Los Angeles County Sheriff’s homicide detective Gil Carrillo was a hulking teddy bear of a man back in 1985 - a young, earnest yet savvy newcomer from East L.A. horror story is told primarily by the homicide detectives who broke the case, an odd couple who symbolize different racial and demographic swaths of the Southland. The four-part series is a powerful and haunting addition to the streamer’s onslaught of true-crime fare, but more than that, it deftly captures a place and time that many Angelenos will remember as part of their collective history. Netflix’s new docuseries “Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer,” premiering Wednesday, chronicles the pursuit of the elusive predator whose crimes stand out as particularly heinous and evil - even by the standards of the city that’s home to the Black Dahlia, the Manson family and the Hillside Strangler. Creeping into homes at night, he tortured and murdered more than a dozen people, with the San Fernando and San Gabriel valleys the focus of his mayhem: assaulting women in their 80s kidnapping and molesting children as young as 6 scrawling a pentagram on one of his murder victims and demanding that another pray to Satan. Irene Lamont was portrayed by Darren McGavin's real-life wife Kathie Browne.Los Angeles was terrorized by a phantom in the spring and summer of 1985.
As far as the authorities are concerned, the events of April twentieth and twenty-first will never have occurred. So if you ever happen to find yourself underground, and I mean deep underground, don't linger in the shadows. Claustrophobia has long been a part of the human experience from the Cro-Magnon all the way up to Freud. This is one story I may not get to file in person, so I'll have to talk fast - because it's after me. Kolchak crosses paths with a beautiful police detective while investigating a series of deaths in an underground storage facility. Kolchak: The Night Stalker - Episode 20: The Sentry
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