Richard Ramirez had been a ghost for over a year. Then his mugshot hit the front page, and a neighborhood in East LA caught him themselves, chasing him down the street and pinning him to the pavement before police arrived.

In the final part of our three-part series, Katie Ring covers the capture, the trial that became a circus, and the death sentence he brushed off with just five words. This episode contains descriptions of murder, sexual assault, and violence, and briefly references the death of a child. Please listen with care.

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By the summer of 1985, Richard Ramirez was striking multiple times a week across Los Angeles: shooting, stabbing, and leaving Satanic pentagrams on the walls of ordinary bedrooms. Gun stores sold out. Locksmiths couldn't keep up. An entire city stopped sleeping with its windows open. In part two of our three-part series, Katie Ring tracks the summer of terror, the two detectives who refused to give up, and the single fingerprint from a stolen car that finally gave him a name. This episode contains descriptions of murder, sexual assault, and graphic violence. Please listen with care.

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Richard Ramirez grew up sleeping in graveyards to avoid his violent father. At twelve, he found the role model he'd been looking for: a Green Beret cousin who came home from Vietnam with Polaroids of his victims and a philosophy that holding power over life and death made you a god.

In part one of our three-part series, Katie Ring traces the childhood of Richard Ramirez that built the “Night Stalker,” and the night his killing began. This episode contains descriptions of child abuse, sexual assault, and murder. Please listen with care.

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Candy Montgomery's lawyer stood up in front of the jury and admitted his client had killed Betty Gore with an axe. Then he spent eight days convincing them to let her walk free.

The defense that followed was so audacious that reporters in the gallery actually laughed out loud. Some of the jurors didn't think it was funny. In the final episode on Candy Montgomery, we cover the trial, the verdict that stunned a town, and the aftermath. This episode contains descriptions of extreme violence and the mutilation of a body. Please listen with care.

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Candy Montgomery didn't stumble into an affair. She planned it methodically: rules, boundaries, no feelings, and chose her friend Betty Gore’s husband as the man she'd sleep with. For ten months, nobody suspected a thing. On June 13th, 1980, Candy stopped by Betty’s to pick up a swimsuit, and by that night, Betty had been struck with an axe 41 times. The question we’re left with is: what happened in between? This episode contains descriptions of extreme violence and the mutilation of a body. Please listen with care.

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On the morning of June 13th, 1980, Candy Montgomery stopped by her friend Betty Gore's house to pick up a swimsuit. When she left, she said Betty was perfectly fine. That night, three neighbors found Betty's body in her utility room, struck with an axe 41 times while her baby cried alone upstairs. The bloody footprint on the floor was too small to belong to a man. And the last person to see Betty Gore alive was sleeping with her husband. This episode contains descriptions of extreme violence and the mutilation of a body. Please listen with care.

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Brian Mitchell spent years singing hymns in court, disrupting hearings, and faking insanity to avoid standing trial for what he did to Elizabeth Smart. It took nearly a decade to get him in front of a jury. When Elizabeth finally took the stand, she described nine months of daily assault, a cable padlocked around her ankle, and threats against her family that kept her silent even when rescue was within reach. The jury deliberated for less than a day.

This episode contains descriptions of kidnapping, child sexual abuse, and captivity. Please listen with care

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Ed Smart defied police orders and released his daughter's kidnapper's sketch to the public himself. Within four days, someone recognized the man in it. Brian David Mitchell had been hiding in plain sight the whole time, eating at restaurants, preaching on street corners, and sleeping one block from a police station. Elizabeth was right there with him, and nobody said a word.

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