Stalker Site, Victim Bore Pentagrams

Pentagrams were found drawn on a bedroom wall and on the thigh of an alleged victim of accused Night Stalker Richard Ramirez, according to testimony today at Ramirez’s preliminary hearing.

Monrovia Police Officer James Olds said he saw a pentagram on the thigh of Mabel Bell, 83, who was brutally beaten in a May, 1985, attack at her Monrovia home. In a bedroom near her invalid sister, Florence Lang, 79, a second pentagram was found drawn on a wall. Lang survived the attack, but Bell died July 15.

Both women appeared to be beaten with blunt objects, possibly a hammer that was found in Lang’s bedroom. Lang had also been bound with a wire cord and had electric tape around her hands and feet, Olds and paramedics testified.

Ramirez, 26, a drifter from El Paso, is accused of 14 murders and 54 other felonies, including counts of murder, attempted murder and burglary in the Monrovia case.

Today’s testimony was the first dealing with pentagrams or other Satanic figures. At a court session before to Ramirez’s preliminary hearing, the defendant flashed a pentagram inked on his hand toward the audience and shouted, “Hail, Satan!” before being led back to his holding cell.

Ramirez’s attorney, Daniel Hernandez, said outside the courtroom today, “I don’t think there’s any reliable evidence to connect his (Ramirez’s) pentagram to the ones found at the scene.”