Richard Trenton Chase was born on May 23, 1950 in Sacramento, California. He was an American serial killer who drank the blood of his victims and even ate their internal organs. He was raised in a strict household and as a child, he was known to set fires, wet the bed, and torture animals. As he got older, he turned to drinking, using drugs, mostly smoking marijuana and using LSD. He was in and out of mental institutions for most of his life. He sought a psychiatrist since he had trouble keeping relationships due to erectile dysfunction, he was told that the root of his problems was his repressed rage or mental illness. It was determined that Chase had an aversion to conventional sex and could only achieve arousal and orgasm through violent
