8 Killers With Bizarre Motivations

Nicknamed "The Vampire Of Sacramento" due to his grisly murder methods, Richard Chase was a serial killer who operated in California during the late 1970s.

Between December 1977 and January 1978, Chase murdered several people, often proceeding to have sexual intercourse with their corpses. On occasion, he also ate the flesh of his victims, drank their blood, and cut out their organs. Needless to say, his crime scenes were very messy, which ultimately made him easier to capture.

This capture occurred after a murder in late January, where Chase left bloody handprints and shoeprints at his victim's house. He was arrested shortly afterwards, and police discovered that almost every inch of his apartment was covered in blood.

While imprisoned, Chase gave a series of interviews to FBI agent Robert Ressler, where he claimed that his killings were not his fault. Rather, he said that he had been forced to kill in order to appease the Nazi UFOs that had threatened his life. He even asked Ressler for a radar gun to track these UFOs down, and believed that prison officials were working with the Nazis to try and kill him.

It goes without saying that Chase's bizarre motive was waved away, and he was sentenced to die in the gas chamber. However, this punishment was never carried out - instead, Chase took his own life in December 1980, by overdosing on prescribed medications.