California grandmother Joyce Nelson told her son she "wouldn’t want to be a prisoner in her own home” when he asked her to lock her doors with the "Night Stalker" on the loose.
After he was arrested for murdering more than a dozen people, Richard Ramirez drew a horde of female fans vying for the killer's attention. One even married him.
Rosie Juarez, the eldest niece of serial killer Richard Ramirez, says her uncle started abusing her when she was just 6. It continued for years, she said.
Doreen Lioy, who later married serial killer Richard Ramirez, said she was "captivated" by his mug shot when police broke in to interrupt the TV show she was watching.
Marie Noe drew sympathy after she and her husband, Arthur Noe, lost all 10 of their children between 1949 and 1968. Decades later, she confessed to murdering eight of them.
A series of prison recordings with the murderer and sex offender unearths new truths in the Peacock original docuseries Richard Ramirez: The Night Stalker Tapes.