A4The Orange County Register Sunday, September 1, 1985

'NIGHT STALKER': SUSPECT CAPTURED

The following dates are the significant developments in the "nightstalker" case since he struck in Orange County.

Sunday, Aug. 25: William Cams, 29, was shot three times in thehead and his girlfriend, 29, was sexually attacked about 2:40 am. whilethey slept in their Mission Viejo home at 24411 Chrisanta Drive. It wasthe first attack in Orange County by the "night stalker," believedresponsible for at least 14 slayings and 33 attacks since March.

Monday, Aug. 26: Los Angeles County sheriffs investigatorsannounced they were searching for a 1976 orange Toyota stationwagon seen by witnesses near the Mission Viejo attack. The car wasreported stolen from the Chinatown area the previous Saturday while itsowner, Bill Gregory, was eating dinner.

Tuesday, Aug. 27: Authorities released a modified compositesketch of the suspect, described as 6 feet tall, in his 20s or 30s withcurty hair and gapped and stained teeth. The composite also showedhim wearing a black baseball cap.

Wednesday, Aug. 28: Investigators found the stolen car in theRampart police district in Los Angeles. The car was towed to theOrange County Sheriffs Department to be searched for clues.

Thursday, Aug. 29: Officials said the serial killer may be respon-sible for as many as 16 slayings that started as early as March.

Friday, Aug. 30: Los Angeles and Orange County authoritiesannounced the name and description of a suspect in the "night stalker"attacks and issued a statewide bulletin for his capture. They said afingerprint lifted from an orange Toyota station wagon reported near theMission Viejo attack helped lead'to the identification of RichardRamirez, 25. They also said the print matched others taken fromproperty that had been stolen two days before the Aug. 17 attack on aSan Francisco couple. Doctors said Cams is expected to recover.

Saturday, Aug. 31: Ramirez was captured after a group ofcitizens in East Los Angeles saw him trying to steal a car by ordering awoman out of the driver's seat and punching her in the stomach. Thewoman's husband grabbed a fence post and struck Ramirez in thehead and a mob caught him.

Los Angeles County sheriffs deputies arrested Ramirez.The Register

legwork leads toBy Edward HumesThe Register

A battery of state-of-the-art com-puters labored to uncover the iden-tity of the so-called "night stalk-er." But it was old-fashioned leg-work by a pair of San Franciscodetectives that first named Rich-ard Ramirez as a suspect.

The race to identify a suspect inthe case ended in a near photo fin-ish late Friday afternoon, when thevery human job of knocking ondoors and checking out hundreds of"night-stalker" sightings paid offjust minutes ahead of the electron-ic efforts of a $22.5 million comput-er.

After 20 straight hours of work,state Justice Department techni-cians in Sacramento were reward-ed with the clatter of a computerprintout listing 10 possible matchesto fingerprints believed to belongto the serial killer.

The prints were obtained Thurs-day by Orange County sheriff's in-vestigators from a stolen car be-lieved used by the killer in his mostrecent attack, a Mission Viejo sex-ual assault and shooting. Theprints were sent to Sacramento fora computerized search.

But before the computer.list ofpossible suspects could be studied,a San Francisco detective phoned

the Justice Department. The de-tective, Inspector Frank Falzon,suggested that state criminal fileson Ramirez be pulled and manual-ly compared with the fingerprintsfrom the car.

Leads from several crime scenes including a slaying and a bur-glary in San Francisco attributedto the "night stalker" led detec-tives there to conclude Ramirezmight be their man, said Falzon,one of the two detectives creditedwith cracking the case.

After Falzon's request, the com-parison was made and Ramirez'sfingerprints were found to matchprints in the car, officials in SanFrancisco and Sacramento saidSaturday.

Later, the technicians found Ra-mirez had been named by theirfledgling GAL-ID fingerprint-com-parison computer. Ramirez waslisted as the most likely out of 10possibles matches,

"The print in the car was notmade until after the informationme and my partner (InspectorCarl Klotz) came up with," Falzonsaid. "The computer search was azero until we came up with aname."

The department defended theperformance of the ultrasophisti-cated computer, which enhancedand scanned the faint print ob-

tained from the car, then com-pared it with hundreds of thou-sands of others in its computermemory. But old-fashioned policework scored first in this case, de-partment spokesman Duane Peter-son conceded.

Ramirez, 25, arrested Saturdayby Los Angeles authorities in con-nection with 16 "walk-in" slayingsan'd 18 assaults throughout thestate, became a suspect as Bayarea investigators put together"bits and pieces" of informationgleaned from dozens of cases, Fal-zon said.

Those bits and pieces included acrucial burglary investigation,performed in part by a San Fran-cisco patrol officer named DannyFalzon Inspector Falzon's son.

An Aug. 15 burglary in San Fran-cisco, in which an apartment wasransacked while no one was home,bore a startling resemblance to thescene of the Aug. 17 "night stalk-er" killing of San Francisco busi-nessman Peter Pan, Falzon said.

The younger Falzon's report,along with observations by a cri-minalist who gathered evidence atboth crime scenes, led detectivesto conclude the same man did bothcrimes. :

The break in the case came viathe burglary investigation, not theprobe of the killing, Falzon said.

The "night stalker's" trail ledSan Francisco police from thatburglary to the small coastal cityof Lompoc, 150 miles north of LosAngeles. Police there said Satur-day that they had developed infor-mation last week that led SanFrancisco police to name Ramirez

From Lompoc, Falzon and hispartner, Klotz, traced the suspectto San Pablo, a small town 15 milesfrom San Francisco. Ramirez at-tempted to buy a shotgun there Fri-day afternoon, a gunshop ownersaid.

Information gained in San Pablo which Falzon again declined tospecifyled to the conclusion thatRamirez was a prime suspect.

The investigation may lead to.still more killings being attributedto the "night stalker," San Fran-cisco authorities said.

"We only have one (the Pancase) confirmed so far, but othersare being looked at now," Inspec-tor Michael Mullane said.

"I've been 15 years on the homi-cide detail," Falzon said, "and I'venever seen a case like this that hadpeople women, children, grownmen so fearful. This case rockedthe whole state."

The next step is for investigatorsto come up with a case that can beproven in court, he said.

"Now the hard part begins."

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