Short Story Of Richard Chase: The Vampire Of Sacramento

Have you have wondered what it was like to eat the raw organs of an animal or drink someone’s blood? Have you ever been walking and seen that someone left the front door open and thought it was a invitation and just walked in their house? These things might sound strange or something that shouldn’t go through anyone’s mind but this is real situations that some people think of and do on a regular bases. You probably wonder who would do that but there is a gory story of a man that always covered himself with blood and made smoothies of people and animals organs. He also loved biting off bird heads and drinking the blood while locked away in a mental institution. Surprisingly this story is true and the man was known as “The Vampire of Sacramento”. …show more content…
He was brought up as the only child into a strict home with an abusive father and mother that would beat him for everything he did. He developed bedwetting at a young age and also enjoyed to set fires in his backyard. Richard soon became in love with torturing animals at the age of ten. He would take the neighbors pets and torture them to death for no reason then call the neighbors and tell them that he killed their pet. These were all signs of a psycho or murderer but his mother didn’t want to do anything about it and let him continue for a period of time. The family went to a therapist for their family problems and Richard was told he had anger problems and possibly a mental illness but it was never further looked into. In his teen years, Richard became an alcoholic and used drugs like LSD. He didn’t have much of a dating life because he found out that he had a problem with having a erection and couldn't get aroused with just women anymore. He only could when seeing disturbing images which will later play out with his murdering spree. He ended up barely passing high school and soon moved into a apartment with two other guys but after a couple of months they asked him to move out because he kept boarding up the doors and windows and would have meltdowns because he was still heavily into drugs. His parents finally sent him to a mental institution when they couldn’t control him anymore. The doctors diagnosed him with paranoid schizophrenia and conduct disorder (childhood psychopathy) and heavily medicated him. One day he reached through the bars of the stitution and caught a bird then torn his head of with his teeth and drank the blood. The nurses found him with blood all over his face which led them to calling him