Forty years ago, kids rode their bikes unsupervised through suburban bedroom communities bracketed by Air Force bases east of Sacramento, California. He later became known as the Original Night Stalker for a series of slayings in Southern California before investigators realized he was one and the same person. The Southern California killer had been called the Original Night Stalker to distinguish him from Night Stalker Richard Ramirez, who died of cancer in 2013 before he could be executed for committing 13 mutilation killings in 1984 and 1985. They suspect he moved on from suburban Sacramento to commit several rapes in the San Francisco Bay Area before heading to Southern California. In each case, the killer broke into a house at night, then raped and killed a female victim.

Source: ABC News June 15, 2016 16:02 UTC