CMV: Richard Chase was a classic impotent rage/ woman-hater killer and the blood fixation wasn’t his reason for killing.
I am not defending this guy, in fact I think he gets too much sympathy for his mental illnesses. He was obviously incredibly mentally ill, but if you really listen or read about his crimes (as I did with the boys chapter in the book), he operates very much like a typical serial killer, just with the added blood drinking.
Victims all women or children
Known impotence that turbocharged his terrible mental state
Rabidly attacked bodies like other classic woman-hating killers
Intimidation tactics like Golden State Killer, such as desecrating personal objects and leaving a bullet in a woman’s mailbox
Sexual assault of bodies
Casing of houses
Attempts to avoid capture
I think the blood thing was real, but the Dracula stuff like ‘I didnt go in if it was locked’ was all bullshit because he knew it would add to his mythos.
There is more I can think about later. But after reading the chapter on him in Last Book on the Left, I immediate thought this. Richard Chase was certainly mentally insane, but I think he knew far more than people think, because if you pay attention to his crimes, if he was doing it just to get blood he could have avoided all of the things I mentioned above, like sexual assault and intimidation. He’s just a classic woman-hater killer with a blood fixation from what I see.