[phantom4570]

Serial Killer Richard Ramirez dies in California prison

Ramirez was convicted of 13 murders that terrorized Southern California in 1984 and 1985 as well as charges of rape, sodomy, oral copulation, burglary and attempted murder.

Good riddance.

 

[TommyGunn]

"Sure you have the right guy?"

 

[Ratfink2u]

Serial Killer Richard Ramirez dies in California prison Good riddance.

Say hi to satan Richard

 

[phantom4570]

"Sure you have the right guy?"

How the 'Night Stalker' got his name

"The Night Stalker" was a 1972 TV movie and short-lived series starring Darren McGavin as a Las Vegas newspaper reporter investigating a series of murders committed by a vampire.

There was no evidence that Ramirez was stalking his victims nor at the time were there any published satanic links to the crimes. Still, the name resonated with the group and the meeting was adjourned.

The suspect was first called "The Night Stalker" in the newspaper's next edition.

 

[stand watie]

TommyGunn,

I liked the NIGHTSTALKER & was disgusted when it wasn't renewed.
(Somewhere in this MESS, I have the series on VHS tape.)

yours, sw

 

[TommyGunn]

TommyGunn,
I liked the NIGHTSTALKER & was disgusted when it wasn't renewed.
(Somewhere in this MESS, I have the series on VHS tape.)

yours, sw

:thumbsup:
The series, as well as the two TV movies that started it, are available on DVD if you wish to uprate to newer technology.

 

[Ratfink2u]

Great series...We lost Darren McGavin a few years back..he was awesome in "A Christmas Story"

 

[SpecialEd]

Great series...We lost Darren McGavin a few years back..he was awesome in "A Christmas Story"

"Razem frazem mundane noodle!"

 

[Javlin]

Great series...We lost Darren McGavin a few years back..he was awesome in "A Christmas Story"

I loved that series and the characters and who was the boss Tony(?).The one I always wanted to see over again was the underground city I think in Seattle or San Fran can't remember.

 

[TommyGunn]

I loved that series and the characters and who was the boss Tony(?).The one I always wanted to see over again was the underground city I think in Seattle or San Fran can't remember.

That was "The Night Strangler," with Richard Anderson of "The Six Million Dollar Man" fame. If you buy "The Night Stalker" DVD you get the Strangler on side B of the DVD.
A little-known factoid-- during the series run of "The X-Files," Chris Carter, who created that show, wanted Darren McGavin to reprise his role as Carl Kolchak. McGavin refused to do that but did agree to play a retired FBI agent who had worked on X File cases back in the 1950s. I think he appeared in a couple of X File shows as this character.

By the way, "The Night Strangler" was set in Seattle and the underground city part has a grain of truth to it, though the TV movie made it a lot more than what it really is. No one could or would want to hide in the real place.

And it was Simon Oakland who played Tony Vincenzo.

 

[stand watie]

To ALL,

Speaking of THE STRANGLER & other screen-work that McGavin did, there was a show based on THE BUTCHER, an early 1960s serial killer in Portland, OR.

I was a young teenager then & visited Portland "that summer of terror", to stay with my grandmother.

yours, sw