‘Summer of Satan’ revisits the crimes of Richard Ramirez, the serial killer known as the Night Stalker, whose attacks terrorized California during the summer of 1985 and left victims and families carrying lifelong trauma.
KTLA’s Mary Beth McDade traces how Ramirez targeted men, women and children across Los Angeles County, Orange County and the Bay Area, committing a series of murders, sexual assaults, burglaries and other violent crimes that kept residents in fear for months.
The documentary recounts several of the case’s best-known attacks, including the killings of Max and Lela Kneiding in Glendale, the assault on Whitney Bennett in Sierra Madre and the attack on Bill Carns and his fiancée in Mission Viejo. Survivors and family members describe how the violence permanently altered their lives…