On the stand Chase admitted to drinking his victims’ blood and to decapitating the infant to obtain more. ibid.
Sentenced to death. ibid.
Was he a born killer or had something in his upbringing turned him into one? ibid.
In 1980, whilst incarcerated at San Quentin Penitentiary, Richard Trenton Chase committed suicide. ibid. caption
Of all his terrors, and there were many, the greatest fear that plagued Richard Trenton Chase through the mid-1970s was that he was going to disappear.
Everybody was after him – Nazis, the FBI, space aliens – and their weapon was an innocent-looking item in his bathroom: the soap dish. It was there that those who wanted to do him in had hidden a secret poison that was slowly turning his blood to powder.
Chase knew only fresh blood could save him and he didn’t care where it came from or how he got it.
The seeds of his mania appeared to have been planted with the marital strife of his parents, a middle-class Sacramento couple, sometime around 1962, when Chase was 12. For the better part of a decade the Mom-and-Pop battle raged. By the time it ended, with the combatants divorced and the father remarried, the boy was showing definite signs that he was out of his mind. Daily News online article 2nd January 2010
23rd January 1978 Sacramento, USA: David Walin came home from work to find his wife brutally murdered in her bedroom. 22 year old Theresa was three months pregnant … ‘She was shot three times with a .22 … and some horrible things done to that woman’ … Even experienced police officers had never seen anything like it. The blood-drinking killer was 27-year-old Richard Chase, who would go on to be known as the vampire of Sacramento. Within a month he randomly slaughtered six people including two children. World’s Most Evil Killers: Richard Chase: The Vampire of Sacramento, Sky Crime 2020
A madman known as the Vampire of Sacramento … A cannibal serial killer rapist who terrorised Sacramento, California, in the 1970s. But his mother didn’t think anything was wrong with him. True Crime Recaps: Richard Chase: The Vampire of Sacramento, Youtube 15.15, 2021
When police caught up to him they found something incredibly chilling: hanging on his wall in his apartment was a calendar; the dates of each murder were marked with the word Today. He had marked 44 other dates with the same word. ibid.
CHAUVIN, DEREK: see FLOYD, GEORGE
CHEESEMAN. JOHN: see MAUDSLEY, ROBERT
CHIKATILO, ANDREI: The Chessboard Killer TV - Encyclopaedia Britannica -
His name was Andrei Chikatilo and he was the worst serial killer in Russian history. The Chessboard Killer, BBC 2006
Chikatilo began his killings in 1978, preying on young victims whom he met at rail stations and bus depots around Rostov-na-Donu and other cities to which he travelled in his various jobs. Because all the victims displayed characteristic mutilations, the police soon became aware that a serial killer was active in the region. Nevertheless, Chikatilo was able to evade detection for many years, in part because his crimes exploited weaknesses in the decaying society of the Soviet Union. Poverty made young people eager to leave their homes for the city, but, since they often had no friends or contacts there and little money, they could easily be lured into dangerous situations, and their disappearances would often go unnoticed.
In 1984 Chikatilo was arrested by a police officer who witnessed him molesting a girl at a train station. Although the briefcase he was carrying was found to contain a long knife and other suspicious instruments, police misidentified his blood type, which their tests showed did not match the type indicated by semen found at one of the crime scenes. Encyclopaedia Britannica online article
CHIN, VINCENT murder: see EBANS, RONALD & MICHAEL NITZ
CHISM, PHILIP: True Crime Recaps 2023 -
14-year-old Philip Chism thinks he pulled off the perfect murder but there’s one thing he doesn’t know: his high school just got some brand-new cameras. True Crime Recaps: Popular Teacher’s Shocking Fate at the Hands of Her 14-Year-Old Student, Youtube 6.02, 2023
Colleen Ritzer walking into the bathroom followed by her student, 14-year-old Philip Chism. Minutes later he leaves alone. ibid.
The frenzied attack left Colleen with her throat slashed 16 times with a box-cutter, strangled, sexually assaulted. ibid.
CHMURNY, ALAN: Crime Stories TV - Baltimore Sun online -
One of the people Marta [Bradley] met at Oceanix was fifty-seven year old chemist Alan Chmurny. Crime Stories: Mad Scientist
Marta Bradley knew that her office friend Alan Chmurny was a little strange, but his bizarre behaviour was starting to worry her. ibid.
She knew he had copies of her keys and he could strike again at any moment. ibid.
Alan Chmurny was arrested and charged with attempted murder and first degree assault. ibid.
To the shock and horror of everyone present [cyanide pill] ... he died at 1.55 p.m. the next day. ibid.
Chmurny’s decision to swallow the pill Wednesday unnerved Howard Circuit Court officials and stunned his lawyer, Dino Flores.
Flores said he had no inkling that the 57-year-old scientist, a man he described as ‘very intelligent’ was contemplating suicide.
‘I had no idea anything like this was possible,’ a shaken Flores said yesterday. ‘Certainly, sitting right next to him as he does this, it’s very surreal to me.’
Chmurny faced a maximum penalty of more than 30 years in prison for the crimes. Sentencing had been scheduled for November 15.
Chmurny’s actions at the defense table in Howard Circuit Court’s ceremonial courtroom were not unprecedented. At least once before in Maryland, a defendant committed suicide by taking cyanide in open court. Baltimore Sun online article Lisa Goldberg 14th September 2001, ‘Chmurny succumbs to suicide’
CHOI, ABBY murder: True Crime Recaps 2023 -
Tuesday she’s on her way to pick up her daughter; by Friday her head is in a soup pot in an apartment rented by her former father-in-law. Why would someone go after Abby Choi, Hong Kong’s favourite young celebrity? True Crime Recaps: Fame, Fortune & Murder: The Abby Choi Case, Youtube 10.32, 2023
Over 150 detectives hit the ground running. They knew Abby was last seen outside the Kwongs’ apartment building. They also knew Anthony was driving her. So they questioned the Kwongs relentlessly but the whole family stuck to their stories. ibid.
Abby’s SUV outside this three-storey apartment building. Phone records showed that she wasn’t alone. Anthony and Alex’s phones put them there too. And lo and behold her former father-in-law had rented the first floor apartment at the beginning of that month. Police kicked in the door with a search warrant on Friday, February 24. What they saw inside will haunt them for ever. They could only describe it as a human butcher shop. ibid.
They took a look at the soup. Abby’s head was floating under a layer of carrots. ibid.