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corporation: *bottlefeeding gas to dolphins* yall gotta stop using straws

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Meirl

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I wish I had a coherent, singular, personality

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KERMIT THE FROG The Muppets Take Manhattan, 1984

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Today's the day I finally saw my diagnosis on paper. Old T had to write something regarding the whole disability benefits thing and I got the letter today. It's so wild seeing it. It's especially wild that she wrote "a severe case of Dissociative Identity Disorder", not just "Dissociative Identity Disorder". I always thought I would believe it once I see it on paper, but now I feel like a dirty faker and an attention seeker.

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On April 5, 2009, in Casselberry, Florida, 44-year-old Marie Moore and her 20-year-old son, Mitchell Moore, attended Shoot Straight, a local shooting range. What was expected to be a day of bonding between a mother and son ended in a bloody tragedy? When it was Mitchell’s turn, Marie stood behind him and pointed the gun at his head, pulling the trigger. Mitchell slumped to the floor dead as his mother stepped back, placed the gun in her mouth and again pulled the trigger. She died a short time later in hospital. It emerged that Marie suffered from a mental disorder and had been barred from Shoot Straight seven years prior after trying to commit suicide there. Before the murder-suicide, Marie had written two notes which she left at home, one of which read: “King, I love you. I’m so sorry. I had to send my son to heaven and myself to hell. Failed Queen”

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The Vampire of Sacramento

Richard Trenton Chase, The Vampire of Sacramento; Photo: Wikipedia

Richard Chase had a distorted, macabre funhouse mirror view of reality. He lived with the delusion that someone stole his pulmonary artery, that the bones of his skull were growing out of the back of his head and that members of his family were plotting his demise. It would be the belief that his blood was disappearing from his body that would cause him to commit murder. Chase believed that ingesting blood would correct his condition - even save him from death. First, he started with animals. When animal blood failed to help, he began to kill human beings.

Richard Chase would terrorize the streets of Sacramento, California from December 1977 to January 1978, which would leave six people dead - including two children.

On December 27, 1977, Ambrose Griffin returned home from grocery shopping with his wife. He went out to the car for one last bag and was shot and killed by Chase, who was driving past the house.

Chase entered the home of Teresa and David Wallin on January 28, 1978. Teresa, age 22 and three months pregnant, had left the door unlocked as she was cleaning the house. Chase shot and killed her. He then proceeded to mutilate and eviscerate her body, leaving a yogurt cup with blood on the bottom near her body. Her husband found her body in the bedroom that night. Teresa's stomach was cut open and a nipple was cut off.

Teresa Wallin; Photo: documentingreality.com

Finding the garage open, Chase entered the home of Evelyn Miroth. A divorced mother of two, Miroth lived with her sons, Vernon (13) and Jason (6). Vernon had already left for school. Miroth's boyfriend Daniel Meredith (50) visited that day while Miroth was babysitting her 22-month-old nephew, Daniel Ferreira. While Meredith and Jason were gone shopping for supplies for an outing with neighbors, Chase broke in and shot and killed Miroth and young David. Meredith and Jason were killed when they returned from the store.

Chase proceeded to mutilate and desecrate Evelyn Miroth's body. Miroth was sodomized both with a knife and by Chase post mortem. David Ferreira was missing when the murders were discovered by neighbors. There was blood near his crib, along with brain matter.

Daniel Ferreira; Photo: thevampirekiller.weebly.com

Jason Miroth; Photo: thevampirekiller.com

Evelyn Miroth; Photo: thevampirekiller.com

Investigaters determined that all of the murders were committed in close proximity of each other with a.22 caliber pistol. Police had only a very basic, common description of a suspect: a white male in his 20's with long hair. Investigaters suspected that the perpetrator lived nearby and began to canvas the area.

Chase's life up until December 1977 had been a rollercoaster of highs and lows with periods of stability, followed by extreme instability. He had a few brushes with the law and spent time in mental institutions. Chase's troubles begin during adolescence.

Richard Chase; Photo: richard-chase.weebly.com

Richard Trenton Chase was born in Sacramento, California on May 23, 1950. During childhood, Chase seemed normal. He participated in Little League and was a Boy Scout. However, his parents, computer specialist Richard Chase Sr. and schoolteacher Beatrice, did not get along. Beatrice accused her husband of cheating on her and abusing drugs. Chase's younger sister, Pamela, described her father as a stern disciplinarian who had no qualms about doling out physical punishment, to his son in particular.

The beginning of Chase's troubles can be traced back to his first arrest for possession of marijuana in 1965. Chase was by all appearances a normal teenager. He had joined Track and Field and began dating. His drug use began around the time that girls who dated him spread stories about Chase's sexual inadequacy. The teenager suffered from erectile dysfunction. Besides marijuana, Chase began using LSD and amphetamines. His demeanor changed as Chase went from neatly groomed to dirty and disheveled. He became irritable and inconsiderate.

Shortly after enrolling in American River College in 1968, he left to start the first of many jobs in the office of the Retailer's Credit Association. He also began seeing a psychiatrist for his erectile dysfunction.

During Chase's adulthood, he would move around from house to house and apartment to apartment. He moved back and forth between his divorced parents in Sacramento, his grandmother in Los Angeles and lived with roommates as well as on his own. His mother would complain about Chase's violent outbursts. His grandmother witnessed him talking to himself and wrapping his head with towels filled with orange slices. His father, in denial of his son's mental illness, thought his son just needed to get a job.

Chase's roommates complained about his constant drug use and extreme paranoia. Chase boarded up his bedroom door and created a hole in the back of the closet for him to come and go through. He also walked around naked in front of female company.

Chase complained about his physical ailments constantly, claiming that his heart was stopping, that he had trouble with his blood circulation and that he had pains in his chest and legs.

Photo: crimemuseum.org

Eventually, Chase's bizarre behavior would cause him to be committed to a couple of mental institutions. He would enter withdrawn and defiant then show a complete turn-around. Upon release, Chase would revert to his former behavior.

After his last release from the Beverly Manor psychiatric institution, his mother decided to take Chase off his medication. She didn't like the "zombielike" effect medication had on her son. Soon after, he went back to taking illegal narcotics.

He had also been arrested for a fight at a friend's party where it was found that Chase was carrying a .22 caliber pistol. He was also arrested in Pyramid Lake, Nevada where he was found running around naked and covered in blood. He had two blood stained guns and a bucket of blood containing a liver that was later determined to come from an animal. He also had his two dogs with him. Chase was released.

Shortly after the investigation began, police received a tip from a high school acquaintance of Richard Chase. Nancy Westfall crossed paths with an unrecognizable Rick Chase, a man who was dirty, disheveled and behaving strangely.

Chase opened the conversation with the bizarre question: "Weren't you on Curt's motorcycle when he was killed?" She said no and asked him who he was. Recognizing the name and not the person, Westfall tried to get away from Chase. He followed her around the store and still tried to talk to her. Chase even followed her into the parking lot and tried to get into her car. Westfall was so creeped and out by Chase that she sped out of the lot.

Westfall's description of Chase piqued Detective Bill Roberts' interest. He decided to pay Chase a visit at his apartment complex on Watt Avenue. However, Chase lived in two different units at the apartment complex, apartment 12, then 15. Detective Roberts had apartment number 12 as his address.

Photo: Murderpedia

Unable to locate Chase, the detective didn't give up. He continued looking deeper into Chase's background and found out about Chase's prior arrests, history of violence and confinement in psychiatric institutions. He also found out about Chase's arrest in Nevada and his current address at apartment 15 on Watt Avenue.

Detectives Roberts, Irey and Baker unsuccessfully tried to get Chase to open the door. They told Chase that they were leaving to get a warrant. Detective Roberts was going into another apartment to call the station to give his superiors an update. Detectives Irey and Baker walked downstairs and waited just out of sight to see if Chase would try to leave.

As Detective Roberts was on the phone, the apartment manager burst in, yelling that his partners needed help. Downstairs, Detective Roberts found that after a scuffle, Detective Baker subdued Chase.

Chase was in possession of the following: a box containing bloody rags and papers, brain matter in an envelope and David Ferreira's diaper pin; Daniel Meredith's wallet, containing the deceased's driver's license and credit cards in his back pocket and a .22 caliber pistol.

Chase's apartment reeked and there was blood everywhere. Pieces of David Ferreira's brain were found in the bedroom, along with feces on the floor and pictures of human internal organs decorating the walls.

Photo: Pinterest

At first, Chase denied having anything to do with the murders. He was interviewed by four psychiatrists to determine whether or not he could be determined "legally insane." However, the legal definition of insanity differs from what the general public would consider insane. If found to be legally sane, Richard Chase would face the death penalty.

All four psychiatrists determined that while Chase was mentally ill, he was cognizant of his actions. Chase understood that murder was wrong.

Eventually Chase broke down and admitted to the murders. He said that he knew it was wrong to kill his victims but saw no other alternative since he was denied medical treatment. Chase saw ingesting blood as a treatment for his imagined disorder. Animal blood didn't work so he decided to resort to killing humans for their blood.

David Ferreira's remains were found in a box by a janitor at Arcade Wesleyan Church on Whitney Avenue in Sacramento (which intersects the street where Chase lived). It was determined that the child was decapitated and his blood and brain were consumed by Chase.

After five hours of deliberation, Chase was found guilty of six counts of murder in the first degree on May 8, 1979. He was sentenced to death one week later.

Before he could face the gas chamber, Chase was found dead in his cell at San Quentin Penitentiary on December 26, 1980. His death was officially determined to be a suicide. Chase overdosed on an antidepressant, Sinequan, which he was hoarding instead of taking.

- Missy Dawn

Sources:

"Vampire: The Richard Chase Murders," by Kevin Sullivan, published by Wild Blue Press, 2014.

Articles on crimemuseum.org and Murderpedia.

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Happy New Years you funky ‘lil system, remember that your trauma doesn’t define you!

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