The Dracula Killer by LT. Ray Biondi & Walt Hecox

The Dracula Killer by LT. Ray Biondi & Walt Hecox

EACH MURDER SCENE WAS A PORTRAIT OF CARNAGE, MADNESS, AND BLOOD. THE COPS KNEW IT COULD ONLY GET WORSE...

It began with random, drive-by killing. Then came the murder of Tioga Way, where Sacramento detectives saw the profile of a madman - 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.

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

Soon two men, tow women, and a fiver-year-old child were dead. A tow-you-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 spearheaded 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 on 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.