Serial Killers 2 Week 4

Richard Chase the Vampire of Sacramento
Serial Killers
Week 4
It was a normal day at the hospital. Doctors milling around with clip boards examining patients. Nurses scurrying trying to get all of the patients happy and rested. A waiting room gushed with the sick and injured sitting quiet, waiting for their turn to be healed. A young man sits in the waiting room chair bouncing his legs up and down impatiently fearing the worst has happened. Fearing he would be soon dead of heart failure. He cannot wait a minute longer. He leaps to his feet and shouts at all who work there that he needs to be seen, “Someone has stolen my pulmonary artery!”
Richard Chase was a severe hypochondriac, paranoid of everything. Afraid that if something could be wrong with him, they would be. He even invented ways in which he was sick. He invented something called “Soapdish poisoning.” He explained that everyone owns a soapdish, the things you put your bar of soap on. If you lift up the soap, and it was dry underneath, you were fine. If you lifted it up and it was gooey under there, you had been poisoned. When infected, your blood would begin to disintegrate into powder and needed more blood to replace it. He often complained that the bones were growing out of his head, and that his stomach was backwards.
Richard was put into psychiatric treatment die to all of the things he had wondering around in his mind. They had learned of his childhood through his warped stories. He admitted to torturing and killing small animals growing up and to heavy drug use as a teenager to today. In his early teens he began killing cats and told about the belief that his blood was turning to powder and needed more blood injected to treat it. Despite the doctors wishes and observations, Richard was released into the world after being deemed harmless. That is a pattern of many of these serial killer stories. At some point, someone had the chance to make a difference, and in every occasion, the patient was looked over, underestimated and set free, deemed harmless only to kill people. Says something about the way this country works and speaks also to the ways in which we often treat people. Pretending others are just numbers and by passing the opportunities we get to make a difference.
Richard was released and went back home, only to find that the state had given his parents money to care for him, but they would not let him live in their home, they were afraid of him. So he lived in an apartment unwatched, and it was here that things went all wrong. His family very seldom visited him and they denied him the chance to see them too. His mother weaned him off the drugs the doctors gave him thinking he did not need them, except they still stayed away out of fear. I think it had more to do with the money the drugs cost, than the fact he didn’t need them, or so they thought. He got crazier and crazier finding stray dogs and cats and bringing them into his apartment and mutilating them to drink their blood to treat his powdering blood problem. He once even inject an animals blood into his own veins, making himself violently ill in the process. Richard was extremely malnourished as he weighed only 115 pounds and he was 5’11. He had no drivers license so he stalked around the neighborhood looking for animals and pretty much creeping everyone out. There are so many cases of serial killers who were careful and reserved, where none of their family or friends suspected anything, or the neighbors had no idea, this was not the case with Richard. The whole neighborhood was scared of this guy as he would randomly walk around town with blood around his lips and on his clothes. He began reading about stories of the Hillside Strangler, a serial killer at the time and became obsessed. He was tired of hunting animals all of the time, they were too hard to catch and this Hillside Strangler seemed to have no problem getting humans and not getting caught. So out of curiosity at first, he buys a semi-automatic .22 caliber rifle and takes a car and drives around the town shooting at houses. By accident, or not really, he hits a man in the back, killing him. This was the first of several horrific murders that’s details are so unthinkable, they are hard to even comprehend.
Robert and Barbara Edwards were returning from grocery shopping when they heard noises from inside the house, some crashing and some glass breaking. They were the window pop in the back and he was running away having apparently heard them coming. The police said this was just a random beak in with the motive being theft and left it alone. However, there was some evidence that a more sinister thing was taking place as they found in their child’s bedroom, that the man had peed in the drawer of the babies clean clothing and pooped on his bed. Doesn’t sound too much like a robbery to me, how about you? Later Robert would tell authorities that he would mill around the neighborhood checking each person’s doors and if the were locked, that meant he was not welcome. If they were unlocked, he was free to come in. And apparently poop on their kids beds.
He continued this when he came across the home of Teresa Wallin, a three month pregnant woman. He shot her mailbox in broad daylight and walked right in shooting two shots at her. The first went into her hand that she held up in defense, and the second her head. He then shot her in the temple and began some very strange and sickening procedures. He raped her, and stabbed her multiple times in various places and began removing her organs and cutting them open, pouring their blood and fluids into an empty yogurt container and drinking them. When he was finished, he tried to place the organs back into the body and put animal poop in her mouth. He killed the baby that was inside of her in a way I will not talk about and left the woman to be found by her husband.
He then turned his attention to another house. Evelyn Miroth, who was babysitting her nephew at the time. Her friends Danny was over as well, when he entered shooting the quiet gun and killing Danny and Jason, the nephew and then killing Evelyn in the bathtub. He did the same treatment to them he did with Teresa, his previous victim, drinking their blood and leaving their mutilated bodies behind. He would leave them as his clothes were covered in blood and teeth stained with it. He would speak to others in this condition with no regard or care of being caught at all. He was reckless, and that is what got him caught.
The police searched his apartment and found that is was a haven of rot. Rotting flesh laying everywhere. Human brains on the plate, rotting animal all over the place. A smell that could make dog poop puke. They found a series of blenders that were used for grinding up the organs and making smoothies that would aid in adding “Better blood” into his body. All of the details of their findings are irrelevant and too terrible to disclose, but it was a mess.
Richard was tried and sentenced to death. As he sat on death row, he decided to allow an author to interview him, where he gave more and more details of his killings, and simply saw the victims as a means to save his life. He claims it was not human blood he lusted for. He was afraid for his life and still is. The humans were an easier way to get the blood needed to keep him alive. It was nothing personal. It was pretty personal to the families of those he slaughtered. He committed suicide at the request of the others on death row who did not like him alive around them. He overdosed on anti-anxiety pills and was found dead in his cell weighing less than a hundred pounds due to his fear that his food would poison him.
Fear and Selfishness. Have you ever seen the movie Titanic. When the boat goes down, there is this guy who tries to use the woman’s head to keep him alive, not caring that he is drowning her. We see it on Black Friday when selfish people trample another to death for a sale. This isn’t even out of fear for their lives, this is out of greed. People will do some pretty crazy things when their lives are in jeopardy or in the case of Richard, think their lives are in jeapardy.
In Richards case, he was messed up. He had all of the signs of someone who would kill growing up, the torturing animals and weirdness. He had not gone overboard though until he began using drugs like a madman, meanwhile messing up his brain and triggering many different chemical imbalances making him hallucinate even when sober and have these detestable and imaginative ideas and anxieties. Richard did truly believe he was dying of blood poisoning as all of the evidence shows. He feared for his life. Does that make him not responsible? In not way does that give him a pass. He knew and admitted, he was messed up, but did nothing. He chose to purposefully not take his meds and to disregard other human and animal life just to save his own. The point is that when we fear, we have the capability to act out in ways that disregard everyone else around us. Kill or be killed attitudes are not from God, but perpetuated by those in our culture who wish to get ahead.
When people fear vulnerable, they fear. When people fear, they often think only for themselves. They act out. When people do not like themselves much or feel like they have qualities that are unattractive, they try to mask those qualities in fear of being found out. In doing that, many turn to hurting others to put the focus on the other instead of themselves. This is the attitude of the bully. This is usually the case when you get a person who tries to hurt others, they are usually trying to mask their own fear. It happens in your schools, it happens in relationships, many times occurring as abuse, and it happens right here at Liquid and it is stupid.
Luke 22:42 “Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done.”
Here is Jesus weeping blood from his face out of so much fear. He is about to me mutilated and He knows it. He is about to undergo the worst punishment that mankind has ever seen and ever will see again in just a few hours. The soldiers are in the garden to come and get him and He prays to His Father for another way to redeem the whole world of it’s sin. He knows there is no other answer, but in His humanity, he fears and wishes their were. Instead of throwing everyone else under the bus to save Himself, and instead of lying His way to freedom which He had so many chances to do. He allows what must happen for the greater good of mankind, the salvation of mankind. He allows the torture, the punishment for uncommitted crimes, and the rejection of those He loves, which is everyone. He endures it.
John 15:13 Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
Mark 9:35 Sitting down, Jesus called the Twelve and said, “If anyone wants to be first, he must be the very last, and the servant of all.”
Gen. 4:9 Then the LORD said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” “I don’t know,” he replied. “Am I my brother’s keeper?”
This last one is really interesting because Cain killed Abel his brother because he was jealous and fearful he would be found out as a fraud by giving the garbage to God as a sacrifice. Of course God knew he was doing it. Cain asks the question, “Am I my brother’s keeper?” The answer is yes, he is, but he has killed his brother out of selfishness and fear and jealousy.
We need to put ourselves behind others. Stop thinking only about ourselves and think about others. That is how we show Jesus in our lives to others. That is how souls are won to eternity in Heaven. People attract to real things, and Christ’s love in you is very real.
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