Biography of Richard Trenton Chase

I. Biography
Richard Trenton Chase, who would later be known as The Sacramento Vampire, was born on
May 23, 1950 in Sacramento, California . As a child he was known to set fires and torture animals, his parents were constantly arguing until they divorced, there are also people who claim that he allegedly was abused by his mother as a child. As he grew into adolescence he began to heavily abuse alcohol and drugs, from which he is said to have developed Hypochondria. In high school he received grades of C's, D's, and F's, and he didn't have any lasting relationships.
Chase was Institutionalized at Beverly Manor, a facility for the mentally ill, after he got blood poisoning from injecting himself with rabbit blood. At the facility he was given the nickname
Dracula because he spoke of drinking rabbits blood, and was found drinking the blood of birds that he had killed at the facility. After he was released, he enrolled at American River College around the age of 18. There he began to see a psychiatrist concerning his erectile dysfunction, which the psychiatrist claimed was a side effect of suppressed anger, the psychiatrist also suspected that Chase was suffering from mental illness. Chase began to live on his own at the age of 21, during which time he would hunt animals and eat their innards raw and drink their blood; because he believed that his blood was turning into powder, and drinking blood was the only way to stop the process, he also believed that his heart sometimes stopped beating. Around the age of 26 Chase was Institutionalized again, and it was around this time that he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. He was only deemed safe to leave the institution after he was prescribed Psychotropic drugs, which his mother t...

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...psychiatrist later told him was the cause of his inability to perform sexually. As for biological factors, Chase's excessive drug abuse caused him to develop Hypochondria, which is an excessive preoccupation with one's health, usually focusing on some particular symptom, as cardiac or gastric problems; which is related to his fear of his blood turning to powder and his heart stopping. There is also a chance that his excessive drug use, in particularly his use of LSD, may have triggered his latent Paranoid schizophrenia.

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