According to a 1998 US state department report, ‘Fuqra members have attacked a variety of targets that they view as enemies of Islam, including Muslims they regard as heretics’. The FBI noted that Fuqra likely committed a similar murder of an east Indian family living in Washington in 1984. The slain family were close friends of the president of Alpha Engineering. Alpha Engineering is the same firm that Tariq Rafay worked for when he and his family were murdered in 1994. ibid. captions
Defence accuses Mounties of illegal tactics. The Confession Tapes II: True East part 2, The Province newspaper headline 29 July 2003
The defence attorney says police ignored a fingerprint on this shower door, and they ignored a blood spot in the shower with DNA from Tariq Rafay and someone else, someone else who didn’t match any of the victims or Burns or Rafay. ibid. television news report
If they [Rafay & Burns] did do that incredibly bloody murder, why could they [rozzers] not come up with any forensics that was indisputably linked to the murder? Nothing. ibid. defence dude
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April 8th 2009, Woodstock, Ontario: Missing Child: Victoria Stafford. Signs of a Psychopath s1e6: I Could Hear Her Calling Me, poster
Surveillance video shows a mysterious woman leading Tori to a black Honda Civic. Four days after Tori vanishes, tipsters tell police the woman might by Terri-Lynne McClintic. And her boyfriend, Michael Rafferty, happens to own a black Honda Civic. ibid.
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There was a party. There was a UK football player [Trent DiGiuro] who had been shot … Just a low-key party with some friends. Dateline: The Motive for Murder, NBC 2020
Concerning Shane Ragland being blackballed from the Fraternity: a silly reason to kill someone. ibid. rozzer
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In 2004 former US marine John Henry Ramirez stabbed and killed Pablo Castro. He was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death. After 8 years on Texas death row John will be executed in 7 days. John is making a final appeal to halt his execution. Life and Death Row: In Cold Blood, BBC 2018
‘It was just a bad day and a bunch of wrong choices on my part.’ ibid. Ramirez
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In August 1985 Los Angeles was in the grip of terror. A killer had been stalking his victims through the city at night for more than six months, and the police finally released a photofit. This cadaverous face now stared out from posters all over the city. It was now known that the same man had been responsible for at least a dozen brutal murders and scores of attacks. Great Crimes & Trials s2e18: Night Stalker, BBC 1994
On 1st June the killer struck again: bludgeoning an eighty-three-year-old woman to death. This time a new element was introduced as he drew satanic symbols on her thigh and the walls of her home with lipstick. ibid.
Ricardo Munoz Ramirez had been born in El Paso, Texas, 28th February 1960
Night Stalker has killed 14. Los Angeles Herald headline
I love to kill people. I love to watch them die. I love all that blood. Ricardo Munoz Ramirez
An evil intruder who killed, tortured and raped. And then disappeared without trace. He was called the Night Stalker. The Night Stalker, History Channel
Los Angeles 1985: the city was in the grip of a ruthless serial killer. ibid.
A single fingerprint helped police identify the notorious serial killer dubbed the Night Stalker. ibid.
Richard Ramirez was convicted of thirteen counts of murder, five attempted murders, eleven sexual assaults, and fourteen burglaries. ibid.
He earned a nickname the Night Stalker. Deranged Killers: Nightstalker, History 2008
Los Angeles, summer of 1985, it was held captive by a demon: the Night Stalker. Cloaked in darkness, emerging from shadows, this predator struck victims in their homes while they slept. ibid.
Three women had been shot in Los Angeles in one night: two died. ibid.
For the first time he had exhibited over-kill. ibid.
Mable was bludgeoned to death with a hammer; Florence was brutally raped and left for dead. ibid.
He stole a car and headed five hundred kilometres north to San Francisco. ibid.
Ramirez was a twenty-five-year-old drifter from Texas, a drug addict and small-time thief. ibid.
There were other destructive forces in the young boy’s life. ibid.
Investigators suspect that Richard Ramirez committed many more murders than he was prosecuted for. ibid.
Ramirez showed no remorse. ibid.
In 1985 Los Angeles would be terrorised by a series of brutal rapes and murders. Men, women, the elderly and children were all in the sadistic killer’s sights. A serial murderer who broke all the rules. The attacker christened the Night Stalker would go down as one of history’s most heinous killers. Born to Kill? Richard Ramirez, CI 2014
Ramirez lived day to day taking drugs, using prostitutes, stealing cars, breaking and entering. ibid.
Are the lessons he learned in his upbringing to blame? ibid.
On August 31st 1985 detectives across California finally discovered the identity of a serial killer who the media had dubbed the Night Stalker. The mysterious attacker was wanted for 13 murders across Los Angeles. World’s Most Evil Killers s2e3: Richard Ramirez, Sky Living 2018
‘His father was a brutal short-tempered man.’ ibid.
He would murder his victims by any means necessary. ibid.