Memoir From Ramirez’s Niece

Rosie Juárez spent years telling relatives that her uncle had abused her, and now she is telling that story in a memoir that went on sale April 10, 2026, the same week El Paso outlets began reporting her bookstore appearances. (elpasomatters.org) (rosierjuarez.com) The uncle was Richard Ramirez, the serial killer known as the “Night Stalker,” whose murders in Southern California made him infamous in the mid-1980s. Juárez’s book is called *His Niece*, and her own site describes it as a memoir about trauma, silence, and rebuilding a life after abuse. (ktsm.com) (rosierjuarez.com) Juárez told El Paso Matters that Ramirez abused her for years when she was a child and that family members did not believe her when she tried to speak up. KTSM reported the same account, framing the book as her public break with decades of silence. (elpasomatters.org) (ktsm.com) That is why the memoir is not being pitched as another true-crime retelling of Ramirez’s murders. On Juárez’s website, the book is described as “not a story about a killer” but a story about what happened after, inside a family that chose silence over belief. (rosierjuarez.com) (elpasomatters.org) The El Paso angle is personal as well as local-history deep. El Paso Matters identifies Ramirez as an El Paso serial killer, and Juárez is tying her first public events to the city’s Independent Bookstore Day programming later this month. (elpasomatters.org) (bookweb.org) Independent Bookstore Day is a national event run by the American Booksellers Association, and the 2026 edition falls on April 25. The association says more than 2,000 bookstores take part across all 50 states, which is why local author events often get folded into it. (bookweb.org) Juárez’s own site says the book is being released through Redeemed Ink Press in paperback and hardback on April 10, 2026. Her author bio presents her as a survivor, advocate, and writer focused on trauma, healing, family secrecy, faith, and restoration. (rosierjuarez.com) So the immediate news is a book launch, but the fuller story is a family member of a notorious killer refusing to let his crimes be the only story that survives. Juárez is using a memoir and bookstore appearances to shift the focus from Richard Ramirez’s public infamy to the private damage she says he left behind. (elpasomatters.org) (rosierjuarez.com)