Richard Chase - the famous vampire from Sacramento, was recognized as one of the most brutal killers in the world. Six of his victims were killed in the most perverted way, and the maniac consumed their blood, believing that only this way he can exist.
It was after the capture of this criminal in criminology that the term “disorganized serial killer” appeared, which is distinguished by serious mental disorders and spontaneity of its actions. Richard himself was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, however, despite a mental disorder, he was sentenced to death.
Richard Trenton's childhood
Richard was born on May 23, 1950 in Santa Clara, California, USA. The child was quite late, but from an early age he suffered from his surroundings. Father drank and quite often beat young Richard, and his mother developed paranoia, due to which the family later broke up.
From the age of 10, like many future killers, Richard Trenton developed a craving for animal abuse. Thus, the child expressed his aggression on defenseless creatures, dismembered their bodies and even bit off their heads. Also, for a long time the teenager had a problem with urinary incontinence, but the parents did not give the son's problems due attention. The environment did not accept Richard and preferred to ignore his deviations, simply not to mess with him, rather than treat him in special institutions.
Teenage problems
Despite the rather pleasant appearance, the behavior of the teenager repelled peers. In high school, when opportunities appeared to be friends with girls, Richard realizes that he has serious problems with potency. Because of this, as well as the tense atmosphere of the house, he begins to use alcohol and drugs early (marijuana, LSD).
Outwardly, many liked Richard Chase. Photos that have remained since his youth prove that the guy was really pretty. But this did not help him socialize.
Psychiatric hospitals in the life of a maniac
At age 18, when the problem with potency begins to seriously worry the young man, he goes to the doctors on his own in order to find out the cause of his illness. No physical abnormalities were found, but after talking with a psychiatrist it turned out that sexual dysfunction is associated with the suppression of aggression. Later it will become known that Richard Trenton Chase could get sexual arousal only by dismembering the bodies and eating the flesh of animals and people.
At 24, his condition worsens sharply. The desire to kill animals becomes more apparent, and his frustrations begin to scare others. So, according to the patient, his blood turned into powder, and his heart stopped regularly. In order not to die, Richard decides that he needs to use the blood of animals as food. He used the internal organs of rats, rabbits, cats, dogs and birds raw or grinded them with a mixer.
He gets to the hospital in an inadequate state in search of the one who stole his pulmonary artery. The orderlies considered his behavior for an overdose of drugs and sent him to a hospital. Then he again goes to the hospital after he decides to administer intravenously the blood of the rabbit that he killed, according to the patient, the cause of his illness was that the animal drank acid from the battery before death. After research, Richard is diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.
In a psychiatric hospital, the doctor’s recommendations do not really help, presumably because of the continued use of drugs. He escapes from the clinic, but in 1976 he ends up in the Beverly Maner Criminal Clinic.
In the same year, his mother took him home from the clinic, who at that time had already divorced Richard's father. She believed that her husband wanted to poison her. In her opinion, the doctors also want to kill her son, so she soon forbids him to use the prescribed medications.
The mother openly ignores the son’s abnormal behavior. She does not send him for treatment, but soon she buys Richard a separate apartment, where he moves to live.
Independent life
Future serial killer Richard Chase never worked and received benefits. Since he begins to live alone, he ceases to wash and take care of himself.
Because of the belief that nothing will help him besides blood, he stops eating food and loses weight up to 68 kg with a height of 180 cm. He kills animals in cold blood. Even though he directly admits to one of the owners that he ate his dog because fresh blood is vital for his body, he is not sent for compulsory treatment.
At the same time, Richard is interested in the biography of the Hillside Strangler and is sure that they have similar fates: they are both victims of the Nazi and alien conspiracy.
In August 1977, police found Chase’s car near Lake Payramid Lake, where they found a bucket of blood, beef liver and two rifles. Later, Chase himself was detained: naked, smeared with blood, running along the beach. He sure his blood oozes through the skin.
Six months later, Richard acquires a 22-caliber pistol, from which he will kill 6 people in the future.
First victim
Chase loved to enter other people's homes. He had a clear position: "If the door is closed, nobody is waiting for you there." At the end of December 1977, he comes to a strange house, where he shoots a woman in the kitchen. After a miss, he runs away.
After 2 days, December 29, kills an accidental passerby. Richard was driving down the street where he saw 51-year-old Ambrose Griffin. The killer shoots right from the window of his truck, 2 bullets hit the victim in the chest, Ambrose dies on the spot.
Richard did not kill the stranger for any reason, but to test his strength. He admires the act and makes plans for the future. In a local newspaper, he finds a note about his crime and keeps it as a keepsake. Then no one knew who Richard Trenton Chase was. A photo of this criminal did not appear in the media soon.
A series of intentional killings
On January 10, 1978, Richard Chase purchases ammunition for his weaponry to "start the hunt." A day later, he was met by Dawn Larson, a neighbor. That Chase demanded a cigarette, but after that he didn’t release it until he received the whole pack. According to the girl, in his hands he carried 3 dogs.
January 21 was a pretty busy day in Richard's life. He tries to enter the neighbor’s house, but the door is closed.
After he meets his former classmate Nancy Holden, who in the future will hand over to his law enforcement agencies. She does not recognize her classmate in a guy, but Richard himself calls his name and surname. After a short and unpleasant conversation, Nancy drives away in his car.
Then, Richard bursts into the house of Robert and Barbara Edwards, but not finding anyone inside, arranges a pogrom. A young man steals spouses' money, defecates in a crib and urinates in a drawer with clothes. When Robert Edwards returns home, Richard manages to quickly escape.
After several unsuccessful attempts, the killer Richard Chase infiltrates the house of David and Theresa Wallen. The mistress went out into the courtyard, and at that time the killer managed to get inside. When Teresa came back, Richard immediately shot her three times.
The corpse of the pregnant mistress of the house maniac dragged into the bedroom, where he raped him. After completing the sexual intercourse, Richard opened the victim’s stomach, cut out part of the organs, collected blood in a bucket and doused it in the bathroom. Going out into the street, he found a dog feces, returned and put it in the mouth of the dead Teresa.
On the same day, the police unveiled the signs of the killer, based only on their assumptions and analysis of the crime. The media was worried about this incident, but no one linked him to the death of Ambrose Griffin.
The latest killings of a maniac
January 27th Richard Chase continues his series of murders. Then four people became his victims: Evelina Mirot (38 years old), her son Jason (6 years old), her two-year-old nephew David Ferreir and their neighbor Dan Meredith. The latter was killed immediately when the maniac got into the house. After Chase went to the bathroom and killed Evelyn there. He carried the body of the mistress to the room where he raped him, drank blood through the holes in his neck, and dismembered.
Jason made a noise and was killed. Then Richard killed David, and then ate part of his brain. The killer was frightened by a knock from the first floor, taking with him the corpse of a baby, he fled in a family car. The neighbors saw him leaving that house and were able to describe the killer.
After the maniac twisted over the corpse of little David: he drank the innards of a baby through a straw made from a child’s penis.
The capture of a maniac
On February 1, Nancy Holden informs the police that she recognized the killer from the photo robot - this is Richard Trenton Chase. After that, they begin the operation to capture him. It was not possible to contact him, and it was decided to establish surveillance of the suspect’s apartment.
When Richard left the house, he was detained by the police on his way to the truck. With him was a box with a 22-caliber pistol and bloody wallpaper.
During a search of the maniac’s van and apartment, the remains of the victims were discovered, their personal belongings, and a schedule of future murders.
Serial Killer Trial
It was not until January 1979 that a court convicted Richard Chase of six murders. Despite the arguments of the defense towards the inadequate mental health of the defendant, he is judged as a healthy person.
After 4 months, Richard was sent to San Quentin Prison, where he was to be executed in a gas chamber. During his stay there, he communicates with psychiatrists and talks about his hypotheses about the Nazis and aliens. He does not admit his guilt in incidents.
December 26, 1980 Richard Chase - a maniac, killer, psychopath, commits suicide by taking a lethal dose of psychotropic drugs.