Horror, Sleaze and Trash.

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“Everyone has a soap dish. If you lift the soap and find that underneath it is dry, you’re all right. If its gooey, you have the poisoning, which turns your blood to powder. The powder then depletes your energy and eats away at your body.”
-Richard Chase on how he thought he was being poisoned. Believed to be suffering from schizophrenia, Chase was known as the ‘Vampire of Sacramento’ because he drank the blood of his victims, ate their internal organs and left behind particularly bloody crime-scenes. 

Doctors treated Chase with the usual drugs used for schizophrenia with little success; his psychosis remained intact and Chase was still acting erratically. Once, his mother found him with two dead birds. He had slaughtered them, cut their heads off and was sucking the blood from their headless bodies. Despite clear insanity, doctors decided he was no longer a threat to society and released him under the care of his parents which spelled disaster for Chase as his parents both had old-fashioned views when it came to medication. His mother made the dangerous decision that he no longer needed his prescriptions and stopped giving him the pills. She then bought him an apartment, and left him their unattended without any form of support nor medication. Chase progressed from the need for animal organs and blood, to human ones and in 1977, he began a murder spree that would claim the lives of six people.

In 1979, a jury found Chase guilty on six counts of first-degree murder and he was handed a death sentence. Due to the nature of his murders, he was not a popular man in prison and other inmates often tried to talk him into killing himself. The day after Christmas, Chase had finally had enough of the torment. He had been planning his suicide and had managed to hoard enough pills to kill himself. Guards found his dead body slumped in his cell a few hours later.