The Story of a Murderer
Here is the one of the interesting story of a serial killer.
Richard Trenton Chase was a cannibalistic and necrophiliac
serial killer who was active in California from December, 1977 to January,
1978.
Background
Allegedly abused by his mother while growing up, Richard
Trenton Chase had already fulfilled the MacDonald Triad (bed wetting, animal
torture and fire-setting) by the age of 10. In adolescence, he was already an
alcoholic and chronic drug addict. He also suffered from erectile dysfunction.
When an adult, he became a hypochondriac, eventually moving out of his mother’s
home because he believed she was trying to poison him. He then moved into an
apartment with some friends, who complained about his abuse of alcohol,
marijuana and acid. Chase paid no attention to guests and would sometimes walk
around naked when his roommates had people over. His roommates got tired of him
quickly and, when they tried to throw him out, he refused. In the end, they
moved out instead. Alone in the apartment, Chase began capturing, killing and
disemboweling animals, consuming them raw. Sometimes, he would blend them with
Coca-Cola and drink the remains as a milkshake, allegedly to prevent his heart
from shrinking. In 1975, he was involuntarily institutionalized after being
treated at a hospital for blood poisoning, which he had contracted by injecting
animal blood into his veins. His bizarre behavior continued while he was in
treatment (the staff even took to calling him “Dracula”), until he was
prescribed psychotropic drugs. In 1976, he was deemed safe and placed in the
care of his mother, who eventually prevented him from taking his anti-psychotic
medications, allegedly because they dulled him, and got him his own apartment.
Pathology
Richard’s killings were attempts at self-preservation— or so
he believed. He had delusions of persecution by alien forces and insisted that
he only ingested human flesh and blood to protect himself from “outside forces”
that were trying to steal his blood. He thought his heart was shrinking and
believed drinking blood would stop it. These paranoid delusions, coupled with
schizophrenia, had been noticed in his childhood, and only became more severe
as he got older. He was in his early twenties when his ability to maintain a
stable life on his own began to crumble, and he was institutionalized. Once he
was released, his killings would begin,—though he had murdered at least one
victim beforehand.
Robert Ressler’s (who later interviewed him after he was
caught) profile of Richard was as follows:
"White male aged twenty-five to twenty-seven; thin, undernourished
appearance; single; living alone in a location within one mile of abandoned
station wagon owned by one of the victims. Residence will be extremely slovenly
and unkempt, and evidence of the crimes will be found at the residence. Suspect
will have a history of mental illness and use of drugs. Suspect will be an
unemployed loner who does not associate with either males or females and will
probably spend a great deal of time in his own residence. If he resides with
anyone, it will be with his parents. However, this is unlikely. Suspect will
have no prior military history; will be a high school or college dropout;
probably suffers from one or more forms of paranoid psychosis."
Modus
Operandi
Richard used a .22 automatic handgun to kill, his first murder
being a drive-by shooting, while the rest were home invasions. After shooting
his victims, Chase would mutilate the bodies and ingest the blood and organs,
also performing sexual acts with the corpses of his female victims.
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