Death waited in the dark at the hands of a man they called the Night Stalker.

After a 14 month reign of terror, he was finally caught.

It was only then that his true identity was discovered.

His name, Richard Ramirez.

Richard Marisol trip was toe hide in a tree or hide behind a fence and watch his victims at night, time and way into the wee hours of the night.

And then while they slept, creep in, you know, like a coward and kill him.

The nice doctor killed at least 13 times 13 people who were awakened in the night to face death.

At least 15 others survived his brutal attacks.

I didn't particularly careful people.

In a rare interview, Ramirez refused to discuss his own crimes but had this to say about serial killers.

A serial killer comes about by circumstances and, like a recipe poverty, drugs, child abuse.

These things, you know, contribute to a person to a person's frustration and anger.

And, uh and, uh, at some point in life, hey explodes, perhaps, for Richard Ramirez, that anger and frustration turned to rage, which he in turn, took out on his victims.

His killings were so sadistic and brutal that even experienced detectives were shocked.

We took a woman in her sixties and stopped her to death with his foot leaving an imprint of a shoe on the side of her face.

Uh, from that to just executing somebody upon walking into a room after he entered the house, he strangled.

He used the ligature.

He used a tire iron on a young girl.

A beater left her for dead.

But your anger subside.

If you had to wipe up your mother's blood, I couldn't finish it.

I had to leave my brother.

Why on earth would you have hurt those people?

Why did you kill those people?

I cannot answer that at this time.

What was Richard's mode?

Kill?

That's it To kill.

Simple is that Richard Ramirez was raised in a Paso, Texas, the youngest of five Children born to hardworking, strict parents.

Eddie Milon was Richard's best friend back then, and remembers when he began to change into a troublemaker.

I did start seeing something going wrong with Rick.

You're a menace.

I think what really messed him up was the asset he would do a lot of us.

The stealing, you know, I noticed the stealing and then started as a peeping Tom and things like that.

Ramirez is passion for burglary earned him the nicknames of Ricky the Thief and Fingers.

But Eddie knew Ramirez had other serious problems.

When he was fired from a local hotel, he said, he was fired.

He was dismissed due to the cause that he, uh, he had tried to molest him to little kids that were going up up the elevator.

By 18 Ramirez was a high school dropout drifting around California.

He stayed in Skid Row hotels, never seemed to work but always had the money to buy cocaine.

Friends say the Richard Ramirez they knew Bitten Date and wasn't the type to commit such heinous crimes.

But convicted murderer Martin Kip, who befriended Ramirez in prison, says he heard another tide of the night.

Richard told me he needed to associate gruesome violence or sex in order to be completely satisfied.

He also told me that he had to violently fantasize about his victims before he go away, sexually gratified their desires.

Wes, if where I didn't give in to them, I would be crushed by them.

I believe in the in the evil in human nature.

This isn't working wicked world, and, uh, in a wicked world, waking people are born not gonna play society my race for people or anything.

It is up to the individual like myself to keep on knocking on on whatever door they want to get into.

Because the victims and the methods of killing were so diverse, many experts felt there was no one night's doctor, detectives Korea.

When Salerno disagreed and finally broke the case by matching shoe prints, the subsequent trial turned into one of America's most notorious courtroom dramas, punctuated by continual outbursts from Ramirez.

In that trial, Ramirez's fascination with Satan is, um, emerged as far as Satan is concerned.

I believe that, you know, malevolent being, uh his description eludes me, but I have felt powers that are evil.

After an eight month trial, Ramirez was convicted of all 13 murders and given multiple death sentences.

I don't care about myself, really.

I don't care about what happens to me.