Richard Chase
"The Vampire of Sacramento"
- Mad or Bad?: Bad and maybe Mad
- Dates of Killings: 1977 - 1978
- Location: California
- He would break into the victim's home and shoot them.
- He would mutilate the bodies and in some cases he would smear the victim's blood onto
his face.
- He scattered the intestines of one victim around the room.
- He would also sodomise some of the dead bodies.
- He exhibited signs of mental instability at an early age.
- He had a life pattern of drug abuse and hypochondria.
- He was admitted twice to psychiatric hospitals.
- He experimented on animals and tortured them.
- He was never confirmed to be certifiably insane.