Ramirez, 53, spent 24 years on Death Row after a spree of demonic murders in California.
The serial killer, who left satanic signs at murder scenes and mutilated victims' bodies, died reportedly after 'sitting up in his bed doing stretches' just the day before at Marin County Hospital.
Ramirez, 53, had been taken from San Quentin's death row to a hospital before his death.
Richard Ramirez, center, with attorneys, Randall
Martin, right and Daro Inouye, left in a San Francisco courtroom Oct.
5, 1990. Ramirez died on Friday. He was convicted of 13 killings
Richard Ramirez, center, known as the Night Stalker, is pictured at his murder trial in 1985
'He was the color green,' said the Post's source. 'He looked like a green highlighter pen.'
It appears the killer was showing signs of severe jaundice in the final throes of his illness.
The skin and eye whites of a sufferer can change color when bilirubin - a yellow substance - builds up in the body.
Bilirubin is formed when haemoglobin, the part of red blood cells that carries oxygen round the body, breaks down. It is usually flushed out of the body in urine or faeces, but a build-up of the waste product in the bloodsteam can lead to the change in skin color.
Ramirez had been housed on death row for decades and was awaiting execution, even though it has been years since anyone has been put to death in California
He was convicted in 1989 of 13 murders, five attempted murders, 11 sexual assaults and 14 burglaries, which terrorized Southern California in 1984 and 1985.
His charges included rape, sodomy and oral copulation.
Though he died of liver failure, the exact cause of the ailment has not been released due to federal patient privacy laws.
At his first court appearance, Ramirez raised a hand with a pentagram drawn on it and yelled, 'Hail, Satan.'
His marathon trial, which ended in
1989, was a horror show in which jurors heard about one victim's eyes
being gouged out and another's head being nearly severed.
Courtroom observers wept when survivors of some of the attacks testified.
Satanic symbols were left at murder scenes and some victims were forced to 'swear to Satan' by the killer, who entered homes through unlocked windows and doors.
Ramirez was finally run down and beaten in 1985 by residents of an East Los Angeles neighborhood while attempting a carjacking.
They recognized him because his picture had appeared that day in the news media.
The trial of Ramirez took a year, but the entire case which was bogged down in pretrial motions and appeals lasted four years, one of the longest criminal cases in U.S. history.
Because of the notoriety of the case, more than 1600 prospective jurors were called.
After his conviction, Ramirez flashed a two-fingered 'devil sign' to photographers and muttered a single word: 'Evil.'
On his way to a jail bus, he sneered in reaction to the verdict, muttering: 'Big deal. Death always went with the territory. See you in Disneyland.'
Courtroom observers wept when survivors of some of the attacks testified.
Satanic symbols were left at murder scenes and some victims were forced to 'swear to Satan' by the killer, who entered homes through unlocked windows and doors.
Ramirez was finally run down and beaten in 1985 by residents of an East Los Angeles neighborhood while attempting a carjacking.
They recognized him because his picture had appeared that day in the news media.
The trial of Ramirez took a year, but the entire case which was bogged down in pretrial motions and appeals lasted four years, one of the longest criminal cases in U.S. history.
Because of the notoriety of the case, more than 1600 prospective jurors were called.
After his conviction, Ramirez flashed a two-fingered 'devil sign' to photographers and muttered a single word: 'Evil.'
On his way to a jail bus, he sneered in reaction to the verdict, muttering: 'Big deal. Death always went with the territory. See you in Disneyland.'
Unapologetic: Ramirez responds to reporters in 1989 after hearing the verdict in his trial
The wife of Ramirez, Doreen Lioy, center, walks
with her head bowed as she is escorted by guards after her prison
wedding on Oct. 3, 1996
A wedding photograph is displayed to the media
of the "Night Stalker" Richard Ramirez and his new bride Doreen Lioy,
outside the gates of San Quentin Prison
Inexplicably, Ramirez, a native of El Paso, Texas, had a following of young women admirers who came to the courtroom regularly and sent him love notes.
Ramirez beat to death Joyce Lucille Nelson, 61, of Monterey Park on July 7, 1985
Relatives called Lioy a recluse who lived in a fantasy world.
In 2006, the California Supreme Court upheld Ramirez's convictions and death sentence. The U.S. Supreme Court refused in 2007 to review the convictions and sentence.
Two years later, San Francisco police said DNA linked Ramirez to the April 10, 1984, killing of 9-year-old Mei Leung.
She was killed in the basement of a residential hotel in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood where she lived with her family.
Ramirez had been staying at nearby hotels.
Ramirez previously was tied to killings in Northern California.
He was charged in the shooting deaths of Peter Pan, 66, and his wife, Barbara, in 1985 just before his arrest in Los Angeles, but he was never tried in that case.
Left: Ramirez shot and killed Dayle Okazaki, 34, in March of 1985. Right: Mei
Leung, 9, was found dead in the basement of a hotel basement where
Ramirez was living. His DNA was matched to the crime scene in 2009
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