LOS ANGELES TIMES, Aug. 29, 1985

• Richard Ramirez murders
• The "Night Stalker" serial killer
• Close to his capture - best title to be had ?

This issue has reporting on the "Night Stalker" murder case of Richard Ramirez with a front page, one column heading: "Station Wagon Ties to Stalker Found in L.A." Lengthy coverage continues on page 27 with a photo of the stolen station wagon. (see) The front page of section II has a banner headline: "Psychological Profile: Probing Killer's Mind" Ramirez would be captured 2 days later. 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 all major section (100+ pages), very nice condition.

Background: The pivotal breakthrough in the hunt for the Night Stalker came on August 28, 1985, with the recovery of an abandoned, stolen 1976 orange Toyota station wagon—a vehicle whose rare, vivid color profile played a crucial role in bringing serial killer Richard Ramirez to justice. The search was triggered four days earlier when 13-year-old James Romero noticed the unusually bright orange station wagon idling suspiciously in his Mission Viejo neighborhood, prompting him to record a partial license plate number and detail the car's distinctive shade to the police. When investigators located the vehicle parked in Los Angeles's Rampart neighborhood, latent fingerprint examiner Rick Placencia scoured the car; despite Ramirez’s attempt to wipe down the interior, Placencia recovered a single, pristine latent fingerprint from the rear-view mirror. This lone print was run through California’s newly operational Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS)—a pioneering technology at the time—which swiftly returned a definitive match to 25-year-old Richard Ramirez, directly transforming a vague police sketch into a named suspect and leading to his capture by a mob of citizens just three days later.