LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) ? Convicted serial killer and rapist Richard Ramirez has died of natural causes in San Quentin, according to reports Friday.
California corrections officials say Ramirez ? who was known as the ?Night Stalker? ? has died in prison, according to the Associated Press.
Ramirez terrorized the Southland during the mid-1980s with a series of home break-ins that resulted in the murders of 13 victims.
He was convicted in 1989 of 13 counts of murder, five attempted murders, 11 sexual assaults and 14 burglaries.
Ramirez was sentenced to death and had been awaiting execution by gas chamber.
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