Compare And Contrast Cannibalism And Murder

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Cannibalism and Murder both heinous and gruesome, two of many cases of cannibalism in murders, are the case of Stephen Griffiths, also known as the ‘Crossbow Cannibal’ , and Richard Chase, who is also known as the ‘Vampire of Sacramento’. Both of these horrendous killers, even though their killing and motives were not the same, they do have a similar killing profile. All around the world, throughout time there have been heinous, and gruesome murders that have happened. But here in America, it is even more heinous when the killer takes and eats parts of his victims.. In other countries, it is not uncommon to hear about a killer cannibalizing a victim. Throughout time murders have had similar psychological problems and have similar killing …show more content…

After one incident, where he injected rabbits blood into his veins, he had blood poisoning. While in the mental hospital, he would grab small birds and animals from the window, and would drink their blood. After the hospital staff caught on, they began to call him Dracula. Chase said that he had to drink people's blood because he feared “He did this as part of a delusion that he needed to prevent Nazis from turning his blood into powder via poison they had planted beneath his soap dish”.(murderpedia 1) Chase also got sexual pleasure from killing animals, people and often had sex with their corpses (necrophilia). Chase had about 10 victims, and he said that an open door would mean that the victim was inviting him to come inside, but a closed door meant that he was unwelcome in that home. A woman that was three months pregnant, was taking out the trash and left the door open, Chase went inside and waited for her to come back, when she did, Chase shot her, and dragged her body into the bedroom where he raped her corpse and drained her blood, which he then bathed in, then carved her body up. After he was satisfied he drank all of her blood from a yogurt container, and then left her

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