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Serial Killer "Richard Chase"
D’angelo Brooks
Mr. Hodge
Criminal Justice
18 April 2012
“Richard Chase”
Richard Chase an serial killer who had an common and definitive personality profile; how would grow to become the most deranged serial killer of Sacramento. Nevertheless, he showed common traits young just like any other serial killer including bed wetting, setting fires, and abusing animals. An now I’m going to explain through the state of mind which is Richard Chase from young beginning to his deadly end.
Richard Chase born May 23, 1950 in Santa Clara, California. As a young boy he didn’t show any odd behavior until he turned the age of ten. At the age, of ten in 1960 he started killing and torturing animals including cats. Then by some years passed it was 1964 an he started attending Mira Lama High School, obtained grades of C’s, D’s, and F’s, but still managed to complete high school an get his diploma. While he was in school his sophomore year he was arrested for possession of marijuana ordered by juvenile court work on weekends, and as his time as an teenager he became a very intense drug user and regularly exhibited symptoms of delusional thinking.
January 25, 1978 Chase started his life of legal problems from small crime of stealing a four-mouth old puppy, shooting it in the head and proceeded to drink the blood or to his random violent acts like on the date January 11, 1978. On the 11th of January 1978 chase attacked a neighbor after he asked for a cigarette then restrained her units she turned over the entire pack. 2 weeks later, he broke into a house, robbed it then urinated inside a drawer containing infant clothing and defecated on the bed in a child’s room. Interrupted by the owners return, chase was attacked but managed to escape. An chase continued to search for unlocked doors of homes to enter. He believed a locked door was a sign that he was not wanted, however an unlocked door was as invitation to enter.
Social problems Richard Chase had many of them; suffering

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