『Terror, Pentagrams, and a Shoe That Was Never Found』のカバーアート

Terror, Pentagrams, and a Shoe That Was Never Found

Terror, Pentagrams, and a Shoe That Was Never Found

無料で聴く

ポッドキャストの詳細を見る
(00:00:00) Terror, Pentagrams, and a Shoe That Was Never Found
(00:00:43) The summer of nineteen eighty-five
(00:02:53) How he was caught
(00:04:14) The Avia shoe and how it entered the case
(00:05:51) What the evidence actually showed
(00:07:34) The two thousand and eight challenge
(00:09:10) Death row and the end
(00:10:33) What the shoe actually tells us

In the summer of 1985, Los Angeles locked its windows in the heat. A drifter named Richard Ramirez was moving through neighbourhoods at night, entering through unlocked doors and open windows, leaving fourteen people dead and eleven sexually assaulted across Los Angeles and San Francisco. The city was terrified in a way that didn't fade when the news cycle moved on.

Ramirez drew pentagrams on the walls of crime scenes. He wore an AC/DC cap. In court, he told the room that Lucifer dwells in us all. The satanic theatre became the story — vivid, dramatic, and exactly the kind of narrative that filled the space where harder forensic questions should have lived.

This episode opens the full account of the Night Stalker case: who Ramirez was, how he grew up in El Paso in circumstances already marked by violence, how he survived on the margins of California as a transient thief, and how a neighbourhood in East Los Angeles ultimately ran him down themselves in August 1985 after months of one of the largest manhunts in California history.

But this story begins with a shoe. At eight crime scenes, investigators found partial footprints. A criminalist named Gerald Burke told the jury they matched a specific model — the Avia 445B — consistent with Ramirez's size twelve feet. The defence never challenged him. The shoes were never recovered. No witness ever placed them on Ramirez's feet. And yet that testimony helped send a man to death row, where he would die of cancer in 2013 at fifty years old.

This is the story of a killer who made Los Angeles afraid — and the evidence that was never quite what it seemed.

This episode includes AI-generated content.
adbl_web_anon_alc_button_suppression_t1
まだレビューはありません