To their credit, Night Stalker producers Tiller Russell and James Carroll have created a series that attempts to do exactly what true crime media should do: demystify the perpetrator and elevate the people impacted by their crimes. And all I could think was how terrified this person must have been of the police.
The episode cut to the docuseries’ cliffhanger end credits. Richard Ramirez.”Īs Falzon repeated the name, the music swelled and grew more ominous. After further threats, Falzon says, he lunged toward the informant, who cringed away from him, “threw his hands up in a cross,” and stammered out: “Richard Ramirez. “It wasn’t my best punch, but it definitely wasn’t my worst,” Falzon says. So Falzon forcibly dragged the friend-turned-informant into his police car, threatened him, and punched him in the face. In his recounting, the friend - who’d originally contacted police himself with a tip about the Night Stalker’s identity - balked when Falzon asked him to reveal the Night Stalker’s full name.
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In the final minutes of the four-part series’ third installment, San Francisco detective Frank Falzon recalls how he tracked down a friend of the California serial killer whose string of attacks throughout 19 made him a household name among true crime followers.įalzon describes this moment with relish almost four decades later.
The climactic moment of Netflix’s true crime docuseries Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer, is probably supposed to feel cathartic.
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