing up

had very different
recollections of him.

Arturo: Well, when we
interviewed some people,

people were saying that he was
like a little petty thief.

Linedecker:
They used to call him "didos," "fingers,"

because you didn't
want to leave anything around

that he could pick up
with his fingers.

And he didn't have
a very good reputation.

♪♪

Martin:
A number of weeks pass,

and there's another attack
in Monterey Park.

Bill Doi, 66 years old,

lying in bed with his
64-year-old wife, Lillian.

It was the dead of night,
and the couple was sleeping,

and the guy sneaked
into the house.

The two main explanations
for going into a home

where one doesn't know
what to expect are,

first, feeling confident
at being able to overcome

any obstacle
that might be there,

or not caring one way or
the other if he lives or dies.

Linedecker:
William is shot in the head with a small-caliber gun.

He actually was able to get
on the telephone and call 911,

so it wasn't an immediate death.

His elderly wife was restrained,
and she was sexually assaulted.

Martin:
The killer leaves the pentagram, the mark of the devil,

and then proceeds
to ransack the house

and take valuables
out of the home and then leave.

Ultimately, Bill Doi perished
at the hospital.

Although beaten and sexually
assaulted,

Lillian managed
to survive the attack.

She was able to provide
law enforcement

with a description
of the attacker.

One of the distinctions
that emerged

were descriptions
of bad teeth --

more specifically,
rotted teeth,

dark brown stains
or discoloration,

and the teeth seemed
to accompany bad breath.

Linedecker: At that point,
the police weren't linking

these crimes publicly.

We do not know exactly
what the links would be.

What we will do
is we will check --

put the investigators from all
of the surrounding agencies

and see if they have any cases
that are similar to ours.

At some point, you realize
they're all connected.

Man: Five murders
and three sexual attacks

in the past eight weeks.

It was just a summer of terror.

I'm nervous. You know,
I'm nervous for my family,

nervous for my friends
and neighbors.

Kristof:
You were afraid to pick up the newspaper in the morning

because he was killing with
such viciousness and so rapidly.

Woman: It's kind of hard
in the summer.

You know, it gets hot
in the apartment,

and you want to leave
your window a little bit open

but also not have anybody
be able to get in.

Kristof:
He had no particular person or type that he was targeting.

He was targeting everybody.

He killed men, women, children.

He killed in every part
of the city.

He used almost every implement
that you could use

to kill someone --
guns, knives, telephone cords.

Dietz:
The fact that he kills them with many different weapons,

the fact that he kills some
but doesn't kill others

makes one focus
on the possibility

that the killer is under
the influence of a drug

or has some inherent
impairment of his own.

It was a kind of random,
frenzied quality to his crimes.

Dietz:
He shot many of his victims in the face.

That is not a common place
to shoot people.

I'm scared, you know, and the
first night, I hardly sleep.

♪♪

♪♪

Welcome back to
"Very Scary People."

July 1985 was one
of the hottest summers

Los Angeles had seen
in a century.

Temperatures in the area were
above 100 degrees day after day.

Terrified residents weren't
sleeping with the windows open.

Many of them
weren't sleeping at all.

A killer was on the loose.

The public was terrified
and calling on the police

to do something,
anything, to stop him.

But police had no real leads,

and the Night Stalker seemed
to be just getting started.

Kristof:
There was no one who felt safe.

In my lifetime, there had
been nothing like it.

Everybody was so uniquely aware
of this crazed killer

that was out on the streets,

and nobody had a clue
of who he was, where he was,

why he was doing
what he was doing.

Finley: We're trying to get the
information out to the public

to lock their doors and windows,
use their lighting.

This is information we're trying
to put out all the time,

not just when we know
we have a killer on the loose.

Yochelson:
The media had a lot of different names for him.

The local NBC affiliate
called it the Walk-In Killer.

But another name stuck.

Martin:
The term "Night Stalker" emerged

from one of
the daily newspapers.

The other names had been
floated -- Valley Intruder,

Walk-In Killer --
but Night Stalker was the one

that ultimately caught on
and remains to this day.

Man: This meeting was the third
in Arcadia in the past month.

All along, investigators
have said a tip from the public

might be the key
to breaking this case.

That's becoming more
and more important

as the investigation
goes basically nowhere.

Linedecker: Police started
putting together a profile.

Man: We're doing everything
within our power

and our resources
to protect the community

and apprehend the suspect.

Martin: You look at the type
of residents

and all the physical evidence,

then you look
into the victimology.

Is there some commonality
amongst the victims?

It was very difficult to profile
what was going on.

At the end of the day,
it was crimes of opportunity

wherever he could find
an open window.

Jordan:
It would seem this killer had an insatiable appetite,

not just for bloodlust
but also for sexual torment.

Serial killers tend to be
extreme sexual psychopaths

who derive their depraved
pleasures from torturing

and murdering
helpless victims.

The Night Stalker
fits that profile.

Jordan: With virtually
no pattern to his crimes,

the police went back
to the descriptions

that the survivors
had given them.

Martin:
When descriptions of the bad teeth emerged, more than likely,

law enforcement
would be thinking

about a habitual drug user.

Along with the likelihood
of serious drug use,

there was a hint
that the Night Stalker

may have worshipped Satan.

There was a satanic symbol

left at one of the previous
crime scenes.

People were afraid of satanists,

and if the goal
is terrorize the community,

that's a pretty good choice.

But it doesn't have to be
just for the effect on others.

It can be because he's claiming
an identity for himself.

From the moment
I laid eyes on him,

I perceived him
as a frightening person.

Martin:
My understanding was that part of his childhood specific

to his teen years had to deal
with a cousin,

a Vietnam veteran.

Arturo:
He taught him how to use the knife and how to cut throats.

Milam: And it had a great
impact on him.

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♪♪

Yochelson:
The Khovananth murders --

a couple living in the house
with their one child.

Linedecker:
The Night Stalker shot the husband first, of course,

which he always did,

and then he raped
and brutalized the woman,

and he tied up the little boy.

He reminded me of a --
of a cat with a mouse.

They toy with them
and they torture them.

It wasn't enough to kill them,
he had to terrorize them.

He was just absolutely
out of control.

He was running amok.

Martin: Female adult victim
of the attack survived.

She was instructed by
her attacker to swear upon Satan

that she wouldn't scream.

Linedecker: He used lipstick,
I believe it was,

to draw a pentagram on her.

Now he was openly bringing
a satanic aspect to the attacks.

Monterey Park police chief,

he was talking to the press,
and he said,

"That son of a bitch
has scared

the hell out of this city,"
and he was absolutely right.

I mean, people were really --

they knew there was a big,
big problem

and they just weren't
safe anymore.

Woman: The women that are
living here that are alone

are very, very concerned.

That's all they talked about.

They're staying in, pretty much.

He was in my neighborhood.

He could've come to my house
just as well.

Then a really, really,
really good tip came in.

Yochelson:
There was a newspaper delivery person who saw the suspect twice

while she was delivering
papers early in the morning

and had given information
to the police,

including describing
a particular car.

Linedecker: A Pontiac grand prix
leaving the scene.

This one had
a damaged front fender,

which gave police a real clue
to work with.

Jordan:
Police immediately put out an all-points bulletin

for a car
fitting that description.

And with that car's description
and the eyewitness accounts,

police felt like
they were really closing in.

♪♪

By August of 1985,
15 people had been murdered

and another dozen assaulted.

Police were working on a tip
about a Pontiac

that was seen leaving
the Sun Valley crime scene.

Yochelson:
A motorcycle police officer spotted that car,

pulled it over
for a traffic violation,

not realizing that it was --

hadn't gotten
the information yet

that this was possibly belonging
to the Night Stalker.

Martin:
The LAPD officer walked up to the window of the car,

looked at him, and said,
"Hey, you're not that guy

that's killing all those people,
are you?"

And the person in the car
just ran off, just fled.

But the car was left.

So the car was impounded,
then somebody realized

that it fit the description,
so it was examined,

and there were
all kinds of clues.

We looked in the car and found
physical evidence in the car

that the task force had alerted
all surrounding agencies

to be on the look for.

Yochelson:
There was a pentagram

that was drawn
below the dashboard.

There was a card to a dentist
in Chinatown.

Police had to feel, something is
going to break in this case,

but it's got to be fast
because people were dying.

Yochelson: He was a drifter.

He had no fixed residence,
stayed in one place

for a short period of time
and then moved on.

He stole a lot of jewelry.

There's some evidence
that he started out as a burglar

and graduated
to these crimes of violence,

these horrible
crimes of violence.

To me, it wasn't the killing
that was planned.

The burglary was planned.

He walked in, somebody is there,
so she dies.

♪♪

Martin:
Virginia and Chris Petersen are in their bedroom,

set for the night,
and a noise awakens Virginia.

She realizes that there
is someone,

a male, standing in her room.

Linedecker:
The Night Stalker shot the husband in the head twice.

Martin:
Virginia sits up,

and she's immediately shot
by her attacker.

Linedecker: Petersen, as hurt
as badly as he was,

went after the Night Stalker.

Martin:
Two rounds are fired at Chris.

Both of them miss.

Chris is nearly able to tackle
and restrain the shooter.

Unfortunately, the shooter
manages to escape.

Both Chris Petersen and Virginia
Petersen survived the attack

and were able to provide police
with details of the attack.

Man: Virginia Petersen did talk
to a reporter by telephone.

She said, "You never really
dream it would happen to you.

I keep pinching myself,"
she said,

"hoping it didn't happen.

But it did."

If being responsible
for multiple murders,

that is at different times
and different locations,

defines a serial killer,

then I guess we would
have to say that,

yes, we would have
a serial killer.

Martin:
It went from the suspicions of a serial killer

might be operating
to an absolute certainty.

Jordan: Emergency crime calls
to the LAPD

jumped by more than 15%.

He looked like the man the
news people have been showing?

Martin:
Gun sales supposedly doubled during this period --

measures that weren't
necessarily heard of before.

Woman: The owner that owns
the gun shop said

he had a rash of women
coming in

and purchasing arms
ever since these murders.

Jenkins:
And owners of shooting ranges

reported that their business
was up 150%.

Linedecker: The Guardian Angels,
they came in to help.

They really were there
as watchdogs.

They were a martial arts group
back in New York,

and they started a chapter
in L.A.,

and they were
patrolling the streets.

Man:
We want to catch him.

We just want him
to give himself up.

Martin:
The sheriff's department was run by the board of supervisors

who offered a reward --
I believe it was $10,000 --

for information leading
to the capture of the person

responsible for these murders
throughout the county.

Jordan:
With all the media attention and the public outcry,

the Night Stalker now knows
that the police are after him,

so he decides to leave L.A.

and head up north
to San Francisco.

Generally,
in a serial murder,

what occurs
is they might relocate

but they don't stop killing.

♪♪

Woman: 69-year-old Peter Pan
shot dead in his bed,

his 64-year-old wife found
in the hall shot in the head,

beaten,
but she survived.

Dubour:
It was a bizarre scene.

He completely ransacked
the house.

He went into the kitchen
and calmly drank milk

out of the refrigerator
and ate some food,

and then continued
ransacking the house.

I was able to locate
the shell casings.

It was from a .25 caliber.

We had a footprint in blood
in the kitchen.

We also found a pentagram
scratched in the bathroom door.

Jordan:
Police there were looking for a connection

to other local unsolved crimes

but were also looking
at the crime spree

in Southern California.

Booth: Our officers
have gone to confer

with the police
authorities there

in the hopes that
the exchange of information

about the crimes
will be helpful to determine

if there are any similarities
in crimes in that city.

Dubor: The bullet that
I recovered was intact.

That exact bullet was
the same characteristics

as the bullet involved
in two homicides in Los Angeles.

The other evidence there
was the shoe print.

They were the same type of shoe

that was found in the Southern
California homicides.

Woman: The city of San Francisco
will now try to do

what Los Angeles could not do --

stop the Walk-In Killer
from taking another victim.

Dubour: The mayor at the time
was Dianne Feinstein.

She had a press conference

because of the importance
of the case.

Woman: Mayor Dianne Feinstein
announced a reward

for catching
the Walk-In Killer.

There was a $10,000 reward

offering for the arrest
of the Night Stalker.

Martin:
And nearly simultaneously,

Los Angeles increased the reward
offer from $10,000 to $25,000.

Things are starting to emerge
as common ties --

footprint of a distinctive
athletic shoe,

ballistic evidence,
and the pentagram.

Information was still
being held close

to the vest
by the investigators.

Dubour:
But the police, of course, were sharing their information

with Dianne Feinstein,
the mayor of San Francisco.

Then mayor Feinstein
makes a move

that changed the course
of the investigation.

♪♪

Jordan:
Investigators are on the hunt for the Night Stalker

after he terrorized, raped,
and murdered people

in both L.A.
and San Francisco.

Police feel they are
very close

to making an arrest
when suddenly,

San Francisco's mayor,
Dianne Feinstein,

makes a move that changes
the course of the investigation.

The evidence was shared
with public officials

up in San Francisco

who, unfortunately,
disclosed some of the case keys

that wasn't meant
for public consumption.

Woman: In San Francisco,
Mayor Dianne Feinstein disclosed

a key piece of evidence

detectives previously
would not talk about.

The ballistics on the weapon
are the same ballistics

on more than a dozen murders

committed in
Southern California.

And she stated that there was
a similarity

of shoe-print impressions
left at the scene.

Jordan: Now that details
of the investigation

have been made public,

the Night Stalker can stay
one step ahead of the police.

Of course it was important

to keep certain information
from the public

because if the public knew,
then the killer would know.

Arturo:
He started watching the news.

He picks up on that.

Martin:
The information became known to the Night Stalker,

who went
to the Golden Gate Bridge

and threw the Avia athletic
shoes into the bay.

After disposing of the evidence
linking him to the crimes,

the Night Stalker flees
San Francisco

and goes back down to L.A.

The Night Stalker travels back
down south to Orange County.

Carns:
That was one of the hottest summers on record.

I opened windows in my backyard

so we could get a cool breeze
off the ocean.

Man: The Night Stalker
probably entered

the home of his latest victims

by prying a screen
off an open window.

29-year-old Bill Carns
was shot in the head.

The gunshots woke Carns'
girlfriend,

who was raped and left tied up.

She was raped but survived.

Carns:
Then I woke up in the hospital the next day

and was aghast at what happened.

I could not walk,
and I had difficulty talking.

I thought, "What happened?"

And no one would tell me.

They said, "Just wait
for a couple days.

The hospital psychologist
will be coming in.

At that point, you can find out
what happened."

Yochelson:
But what was different about this incident --

shortly before
the break-in occurred,

there was a young man
who lived a couple blocks away.

Jenkins:
It's 2:00 in the morning.

A young teenager named
James Romero spots

a suspicious man
outside his family's house.

Yochelson:
It was the middle of the night.

He was working on his motorcycle
in the garage

and saw somebody
come out of the backyard,

through the lawn,
go down the street.

He sees the man jump into
an orange Toyota station wagon,

and he is able to get
a partial license plate number.

Yochelson:
He didn't get a good look at the person,

but got a description of the car
and told his father about it,

and they called the police.

And for investigators,

this was the break
that they had been hoping for.

The description of the vehicle
and a partial license plate

that ultimately leads
to the recovery of that orange

Toyota station wagon

and the identification
of the Night Stalker.

Block:
An alert is going out to all law-enforcement agencies

in the state of California
to be on the lookout

for this individual
who is to be considered armed

and extremely dangerous.

Everybody --
absolutely everybody --

wanted him caught.

We receive a broadcast of a
possible Night Stalker sighting.

He's surprised when the crowd
recognizes him.

Vidal:
He was last seen traveling eastbound on 8th Street.

I look at him,
I tell my partner,

"This is the Night Stalker."

Jordan:
I don't think anyone expected him to get caught like that.

Hancock:
He was just radiating evil.

♪♪

Thanks to an observant teenager,

police were armed with their
most promising lead yet,

and now they had the identity
of a prime suspect.

The LAPD issued
an all-points bulletin,

and after so many false starts,

they could finally bring the
Night Stalker into the light.

What happened next,
no one saw coming.

In part two of
"The Night Stalker."

I'm Donnie Wahlberg.

Thanks for watching.

Good night.