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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