It was a fatal decision, as Chase’s condition wasn’t improving - he was growing worse. In spite of several similar incidents, the staff believed that they had rehabilitated Chase, and he was released to live with his mother. It was his attempt to inject himself with rabbit’s blood - which made him violently ill - that had resulted in his institutionalization. His fascination with blood earned him the nickname “Dracula” among the psychiatric hospital’s assistants, who witnessed him kill and attempt to drink the blood of several birds in an effort to stave off the effects a poison that was, he imagined, slowly turning his own blood to powder. Unsurprisingly, at the age of 25, Chase was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and institutionalized in 1975 to prevent him from becoming a danger to himself. He shaved his head in an effort to monitor their movements. One of his strangest and most powerful delusions involved his skull: he felt that his cranial bones had split apart and begun to shift beneath his skin, changing places and jumbling like puzzle pieces.
ROCHARD CHASE SKIN
Like the vampire whose moniker he would soon adopt, he became convinced on several occasions that his heart had stopped at times, he thought he was a walking corpse.īut being occasionally dead was no reason to neglect his health fearing that he lacked vitamin C, he reportedly pressed whole oranges to the skin of his forehead, believing that his brain would absorb the nutrients directly. Psychotropic drugs exacerbated the symptoms of his illness. Without supervision, Chase turned to alcohol and drugs, which quickly turned into substance abuse. Macdonald in 1963 as a predictor of sociopathy in a patient.Ĭhase’s problems grew worse when his father allegedly kicked him out of the house. These three habits are sometimes called the Macdonald triad, or the triad of sociopathy, proposed by psychiatrist J.M. He set several small fires, frequently wet the bed, and displayed signs of cruelty toward animals. Richard Chase showed signs of mental illness at a young age - but his father, a strict and sometimes physically abusive parent - did little to get him help.Ĭhase was disturbed and unhappy as a child, and his symptoms grew worse in adolescence. Wikimedia Commons A stereotypical image of a vampire from a 19th-century penny dreadful.
ROCHARD CHASE TRIAL
“‘Vampire’ murder trial nears jury.” The Central New Jersey Home News.“‘Vampire’ Convicted of 6 Slayings.” The Town Talk.“Jury to set date of vampire killer.” The Windsor Star.“Richard Chase, convicted California ‘vampire murderer’.” The Courier-News.“Driven to Kill.” The San Francisco Examiner. On December 26, 1980, Chase was found dead in his cell after taking an overdose of his antidepressant medication which he had been hoarding for several weeks.
It was hoped these instances would help during an insanity plea attempt, which was unsuccessful.Ĭhase was convicted and sentenced to death in May of 1979. In addition, testimony was brought against Chase disclosing an incident in which he ate live birds and another involving Chase being found naked and covered in cow’s blood. … They were all my enemies, all fascists.” Chase mentioned these thoughts - as well as other conspiracy theories involving Nazis, the FBI, and UFOs - at trial. I was being tortured, poisoned all my life. When asked why he murdered his victims he responded, “Because I couldn’t stand life any more. During questioning, he admitted to being obsessed with blood and confessed to have ingested the blood of some of his victims, which he believed would purify his body of the poisons Nazis had subjected him to. When questioned about this, he replied “Oh, if the door is locked, that means you’re not welcome.”Ĭhase was arrested on Januafter leaving handprints and shoe impressions in his final victim’s blood. In addition, the victims killed in January were selected after Chase found their doors unlocked.
Most of the victims were shot and mutilated, with some being cannibalized and/or raped. Among the victims were two children: 6-year-old Jason Miroth and his cousin 22-month-old David Ferreira.
ROCHARD CHASE SERIAL
Serial killer Richard Trenton Chase dies of an overdose in prisonĬhase killed six people from Decemto Janufive of the murders occurred between January 23 and 27.
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