California IN BRIEF : SAN FRANCISCO : Night Stalker Says He’s No Sex Symbol

Richard Ramirez, the Satan-worshiping mass killer awaiting trial on a murder charge, says news reports that hundreds of women line up to meet him are exaggerated. “I’m not a sex symbol,” Ramirez told reporters in a jailhouse interview. Jailers had said that Ramirez, 31, gets eight to 10 women callers a week. Ramirez, the so-called “Night Stalker,” was convicted of 13 grisly sex slayings in Southern California. The self-proclaimed satanist said his visitors “sympathize with me, they relate.” Ramirez, whose right knee bore an inked pentagram, considered to be a satanic symbol, added, “I know who I am, I’m comfortable with myself and I know what I’m capable of.” One visitor, Christine Lee, 23, said she met Ramirez seven years ago. She said the so-called flood of visitors consists of her and three others, “and they are all old.”