LOS ANGELES TIMES, Aug. 15, 1985 

* Richard Ramirez murders (early)
* The "Night Stalker" valley intruder - killer

This issue has reporting on the "Night Stalker" murder case of Richard Ramirez with a front page of section II heading: "Detectives Link 7th Slaying to 'Intruder'" (see images) This was a time where they stilled called the unknown killer (Ramirez) as the "Valley Intruder" before the term "Night Stalker" began. Great to have this report in a Los Angeles newspaper, the city which he terrorized for over a year.
 I suspect this to be an extremely rare item because their was really no reason to save it at the time.
Complete with the first 3 sections only with a total of 68 pages, nice condition.

Background: The murder of Tsai-Lian Yu on March 17, 1985, marked a critical pivot point in modern American criminology, as they shattered traditional serial killer profiles and forced a massive overhaul in how law enforcement tracked active predators. Unlike standard serial killers of the era who targeted specific demographics or relied on a singular, rigid method of operation (M.O.), Richard Ramirez's blitz attacks that night demonstrated a terrifying lack of pattern—striking victims of different ages, genders, and ethnicities across multiple jurisdictions in a matter of hours, transitioning seamlessly from a residential home invasion to a random vehicular ambush. Because the crimes occurred across fragmented municipal borders, they exposed severe communication gaps between local police departments. This forced Southern California law enforcement to form one of the first massive, cross-jurisdictional task forces, utilizing centralized ballistics and the newly pioneered Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) to bridge the gap. Ultimately, the forensic evidence gathered from the Yu and Okazaki crime scenes became the bedrock of the entire investigation, providing the definitive ballistics trail that allowed detectives to legally chain the growing list of "Intruder" homicides together and eventually secure the convictions that put Ramirez on death row.