He made a substantial amount of money by selling marijuana that he had bought cheaply in El Paso and brought with him and spent the money on food and stays in hotels. Shortly after turning eighteen, he moved to Los Angeles permanently.ĭuring his first weeks in L.A., Ramirez mostly lived as a transient. At the age of sixteen, he was already a skilled burglar. Because the couple was from out of state and wanted to move on as soon as possible, they wouldn't testify against him and the charges were dropped. At the age of fifteen, while he was still in high school, he briefly held down a job at a Holiday Inn, but was fired after a few months for entering a woman's room and attempting to rape her, but was stopped by her husband. He liked watching horror movies and began to attend Jehovah's Witness meetings, where he became interested in Satan. If they were not, he would go alone he particularly enjoyed sneaking up on them and then stabbing and gutting them. He would hunt animals with his family when they were available. The only subject in which he did well was physical education. After returning to El Paso, he enrolled in the Jefferson High School but dropped out after less than a year. During a trip to Los Angeles to see his brother Ruben, a petty criminal, Ramirez was taught more about burglaries from him. During burglaries, he enjoyed walking around in the homes and going through the residents' personal belongings. Shortly before that, he had begun burglarizing people's homes, committing petty theft, skipping school, and becoming addicted to cannabis. When Ramirez was thirteen, he witnessed Miguel shoot and kill his wife and was affected by it for the rest of his life. He would show Ramirez photos of Vietnamese women he had raped, tortured, and killed, and also taught him how to keep hidden and kill with stealth. When he was twelve years old, his cousin Miguel returned from his second tour in Vietnam and they began spending time together. At the age of ten, he began spending nights at cemeteries and also began smoking marijuana. When he was in seventh grade, his grades began slipping and he started sniffing glue. It resulted in him being removed from his position as a quarterback on the school's football team. When he was in fifth grade, it was discovered that he had epilepsy, though doctors said he would grow out of it. At the age of two, he almost died when a dresser fell on him, and he suffered a concussion. Mercedes's pregnancy with Ramirez was very difficult because the chemical fumes she inhaled at her job at a boot factory caused her body to try and reject the fetus. They had a total of five: Ruben, Joseph, Robert, Ruth, and, finally, Richard Ramirez. His father Julián, a Mexican national and former Ciudad Juárez policeman who later became a laborer on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, was prone to fits of anger that often resulted in physical abuse. Ramirez was born Ricardo Leyva Muñoz Ramirez in El Paso, Texas, on February 29, 1960.
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