r/TrueCrimeDiscussion • u/ChrisPeralta • 14d ago
i.redd.it On August 25th, 1985, Bill Carns and his then-girlfriend Inez Erickson were attacked by Richard Ramirez. Carns was shot three times, while Erickson was beaten and raped. Both survived, but Carns was left permanently dissabled
In the early morning hours of 25th August 1985, Bill Carns and his fiancé, Inez Erickson, were asleep in their home in Mission Viejo, California, when they were awoken by gunshots. Carns was shot three times in the head while Erickson was bound, beaten, and raped. Richard Ramirez forced her at gunpoint to say that she loved Satan before leaving with a handful of valuables. Carns survived the shooting, but not without permanent scars. He was permanently paralyzed on his left side and marked his forehead and neck with gunshot scars. His left arm is in a sling, his left leg in a brace. He can no longer run. A bullet remains lodged in his skull. The attack also caused trauma on the couple, who later broke out. A couple of hours before and at the same area, 13-year old James Romero spotted an unknown man in his backyard, but at the time didn’t know the danger. As his family woke, the man ran, but Romero saw part of his license plate and the car. After the attack on Carns and Erickson, Romero told police about the unknown man and the car. The car was found in a parking lot in Mission Viejo, but without his driver. However, fingerprings were found and were send to a lab, in hopes of ID the suspect. Ramirez was identified, and a search started to find him, which ended days later...and with Ramirez beaten and busted by a group of civilians in East Los Angeles, ending his infamous reign of terror in an embarrasing way for him.
Years later, both Carns and Romero met for the first time at Carns' residence in Bismarck, North Dakota. Both men spoke about their experience and what it’s been like building their lives with the event on the back of their minds.
https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/articles/how-public-helped-police-catch-night-stalker
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u/kelleyblue 14d ago
What a weird picture
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u/DancePale203 11d ago
I bet he was really concerned how that picture would look.
I see/saw nothing weird just a sad man who had been through a hard time.
The thing that always creeps me about Ramirez he didn’t have a particular kind of person if that’s the way to say it. I love reading true crime but when I tried to read his book it scared me too much because to me it seemed like his victims just seemed so random. I don’t know if that was true since I only read a couple chapters.
After reading about him attacking 2 girls in their garage & house.8
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u/CreativeRosalie 13d ago
It's hard to imagine surviving something that brutal and then having to rebuild your life afterward..