Sun Kil Moon wrote the song Richard Ramirez Died Today of Natural Causes. While the song repeatedly mentions Richard Ramirez and his crimes, it also mentions many other cases. One of them being the case of the Sexton family. The patriarch of the family was a man named Eddie Lee Sexton. He ran his family like a cult - forcing them to take part in bizarre satanic rituals and sexually assaulting all of his twelve children. His wife Stella went along with all of it. She sexually assaulted some of her children even without her husband present. When one of their children spoke out, DHS put the underage children in foster homes while they began investigating the parents. This set off a series of events that lead to Eddie Lee Sexton getting some of the kids back, then holding them hostage and taking them on the run throughout the country. Chaos and crime followed the family everywhere they went, and eventually innocent lives were lost.
Sources:
Cauffiel, Lowell. House of Secrets. Kensington Publishing Corp., 1 Apr. 2014.
Kozelek, Mark. Richard Ramirez Died Today of Natural Causes. 2014.
nowayalrightokay. “Songs about True Crime?” Reddit.com, 30 Aug. 2023, www.reddit.com/r/TrueCrimePodcasts/comments/165pg2r/songs_about_true_crime/. Accessed 26 Jan. 2024.
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