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Whitney Bennet survives attack by serial killer Richard Ramirez

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The breath of Ramirez was so foul that his rape victims report nearly gagging at its smell. But not all his attacks were sexual.

He simply but viciously beat Whitney Bennet with a crow bar but, unlike six of his other victims that month, she survived.

The sheer number of attacks and the attendant police and media pressure forced him to soon moving his hunting ground from Los Angeles to San Francisco...