Doreen Lioy, better known as Richard Ramirez’s wife, aka The Night Stalker, received a lot of media attention during her husband’s death trial.
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- 0.1 Doreen Lioy, better known as Richard Ramirez’s wife, aka The Night Stalker, received a lot of media attention during her husband’s death trial.
- 0.2 All of it came to an end after Ramirez died in prison as a result of complications from B-cell lymphoma.
- 0.3 She has remained off the public radar since then. However, subsequent charges by Full House star John Phillip Stamos have moved some focus back to the Night Stalker’s wife.
- 1 John Stamos spoke about Doreen Lioy about Richard Ramirez’s Death
- 2 The revelation made by John Stamos
- 3 The same words were used to describe John Stamos and her husband by Doreen Lioy
All of it came to an end after Ramirez died in prison as a result of complications from B-cell lymphoma.
She has remained off the public radar since then. However, subsequent charges by Full House star John Phillip Stamos have moved some focus back to the Night Stalker’s wife.
John Stamos spoke about Doreen Lioy about Richard Ramirez’s Death
Apart from the obvious fact that she married a convicted serial killer and rapist whom she first met after his horrible acts became public news, little was known about Doreen Lioy’s past.
She divorced Ramirez in 2007 after DNA evidence revealed that her husband had raped and murdered nine-year-old Mei Leung in 1984. Ramirez was ultimately responsible for the deaths of at least 14 people. He also raped and tortured dozens more people until being apprehended in 1985. In 1996, he married Lioy.
Recent developments, however, have revealed a different side to the serial killer’s widow.
In an exclusive interview with Entertainment Tonight in 2019, veteran actor John Stamos claimed that he was trained by Lioy before landing his big break at General Hospital in 1982.
The revelation made by John Stamos
According to the 2019 story, Stamos met Lioy when he was 16 or 17 years old through a friend, Michael Damian. Given that Stamos was born on August 19, 1963, their first meeting can be dated to the late 1970s – at least half a decade before Lioy began courting the legendary killer.
Lioy worked as an editor for Tiger Beat magazine, a popular teen fan publication at the time. She became interested in the young Stamos and was even the first to profile him in the magazine. The now-famous actor first appeared in the editor’s section in a portrait with Lioy before becoming a cover staple.
Not only that, but Stamos said that the serial killer’s widow prepped him for his breakthrough role in General Hospital.
The portrayal earned the actor a nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series at the Daytime Emmy Awards. The actor and Lioy became closer as the events unfolded, and the two became nearly family.
[Lioy] was like a sister to me, and she became great friends with my mother – she was a very lonely woman – and spent all of our holidays with us.
The same words were used to describe John Stamos and her husband by Doreen Lioy
What surprised Stamos the most was that Lioy used the same compliments to describe Ramirez as she had previously used to describe him.
Lioy spoke to CNN many years before the famed killer’s death about the influence he left on her. No, she didn’t see a cold-blooded killer! She described him as a wonderful person who became her best friend.
He [Richard Ramirez] is nice, witty, and appealing…
I think he’s a wonderful person. He’s my best pal; he’s my pal.
Stamos’ family severed contact with Lioy after her association with the serial killer became public. Lioy has been missing since the death of Richard Ramirez, therefore her whereabouts are unknown.
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