But Deputy Detective Gil Carrillo believed Hernandez when she told him she had no idea why someone would have followed her home and shot her.

Sheriff's Department Homicide detectives who later worked the site at first pondered whether there had been some sort of love triangle gone wrong at play. But though he pointed his gun in her direction, he just walked back to his car and drove off into the night, leaving the AC/DC cap he had been wearing somewhere at the scene. Hernandez, who had run around to the front of the complex, saw him as he let himself out through the front door. And he saw her. 'He was certain that Satan, archenemy of Christ, of all things good, was traveling with him,' wrote author Philip Carlo, who conducted extensive prison interviews with Ramirez, in his 1996 book The Night Stalker: The Disturbing Life and Chilling Crimes of Richard Ramirez, 'and that Satan would protect him so long as he stayed evil in his heart and showed no mercy.' He had noticeably bad teeth, the ones he still had rotting away. At 24, when he committed his first known murder, he was a veteran burglar and car thief, as well as often homeless because he spent the majority of his cash on drugs and prostitutes. Ultimately the pentagrams helped prove his undoing, investigators finding a similar one drawn on the bathroom door in a hotel room where the suspect had stayed.īelieving that the devil was looking out for him, Ramirez was a delusional sadist who injected cocaine and heard subliminal messages in the lyrics of the heavy metal music he favored. Women he raped who survived recalled him demanding that they declare their love for Satan. Pentagrams scrawled in lipstick on walls and on victims further perpetuated the narrative that the killer worshipped the devil.

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