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We just finished watching the Night Stalker on Netflix and it was really good. I highly recommend it.
I’m not sure how much of a story the Night Stalker was in other states. But it was a major story here in SoCal in the summer of 1985 and for many years after because of his trial.
He did have a tie to El Paso which is where he grew up. It is believed that there may be unsolved cases attributed to him in Texas because he went back and forth between Texas and CA during that time of his murder spree.
That series really hits home because I lived thru that time.
One of the murders happened 4 blocks from my parents house where I grew up. We didn’t know it until weeks later because he hadn’t been named the Night Stalker yet and they didn’t tie that murder to him until later.
My parents house was less than 10 minutes away from most of the murders.
That summer changed a lot of things that we take for granted nowadays. I didn’t remember it until I watched the series, but we used to sleep with our windows open and doors unlocked and never thought twice about it before the Night Stalker. Nowadays that is just unthinkable. You would never even consider doing that today.
He is the reason I started sleeping with a knife under my mattress that I can reach in a second. That is something I started doing that summer. I slept with a machete under my mattress and I have slept with some type of blade under my mattress every day since. I also sleep with a gun within reach since then as well.
That summer no one would be out past dark. As kids we used to always play out in the streets until an hour before bedtime. That summer (and many more after that) every kid had to be in the house before dark.
The scary thing about him was there was no pattern with his victims so no one in this area felt safe.
He would kidnap, molest and sodomize children both male and female. He would rape woman of all ages and ethnicities. He would kill both men and women of all ages. He would seemingly target anyone for any reason at any time.
The whole Satanic connection didn’t come out till the very end. The news didn’t report about him painting pentagrams on the walls until right before he was caught. Then it really came out during the court case.
46+ attacks in less than one year. 14 murders and 35 rapes/assaults/abductions. Plus he admitted to additional murders after he was convicted. So who knows that his real numbers are.
I remember watching on the news when he got caught in East LA. They chased his ass down, beat him, and held him till the police arrived.
It’s weird watching the series about him because I kind of just wiped it all from my mind and forgot about him after all these years. But a lot of how we think about our own safety in the home and the precautions we take to this day are because of him.
I’m not sure how much of a story the Night Stalker was in other states. But it was a major story here in SoCal in the summer of 1985 and for many years after because of his trial.
He did have a tie to El Paso which is where he grew up. It is believed that there may be unsolved cases attributed to him in Texas because he went back and forth between Texas and CA during that time of his murder spree.
That series really hits home because I lived thru that time.
One of the murders happened 4 blocks from my parents house where I grew up. We didn’t know it until weeks later because he hadn’t been named the Night Stalker yet and they didn’t tie that murder to him until later.
My parents house was less than 10 minutes away from most of the murders.
That summer changed a lot of things that we take for granted nowadays. I didn’t remember it until I watched the series, but we used to sleep with our windows open and doors unlocked and never thought twice about it before the Night Stalker. Nowadays that is just unthinkable. You would never even consider doing that today.
He is the reason I started sleeping with a knife under my mattress that I can reach in a second. That is something I started doing that summer. I slept with a machete under my mattress and I have slept with some type of blade under my mattress every day since. I also sleep with a gun within reach since then as well.
That summer no one would be out past dark. As kids we used to always play out in the streets until an hour before bedtime. That summer (and many more after that) every kid had to be in the house before dark.
The scary thing about him was there was no pattern with his victims so no one in this area felt safe.
He would kidnap, molest and sodomize children both male and female. He would rape woman of all ages and ethnicities. He would kill both men and women of all ages. He would seemingly target anyone for any reason at any time.
The whole Satanic connection didn’t come out till the very end. The news didn’t report about him painting pentagrams on the walls until right before he was caught. Then it really came out during the court case.
46+ attacks in less than one year. 14 murders and 35 rapes/assaults/abductions. Plus he admitted to additional murders after he was convicted. So who knows that his real numbers are.
I remember watching on the news when he got caught in East LA. They chased his ass down, beat him, and held him till the police arrived.
It’s weird watching the series about him because I kind of just wiped it all from my mind and forgot about him after all these years. But a lot of how we think about our own safety in the home and the precautions we take to this day are because of him.
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