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Richard Ramirez (the 'Night Stalker'): in San Quentin State Prison

Gesche Gottfried Gottfried was a German serial killer who was the last person publicly executed in the city of Bremen. She killed 15 people using arsenic, probably between the years 1813 and 1827. She would mix the poison in with her victims’ food while caring for them as a nurse, reports New York Daily News.
Serial killer Richard Ramirez was 53 when he died of natural causes on June 7 2013 in a Marin County hospital near San Quentin State Prison, where he had been serving a life sentence on death row. In 1989 a Los Angeles County Superior Court jury found Ramirez guilty of 13 murders and another 30 counts of attempted murder, rape, sodomy,.

Of serial killings: 793 'Since the 1900’s, nearly 800 serial killer murders took place in Texas, the highest body count after California. One might think that it’s the larger populations that lure serial killers to these states. Although, Texas also executes its serial killers.

Serial killer Richard Ramirez was 53 when he died of natural causes on June 7 2013 in a Marin County hospital near San Quentin State Prison, where he had been serving a life sentence on death row.

In 1989 a Los Angeles County Superior Court jury found Ramirez guilty of 13 murders and another 30 counts of attempted murder, rape, sodomy, and burglary that he had committed between 1984 and 1985 in the Los Angeles region. He had gained the 'Night Stalker' nickname by breaking into people's homes at night, usually through open windows or sliding glass patio doors, before shooting them while they slept (he was also known as the 'Valley-Intruder' or 'Walk-in Killer' by some media at the time). He disabled telephone wires to evade detection and left various satanic symbols at his crime scenes, such as pentagrams. The brutality of his crimes shocked the courtroom when it first heard the case thirty years ago. One of his victims had her eyes gouged out, another had been beaten to death, and another had been forced to 'swear by Satan' and get drawn on with lipstick before being murdered.

Ramirez was eventually caught by a mob of local residents after he tried to steal a car in East Los Angeles. The jury deliberated for 22 days in 1989 before deciding upon special circumstances that Ramirez deserved the death penalty. At the time of his death, Ramirez was one of 735 offenders on death row awaiting execution in California.

Ramirez was born on Feb 29, 1960 in El Paso, Texas, the fifth and last child of an old-fashioned and strict family that took Richard to church every Sunday. By adulthood, he described himself as 'evil' in the purest sense of the word. The L.A. homicide detective who investigated the Ramirez murders described the killer as a 'crack-smoking drifter', known to room in boarding houses, and sleep at bus stations and cheap hotels. Others had described the killings as carefree, senseless, and random. He beat one of his victims with a tire iron, and raped an eight-year-old boy after seeing his father being murdered. The disturbing nature of the killings took a toll on Los Angeles, as the city suffered economically for a short period of time during and after the killings; movie-theatre ticket sales fell, and alcohol sales fell as people stopped going out at night. Gun sales, however, did rise briefly.

The Ramirez case was also the inspiration behind the movie 'Manhunt: Search for the Night Stalker.'

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Night Stalker Richard Ramirez dies of natural causes in Marin hospital Daily Breeze, 7 June 2013, Frank C Girardot.
Serial killer Richard Ramirez, Los Angeles’s “Night Stalker,” dies at 53; Known as the ‘Night Stalker,’ he terrorized Los Angeles with his.. Washington Post.com, 8 June 2013.
'Night Stalker' dies in US jail; AROUND THE WORLD South Wales Echo, 8 June 2013.

Son of Sam: in Sullivan Correctional Facility

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David Berkowitz was one of the most famous American serial killers of the twentieth century. Also known as the 'Son of Sam' killer that confessed to the New York murders of 6 people in the late 1970s, Berkowitz is currently serving 6 consecutive life sentences at Sullivan Correctional Facility in New York state. After a series of fights with fellow inmates, one of which required 65 stitches to his throat while he was housed at Attica in 1979, Berkowitz eventually transferred to Sullivan, where he then converted to Christianity and began writing journal entries that are now available on his 'official' homepage at: http://www.forgivenforlife.com.

When faced with the opportunity of parole in 2002, Berkowitz declined without hesitation. In a New York Times article he is quoted as saying, 'I deserve to be in prison for the rest of my life. I can accept that.' When responding to comments made by Governor Pataki concerning the governor's fight to keep Berkowitz from parole, Berkowitz noted in his prison journals, 'I agree with him that I do not deserve parole, neither am I trying to obtain it.' (March 1 prison journals)

Sullivan Correctional Facility is a maximum security prison for males located in Fallsburg, NY. Before his death, serial killer Arthur Shawcross also stayed at Sullivan.

The 'Green River Killer' Gary Leon Ridgway: in Walla Walla

Gary Leon Ridgway, considered America's most profilic serial killer for confessing to the murders of 48 Seattle-area prostitutes in the early 1980s, is serving a life sentence in Walla Walla, Washington State, without chance of parole (9 May 2005 Associated Press Newswires). The nickname Green River Killer reflected Ridgway's choice of disposing the bodies in the Green River, a winding waterway located in southeast Kings County, just east of Tacoma, Washington. He strangled and methodically placed his victims in 'clusters' near landmarks so that he could keep a running tally of them, but because there were so many, he eventually lost track of them.

Walla Walla, the largest of Washington state's three maximum security facilities, has 15 armed guard towers, and is the residence of all death row inmates in the state, where most lifers begin, and end, their sentences. It is home to 2,240 inmates.

At Walla Walla, serious offenders may be housed in one of two units; either 'Unit 5,' the 'Special Housing Unit' section of the prison that imprisons inmates on death row, those with psychiatric problems, and those requiring the services of the protective custody unit, or the Intensive Management Unit (IMU), a maximum custody facility located outside the main institution.

Ridgway is serving time here, at the IMU, a unit that houses 87 of the most dangerous and famous offenders, including those who pose a threat to themselves, others, or the operation of the prison, and many of those serving their time on Death Row. The IMU does not allow its inmates to come in contact with the rest of the institution, and separates them from the rest of the inmates by 150 yards, two fences, and razor wire coils. Inmates in the IMU mostly spend their time in idleness, reading or writing alone. Cells have only a concrete slab with a thin foam mattress, a steel sink, and a light that cannot turn off. Inmates here, unlike those elsewhere in the prison, are required to wear orange prison fatigues.

Concordant with standard 'incentive levels' practice, good behaviour and clean cells may mean longer visits and more privaleges, including televisions and radios for purchase. If inmates at the IMU and on death row have proven good behaviour, they may eventually be relocated to Unit 5, which is less stringent in its restrictions, and provides allowances like tobacco products, greater possessions, more family visits, and

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