Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer (Season 1)

Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer (2021) is a Netflix true-crime miniseries you can watch online on iFILM. In the summer of 1985, someone starts slipping into Los Angeles homes after dark and killing the people asleep inside — men, women, children, with no pattern anyone can read. The whole city starts locking its doors.

Across four episodes the show stays with the cops, not the killer. Gil Carrillo, a young detective his colleagues didn't take seriously, teams with homicide veteran Frank Salerno, and the two spend months stitching scattered cases into a single face: 25-year-old Richard Ramirez. Director Tiller Russell builds it all from interviews with the real investigators, survivors who lived through the attacks, and raw news footage from the panic.

What sets it apart is the refusal to make the killer the star — the focus is the grind of the investigation and the toll it took on the people who ended it. Good for viewers tired of glamorized murderers who want a hard, fact-driven account of the case. Stream Night Stalker online on iFILM.