Richard Chase: A Case Study Of Serial Killers

prevented from turning his blood into powder through poison they had planted beneath his soap dish. Chase though that only fresh blood could save him, but the worst part was he didn’t care where it came from or how he got it (Bovsun, 2010).
Richard Chase was raised in a strict household and was beaten often by his father. In his teens he became an alcoholic and also developed a preference for killing and disfiguring animals and fire-starting, all common characteristic with serial killers in their childhood (Ramsland, 2007). In high school, Chase had a handful of girlfriends, but none of who he was able to maintain a steady relationship with. However, due to his inability to achieve or maintain an erection with females, and because of the inability to become aroused in the presence of females he couldn’t keep a steady relationship. On consulting a psychiatrist, Chase was told that the cause of his problems was either restrained anger or mental illness. Chase did not try to find any further treatment after his identification. It would later be determined that Chase had a strong dislike to normal sex and could only achieve arousal and orgasm through violent or disturbed act, such as killing animals and having sexual intercourse with corpses
Alone in his new apartment, Chase began to capture, kill and remove the guts on various animals, which he would then devour raw. He then began to put the internal organs or intestine of the animals he had killed into a blender to make smoothies (Katherine Ramsland, 2007). Chase supposedly good sense, thought that by drinking these smoothies he was preventing his heart from shrinking. Richard Chase was afraid that his heart would shrank too much to the point that it would disappear and then he would die. Serial killer and cannibal Richard Chase only broke into people houses that were unlocked. If the doors were locked, he thought it meant