Richard Ramirez is the one displaying the pentagram on his hand.
Michael D. Harris, reporting for UPI, wrote that years later his father would maintain that Richard was a "good boy" whose marijuana consumption
"put him out of control," but it would be hard to pinpoint exactly what influences sent Richard Ramirez in the direction of devil worship. He often
drew the five-point pentagram, the symbol of the devil, on his own body, and at his trial he would shout "Hail Satan!" in open court. He was a big
fan of rock bands who sang about Satanism, particularly the Australian heavy-metal band AC/DC whose album, Highway to Hell, was Ramirez's absolute
favorite. One song on that album, "Night Prowler," contains the lyrics, "Was that a noise outside your window?/ What's that shadow on the blind?/
As you lie there naked like a body in a tomb/ suspended animation as I slip into your room..." But it's hard to believe that rock songs and
marijuana alone would turn a misdirected youth into one of the most heinous serial rapists and murderers in modern history.
His Killing Spree Terrorized Los Angeles: Ramirez's 1985 killing and rape spree continued:
June 27 - Ramirez raped a 6-year-old girl in Acadia.
June 28 - Patty Higgins, age 32, was beaten and her throat slit.
July 2 - Mary Cannon, age 75, was beaten and her throat slit.
July 5 - Deidre Palmer, age 16, survived being beaten with a tire iron.
July 7 - Joyce Lucille Nelson, 61, was bludgeoned to death.
July 7 - Linda Fortuna, 63, was attacked and Ramirez tried to rape her, but failed.
July 20 - Maxson Kneiling, 66, and his wife Lela, also 66, were shot and their corpses, mutilated.
July 20, Chitat Assawahem, 31, was shot and his wife Sakima, 29, was beaten then forced to perform oral sex. Ramirez then collected $30,000 in
valuables, but before leaving, he sodomized the couple's eight-year-old son.
August 6 - Ramirez shot both Christopher Petersen, 38, and his wife, Virginia, 27, in the head. Both somehow survived.
August 8 - Ramirez shot Ahmed Zia, 35, and raped and sodomized his wife, Suu Kyi, 28, and forced her to perform oral sex on him.
On Aug. 24, 1985, Ramirez traveled 50 miles south of Los Angeles, and broke into the home of Bill Carns, 29, and his fiancée, Inez Erickson, 27.
Ramirez shot Carns in the head and raped Erickson. He demanded she swear her love for Satan and afterwards, forced her to perform oral sex on him. He
then tied her and left. Erickson struggled to the window and saw the car Ramirez was driving.
That pentagram seem rather important to this Satanist, seems like it is a bad thing. When I saw demons they all had a pentagram stamped on their
forehand.