Richard Ramirez Part 2: An Interview with Frank Falzon

Well, Candace, to be honest with you, this is my belief as an investigator who worked 300 murder cases.

I believe lack of love, lack of self-respect.

You have to hate yourself so much and hate society so much to go out and commit crimes like this.

Mm-hmm.

And we want to come to find out he had a very, very abusive father.

Yeah.

Well, we've had over, I think, 250 episodes of the show now.

Each one focuses on a killer and their background.

And the vast majority of them that became premeditated killers, serial killers or other types, mass killers sometimes, most of them just had horrendous upbringings.

I would say upbringing, lack of love.

lack of parenting by two parents or at least one loving parent.

Right.

It seems to be the answer in most of the murder cases I've

worked.

Frank, you've worked so many cases in your career.

Where does Ramirez sit for you among all of it? Well,

It was a hell of an investigation.

So my personal favorite case was the Night Stalker only because of the competition I witnessed between LAPD, LASO.

They made it like nobody else was going to break it but them.

And I have to be honest with you.

They were given a full court press.

They were doing an excellent job, both departments.

I have to honestly say, I think pulling those reports, finding my son Dan's report from the Sharan burglary, is how that case eventually fell together.

Yeah, absolutely.

In your opinion, what do you think is the biggest misconception about the Night Stalker case? You know it like the back of your hand.