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Nearly 28 years later, Billy Carns still cannot escape the Night Stalker.

"Wanna see my scar?" he says, cheerfully, pulling up his hair to reveal the remnant of an exit wound. Billy sticks his finger through the bullet hole and shows the outline of a patch that once covered the hole but fell off after so many washings.īilly lives surrounded by 1985, blurting constantly to anyone who will listen that he was shot three times in the head. In the basement, on the guest bed, rests the pillowcase with the bullet hole made by Ramirez's gun.

On the wall above the headboard is a drawing of him and his former girlfriend from 1985. He lives next door to his mother in a small house filled with evidence of frontal-lobe brain trauma - his collections of pens (all red pens are kept in the bathroom while black and blue pens congregate throughout the house), small batteries, house plants ordered from mesmerizing television ads, 1970s stereo components, soldering guns, bars of soap, rotting food (he forgets when he bought it) and medication containers.īilly sleeps next to the same headboard - dark, routed wood with an oval mirror in the middle - from his 1985 bedroom where the shooting took place. "It should have been 28 years ago," Anne Carns said Saturday.Ī bullet still lodged between his skull and brain, Billy Carns has been serving a far worse, unstable, bizarre life term in Bismarck. The demonic serial killer who left satanic signs at murder scenes and mutilated victims' bodies during a reign of terror in the 1980s had been taken from San Quentin's death row to a hospital where authorities said he died of liver failure at age 53. He was sentenced to the death penalty in 1989.

Ramirez, the devil-worshipping serial killer, was convicted of 13 murders and 11 sexual assaults among 43 felony counts. 25-caliber handgun and raped his girlfriend - part of a Southern California crime rampage that still conjures terror in the minds of many state residents who lived through it. 25, 1985, Billy was asleep in his Mission Viejo, Calif., home when Ramirez climbed through an open window, shot Carns with a. "I would like to torture him with a chain saw or a belt sander," Billy Carns said last fall, his left arm and foot paralyzed, his short-term memory sapped, his girlfriend long gone, his brain consistently malfunctioning.