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Richard Chase

 NATIONALITY: American
 NUMBER OF VICTIMS: 6
 TIME IT TOOK TO KILL: One Month in 1977
 MOTIVE: Cannibalism, drinking the victims
blood and necrophilia
 FAVORED METHOD OF KILLING: Shooting
 SENTENCE: Death
CHASE WAS FOUND GUILTY ON 6
COUNTS OF FIRST DEGREE
MURDER. THE JURY REJECTED THE
ARGUMENT OF NOT GUILTY BY
REASON OF INSANITY AND WAS
SENTENCED TO DEATH.
 On December 26, 1980 Chase was
found dead in his cell. He
committed suicide from ingesting a
large amount of antidepressants,
which he hoarded in his cell

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