Richard Ramirez, The Night Stalker
1990

Richard Ramirez (center) with San Francisco attorneys
Randall Martin (right) and Daro Inouye (left)

The Night Stalker, Richard Ramirez, was convicted of murdering 14 people in Los Angeles County and given the death penalty on each count. He is also charged with one murder in San Francisco and was held in the San Francisco County Jail for several years beginning in 1990 before the San Francisco case was placed in suspension pending the outcome of Ramirez's appeals in his Los Angeles cases.