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I think Herbert Mullin is my favorite second to Richard. He is also schizophrenic so that's probably why.
Yeah, I see the resemblance in their history. Even in appearance. Very interesting case indeed! I also feel like his sentence was more appropriate.
Richard Chase has a brief cameo in Joker/Harley: Criminal Sanity #1 Kami Garcia, Mico Suayan, Mike Mayhew/DC Comics
Quick PSA
According to Richard Chase, if you raise your soap from your soap dish and it’s all wet and liquid-y underneath, that means the literal nazis are poisoining you and slowly turning your blood into powder
Just thought I’d let y’all know
I checked...and... OH NO.
Richard Chases drugs of choice: Cannabis, Speed & LSD Non of these caused his behaviour, but they sure were not helpful either.
Richard Chase (The Vampire of Sacramento)
EARLY LIFE
Born on May 23, 1950 into a strict family and subject to much physical abuse by his father, Chase began showing signs of mental illness early. He became dependent on alcohol in his childhood and made a habit of starting fires and mutilating animals. As a teenager, he could not sustain normal sexual function without the aid of disturbing practices, such as necrophilia and animal murder. His delusions began around this time and his father forced him to move to his own apartment, where he began to eat animals raw after he killed them.
In 1975, Richard Chase was briefly institutionalized and given a heavy treatment of psychotropic drugs. Even though he killed animals while in the institution, they shortly released him and ceased his treatment of anti-schizophrenic drugs. This led to a miasma of worse behavior. He neglected his health, developed an obsession with hand guns, and was found more than once covered in blood and screaming somewhere in the neighborhood.
In 1977, Chase fired his .22 into someone’s kitchen. No one was harmed, but it sparked something in him. Two days later, he shot and killed Ambrose Griffin in a random drive-by. Griffin was officially the first murder victim, but Chase took to breaking and entering, stealing, and generally victimizing behavior in the days following. He terrorized California and drank the blood of his victims to satisfy a persistent delusion. Under the belief that Nazis were attempting to turn his blood into powder and he drank blood to ward off this medical disaster.
First Murder
In January 1978, Richard Chase was breaking and entering homes when he randomly entered the house of David and Teresa Wallin. David was at work and Teresa left the door unlocked to take out the garbage. Chase ambushed her and shot her with the same gun used to kill Griffin. He then raped her body after she died from her head wounds, and carved it up with a butcher knife. He drank the blood of the organs and bathed in it, and finished the crime by stuffing dog feces into the mouth of the corpse.
Only two days after, Chase entered the home of Evelyn Miroth. She was baby-sitting her two-year old nephew David, her son Jason, and a neighbor named Dan Meredith was also in the house. With the same gun from the other murders, he shot Dan in the head, and murdered the two children as well. After killing Evelyn, he sodomized the corpse and drank blood from the neck. Then he allowed blood to pool in her abdomen before draining and drinking it. He was a sloppy killer though, as he left a lot of evidence laying around the crime scene. He stole David’s body and consumed the brain matter, blood and mutilated it before leaving it at a nearby church.
Arrest & Death
He was shortly thereafter arrested because of the evidence he left behind. The police found the body parts of his victims in his apartment. Richard Chase was sentenced to death in prison by means of the gas chamber. Before the system could kill him, he saved up his prescribed anti-depressants and overdosed on them in his cell, effectively ending his life.
A Graphic Novel Series about Serial Killers, Edition Richard Chase: “Le Vampire de Sacramento” [French only] Ordered it myself to check it out, but can’t judge accuracy, since I don’t speak french...
His appearance was another shock. Here was a skinny, odd looking young man with long black hair , but it was his eyes that really got me. I’ll never forget them. They were like those of the shark in the movie Jaws. No pupils, just black spots. These were evil eyes that stayed with me long after the interview.
Robert K. Ressler on meeting Richard Trenton Chase. From the book Whoever Fights Monsters. (via tryphainia)
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Richard “The Vampire of Sacramento” Chase
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Same. But I can’t say this enough: I am sorry for the victims. Including his parents. And I am honestly baffled this image made it to the public (It may has been part of FBI training material) The victim seen here was Teresa Wallin.
Cotard’s Delusion
Cotard’s Delusion, sometimes referred to as Cotard’s Syndrome, is very rare and was first recognized in 1882 by a neurologist by the name of Jules Cotard. Those suffering from Cotard’s delusion believe that they are missing body parts, lacking blood, dying, or already dead. On some occasions, the person believes that they have lost their soul. Others simply believe they don’t actually exist at all. People who are having Cotard’s Delusion often have other physical or mental illness, most commonly schizophrenia. One notable case was Richard Chase, an American spree killer who thought that his body didn’t have enough blood.
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Richard Trenton Chase killed six people in one month in California. He was nicknamed “The Vampire of Sacramento” because he drank the blood of his victims. Chase had a number of extreme eccentricities: he would hold oranges on his head, believing the Vitamin C would be absorbed by his brain. Roommates later complained that he was often on LSD & walked around the apartment nude, even in front of company. They demanded he move out, but he simply refused. Once in the apartment, Chase disemboweled animals, which he ate raw. Sometimes he would mix the organs with Coca-Cola in a blender and drink the concoction.
Thanks for posting about Richard Chase, he is underrated in the true crime community. Still, are you interested in any other serial killers besides Chase?
Yes! Before I learned about Chase, I was very interested in Ed Gein and Jeffrey Dahmer. Necrophilia and Cannibalism is what drew me to those cases. I don’t care much for narcissists, sadistic killers or psychopaths in general, to be honest. I am also very interested in the affects of schizophrenia (but of course, mentally ill people are not automatically dangerous and it’s important to mention that whenever brought up in criminal context).
Newspaper clipping of the sentence announcement. The Sun: May 18,1979
Richard Chase wanted to testify in court, against his lawyers advice.
Necrophilia among killers
Necrophilia has also been a motive for some serial killers, including Richard Chase, Ed Gein, Winston Moseley, Dennis Nilsen, John Reginald Halliday Christie, Bruno Lüdke, Jerry Brudos, Gary Ridgway, Ted Bundy, and Jeffrey Dahmer, who ate his victims after killing them (although Dahmer had only confessed to eating the bicep of a male); the technical term for this particular variant activity is necrophagia. Several other murderers have described drawing sexual excitement from killing, as well, such as Karla Faye Tucker, who claimed to have an orgasm with each swing of the axe she used to kill Jerry Lynn Dean. The guilty-plea testimony provided by the recently captured (2005) serial killer Dennis Rader provided a rare public glimpse into the workings of such a controlling mind.
I agree with this 100%. Richard Chase’s verdict was unjust to the severity of his mental illness.
