Ricardo Leyva Muñoz Ramirez, better known as Richard Ramirez, was an American serial killer, sex offender, and burglar whose killing spree occurred in Greater Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Are
Mugshot of Ramirez, taken on December 12, 1984, after an arrest for auto theft
Ramirez being escorted from court by sheriffs
In art, the term macabre means "having a grim or ghastly atmosphere".
Richard Ramirez
…childhood. Frequently abused by his father, he developed brain damage and started abusing drugs at the age of 10. He began developing interests in the macabre in his early and mid-teens from his older cousin, a Vietnam War veteran with schizophrenia and PTSD, who extensively bragged about the war crimes he…
Totentanz ("Dance of the Dead"), illustration from the Nuremberg Chronicle, by Hartmann Schedel (1440–1514)
A death head wearing the Imperial Crown of the Holy Roman Empire, on the sarcophagus of Habsburg emperor Charles VI in the crypt of the Capuchin
Upper section of the Transi of René de Chalon. Sculpture by Ligier Richier, c. 1545–1547