On May 23,1950, Richard Trenton Chase was born in Santa Clara County, California. All throughout his life, he showed signs of delinquency. His father was extremely overbearing and was said to have abused Chase as a child. When he was young, he enjoyed setting fires and torturing small animals. He once set fire to a neighbor's garage in order to get them to leave the neighborhood. He did this because he disapproved of the loud music they had constantly played. On top of this, he continuously captured or stole pets and wild animals so he could torture them. Many of the times, he drank their blood after he mixed the entrails and blood in a blender. Never did he show remorse for any of these terrible acts.

At the age of eighteen, he moved out of his parent's home and began to heavily use drugs. He also became a severe hypochondriac constantly claiming that his internal organs were missing or that there was something wrong with his blood. Once he even entered a hospital looking for the person who had stolen his pulmonary artery. He was admitted to a psychiatrist who diagnosed him as a paranoid schizophrenic. After the diagnosis, Chase underwent a voluntary seventy-two hou

He was eventually committed to a psychiatric ward for schizophrenia from somatic delusions. He was prescribed to anti-psychotic medications, which failed to work. After escaping the facility in 1976, his mother had him returned to Beverly Manor where he was called names like "Dracula" and "Vampire" obviously displaying his obsession with blood. One morning he was found with blood covering his face and two dead pigeons outside his window. A textbook show of "Renfield Syndrome." He was eventually deemed no longer a danger threat to society and released.

A few days later, the Wallin family home had been broken into this time unfortunately there was someone home. Teresa Wallin was taking out the trash when Chase entered through the unlocked front door. He saw her and shot her twice. One bullet entered her palm and exited through her elbow the other went through the top of her skull and a third entered through her temple. This resulted in her death as well as the death of the three-month old embryo inside her.

He returned to live in the apartment his father got for him. His mother paid the rent, supplied him with money and groceries. In this reclusive environment, he became more and more anti social and obsessed with the Hillside Strangler. Many considered him and outcast in society, unemployed and on the verge of homelessness Chase began to grow on his obsession of blood soon turning to human blood.

Prosecutor Ronald W. Tochterman was determined to get the court to press a penalty of death on Chase. He studied various cultural myths on exsanguinations and drinking blood. Eventually the Chase tried to plea that he was insane and could not be held fully accountable for the crimes that he committed. Tochterman was enraged by this and showed evidence such as the latex gloves showing that Chase had a good idea between right and wrong as well as when he was going to commit these crimes. After four months and over one hundred witnesses Richard Chase was sentenced to death by means of the gas chamber for the six counts of first-degree murder.

Shortly after an interview with an FBI profiler Chase commit suicide by ingesting three weeks worth of anti-depressant pills that had been prescribed by him from his court appointed psychologist, before a date for his execution could ever be set. The guard who found him said that he was fine one moment and on his second round thirty minutes later, he was dead.

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