{"id":49577,"date":"2021-01-22T18:48:12","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T18:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=49577"},"modified":"2021-02-24T16:27:13","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T16:27:13","slug":"the-night-stalker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2021\/01\/the-night-stalker\/","title":{"rendered":"The Night Stalker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two decades on death row<br \/>\nSan Quentin his spot<br \/>\nIt was Cancer that ended his<br \/>\nReign and he got<br \/>\nThe seed of the Devil<br \/>\nInside him and he<br \/>\nLived with his thoughts<br \/>\nFor his eternity<\/p>\n<p>The City of Angels<br \/>\nThe glamorous set<br \/>\nAnd the very dark side<br \/>\nReality shows us<br \/>\nThe fallible slide<br \/>\nThe whole place was evil<br \/>\nHideosty<br \/>\nHe came from the dark side<br \/>\nAnd never broke free.<\/p>\n<p>At around that  time<br \/>\nOthers gained space<br \/>\nOne Gil Carrillo a teen<br \/>\nTo face<br \/>\nA stint in service<br \/>\nOut in Viet Nam<br \/>\nIn the thick of the action<br \/>\nThough he came to no harm<\/p>\n<p>Came back and married<br \/>\nHis girl from before<br \/>\nHe wanted to dump her<br \/>\nBefore he we t to war<br \/>\nSe dumped him revenge<br \/>\nWas his heartfelt desire<br \/>\nBut coming back from the front<br \/>\nThey both found some fire<\/p>\n<p>And were married by Christmas<br \/>\nHe had plans and he<br \/>\nWent if to college<br \/>\nAnd wanted to be<br \/>\nIn service as a cop<br \/>\nOn patrol<br \/>\nAnd he joined up<br \/>\nAnd worked  hard<br \/>\nFor he had a goal<\/p>\n<p>To make his dad proud of him<br \/>\nHe wanted to be<br \/>\nSomething in life<br \/>\nIt was  no mystery<br \/>\nIn March 81 he joined Homicide<br \/>\nThe \u201cbulldogs\u201d a team<br \/>\nHe would  not be denied<br \/>\nHe with Frank Salerno<br \/>\nThe Boss so to say<br \/>\nThe kingpin empowered<br \/>\nWith his dominant way<\/p>\n<p>In what is a big area<br \/>\nTheir  team  oversaw<br \/>\nAt least 1000 murders a year<br \/>\nSometimes more<br \/>\nIt was violently stressful<br \/>\nThe pressure immense<br \/>\nBut Gil  knew he had it him<br \/>\nIt made sense<\/p>\n<p>He could  learn from the master<br \/>\nSomeone he knew<br \/>\nSomeone he respected<br \/>\nEstablished and true<br \/>\nIt was all about discipline<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two decades on death row San Quentin his spot It was Cancer that ended his Reign and he got The seed of the Devil Inside him and he Lived with his thoughts For his eternity The City of Angels The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2021\/01\/the-night-stalker\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[344,22,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-death-and-dying","category-topical-news-stories-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49577"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50162,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49577\/revisions\/50162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}