1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:03,440 Speaker 1: This episode contains content that may be disturbing to some listeners. 2 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:08,559 Speaker 1: Please check the show notes for more information. Disgraceland is 3 00:00:08,560 --> 00:00:22,360 Speaker 1: a production of Double Elvis. The connections between ACDC and 4 00:00:22,480 --> 00:00:28,360 Speaker 1: Richard Ramirez The Nightstalker are insane. Acdc's song night Prowler 5 00:00:28,600 --> 00:00:32,960 Speaker 1: inspired the killer's moniker, an ACDC hat was the first 6 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:36,040 Speaker 1: and for a time only clue in the serial homicide 7 00:00:36,080 --> 00:00:39,640 Speaker 1: case that grip Greater Los Angeles in the nineteen eighties. 8 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:44,559 Speaker 1: Richard Ramirez The Nightstalker carved a pentagram, a Satanic symbol, 9 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:48,480 Speaker 1: into one victim's body, painted the symbol on another victim's wall, 10 00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:51,720 Speaker 1: and carved it into the palm of his hand. And 11 00:00:51,840 --> 00:00:56,120 Speaker 1: Bond Scott, acdc's lead singer, or a pentagram around his 12 00:00:56,240 --> 00:00:58,960 Speaker 1: neck on the cover of the Highway to Hell album, 13 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:02,680 Speaker 1: a detail that was not lost on the sensationalist news media. 14 00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:07,639 Speaker 1: The Nightstalker killed thirteen people that we know about, men, women, 15 00:01:07,720 --> 00:01:12,720 Speaker 1: and children, savagely beaten, strangled, stab shot, and raped, most 16 00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:17,480 Speaker 1: while sleeping peacefully in their homes. Richard Ramirez loved to kill, 17 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:24,319 Speaker 1: and Richard Ramirez loved ac DC's music. Great music unlike 18 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:26,160 Speaker 1: that music I played for you at the top of 19 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:30,080 Speaker 1: the show. That wasn't great music. That was a preset 20 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:35,880 Speaker 1: loop from my melotron called uk Limo MK two. I 21 00:01:35,959 --> 00:01:38,720 Speaker 1: played you that loop because I can't afford the rights 22 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:43,320 Speaker 1: to Can't Fight This Feeling by Ario Speedwagon. And why 23 00:01:43,319 --> 00:01:46,759 Speaker 1: would I play you that specific slice of Crawl upon 24 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:50,840 Speaker 1: the Floor Cheese? Could I afford it? Because that was 25 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:54,520 Speaker 1: the number one song in America on March seventeenth, nineteen 26 00:01:54,560 --> 00:01:57,680 Speaker 1: eighty five, And that was the day that a California 27 00:01:57,800 --> 00:02:00,919 Speaker 1: serial killer left his ac DC had at the scene 28 00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:04,840 Speaker 1: of a homicide, dragging the band into a media circus 29 00:02:05,160 --> 00:02:07,560 Speaker 1: that would haunt them for the rest of the decade. 30 00:02:08,639 --> 00:02:13,079 Speaker 1: On this episode, a satanic serial killer, a police man hunt, 31 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:18,040 Speaker 1: a media witch hunt in a CDC. I'm Jake Brennan, 32 00:02:18,919 --> 00:02:55,600 Speaker 1: and this this Disgraceland. The headlines were ridiculous, mass killer 33 00:02:55,720 --> 00:02:59,519 Speaker 1: driven by rock and devil worship. Ac DC music Made 34 00:02:59,520 --> 00:03:04,120 Speaker 1: Me Killed, Nightstalker and mints Angus Young, the guitar player 35 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:08,519 Speaker 1: for ACDC, was annoyed the haircut sitting across from him 36 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:11,800 Speaker 1: and lead singer Brian Johnson was as ridiculous as the 37 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:14,960 Speaker 1: headlines for which he and his ILK were responsible. His 38 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:20,600 Speaker 1: questions proved it. Did ACDC stand for Anti Christ Devil's Child? 39 00:03:21,480 --> 00:03:23,840 Speaker 1: The question was so dumb it didn't even deserve an answer, 40 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:29,320 Speaker 1: but there Angus was answering it. No, we got ACDC 41 00:03:29,480 --> 00:03:32,560 Speaker 1: off of our sister's sewing machine. It stands for power. 42 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:36,280 Speaker 1: It was all a game, and the haircut knew it too. 43 00:03:36,560 --> 00:03:39,920 Speaker 1: You couldn't spend five minutes talking to Angus, Brian, Angus's 44 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:42,680 Speaker 1: brother Malcolm, or any other member of ACDC passed or 45 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:45,720 Speaker 1: present and walk away thinking, oh, yeah, those guys are 46 00:03:45,720 --> 00:03:49,480 Speaker 1: devil worshippers. They were two down to earth too, grounded, 47 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:53,600 Speaker 1: salt of the Earth, OSSI's meat and potatoes, working class. 48 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:57,920 Speaker 1: That background, along with the aforementioned power, was reflected in 49 00:03:57,960 --> 00:04:01,360 Speaker 1: their music music that it spread all over the world. 50 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:05,320 Speaker 1: Since releasing their seventh album in four years, Highway to 51 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:08,360 Speaker 1: Hell in nineteen seventy nine, and its follow up Back 52 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:11,360 Speaker 1: in Black in nineteen eighty, the band had become an 53 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:15,840 Speaker 1: international best selling sensation, knocking off nearly fifteen million in 54 00:04:15,880 --> 00:04:19,480 Speaker 1: record sales by mid decade. In the US alone, You'd 55 00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:21,600 Speaker 1: be hard pressed to find a high school in America 56 00:04:21,640 --> 00:04:25,240 Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty five without legions of long haired ACDC fans. 57 00:04:26,040 --> 00:04:28,960 Speaker 1: Their music was powerful, sure, and it played with familiar 58 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:32,520 Speaker 1: dark rock and roll themes, especially from back when Bond Scott, 59 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:35,600 Speaker 1: their original singer, helmed the group. But the truth was 60 00:04:36,200 --> 00:04:39,640 Speaker 1: ac DC was a straightforward, fun loving rock and roll band, 61 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:42,080 Speaker 1: and though they made their living on the same side 62 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:44,880 Speaker 1: of the street as Black Sabbath and led Zeppelin, the 63 00:04:44,960 --> 00:04:47,880 Speaker 1: truth was that ACDC had more in common with the 64 00:04:47,920 --> 00:04:51,800 Speaker 1: seemingly for their era anyway conservative rock and roll stylings 65 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:54,560 Speaker 1: of Chuck Berry than they did the demonic imagery and 66 00:04:54,640 --> 00:04:57,839 Speaker 1: devil and fused themes of Sabbath and Zeppelin. But that 67 00:04:57,960 --> 00:04:59,960 Speaker 1: was the truth of it, and the truth didn't matter. 68 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:03,839 Speaker 1: Like I said, who's all a game, And when it 69 00:05:03,880 --> 00:05:06,880 Speaker 1: came to the media, the game, of course was, as 70 00:05:06,920 --> 00:05:10,520 Speaker 1: it still is, all about the narrative. And at that 71 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:14,120 Speaker 1: moment in nineteen eighty five, regarding Richard Ramirez, the notorious 72 00:05:14,200 --> 00:05:18,919 Speaker 1: Knightstalker serial killer, ac DC was a big part of 73 00:05:19,040 --> 00:05:19,640 Speaker 1: the narrative. 74 00:05:23,320 --> 00:05:28,800 Speaker 2: Richard Ramirez's the so called Nightstalker, accused of murdering fifteen 75 00:05:28,839 --> 00:05:33,120 Speaker 2: people in California, was influenced by the ACDC song night 76 00:05:33,279 --> 00:05:36,560 Speaker 2: Prowler Home. 77 00:05:37,560 --> 00:05:41,359 Speaker 3: That song, it's been completely taken out of context. 78 00:05:41,440 --> 00:05:47,239 Speaker 2: For Congress has been holding hearings recently on the subject 79 00:05:47,279 --> 00:05:49,800 Speaker 2: of whether there should be warning labels on records whose 80 00:05:49,880 --> 00:05:58,200 Speaker 2: lyrics are judged objectionable. Some people say that stands for Antichrist, 81 00:05:58,279 --> 00:05:59,160 Speaker 2: the Devil's. 82 00:05:58,839 --> 00:06:04,160 Speaker 3: Child, Christ the Devil's Child, amid Christ Doble's Child. 83 00:06:10,080 --> 00:06:13,599 Speaker 1: Richard Ramirez put his back into his pool shot, all 84 00:06:13,680 --> 00:06:16,600 Speaker 1: six foot one and one hundred and sixty pounds of them. 85 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:20,279 Speaker 1: He was tall and thin, and like his favorite band ACDC, 86 00:06:20,480 --> 00:06:23,560 Speaker 1: whose music was blasting throughout the pool haul at that moment, 87 00:06:24,200 --> 00:06:29,600 Speaker 1: Richard Ramirez was powerful. He looked it physically and otherwise. 88 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:33,200 Speaker 1: His hair was black and sore in his eyes that 89 00:06:33,320 --> 00:06:36,120 Speaker 1: he was dark skinned, but beyond that, he seemed to 90 00:06:36,120 --> 00:06:39,280 Speaker 1: possess a layer of filth that perpetually covered his body. 91 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:43,080 Speaker 1: When he walked into a room Klaudas stench arrived about 92 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:47,039 Speaker 1: thirty seconds prior. He was filthy. His teeth were rotting 93 00:06:47,040 --> 00:06:49,440 Speaker 1: out of his head despite his tender age of twenty four, 94 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:52,760 Speaker 1: a combination of his lack of hygiene and drug use 95 00:06:53,520 --> 00:06:57,640 Speaker 1: cocaine mostly, and despite all of this, his good looks 96 00:06:57,680 --> 00:07:01,640 Speaker 1: were irrepressible. He wore all black, tight black jeans, black 97 00:07:01,640 --> 00:07:04,719 Speaker 1: of VA sneakers, black members only jacket in a dark 98 00:07:04,960 --> 00:07:10,440 Speaker 1: near black midnight blue ACDC hat. The band's music drove him, 99 00:07:10,760 --> 00:07:14,280 Speaker 1: especially their Highway to Hell album. It spoke to him. 100 00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:17,880 Speaker 1: But more accurately, Richard believed Satan spoke to him through 101 00:07:18,080 --> 00:07:22,680 Speaker 1: a CDC's music. Richard Ramirez believed he was the chosen one, 102 00:07:23,280 --> 00:07:26,760 Speaker 1: a dark soul hands selected by Lucifer himself to do 103 00:07:26,840 --> 00:07:31,080 Speaker 1: the devil's business here on Earth. Satan spoke to Richard 104 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:35,400 Speaker 1: in ways that went beyond ac DC as well. There 105 00:07:35,480 --> 00:07:37,840 Speaker 1: was the pentagram tattoo on that horse thigh and the 106 00:07:37,880 --> 00:07:40,320 Speaker 1: skin flick on the screen at the Cameo Theater from 107 00:07:40,360 --> 00:07:43,480 Speaker 1: earlier in the night. Then there was Perry and Dick's 108 00:07:43,520 --> 00:07:47,120 Speaker 1: complete and total lack of remorse inside the Cutter family's home. 109 00:07:47,520 --> 00:07:51,000 Speaker 1: Capodi had it dead to rights in cold blood, no doubt. 110 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:55,720 Speaker 1: In that scene from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Pam's long 111 00:07:55,800 --> 00:07:59,640 Speaker 1: walk and those short red shorts, all those teeth and 112 00:07:59,720 --> 00:08:04,640 Speaker 1: human bones, and the devil's taunting a father carous through 113 00:08:04,640 --> 00:08:11,480 Speaker 1: Reagan's body in the Exorcist caras that smug prick much power. 114 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:16,160 Speaker 1: All of it fed Richard Ramirez and he needed to 115 00:08:16,200 --> 00:08:19,800 Speaker 1: feed the devil. He split from the pool hall. It 116 00:08:19,840 --> 00:08:23,640 Speaker 1: was time. Horrors wouldn't do it. They laughed at him, 117 00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:27,240 Speaker 1: at his teeth, at his weird foot fetish. Plus, there 118 00:08:27,280 --> 00:08:30,760 Speaker 1: was no power in paying for it. Taking it was 119 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:34,679 Speaker 1: where the juice was charged him. He needed to get 120 00:08:34,720 --> 00:08:39,880 Speaker 1: out of downtown La, out into the unsuspecting suburbs. Outside 121 00:08:39,920 --> 00:08:43,080 Speaker 1: the pool hall the hot wire at Toyota, popped the 122 00:08:43,080 --> 00:08:50,320 Speaker 1: clutch and went hunting. Richard hit the highway and soon 123 00:08:50,440 --> 00:08:55,560 Speaker 1: enough the off ram Rosemead California. He cruised slow, the 124 00:08:55,640 --> 00:08:58,959 Speaker 1: windows down. In his head, he recited the lyrics to 125 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:04,240 Speaker 1: ac DC's Prowler. It calmed him. He steadied his growing adrenaline. 126 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:08,720 Speaker 1: The lyrics with their dark tail breaking and entering, prowling 127 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:12,240 Speaker 1: about in pursuit of an unsuspecting victim's virginity or worse, 128 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:15,480 Speaker 1: outside their windows on the other side of the blinds 129 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:21,000 Speaker 1: an unimaginable creepy fear. And that fear that the prowler caused. 130 00:09:21,520 --> 00:09:25,600 Speaker 1: Richard longed for it, fed off of it, chills, the 131 00:09:25,679 --> 00:09:29,840 Speaker 1: murderous terror. It was all there, from bon Scott's lips 132 00:09:29,880 --> 00:09:34,319 Speaker 1: to Satan's ears. Richard searched for a house. It needed 133 00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:38,199 Speaker 1: to be just right, the perfect mix of quiet and potential. 134 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:43,720 Speaker 1: There a tiny little condo and unassuming, petite, attractive brunette 135 00:09:43,920 --> 00:09:48,199 Speaker 1: Maria Hernandez pulling her gold Camaro under the rising automated 136 00:09:48,200 --> 00:09:52,480 Speaker 1: door of her condominium's garage. Richard cut the engine, used 137 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:55,960 Speaker 1: his muscular forearms to pull the Toyota's now manual steering 138 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:58,640 Speaker 1: wheel to the curve, and glided over the gravel to 139 00:09:58,679 --> 00:10:03,840 Speaker 1: a near silence stop, and watched as the condo's garage 140 00:10:03,880 --> 00:10:07,160 Speaker 1: door began to wrench itself to a close. Richard sprung 141 00:10:07,200 --> 00:10:10,040 Speaker 1: from his stolen car and sprinted, and before the door 142 00:10:10,080 --> 00:10:15,600 Speaker 1: could shut, Richard slid underneath. Inside, Maria Hernandez heard an 143 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:22,080 Speaker 1: unexpected sound. Turned and Mary was six feet a stacked 144 00:10:22,320 --> 00:10:27,440 Speaker 1: evil staring at her less than twenty feet away. Maria 145 00:10:27,520 --> 00:10:29,640 Speaker 1: quickly turned to insert her house key into the lock 146 00:10:29,679 --> 00:10:32,880 Speaker 1: on the door that led into her apartment. Richard began 147 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:37,480 Speaker 1: walking toward her, slowly, with intent the lock wouldn't take 148 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:42,120 Speaker 1: the key. Maria turned. Richard continued his approach. Now he 149 00:10:42,160 --> 00:10:44,719 Speaker 1: had a twenty two pistol pointed straight at her. The 150 00:10:44,800 --> 00:10:48,360 Speaker 1: garage door fully closed, all the light in the garage 151 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:52,840 Speaker 1: was completely blacked out, Maria could smell Richard's health fire breath. 152 00:10:53,160 --> 00:10:56,160 Speaker 1: No God, please don't, she said as she reflexively raised 153 00:10:56,160 --> 00:10:59,480 Speaker 1: her hands in front of her face. Then the loud, 154 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:03,520 Speaker 1: blind light at the twenty two pistol. Maria fell to 155 00:11:03,559 --> 00:11:06,480 Speaker 1: the ground, and Richard kicked the door open and entered 156 00:11:06,480 --> 00:11:10,200 Speaker 1: the condo with authority. There in the kitchen, another petite 157 00:11:10,200 --> 00:11:14,959 Speaker 1: in an attractive brunette, Dale Akazaki, Maria's roommate. She ducked behind 158 00:11:14,960 --> 00:11:18,720 Speaker 1: the counter. She didn't know Richard saw. Richard slowly approached 159 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:22,240 Speaker 1: the counter from the other side and stood silent. Richard 160 00:11:22,320 --> 00:11:26,880 Speaker 1: waited nothing. He knew it wouldn't be long. He knew 161 00:11:26,880 --> 00:11:30,959 Speaker 1: she would stand up sooner or later. Sure enough, when 162 00:11:31,040 --> 00:11:33,840 Speaker 1: Dale stood to take stock of the horrifying situation she 163 00:11:33,960 --> 00:11:36,600 Speaker 1: was in, she was staring into the cold black eyes 164 00:11:36,640 --> 00:11:39,800 Speaker 1: of her killer. Richard Vaniaz pulled the trigger of his 165 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:43,200 Speaker 1: twenty two from point blank range, firing a single bullet 166 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:47,160 Speaker 1: into the middle of the victim's forehead. She fell dead instantly. 167 00:11:47,880 --> 00:11:50,880 Speaker 1: Richard ignored the sexual charge rising up inside of him. 168 00:11:51,200 --> 00:11:53,360 Speaker 1: He turned and headed for the front door, and as 169 00:11:53,360 --> 00:11:56,319 Speaker 1: he headed out into the night, there on the walkway 170 00:11:56,480 --> 00:12:01,400 Speaker 1: in the front yard. Unbelievably, Maria her name and the 171 00:12:01,440 --> 00:12:03,480 Speaker 1: bullet he'd fired at her, and the garage had been 172 00:12:03,520 --> 00:12:06,240 Speaker 1: blocked by the house keys. In her hand. She spoke 173 00:12:06,280 --> 00:12:09,080 Speaker 1: to her would be killer in spurts, please don't, please, don't, please, 174 00:12:09,080 --> 00:12:12,120 Speaker 1: don't shoot me again, and Richard lowered his gaze and 175 00:12:12,160 --> 00:12:17,240 Speaker 1: walked past her toward his stolen car. As he drove off, 176 00:12:17,280 --> 00:12:20,960 Speaker 1: he realized his ACDC hat was missing. He steered the 177 00:12:20,960 --> 00:12:24,520 Speaker 1: hot Toyota back toward downtown LA and blasted his walkman 178 00:12:24,559 --> 00:12:28,920 Speaker 1: at full volume. Acdc's Highway to Hell filled his ears. 179 00:12:29,920 --> 00:12:37,720 Speaker 1: Living easy, living free, living easy, and living free was right. 180 00:12:38,400 --> 00:12:41,760 Speaker 1: Those lyrics from Bond Scott on acdc's Highway to Hell 181 00:12:41,920 --> 00:12:45,559 Speaker 1: title track were basically a mantra. It was how Bond 182 00:12:45,640 --> 00:12:48,120 Speaker 1: lived his life. It was how bon Scott was living 183 00:12:48,160 --> 00:12:51,199 Speaker 1: his life. At this exact moment back in nineteen seventy seven, 184 00:12:51,679 --> 00:12:54,600 Speaker 1: prior to the recording of Highway to Hell, he was 185 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:57,120 Speaker 1: stuck writing Bitch between two new friends in the back 186 00:12:57,120 --> 00:13:00,200 Speaker 1: seat of a big American V eight somewhere in Florida. 187 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:06,400 Speaker 1: Florida loved ACDC, So did Texas radio stations and live audiences, 188 00:13:06,480 --> 00:13:10,479 Speaker 1: and those two big American states were almost entirely responsible 189 00:13:10,480 --> 00:13:13,280 Speaker 1: for ACDC breaking through in the United States on the 190 00:13:13,320 --> 00:13:16,360 Speaker 1: heels of their seventy seven full length effort Dirty Deeds 191 00:13:16,440 --> 00:13:20,000 Speaker 1: Done Dirt Cheap. Bond was in a great mood, as 192 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:22,840 Speaker 1: he was on most nights. He screamed along to the 193 00:13:22,840 --> 00:13:25,880 Speaker 1: sex pistol song blasting from the car radio, and all 194 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:30,079 Speaker 1: was well until the kayludes kicked in. How many Bond 195 00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:33,520 Speaker 1: took he didn't know. He also didn't know how much 196 00:13:33,559 --> 00:13:38,000 Speaker 1: he drank blue Nun sweet German wine. It washed the 197 00:13:38,080 --> 00:13:41,800 Speaker 1: ludes down quick. Everything around him raced by at its 198 00:13:41,920 --> 00:13:46,400 Speaker 1: normal speed as Bond Scott powered down and sank deeper 199 00:13:46,480 --> 00:14:21,960 Speaker 1: and deeper and keep the seventies liver. Nineteen seventy seven 200 00:14:22,360 --> 00:14:28,080 Speaker 1: Los Angeles Sunset Strip, the Continental Hyatt House aka the 201 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:32,120 Speaker 1: Riot House. The notorious hotel was the scene of many 202 00:14:32,160 --> 00:14:36,600 Speaker 1: a seventies rock stars debaucherous escapades. Tonight it was Bond 203 00:14:36,680 --> 00:14:40,840 Speaker 1: Scott from acdc's turn. He strolled the hotel with a 204 00:14:40,840 --> 00:14:43,560 Speaker 1: bottle of Jack Daniels in one hand and a tall 205 00:14:43,600 --> 00:14:46,920 Speaker 1: buxom blonde in the other. His band was in town 206 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:48,680 Speaker 1: for a set of shows up the strip at the 207 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:52,440 Speaker 1: whiskey at Go Go, But tonight was for letting loose. 208 00:14:53,320 --> 00:14:57,040 Speaker 1: Bond had steamed to blow off since arriving in America 209 00:14:57,080 --> 00:15:00,360 Speaker 1: and support of their latest album, The Beyond Excellent Let 210 00:15:00,360 --> 00:15:03,680 Speaker 1: There Be Rock, Living Easy and Living Free was proving 211 00:15:03,680 --> 00:15:07,720 Speaker 1: to be easier said than done. The critics were not impressed. 212 00:15:09,240 --> 00:15:12,000 Speaker 1: The New York Times said the quote the band is tight, 213 00:15:12,080 --> 00:15:15,800 Speaker 1: but the singer is undistinguished. The Los Angeles Times claimed 214 00:15:15,800 --> 00:15:20,040 Speaker 1: that bon Scott himself was utterly unlistenable. What did the 215 00:15:20,080 --> 00:15:24,240 Speaker 1: critics know anyway? Nothing? The media were nothing but vultures. 216 00:15:24,800 --> 00:15:28,440 Speaker 1: Kids knew the truth. They flooded radio station request lines 217 00:15:28,480 --> 00:15:31,920 Speaker 1: for ACDC after every show the band played. Rock and 218 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:35,560 Speaker 1: roll was a lifestyle. The kids understood that it was 219 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:39,360 Speaker 1: a commitment. You needed to live the life, walk the walk, 220 00:15:39,480 --> 00:15:42,360 Speaker 1: talk to talk, so to speak, and bon Scott did that. 221 00:15:43,160 --> 00:15:47,800 Speaker 1: Concertgoers latched onto bon Scott's rock and roll authenticity, and 222 00:15:47,840 --> 00:15:50,320 Speaker 1: in my opinion, there is no better example of what 223 00:15:50,360 --> 00:15:52,240 Speaker 1: a rock and roll front man should be than Bond 224 00:15:52,320 --> 00:15:59,920 Speaker 1: Scott voice check. There's none better in the genre. Raspy, knowing, bluesy, mysterious, powerful, 225 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:03,600 Speaker 1: and unlike anything before or since. Probably my favorite rock 226 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:07,440 Speaker 1: singer of all time looks. Check bon Scott looked like 227 00:16:07,480 --> 00:16:09,400 Speaker 1: he'd fight you, fuck you, be your best friend, and 228 00:16:09,440 --> 00:16:11,640 Speaker 1: break your heart all in the same night, regardless of 229 00:16:11,680 --> 00:16:14,640 Speaker 1: what sex you were. Bon had it all. He was 230 00:16:14,880 --> 00:16:20,440 Speaker 1: utterly serious looking, tattoos, broken teeth, yet totally irreverent, violently handsome, 231 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:22,600 Speaker 1: a rough piece of trade he could take home to mom, 232 00:16:22,680 --> 00:16:26,720 Speaker 1: Well not my mom, but you get the idea. Stage presence, 233 00:16:26,800 --> 00:16:30,160 Speaker 1: check bon Scott commanded the stage with a unique, powerful presence, 234 00:16:30,560 --> 00:16:32,840 Speaker 1: no easy task when you're positioned up there next to 235 00:16:32,840 --> 00:16:36,760 Speaker 1: Angus Young, a constant, whirling ball of sugar infused heavy 236 00:16:36,800 --> 00:16:39,600 Speaker 1: metal energy in a schoolboys uniform with a Gibson sg 237 00:16:39,920 --> 00:16:42,280 Speaker 1: who split his time stripping down to his skivvies and 238 00:16:42,360 --> 00:16:46,200 Speaker 1: melting faces. Even in the face of that, bon Scott 239 00:16:46,240 --> 00:16:49,040 Speaker 1: did more than hold his own, He owned the audience 240 00:16:49,080 --> 00:16:53,080 Speaker 1: with raw power. Just like the rest of his band lyrics, 241 00:16:53,360 --> 00:16:56,960 Speaker 1: check bon Scott was a natural rock and roll storyteller, 242 00:16:57,240 --> 00:16:59,920 Speaker 1: cut from the same cloth as the great One. Chuck Berry. 243 00:17:00,600 --> 00:17:03,200 Speaker 1: A CDC's latest long player, Let there Be Rock, had 244 00:17:03,200 --> 00:17:05,479 Speaker 1: Bond on the top of his game lyrically with songs 245 00:17:05,520 --> 00:17:08,200 Speaker 1: like Whole Lot of Rosie, a song about the virtues 246 00:17:08,200 --> 00:17:10,480 Speaker 1: of the full bodied female, and the title track, Let 247 00:17:10,560 --> 00:17:13,119 Speaker 1: There Be Rock, which took the listener through a blitzkreek 248 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:20,119 Speaker 1: rock and roll history lesson. Bon Scott commanded audiences and 249 00:17:20,119 --> 00:17:23,920 Speaker 1: he told stories offstage too, as he was now doing 250 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:28,119 Speaker 1: at the Hyatto House, surrounded by friends. Problem child, so 251 00:17:28,240 --> 00:17:31,639 Speaker 1: the story went was a song about angus, but Bond 252 00:17:31,720 --> 00:17:35,600 Speaker 1: was coming clean. Maybe that Jack Daniels was talking The 253 00:17:35,680 --> 00:17:42,359 Speaker 1: song he said was actually about himself. Nineteen sixty three, 254 00:17:42,600 --> 00:17:45,840 Speaker 1: sixteen year old Bond Scott those other boys had a coming. 255 00:17:46,280 --> 00:17:48,760 Speaker 1: Bond took on the lot of them, bare knuckled. He 256 00:17:48,800 --> 00:17:50,520 Speaker 1: would have prevailed if it weren't for the cop who 257 00:17:50,520 --> 00:17:52,480 Speaker 1: broke it up and the cop who caught one of 258 00:17:52,520 --> 00:17:55,600 Speaker 1: Bond's flailing fists, and that little move ended up with 259 00:17:55,600 --> 00:17:59,359 Speaker 1: the charge escalating to assault on a police officer. Bond 260 00:17:59,359 --> 00:18:02,800 Speaker 1: did twelve months in a juvenile home for boys. And 261 00:18:02,840 --> 00:18:05,720 Speaker 1: then there was the story about Deep Purple. They was 262 00:18:05,760 --> 00:18:09,080 Speaker 1: supposed to headline the Sunbury Festival back on ac DC's 263 00:18:09,160 --> 00:18:13,160 Speaker 1: Australian home turf back in seventy five. Deep Purple were 264 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:16,400 Speaker 1: huge at the time. Bond had barely been in ACDC. 265 00:18:16,520 --> 00:18:19,600 Speaker 1: A couple of months, Deep Purple backed out and the 266 00:18:19,600 --> 00:18:24,000 Speaker 1: promoter hired local upstarts ACDC to fill him. Then Deep 267 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:26,840 Speaker 1: Purple showed up in their fucking rolls Rooices no Less 268 00:18:26,840 --> 00:18:29,480 Speaker 1: and they demanded to play. But one of the roadies 269 00:18:29,480 --> 00:18:32,760 Speaker 1: took a swing at acdc's manager and bond Scott pounced 270 00:18:33,160 --> 00:18:37,040 Speaker 1: leveled the dude. All hell broke loose backstage. Angus spilled 271 00:18:37,040 --> 00:18:38,800 Speaker 1: out onto the stage to chill out the kids in 272 00:18:38,840 --> 00:18:40,800 Speaker 1: the crowd who were desperate to know what was happening 273 00:18:40,800 --> 00:18:42,800 Speaker 1: and eager to lend their countryman a hand. When they 274 00:18:42,880 --> 00:18:45,359 Speaker 1: found out they were doing battle backstage with an English 275 00:18:45,480 --> 00:18:49,040 Speaker 1: rock group, Angus chilled them out, but not before seeing 276 00:18:49,119 --> 00:18:51,720 Speaker 1: his lead singer, Bond Scott, being whipped around on the 277 00:18:51,760 --> 00:18:55,480 Speaker 1: back of a Deep Purple roadie he held in a headlock. Eventually, 278 00:18:55,520 --> 00:18:58,280 Speaker 1: the melee came to an end and all parties laughed 279 00:18:58,320 --> 00:19:03,000 Speaker 1: off the incident but for a good story, just like 280 00:19:03,119 --> 00:19:05,919 Speaker 1: the story about when Bond found himself at the maternity 281 00:19:05,960 --> 00:19:09,520 Speaker 1: ward visiting two different women at the same time, both 282 00:19:09,560 --> 00:19:13,400 Speaker 1: of whom were delivering his babies. It's true that happened, 283 00:19:13,720 --> 00:19:17,160 Speaker 1: according to Bonn Scott anyway, Another one of his good 284 00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:23,080 Speaker 1: stories but nothing top Bond appearing on Australian national television 285 00:19:23,080 --> 00:19:26,639 Speaker 1: to perform in nineteen seventy five, fully in drag, dressed 286 00:19:26,640 --> 00:19:31,920 Speaker 1: as a schoolgirl, pigtails, blue eyeliner, lipstick skirt, Australia would 287 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:34,760 Speaker 1: never be the same. Half the country was still horrified 288 00:19:34,760 --> 00:19:38,280 Speaker 1: and half was still laughing. Like Bond, it was all 289 00:19:38,320 --> 00:19:41,840 Speaker 1: a joke. The arrests, the time to drink, the fights, 290 00:19:41,840 --> 00:19:45,040 Speaker 1: the unwed pregnancies, the shock and outrage, none of it 291 00:19:45,200 --> 00:19:49,080 Speaker 1: was serious. It was all a put on, living easy, 292 00:19:49,480 --> 00:19:52,800 Speaker 1: living free. The only thing that mattered was the show, 293 00:19:53,440 --> 00:19:57,240 Speaker 1: giving the kids what they wanted and beyond power, were 294 00:19:57,359 --> 00:20:04,320 Speaker 1: kids in the nineteen seventies wanted was darkness. Richard Ramirez 295 00:20:04,400 --> 00:20:07,119 Speaker 1: was one of those kids. Hell in a bad place 296 00:20:07,200 --> 00:20:10,360 Speaker 1: to be. If you want blood, you got it. Dirty 297 00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:14,200 Speaker 1: deeds done, dirt, cheat, What's next to the Moon? Night 298 00:20:14,280 --> 00:20:19,520 Speaker 1: Prowler and Highway to Hell. Indiscriminate murder, contract killing, violent 299 00:20:19,560 --> 00:20:23,800 Speaker 1: crimes of passion, a glorification of Satan. All this darkness 300 00:20:23,840 --> 00:20:28,520 Speaker 1: is present in these ACDC songs, tremendous transgressive rock and 301 00:20:28,600 --> 00:20:33,840 Speaker 1: roll storytelling delivered with ac DC's trademark power. Incredibly compelling 302 00:20:33,880 --> 00:20:37,720 Speaker 1: stuff for disaffected teenagers everywhere, never mind those living in 303 00:20:37,720 --> 00:20:42,320 Speaker 1: a post Charles Manson, Los Angeles, nineteen eighty five. LA 304 00:20:42,680 --> 00:20:46,320 Speaker 1: was its own kind of hell. The air itself was toxic, 305 00:20:46,600 --> 00:20:48,680 Speaker 1: and the homeless problem, like it is now, was out 306 00:20:48,680 --> 00:20:51,639 Speaker 1: of control. And the elite shuffled aimlessly up in their 307 00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:54,480 Speaker 1: Hollywood Hills mansions as coke and crack addicts roamed the 308 00:20:54,520 --> 00:20:57,960 Speaker 1: streets below, turning tricks and getting stoned, and decaying bus 309 00:20:58,080 --> 00:21:02,320 Speaker 1: terminals and hourly motels. It was in this hell that 310 00:21:02,480 --> 00:21:05,800 Speaker 1: Richard Ramirez found himself listening to a C d C. 311 00:21:06,359 --> 00:21:10,520 Speaker 1: Communing with Satan and about to pay the devil his due. 312 00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:17,920 Speaker 3: We'll be right back after this. We're We're where. 313 00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:27,560 Speaker 1: The Catholic Church compels its followers to develop a daily 314 00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:31,560 Speaker 1: relationship with God, to speak to him, to pray to him, 315 00:21:31,880 --> 00:21:36,199 Speaker 1: to commune with him. Richard Ramirez did the opposite. He 316 00:21:36,359 --> 00:21:42,560 Speaker 1: spoke with Satan. Satan compelled him from behind the wheel 317 00:21:42,600 --> 00:21:45,960 Speaker 1: of his stolen car. Richard Ramirez absorbed the sounds of 318 00:21:46,040 --> 00:21:50,000 Speaker 1: highway to Hell and spoke in a trance, Hail Satan, 319 00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:53,159 Speaker 1: thank you for being a stabilizing force in my life, 320 00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:56,919 Speaker 1: for driving me, for accepting me into your army, for 321 00:21:57,080 --> 00:22:00,680 Speaker 1: enlisting me in your fight against Christ, for giving purpose, 322 00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:08,439 Speaker 1: for showing me the power total nomination. I'll see. Richard 323 00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:12,000 Speaker 1: Ramirez believed that Jesus Christ was the enemy, and that he, 324 00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:16,040 Speaker 1: Richard Ramirez, was part of Satan's army here on earth. 325 00:22:16,760 --> 00:22:20,119 Speaker 1: And who are we to argue Richard Ramirez is evil 326 00:22:20,480 --> 00:22:25,520 Speaker 1: was beyond compare. Especially on the night of March twenty sixth, 327 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:32,040 Speaker 1: nineteen eighty five, at around two am, Richard Ramirez slowed 328 00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:34,840 Speaker 1: his new Stowe car to a stop outside a tidy 329 00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:39,320 Speaker 1: looking home on Strong Avenue in Whittier, California. He crept 330 00:22:39,359 --> 00:22:42,520 Speaker 1: slowly into the yard, peered into the living room window. 331 00:22:43,080 --> 00:22:45,560 Speaker 1: On the sofa a man sleeping in front of the 332 00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:48,960 Speaker 1: television in his underwear. Richard crept to the back of 333 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:53,080 Speaker 1: the house. He peered into a bedroom window. There on 334 00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:58,000 Speaker 1: the bed a woman sleeping mid forties. The sight of 335 00:22:58,040 --> 00:23:02,399 Speaker 1: her and the thought of imminent sex charged Richard. Richard 336 00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:05,040 Speaker 1: turned toward the front of the house, steadied himself with 337 00:23:05,119 --> 00:23:08,560 Speaker 1: his twenty two pistol aimed in combat position, and burst 338 00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:11,240 Speaker 1: through the front door. The man on the couch woke 339 00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:14,520 Speaker 1: in a star when Richard immediately fired off around. The 340 00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:17,280 Speaker 1: bullet entered the man's skull just above his ear. A 341 00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:19,520 Speaker 1: thin stream of blood shot out of the man's head 342 00:23:19,520 --> 00:23:22,159 Speaker 1: and painted the living room wall three feet away. The 343 00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:25,000 Speaker 1: man fell to the floor, dying. The sound of the 344 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:28,160 Speaker 1: shot woke the woman in the bedroom. Horror chilled her mands. 345 00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:31,280 Speaker 1: When she saw Richard enter the room, she screamed, and 346 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:35,680 Speaker 1: Richard screamed back with his kept a mighty bess. Richard 347 00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:38,119 Speaker 1: didn't wait for an answer. He quickly grabbed a necktie 348 00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:40,080 Speaker 1: from the closet and bound the woman to the bed. 349 00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:43,920 Speaker 1: Then he continued ransacking her bedroom for valuables. But while 350 00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:47,320 Speaker 1: he was distracted, the woman loosened the sloppily tied necktie, 351 00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:50,160 Speaker 1: undid herself, and made for the shotgun her husband kept 352 00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:53,840 Speaker 1: under the bed. Richard heard her, turned around and was 353 00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:56,000 Speaker 1: shocked to see the woman had the drop on him. 354 00:23:56,760 --> 00:24:00,399 Speaker 1: She focused her aim, strengthened her grip, pulled the trigger 355 00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:07,840 Speaker 1: in no shotgun shells. Richard flew into a rage. How 356 00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:10,760 Speaker 1: dare she try to hurt him? He was an agent 357 00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:15,199 Speaker 1: of Satan. She was a weak pawn, insignificant sacrificial fodder. 358 00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:18,360 Speaker 1: He quickly raised his twenty two and shot her three times. 359 00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:21,600 Speaker 1: Then he hit the kitchen and grabbed the biggest knife 360 00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:24,240 Speaker 1: he could find. When he returned, he pounced on the 361 00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:26,399 Speaker 1: woman on the bed. He ripped off her shirt and 362 00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:28,879 Speaker 1: proceeded to attempt to cut her heart out of her chest, 363 00:24:29,080 --> 00:24:31,520 Speaker 1: but the knife wasn't strong enough and wouldn't penetrate the 364 00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:35,399 Speaker 1: rib cage. It was a disappointment. Richard took the knife 365 00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:38,280 Speaker 1: and carved a deep, bloody, upside down cross into the 366 00:24:38,280 --> 00:24:41,760 Speaker 1: woman's chest and homage to Satan. Without her heart as 367 00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:45,399 Speaker 1: a souvenir, he turned his attention to her eyes. He 368 00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:48,719 Speaker 1: took his knife and with precision, he cut her eyeballs 369 00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:51,560 Speaker 1: out of her skull and carefully placed them into the 370 00:24:51,560 --> 00:24:56,280 Speaker 1: woman's small jewelry box. His anger returned, he stabbed her 371 00:24:56,320 --> 00:25:00,440 Speaker 1: repeatedly in the throat, in the stomach, in the vagina. 372 00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:03,280 Speaker 1: Richard then tried to have sex with the dead woman's body, 373 00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:06,320 Speaker 1: but his anger prevented him from getting an erection. He 374 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:09,920 Speaker 1: exited the house, frustrated and covered in blood. He took 375 00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:16,560 Speaker 1: the shotgun and the woman's eyes. On May twenty ninth, 376 00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:20,960 Speaker 1: it was a different home in Monrovia, Richard broke in. 377 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:24,720 Speaker 1: He prowled the entryway into the kitchen, where he found 378 00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:28,160 Speaker 1: a hammer. Moving to the bedrooms, he found and tied 379 00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:32,240 Speaker 1: up both residents of the Monrovia home, two women sisters 380 00:25:32,520 --> 00:25:36,960 Speaker 1: in their eighties, one of them disabled, and they helplessly 381 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:39,680 Speaker 1: took blows from that hammer, the claws of it gouging 382 00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:43,720 Speaker 1: and breaking their bodies, and Richard's bloodlust fed his libido 383 00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:46,560 Speaker 1: what he wanted to do and whittier he did to 384 00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:51,280 Speaker 1: the disabled woman in Monrovia. Afterwards, he shocked the one 385 00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:53,960 Speaker 1: sister with an electric cord, took her lipstick, and drew 386 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:56,560 Speaker 1: pentagrams on her thigh and on the walls of the house. 387 00:25:57,840 --> 00:26:02,440 Speaker 1: The two women's bodies weren't found for day. The very 388 00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:06,280 Speaker 1: next night, in Burbank, he used handcuffs instead of rope 389 00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:08,239 Speaker 1: to bind a forty two year old woman and her 390 00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:10,800 Speaker 1: eleven year old son. He threw the kid in the 391 00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:13,480 Speaker 1: closet and dragged the mom around the house, making her 392 00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:15,919 Speaker 1: show him all the valuables he could steal, and then 393 00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:18,560 Speaker 1: he raped her, repeatedly shouting at her the whole time. 394 00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:21,000 Speaker 3: Don't look at me, I said, don't look at don't 395 00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:22,359 Speaker 3: know fucking look at me. 396 00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:23,840 Speaker 1: I won't, I won't. I swear to God. 397 00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:27,520 Speaker 3: I won't don't swear to God, I swear to save why. 398 00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:31,720 Speaker 1: In the night's soccer. Richard liked making his victims swear 399 00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:34,400 Speaker 1: to the devil. A sixty three year old survivor from 400 00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:37,040 Speaker 1: Monterey Park was made to pledge of allegiance to Lucifer 401 00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:39,920 Speaker 1: during a robbery and Sun Valley, he demanded the widow 402 00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:41,640 Speaker 1: of the man he just shot in the head swear 403 00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:43,840 Speaker 1: to Satan that she had given a ball her jewelry. 404 00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:46,480 Speaker 1: And on another night in Diamond Bar, he made a 405 00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:48,600 Speaker 1: different woman swear to the devil that she would stay 406 00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:53,440 Speaker 1: quiet while he raped her. Every scene was raw, uncut, 407 00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:57,840 Speaker 1: nightmare fuel. And then there was the attempted murder of 408 00:26:57,880 --> 00:27:02,840 Speaker 1: Whitney Bennett. Stops stop, She shouted, her mouth full of blood. 409 00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:06,560 Speaker 1: The tire iron came down on her head over and over, 410 00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:10,879 Speaker 1: pummeling her innocent sixteen year old face. Richard had snuck 411 00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:13,639 Speaker 1: in her unlocked bedroom window with the tire iron in hand, 412 00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:16,720 Speaker 1: and as he brought it down again, her hand swatted 413 00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:19,680 Speaker 1: at him in a useless defense. She had been asleep 414 00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:23,040 Speaker 1: a minute ago, and she quickly slipped back into unconsciousness 415 00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:26,280 Speaker 1: under the assault. Richard stepped out into the kitchen for 416 00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:30,240 Speaker 1: a knife, but struggled to find one. Instead, he decided 417 00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:33,920 Speaker 1: to finish the job by strangulation. An electric cord laced 418 00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:38,000 Speaker 1: around her neck pulled tout. He yanked it harder, watched 419 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:42,240 Speaker 1: her skin go pale and then purple. Suddenly, the electric 420 00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:45,280 Speaker 1: chord sparked and fritzed, filling the air above her body 421 00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:48,200 Speaker 1: with a blue haze. It was as if her soul 422 00:27:48,359 --> 00:27:52,560 Speaker 1: was visibly leaving her body, except instead of dying, the 423 00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:55,359 Speaker 1: sixteen year old began gasping for air and waking up 424 00:27:55,359 --> 00:28:00,359 Speaker 1: again for once. Richard Ramirez was the scared one. The 425 00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:03,000 Speaker 1: blue haze over the girl's body. It freaked him out. 426 00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:06,359 Speaker 1: Clearly this was a sign of divine rather than Satanic 427 00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:10,800 Speaker 1: intervention her soul. He saw it, He swore, that was 428 00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:16,560 Speaker 1: what scared him, Jesus intervening overpowering Satan. Richard booked it 429 00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:19,440 Speaker 1: out of the house and Whitney Bennett survived after five 430 00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:26,560 Speaker 1: hundred stitches and some plastic surgery. Following this gruesome string 431 00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:29,520 Speaker 1: of murders, it wasn't long before the press picked up 432 00:28:29,520 --> 00:28:31,520 Speaker 1: on the fact that a serial killer was in their 433 00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:34,400 Speaker 1: midst When they found out one of the only clues 434 00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:37,040 Speaker 1: was an ACDC hat left behind at the scene of 435 00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:40,160 Speaker 1: the Dale Okazaki murder in March of eighty five. The 436 00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:43,560 Speaker 1: media feeding frenzy really kicked in. They even had a 437 00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:45,880 Speaker 1: name for the killer. It was a take on his 438 00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:51,360 Speaker 1: favorite band ACDC song, night Prowler. They called him the 439 00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:52,640 Speaker 1: knight Stalker. 440 00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:58,800 Speaker 3: Was so Paul Kninstall owed four murders in the Los 441 00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:01,960 Speaker 3: Angeles area. Now police have linked the colorful murder at 442 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:10,240 Speaker 3: San Francisco last weekend murder at San Francs. Officials in 443 00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:12,880 Speaker 3: Los Angeles are offering a ten thousand dollars reward for 444 00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:16,280 Speaker 3: leeward to the toupture of the so called Nightstone night 445 00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:21,680 Speaker 3: Stalker Stalker Stalker Stalkers. The same man is suspected in 446 00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:24,840 Speaker 3: six to eight murders in twenty five to thirty attacks. 447 00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:28,240 Speaker 3: The latest victim a thirty five year old man shot 448 00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:32,680 Speaker 3: in the head last Thursday, shot in the short last Thursday, Thursday, Thursday, 449 00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:38,320 Speaker 3: Thursday years. I'm afraid for everybody, elderly, young than everybody. 450 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:40,840 Speaker 3: I've been very apprehensive. 451 00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:44,600 Speaker 2: I keep my door's on and my godsloaded, guns loaded, 452 00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:45,640 Speaker 2: gunslow and guns loaded. 453 00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:51,360 Speaker 3: Night Starns. Callers are flooding the Sheriff's Department with afforded sightings, 454 00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:55,320 Speaker 3: but so far no solid feats. Night Star, Night Star, 455 00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:57,960 Speaker 3: Night Night Stars, Night Storm. 456 00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:05,080 Speaker 1: And if DC embodied Bon Scott, Richard Ramirez unfortunately embodied 457 00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:33,640 Speaker 1: the violent themes Bond Scott incorporated into his music. The 458 00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:39,520 Speaker 1: hat midnight blue near black, glittery ac DC logo emblazoned 459 00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:43,040 Speaker 1: across the front. It fell off of Richard Ramirez his head, 460 00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:46,160 Speaker 1: most likely when he scooted under Maria Hernandez's garage door 461 00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:48,640 Speaker 1: before attempting to shoot her point blank in the face. 462 00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:51,680 Speaker 1: It was one of his first violent break ins in 463 00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:55,720 Speaker 1: the first clue he left for police. It would be 464 00:30:55,840 --> 00:30:58,560 Speaker 1: months before the media would learn about that hat, and 465 00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:01,440 Speaker 1: when they did, they looked into rich Ramirez his favorite band. 466 00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:05,840 Speaker 1: It was nineteen eighty five in ac DC's latest album, 467 00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:09,120 Speaker 1: Fly on the Wall, was a mediocre recording and commercial 468 00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:13,720 Speaker 1: release for a band as successful as ACDC. However, journalists 469 00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:15,960 Speaker 1: I'm a hunt for a narrative didn't need to do 470 00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:18,840 Speaker 1: much digging to connect a straight line between the murderous 471 00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:23,160 Speaker 1: actions of Richard Ramirez and the influence of ACDC. All 472 00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:26,000 Speaker 1: they needed to do was traced to the band's discography 473 00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:28,840 Speaker 1: back a few years to nineteen seventy nine to their 474 00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:33,400 Speaker 1: album Highway to Hell. On its cover, Angus Young Sports's 475 00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:37,200 Speaker 1: trademark schoolboy hat modified with devil horns and holds a 476 00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:40,360 Speaker 1: long point to Devil's Tale in his hand. You'd have 477 00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:42,600 Speaker 1: to be a complete fucking idiot to take the image 478 00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:45,240 Speaker 1: of him seriously. But then again, we are talking about 479 00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:48,520 Speaker 1: the American media. Perhaps more serious as the image of 480 00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:52,160 Speaker 1: Bond Scott next to Angus. He's supporting a goofy smile. 481 00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:54,640 Speaker 1: The photographer caught him in the middle of a laugh. 482 00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:58,320 Speaker 1: It's a very Bond type of image one of thousand 483 00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:02,320 Speaker 1: fans have seen before. As always, he's not taking himself 484 00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:07,120 Speaker 1: too seriously. However, on his necklace hangs a very serious symbol, 485 00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:11,360 Speaker 1: a five pointed pentagram representing the five wounds of Jesus 486 00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:14,520 Speaker 1: at a goatshead. To the pentagram and you have the 487 00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:19,320 Speaker 1: official symbol of the Church of Satan. Catholic exorcists believe 488 00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:23,560 Speaker 1: that symbols like the pentagram, or perhaps even this podcast, 489 00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:26,280 Speaker 1: are used by the devil as entry points into the 490 00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:30,200 Speaker 1: lives of men and women. Richard Ramirez believed this too, 491 00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:34,160 Speaker 1: after he was captured on August thirty first, nineteen eighty five. 492 00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:37,120 Speaker 1: He stood and courted his arraignment and flashed the palm 493 00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:41,080 Speaker 1: of his hand on it, a massive pentagram carved into 494 00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:44,360 Speaker 1: the flesh above the number six sixty six, the number 495 00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:47,520 Speaker 1: of the Beast, in case there was any doubt. After 496 00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:51,840 Speaker 1: he pleaded innocent to murdering thirteen people, Richard Ramirez yelled 497 00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:54,520 Speaker 1: out Hail Satan to the judge and the rest of 498 00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:57,680 Speaker 1: the court, including some victims, family members, and members of 499 00:32:57,720 --> 00:33:02,360 Speaker 1: the media media who had already connected Richard's intentions to 500 00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:04,880 Speaker 1: more than just bond Scott's pentagram on the cover of 501 00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:07,960 Speaker 1: Highway to Hell. They also connected the dots to bon 502 00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:11,400 Speaker 1: Scott's lyrics in the slow Evil Menace of the album's 503 00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:15,560 Speaker 1: final track, Night Prowler, which lyrically seemed to detail the 504 00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:18,840 Speaker 1: creepy B and E murders of Richard Ramirez the knights Stalker. 505 00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:21,920 Speaker 1: Many in the media went as far as to directly 506 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:26,800 Speaker 1: blame ACDC for Richard Ramirez's actions. The members of ACDC 507 00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:31,360 Speaker 1: vehemently denied any serious connection to or influence from Satan, 508 00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:35,320 Speaker 1: despite the imagery and themes they explored on record. Richard 509 00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:38,680 Speaker 1: Ramirez did the opposite saying in court, I love all 510 00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:42,000 Speaker 1: that blood. I love to kill people. I love watching 511 00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:46,160 Speaker 1: them die. I believe in Satan. I am beyond good 512 00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:50,280 Speaker 1: and evil. Satanists need to have more faith than Christians. 513 00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:54,720 Speaker 1: Richard went further. He treated his trial like some sort 514 00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:57,760 Speaker 1: of demonic celebrity come out party. He dressed in a 515 00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:01,040 Speaker 1: dark suit, wore sunglasses in the courtroom, and let his 516 00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:04,160 Speaker 1: hair grow up. If you squinted, you could see the 517 00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:08,480 Speaker 1: resemblance to ac DC's previous singer, Bond Scott, who passed 518 00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:12,160 Speaker 1: away tragically, drunk and stoned and drowned in his own 519 00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:14,960 Speaker 1: vomit in the front seat of a French SUPERMANI on 520 00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:18,520 Speaker 1: a cold English night five years prior, in nineteen seventy nine, 521 00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:24,280 Speaker 1: living easy, living free, dead on your own puke inside 522 00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:28,319 Speaker 1: the cold interior of a Renault five. For a moment, 523 00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:31,440 Speaker 1: the courtroom stage allowed Richard Ramirez to fill the void 524 00:34:31,520 --> 00:34:34,640 Speaker 1: left by Bon Scott. Richard was now the rock star. 525 00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:38,280 Speaker 1: The explosion of media coverage around his trial that blasted 526 00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:41,680 Speaker 1: his evil rockstar image all over television, newscasts and newspapers 527 00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:45,719 Speaker 1: daily led to a torrent of groupies. These were women 528 00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:48,799 Speaker 1: who wrote to Richard Ramirez pledging their love. They sent 529 00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:52,920 Speaker 1: him nudes, proposed polyamorous domesticity, and even hung out in 530 00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:57,480 Speaker 1: and around the courtroom during his trial. One Doreen Leoi 531 00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:00,719 Speaker 1: even married Richard after he was convicted then sent to 532 00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:04,759 Speaker 1: San Quentin with a death sentence. Perhaps Doreen's love was 533 00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:09,280 Speaker 1: a parting gift to Richard from the devil paying his dues. Perhaps, 534 00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:13,720 Speaker 1: as Bond Scott sang in nineteen seventy seven, hell ain't 535 00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:19,400 Speaker 1: a bad place to be evil, Richard Ramirez was a 536 00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:23,279 Speaker 1: special kind of evil, proof that Satan does indeed walk 537 00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:27,360 Speaker 1: among us. The Knightstalker died in prison on June seventh, 538 00:35:27,440 --> 00:35:31,319 Speaker 1: twenty thirteen. In the end, it wasn't the electric chair 539 00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:37,560 Speaker 1: or lethal injection. It was b cell lymphoma cancer, bad blood. 540 00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:42,960 Speaker 1: He was fifty three years old. Richard Ramirez spent twenty 541 00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:45,640 Speaker 1: more years on this earth than bon Scott, who died 542 00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:48,480 Speaker 1: at the age of thirty three. But only one of 543 00:35:48,560 --> 00:35:54,279 Speaker 1: these men died a disgrace. 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