Richard Trenton Chase killed six people in Sacramento, California, between December 1977 and January 1978. He got the nickname the Vampire of Sacramento because he drank his victims’ blood and ate their body parts. Chase had severe mental illness and believed that drinking blood would stop him from dying.
As per Wikipedia, Chase was born on May 23, 1950, in Sacramento. As a child, he showed scary signs like being cruel to animals, starting fires, and wetting the bed. When he was a teenager, he used a lot of drugs and his mental health got worse. Doctors said he had paranoid schizophrenia and he spent time in mental hospitals. Chase thought his blood was turning to powder and that he needed to drink blood to stay alive. He started by killing and eating animals like rabbits and dogs in his apartment.
