The Night Stalker ft Jake Flores

The Golden Age of Murder: A True Crime Podcast

This episode features comedian Jake Flores (@feraljokes) the host of popular podcast Pod Damn America to discuss his state's most frightening killer the Night Stalker. Few figures loom as menacingly in the modern American imagination as The Night Stalker, Richard Ramirez a murderous predatory loner who, modeling himself after his war criminal cousin and dedicating his war against society to the devil, conducted a one man terror campaign against the people of Los Angeles and San Francisco in 1984 and 1985, invading homes and brutalizing those inside. Ramirez would be convicted of 13 counts of murder, 5 attempted murders, 11 sexual assaults and 14 burglaries though his crimes went beyond even this. Ramirez trial would become as much a public spectacle as that of Charles Manson and Ted Bundy and Ramirez has become every bit as infamous in the annals of violent crime as they