Richard Ramirez, known as the "Night Stalker", was a serial killer active in Los Angeles during the 1980s. He would break into homes at night, ransacking them for valuables. He sexually assaulted and killed female victims, and killed any male victims. Ramirez committed over a dozen murders before being identified by a witness who saw his license plate. Fingerprint and DNA evidence also linked him to the crimes. He was convicted of 14 murders and sentenced to life in prison, where he remains on death row.
Defined as a person who kills three (two)or more people in the same manner in a period of more than 30 days, with a “cooling off” period between each murder
This presentation will give you an overview of how Digital Forensics helped to catch Dennis Lynn Rader, an American serial killer known as BTK (an abbreviation he gave himself, for "bind, torture, kill"), the BTK Strangler or the BTK Killer.
Expert lecture at Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) 2013 on the role of forensic scientists and evidence analysts on a number of high profile murder investigations and crown court trial preparations
Defined as a person who kills three (two)or more people in the same manner in a period of more than 30 days, with a “cooling off” period between each murder
This presentation will give you an overview of how Digital Forensics helped to catch Dennis Lynn Rader, an American serial killer known as BTK (an abbreviation he gave himself, for "bind, torture, kill"), the BTK Strangler or the BTK Killer.
Expert lecture at Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) 2013 on the role of forensic scientists and evidence analysts on a number of high profile murder investigations and crown court trial preparations
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T here was a drug deal going down that night in rural Michigan. It wasSeptember 4, 1990, just after sunset in the town of Owosso,
population 16,360. There, about 90 miles northwest of Detroit, the
Shiawassee River meanders past a hamlet of low-rent, brick apartment
buildings. Inside one of them, a dealer with a brown moustache handed a
bag of marijuana to Debbie Williams. He told her !rmly it was $20 for the
quarter ounce, nothing less. “It’s a good thing you don’t want any more,”
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The Wedding Sting
How a police department tried to save a failing Rust Belt town by
luring all the local drug dealers to one party
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said Williams, “because that’s all I got.”
She spoke with the slow drawl of a habitual stoner. But she was an
undercover police o"cer, and one of the few women to have crawled,
shot, and boxed her way through the male-dominated police academy in
Flint. Since graduating college she had dreamed of catching criminals
(“Michigan State police required female employees to have four years of
college,” Williams told me, “its male applicants, none”). She was 30
before they let her in. Now, the 38-year-old divorcee with a shock of curly
blonde hair was her department’s undercover secret weapon, because
buying drugs was easy when you didn’t look like a cop.
Waiting in a battered ’78 Chevrolet outside, Williams’s new partner was
even more inconspicuous. Lacy “Moon” Brown, 47, had earned his
nickname by dropping his pants during undercover operations. “If I moon
them, they’ll never think I’m a cop,” he told the Detroit Free Press.
Long-haired and overweight, Moon was known for his preference for rare
burgers, his two-packs-a-day cigarette habit, and his sketchy past. “If you
saw him, you’d never believe he was a cop,” says Lieutenant Gary Parks, a
former colleague. “He had food stuck in his beard.”
Moon, says Williams “was more believable as a bad guy than he was as a
police o"cer.” Together, they had been tasked by their superiors to pose
as a drug-frazzled couple, to gather evidence on every dealer in the area.
That night in Owosso, the blonde and the vagrant drove o# into the night,
drugs in hand.
“We had a serious drug problem in the county at that time,” recalls former
Shiawassee County Sheri# A.J. LaJoye, known as “Big Jim.” The trouble
had started in 1986, when General Motors announced it would close
seven plants in the area, starting a depression.Thousands of workers were
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laid o#, and families began to $ee the area in search of jobs. In 1987,
Money magazine had named Flint the worst place to live in America. Now,
dealers were at large, peddling cocaine, marijuana, LSD, and prescription
pills.
In 1987 ...
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2. Interesting Facts!
“Was that a noise outside
Richard Ramirez was obsessed
your window? What’s that
with AC/DC’s album Highway to
shadow on the blind? As you
Hell, on this album was “Night
Prowler”. This song basically lie there naked like a body in
explain his attacks. a tomb, suspended animation
as I slip into your room...”
On October 3, 1996 in the jail’s
visiting room a wedding took
place for Doreen Lioy and Mr.
Ramirez even though he was on
death row. (I thought this was
strange!)
Thinking, “Why did she pick this
killer?” Well I chose Night Stalker
because all of his attacks happen
in Los Angeles, so they were all
local to us.
3. The Reasoning!
The motive or reasoning for Criminal past consisted of car
Ramirez's attacks was he theft, burglary, and drugs charges.
burglarized the house to
support his drug habits. Raping
the women because he had this
sexual fantasy/wanting with
the victims.
There was a turning point
where he went from just
stealing to ransacking the
house, then becoming a killer.
The turning point is to be him
witnessing his cousin Mike
murder his wife right in front
him. He was splattered with
her blood in the process. He
also had a violent childhood.
4. The Attacks!
Who: Night Stalker’s victims
were usually women of any
age.
What: If any men were
present they were
immediately killed. The
women are restrained while
he ransacked the house for
valuables, then he raped and
usually killed them.
When: The attacks started in
1984 and lasted till 1989.
Where: In Los Angeles
5. The Evidence!
Fingerprints, Bullet
casings, Pentagrams drawn in the
crime scene, Taking the eyes of the
victims, Witness getting license
plate number
There weren’t very many data
bases that could be used to
analyzed the evidence. Everything
had to be compared/analyzed by
hand.
The witness getting the license
plate number gave a break to the
case. A fingerprint lifted from the
crime scene and car
matched, which is when police
were able to stop the ends to the
Night Stalker.
6. The Conviction!
Convicted of 14
murders
Charged with 19 life
sentences
He remains on death
row in San Quentin. He
tried appealing his case
in 2006 but it was
denied.
