Richard Ramirez: Night Stalker Linked to Unsolved Murders

by Jordan Yerman | October 23, 2009 at 07:39 am

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The Night Stalker, Richard Ramirez, currently on Death Row at San Quentin State Prison following his conviction for the Night Stalker murders which terrorized the Bay Area in 1989 (especially the 11-year-old me, who had just moved there), is linked by DNA evidence to an unsolved 1984 rape and murder of a nine-year-old girl named Mei Leung, as well as the 1985 murder of 66-year-old Peter Pan and restaurant owner Masataka Kobayashi. Richard Ramirez was never charged with these crimes, as he was already on trial for the Night Stalker murders, which were characterized by Richard Ramirez's use of satanic imagery at the crime scenes. I remember that extremely scary police sketch, which in actuality looked nothing at all like Richard Ramirez.

If Richard Ramirez is charged with these murders, it's not clear if he'd stand trial.

Ramirez was long considered a suspect in the 1985 slaying of a 66-year-old man, Peter Pan, in San Francisco's Lake Merced district. The man's wife was also attacked but survived.

That attack occurred during the series of murders Ramirez committed in Southern California. After he was arrested, L.A. prosecutors charged him with crimes here, and he was found guilty and sentenced to death.

The girl was with her 8-year-old brother when she lost a dollar bill and went looking for it, police said. The boy wandered away, then came back to the basement and found his sister dead. Police said she had been beaten, raped and stabbed.

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