Find out what four of the worlds top body language and behavior experts make of. “What was so shocking was that it sent the message that anyone could be a victim,” said Russell. “If you put yourself in the shoes of people living in Los Angeles at the time, you’re asleep in your home at night, when you should be safest and most protected, and now that’s suddenly when you’re most vulnerable. The Night Stalker Richard Ramirez true crime is horrifying Netflix viewers. Ramirez caused a previously unknown sense of havoc in the City of Angels that exposed the vulnerability within us all, say the series’ filmmakers. “One of the great joys of multi-part, nonfiction stories like this is that you get the granularity of storytelling from serialized television, with a beginning, middle and end, but there is also a dramatic arc to it,” said Russell, whose body of work includes being a local crime reporter and later a writer on Dick Wolf’s cop-thriller “Chicago P.D.”

Russell said his goal as a filmmaker was to underscore the experience of law enforcement and tell the story from the victims’ perspectives. The Ramirez killings are part of 20th-Century noir crime in LA that includes the Black Dahlia and the Manson murders. Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer arrives today on Netflix bearing all the hallmarks of a modern true crime sensation but makes for neither tasteful nor particularly compelling viewing. “Anyone who was in LA at that time can vividly tell you exactly where they were and what it felt like because it was so shocking and powerful,” he said. Russell added that part of his interest in Ramirez’s cruel summer is the degree to which his predation permeated the minds of Angelinos.

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