Richard Trenton Chase:The Mind of a Killer On May 23,1950, Richard Trenton Chase was born in Santa Clara County, California. All throughout his life, he showed signs of delinquency. His father was extremely overbearing and was said to have abused Chase as a child. When he was young, he enjoyed setting fires and torturing small animals. He once set fire to a neighbor’s garage in order to get them to leave the neighborhood. He …showed first 75 words of 1813 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1813 total…have been changed to a full life imprisonment in a maximum-security prison. On top of this there would have been a court appointed psychologist to meet with him every week. The benefit of the psychologist over a psychiatrist is that Chase would have had no access to prescription drugs and we would be able to find out more about the mind of this killer in order to prevent such a thing from ever happening again.