“It was funny, Gil said to me, ‘I’m boring. The refreshingly down-to-earth Carrillo is unlike some of the outsized personalities Russell has explored in past documentaries, such as “Operation Odessa” in which a Miami mobster nicknamed Tarzan arranged the sale of a Soviet submarine to a cocaine cartel. “And then the vividness with which he could recall what happened that summer, down to addresses, times of day, what people were wearing. “This guy’s got this unusual, yet sort of weirdly beautiful, weathered, lived-in, but also kind of boyish face. “Sitting there in Monty’s, it was like, ‘Wow, look at this face,’” the filmmaker says. “It seemed like an amazing opportunity to author a piece of history where you know the headline, you know the name, but what’s the human story behind it?”Ĭarrillo captivated Tiller that first night with the stories he told and the way he carried himself. crimes stories from Raymond Chandler to James Ellroy.” “When I saw how great of a character he was, and then met his partner, Frank Salerno, I just thought, Wow, this is an iconic L.A. “As he began to unfurl the tale of what that summer was like, I just thought, This is an amazing, incredible story,” Russell says.
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“And I said, ‘Absolutely!’”Īt Monty’s Steakhouse in Woodland Hills, Russell met retired Gil Carrillo, a retired Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department homicide detective, and over the next few hours listened as Carrillo vividly described the long, hot summer of 1985 when Southern California lived in terror of a killer who came in the night, the deadly phantom later identified as the serial killer Richard Ramirez. “He came to me and said, ‘I met this homicide cop who worked the Night Stalker case, and I think there may be a documentary in this - you want to go to dinner with this guy?’” Russell says.
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