Grab your garlic necklace and maybe double check that your doors are locked, because today we’re getting a Broader Understanding of The Vampire of Sacramento: Richard Chase.

CW: this one’s heavy, graphic, and disturbing. It deals with severe mental illness, animal abuse, necrophilia, cannibalism, and some of the most brutal murders I’ve ever covered on this show. 
 But we’re also going to talk about how the system failed everyone involved  and how “evil” isn’t always the right word for something that is deeply, deeply sick.


Sources: 
Can Violence be Predicted with the Macdonald Triad? (Dr. Grande)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxp1SFgrMCI

Richard Chase (Real Crime)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Cqgveqs-bA&t=564s

FBI files on Richard Chase

”The Vampire of Sacramento” documentary

Court transcripts and psychiatric evaluations

Sacremento Court House

The book The Vampire Killer by Clifford L. Linedecker

Psychology Today articles on schizophrenia and serial killers

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