How a 13-year-old kid brought down Richard Ramirez, one of California’s most notorious serial killers

On a hot August night in 1985, 13-year-old James Romero couldn’t sleep. His family had driven home from a camping trip near the Mexican-American border back to this home in Mission Viejo. He’d slept most of the way. Wide awake and unaware that there was a killer on the loose, James headed to the garage to work on his bike.

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