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The Real Story Behind the Night Stalker Killer in ‘MaXXXine’
"MaXXXine" introduced a new killer in the franchise: the Night Stalker. Here's the real story behind Los Angeles serial killer Richard Ramirez.
In the final film, aspiring movie star Maxine Minx ( Mia Goth) runs around Hollywood after surviving a massacre six years prior in the first film, 2022’s “X.” She’s joined by Kevin Bacon, Giancarlo Esposito, Elizabeth Debicki, Moses Sumney, Lily Collins, Halsey, Michelle Monaghan and Bobby Cannavale in the end to the trilogy. Richard Ramirez, dubbed the Night Stalker by the media, was a serial killer, rapist and burglar who murdered at least 13 people in California in 1984 and 1985, the year “MaXXXine” is set in. The Hillside Strangler, later found out to be two people — cousins Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono Jr. — killed 10 women and girls within the five-month period, and the murderers left many of their victim’s bodies in the hills surrounding the city.
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