Gil Carrillo was a young detective when Richard Ramirez began a violent crime spree across Los Angeles, and Carrillo and Frank Salerno had to identify and catch the infamous killer. Carrillo, who had been with the LA homicide department for only four years, began suspecting that a slew of crimes that seemed completely random was actually the doing of one man (via Oxygen). Carrillo tried convincing fellow officers of his hypothesis, but he was regularly dismissed due to his inexperience — until Salerno, a well-established officer in the department, began to believe Carrillo's theory.

After this, witnesses and survivors of Ramirez's crimes began giving clues to the officers. They told the authorities that the Night Stalker wore a specific jacket, that he had bad teeth, and one witness even identified a stolen car that Ramirez had carjacked (via the El Paso Times). Eventually, the police figured out that the Night Stalker was Richard Ramirez, and arrested him. Ramirez was sentenced to death, but died in 2013 from lymphoma, according to the El Paso Times.

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