Richard Chase (1950-1980) was an American serial killer who murdered six people in Sacramento, California in January 1977. He had a troubled childhood and mental health issues. As an adult, he lived alone, abused drugs, and showed signs of paranoid schizophrenia. He killed randomly by entering homes whose doors were unlocked. His victims were shot, stabbed, mutilated, and some body parts were cannibalized. Chase was found legally sane and executed by gas chamber in 1980.

2. •Born on May 23, 1950.
•Had a thing of setting fires as a child and liked tormenting animals.
•Had a sister four years younger, and his father always bickered with him
mother.
•By the age of ten Richard was killing cats.
•When he got in his teen years, he started drinking and would smoke dope.
•He dated several girls, but could never be sexual, because he could never
stay “happy”.
•With this he went to see a psychiatrist.

3. •Richard was never married.
•Nobody ever talked about Richard and his schooling.
•He had no children just a younger sister.
•He was a loner, he had no social life, and he could never keep a girlfriend.

4. •Richard learned he had repressed anger and might suffer from a major
mental illness. Except his psychiatrist didn’t have him committed.
•Once he moved out, he had multiple roommates which never lasted
because of his drug use and bizarre behavior.
•He never noticed signs that something was wrong with him.
•He went to emergency room one day saying someone stole his
pulmonary artery.
•Said his bones were coming out the back of his head, his stomach was
backwards, and his heart would stop beating.
•Another psychiatrist diagnosed him as paranoid schizophrenic, except
also believed he might be suffering from a drug-induced toxic psychosis.

5. •Put under observation for 72 hours. Then he was allowed to leave.
•Lived with mother (now divorced) but believed to be getting poisoned.
•Father made him move out and bought him an apartment.
•Richard soon killed and disemboweled rabbits and ate their entrails raw.
•He sometimes put the intestines with the animal blood in a
blender, liquefied them and drank it. Saying it stopped his heart from
shrinking.
•He got blood poisoning from injecting rabbits blood in his veins.
•He was committed as a schizophrenic suffering from somatic delusions
•Doctors prescribed medication, but they didn’t work.
•He escaped, went to his mothers and was returned to hospital.
•He was found with blood around his mouth and two birds with broken
necks outside his window.

6. •Chase moved into an apartment and began to capture and torture
cats, dogs, and rabbits. Which he killed and drank there blood.
•He was still on medication but his mother took him off it deciding he
didn’t need it.
•Soon he became not only obsessed with guns but also the Hillside
Strangler.
•He had a fear of other people though.
•But no boundaries to his blood fantasies.

7. •He would go down the street and test doors to see if they were unlocked.
•If they were locked then he wasn’t welcomed he said.
•There were no methods what so ever to Chases killings.
•Nor did he have a specific person he wanted.
•If their doors were unlocked he was “welcomed”, if they were closed then
Chase was “unwelcomed”.

8. •First killing: Ambrose Griffin, 51, was shot twice with a .22-caliber.
•Random drive by shooting done by Chase.
•Run ins: Dawn Larson was neighbors with Chase for six months and found
him odd. He asked for a cigarette and she gave him one but he grabbed her
until she gave him the whole pack. Two weeks later, Jeanne Layton found
Chase trying to get into her house, she walked up and faced him till he lit a
cigarette and walked away. Robert and Barbara Edwards came home to
here someone leaving their house. Robert chased him down but lost him.
Their home was in shambles, and he urinated into a drawer of freshly –
laundered baby clothes and had defecated on a child's bed.

9. •Teresa Wallin, 22, was three months pregnant. Chase put a .22 caliber
bullet in the mailbox then walked into the house to run into Terry. He shot
he twice, once in the skull and once in he hand. He then shot her in the
temple. He continued to drag her to he bedroom, retrieving a knife and
yogurt container from the garbage she was taking out. Her husband came
home to find her on her back, her breasts were shown and her pants and
underwear we around her ankles. She had her knees open in the sexual
assault position. Chase had carved her left nipple off, and had her torso cut
open, he then pulled out her spleen and intestines. He then stabbed her
repeatedly in the lung, liver, diaphragm, and left breast.
•Evelyn Miroth, 38, baby sitted her nephew, who was twenty months old.
Just a mile away from the Wallins. Her friend, Dan Meredith was there, and
also Evelyn’s six year old son Jason.

10. •A neighbor got worried and went over to see if everything was ok. The
police found Dans body on the hallway. Gun shot wound to his head.
•They found blood in the bathroom and bloody water in the tub.
•Evelyn's body was found naked on the bed, her knees open like Teresa.
Chase caught while she was taking a bath then dragged her to bed. Shot
he in the head, and cut her abdomen open pulling her intestines out. He
stabbed her in the anus to her uterus , the police found at least six
time, slices her neck and also tried cutting her eye out.
•On the other side of bed, police found Jason, who was shot twice in the
head.
•Later they found out Chase drank Evelyn's blood, and mutilated the baby
boys body in the tub. Cutting open his head and spilling the brains into the
tub. He then took his body home to consume several organs.

11. •The police considered Chase as a disorganized killer.
•The police said he didn’t plan the murders nor hide/destroy the evidence.
•The police ran a background check on Richard Chase and found his mother
was paying for an apartment, they went to it and knocked but Chase never
answered.
•They proceeded to act like they were walking away, when Chase came
out with a box in his had.
•Chase on his way to his car got arrested but not without fighting them.
•The box had his gun in it, and once at the station he only admitted to
killing dogs. What they found at his apartment was disgusting, bones
everything blood stained and some body parts in the refrigerator.

12. •Defense wanted Not Guilty based on being insane.
•Except Tochterman the lead prosecutor wanted to show he knew the right
between the wrong, he wanted to give Chase the death penalty
•Chase on January 2, 1979 was charged six counts murder.
•Chase said, “He thought that his problems stemmed from his inability to
have sex with girls as a teenager and he said he was sorry for the killings.”
•Defense asked for verdict of second degree murder and to spare Chase
the death penalty since he was insane.
•Jury found legally sane and decided Chase should die in the gas chamber
at San Quentin Penitentiary.

13. •Why are serial killers so hard to spot?
•Serial killers blend in so well, some are charming individuals.
•They lurk everywhere, malls, churches, streets, ect.
•Serial killers hide behind a façade they constructed.
•They don’t know how to feel emotion, so the observe others to see how
normal behavior is persuade.
•Everything is an act to get the victims.
•Most common act is a position of authority.
•But when they are caught they say they are insane.

14. •Characteristics that make up four types of serial killer crime scences.
•Organized crime scene:
•1. Planned offense
2. Transports body
3. Body hidden
4. Controlled conversation
5. Demands submissive victim
6. Missing weapon or evidence
7. Victim is a targeted stranger
8. Personalizes victim
9. Crime scene reflects control
10. Restraints used
11. Aggressive acts done before death

15. •Disorganize crime scene:
1. Body left at death scene
2. Spontaneous offense
3. Evidence or weapon present at scene
4. Victim or location known
5. Body left in view
6. Depersonalizes victim
7. Sexual acts after death
8. Minimal conversation
9. Minimal use of restraints
10. Crime scene sloppy
11. Sudden violence to victim

16. •Mixed crime scene: Shows characteristics from both the organized and
disorganized crime scenes. Could indicate the presence of two
offenders, or that the offender planned the crime and was interrupted
during the act. Also, the offender may have staged the scene.
•Atypical crime scene: Crime scene that can't be classified by the data
available. Decomposed remains fall under this type. The police or profilers
may have to take other things into consideration when faced with this
crime scene. They may look into crime databases to see if anything at the
scene matches other previous crime scenes.

17. •Its not really surprising just disgusting how someone could do something
like this to another human being.
•Also how much time organized serial killers actually put into their killings.
And how it just takes over their life most of the time, its shocking to a
point, but even though people got killed, its interesting to read why they
killed someone how they did it, ect.

18. •http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/weird/chase/murders_4.
html
•http://investigation.discovery.com/criminals/serial-killers/richard-trenton-
chase-03.html
•http://www.members.tripod.com/~SerialKillr/SerialKillersExposed/crimes
cenes.html