Rosemead

On March 17, 1985, at 11.30 p.m., 20-year-old Angela Barrios was just returning home from a long day at work.

She lived in a condominium that she shared with a roommate in Rosemead, a middle-class town northeast of Los Angeles.

She pulled her car into the driveway and opened the garage door with a remote control.

She was tired and hadn't had dinner yet.

That was one of the first cities named in the Night Stalker case, back when the attacks were still being described as unrelated incidents in the spring of 1985.

Rosemead, Monterey Park, Whittier, Monrovia, I'd had those names memorized for a year, and now the earth had cracked open right underneath it.

I was probably one of the few kids standing on the athletic field that day who made the connection.

The ground under one of Ramirez's most vicious crimes had just buckled, while Ramirez himself sat in a cell at the Los Angeles County Jail, two years into a wait for a trial that many were convinced would never happen.

You can be in Palm Springs Lodge, but then, like, you have to go to Coachella Lodge, like, if that, you know, whatever.

Or, like, you're in Yuca- or you're like, yeah, you're, you're in Pasadena Lodge, but, like, you have to go to Rosemead because, like, yeah, you b- you can't have you in the same lodge, you know what I mean?

I feel like that actually makes sense-

So

On March 17, 1985, at 11.30 p.m., 20-year-old Angela Barrios was just returning home from a long day at work.

She lived in a condominium that she shared with a roommate in Rosemead, a middle-class town northeast of Los Angeles.

She pulled her car into the driveway and opened the garage door with a remote control.

She was tired and hadn't had dinner yet.

Let us know.

And we got Anthony in Rosemead.

Anthony.

What's up, Anthony?

I'm not paying $1.25 because I know the gas station, the Arco, two blocks down, has it for $0.98.

I know the Arco in Rosemead will have that on loss.

I'm telling you.

So I'm like, oh, $6.50. $6.50.