Chase moved into his mothers and fathers house at the start of his adult life. However, he then began accusing his mother of trying to poison him and he was soon forced out of the house by his father. Once Chase had moved into his new apartment, he found the perfect opportunity to begin killing and dismembering animals which he would then eat raw. He would also blend their flesh, making himself smoothies. He suffered with the paranoid delusion that his heart was going to shrink and so, he believed that if he drank these smoothies, they would prevent him dying.
Chase was admitted to a mental institution in 1975 after injecting rabbit blood into his veins. After escaping from the hospital, Chase was sent to a mental institute for the criminally insane where he was referred to as "Dracula" after staff found him drinking the blood of two birds he had caught through the bars on his window.
In 1976, Chase was found to be stable enough to go back into society and was released for the hospital. However, his mother believed that Chase did not need the anti-schizophrenic medication that he was subscribed and so, he was taken off of it.
Despite thinking that he was fine, Chase was far from it. Once he moved back into his apartment, he once again began torturing, killing and drinking the blood of various animals. During this time, he had also developed an obsession for firearms and the Hillside Strangler, Kenneth Bianchi.
In 1977, Chase turned up at his parent's home and greeted his mother by thrusting a dead cat in her face which he then threw to the ground, ripped its stomach open with his bare hands and began to smother his face in it's blood. Despite this gruesome and unusual act, Chase's mother calmly walked back inside and did not report the incident to the police.
On August 3rd 1997, Chase's car was found by police in a sand ditch near a lake in Nevada. When they looked inside of the car, they discovered two riffles, clothes, a bucket full of blood and a cow's liver. Chase was then found screaming and naked in the sand, covered in blood. Officers questioned him and Chase stated that it was his own blood that had leaked out of his flesh.
On December 29th 1997, Chase committed his first murder and killed Ambrose Griffin in a drive-by shooting as he was helping his wife take the groceries into the house.
In January 1978, he attempted to break into a woman's home. However, the doors were locked and to Chase, this meant that he was not welcome. After then being refused a ride home, from a girl he recognised, due to his frightening appearance, Chase wondered down the street where he broke into the home of a young couple. He then stole their clothing, urinated into a draw in their babies room and defecated onto their sons bed.
Chase continued to enter the homes of strangers and came across the home of David and Teresa Williams who was three months pregnant. Teresa had opened the door to take out the bins and Chase found the opportunity to sneak in. Once she entered back into the house, Chase shot her three times before dragging the body into the bed room, having sex with it and continuously stabbing it with a butcher knife. Then, Chase sliced the corpse open, removed some of her internal organs and then filled a bucket with her blood so he could bathe in it. He then sliced off her nipple and used an empty yoghurt container which he used as a cup so he could drink her blood. After he was finished, he walked into the garden where he collected dog feces and stuffed them down the corpses throat and mouth.
Two days after Teresa's murder, Chase had bought two puppies from a local pet store before killing them and drinking their blood.
On January 27th, Chase committed his final murder.
He had broken into the home of Evelyn Miroth who was babysitting her 22-month-old son, David. Evelyn's other son, Jason and friend, Dan Meredith were also present at the time. As Evelyn was having a bath, she did not realise that downstairs, Dan had just been killed by Chase. Terrified, Jason ran to his mothers bedroom but was then shot in the head, killing him instantly. David was then also shot in the head. Chase then shot Evelyn while she was in the bath, dragged her body into the bedroom and had sex with her. He also drank her blood by drinking out of several slices on the back of her neck. After he was done, Chase then stabbed Evelyn multiple times in the uterus, even though she was already dead. He then drained the rest of her blood into a bucket and consumed every last drop. Chase then slit David's skull open in the bathroom and consumed parts of his brain. He then took the body home and continued to do more disgusting and horrifying things to the tiny corpse.
Chase's blender
Five days after the mass murder, the FBI were notified by Nancy Holden (the girl who had refused Chase a ride home on the night of Teresa Wallin's murder) who believed that he was responsible for the murders. After gathering enough evidence to question Chase, police went to his apartment. Upon arriving, Chase refused to talk to them. Police tricked him into thinking that they had left, but soon arrested him after he left the apartment carrying a blood stained box, wearing blood stained shoes. His apartment was then searched where police found the walls, floor, ceiling, fridge and all of Chase's eating and drinking utensils covered in blood. They also found the blender that Chase used to make his smoothies which reeked of rotting flesh. His fridge was then searched and police found animal body parts, David's brains in a tupperware box followed by pieces of his body and finally, Evelyn and Teresa's organs.
In 1979, Chase was charged with six counts of murder. As he was clearly insane, Chase had a chance to avoid the death penalty. However, the jury found him guilty and the judge found him to be sane. He was sentenced to be executed in the gas chamber.
As Chase was in prison, he was feared by all, including gang members. Chase was interviewed by many people and said that the killings were not his fault. He claimed that Nazi UFO's were watching him and he had to kill to stay alive. He also believed that the officers were plotting against him and were in league with the Nazis.
On December 26th 1980, Richard Chase was found dead in his prison cell after overdosing on anti-depressants which he had been saving up for weeks.
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