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Dracula Killer: The True Story of California's Vampire Killer

It began with a random killing. Then came the murder on Tioga Way, where a dark trail of blood led from the front door to the victim's bedroom. For this killer, death was only the first step. Here was someone who had to desecrate the bodies of his victims, someone who would surely keep slaughtering until he was stopped.

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California's most monstrous case of serial killing had begun.

Soon five people were dead and a two-year-old boy was missing. Calls from panic-stricken residents were rolling into police headquarters. And somewhere a maniac was hiding, his blood thirst mounting ...

As told by Lt. Ray Biondi, the homicide detective who led the investigation, here is the true story of murderer Richard Chase and the all-out effort to stop him. From bullet casings to containers filled with blood, from eyewitness accounts to the one crucial piece of evidence that finally turned the case around, here is what it was like to match wits with a psychotic killer - a man so depraved he drank his victims' blood ...

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 224 pages

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