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| Blender used to make organ smoothie |
Richard Chase, also known as The Vampire of Sacramento, had a total
of 6 victim count in a span of one month. His crimes included murder,
necrophilia, cannibalism and mutilation. He is known as The Vampire of
Sacramento because he drank the blood of his victims and ate their
internal organs. He said that he had to consume his victims in order to
prevent the Nazis from turning his blood into powder via poison.
Chase, by the age of 10, had already displayed signs of the possibility
that he might grow to be a serial killer. These signs commonly includes
the wetting of bed beyond the normal age, cruelty to animals and setting
fires. These signs were possibly "enhanced" due to his strict
upbringing and violent father. During his teenage years, he got involved
with drugs and showed symptoms of delusional thinking. Even though he
sought help from a psychiatrist, he was denied help as "his problems
were a result of his severe mental disorders".
Despite having
numerous girlfriends in high school, Chase did not maintain anything
steady, partly due to his inability to achieve or maintain an erection.
He was unable to become aroused in the presence of female. It was later
determined that Chase had an aversion to conventional sex and could only
achieve arousal and orgasm through disturbed acts, such as the killing
of animals and necrophilia.
In 1975, he contracted blood
poisoning after injecting rabbit's blood into his veins. He was then
committed to a mental institution, which he eventually escaped. This
escape did not last long as he was apprehended at his mother's place and
was sent to an institution for the criminally insane. During his time
there, he often talked about killing rabbits and was once found with
blood smeared on his mouth - Hospital staffs found out that he had
captured two birds, snapped their necks and sucked their blood out.
Upon release from the institution, he was living in his parent's home.
He began to capture, torture and drank the blood of animals. His
fascination with firearms grew, which led him to purchase several
handguns, which he practiced obsessively. He also became obsessed with
the crimes of the Hillside Strangler.
On August 3, 1977, police
found his car lodged in a sand drift; inside were 2 rifles, a pile of
clothes, a bucket full of blood and a cow's liver. He was naked and
screaming while soaked in blood, claiming that his blood had leaked out
of him. No charges were filed against him for this incident, as he
managed to convince the police that it was animal's blood.
His
first murder started on December 29, 1977, and ending on January 27,
1978. For all his victims, he would first shoot them with his firearms,
before proceeding to stab them or to cut them open before performing
necrophilia and cannibalism. He even made smoothies out of their organs -
(Refer to the blender used in the attached photograph).
Chase's victims:
December 29, 1977:
Ambrose Griffin, 51 - Shot in the chest in a drive-by shooting
January 22, 1978:
Teresa Wallin, 22 (3 months pregnant) - Shot once in the hand, twice in
the head, engaged in necrophilia, stabbed, organs removal, cutting of
nipple, stuffing of dog feces down the throat, partially eaten
January 27, 1978: (Massacre at Evelyn Miroth's home)
Daniel Meredith, 51 - Shot in the head and multilated
Evelyn Miroth, 38 - Shot in the head, engaged in necrophilia, slashed
her throat, disemboweled, partially eaten, attempted eye removal
Jason Miroth, 6 - Shot in the head and multilated
David Ferreira - Shot in the head, mutilated, partially eaten
Five days after the last murder, Chase was finally apprehended. In his
home, detectives found that his walls, floor, ceiling, refrigerator and
his utensils were all soaked in blood. On his kitchen counter was the
blender that he used to make his bloody smoothies - caked with blood and
rotting matter of internal organs. In his refrigerator, they found
multiple animal body parts, his victims' brains in a container, pieces
of body of as well as internal organs.
On May 8, 1979, despite
the defense asking for clemency, the judge sentenced Chase to death by
the gas chamber because he was not legally insane. During his time in
prison, he was feared by many inmates due to the notoriety of his
crimes. However, before the death sentence could be carried out, Chase
was found dead in his cell on December 26, 1980, from suicide with an
overdose of antidepressants that he had saved up for weeks.
Fun
Fact: After he was found guilty, he wrote a 10 page letter to Municipal
Court Judge Carol Miller, asking for a second physical examination to
detect if there are any signs of poisoning. He said that his mother had
been poisoning him with soap and that he began the killing of animals
and the drinking of their blood to cure himself.
The letter stated:
"As a young boy, I was slowly poisoned by my mother till I was 20. The
poisoning caused construction of my inner metabolism, retarding my
growth, making it impossible to lead a normal life. She poisoned me with
doses of dish soap every day."
Well, I guess someone here took his dracula ~~*feelz*~~ a little too seriously.
