Ebook: A thirst for blood: the true story of California's vampire killer

""Cover Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Foreword""; ""Prologue""; ""1""; ""December 29, 1977""; ""December 30, 1977""; ""January 9, 1978""; ""2""; ""January 11, 1978""; ""January 23, 1978""; ""Thirty minutes later""; ""An hour later""; ""3""; ""4""; ""January 24, 1978""; ""5""; ""6""; ""Friday, January 27, 1978""; ""7""; ""8""; ""5 P.M., January 27, 1978""; ""6 P.M., January 27""; ""Nighttime, January 27""; ""9""; ""10""; ""January 28, 1978""; ""Late afternoon, January 28""; ""11""; ""Watt Avenue""; ""12:20 A.M., January 29""; ""5 P.M., Sunday, January 29""; ""12""; ""February, 1978""; ""13"";Written by the case's lead homicide detective, this gripping true crime account details the killing spree of one of California's most gruesome murderers: Richard Chase, aka "the Vampire of Sacramento." In December 1977, Sacramento police found the corpse of Teresa Wallin, a loving wife and soon-to-be mother. Veteran detective Lt. Ray Biondi immediately knew the case would be unlike anything he had ever seen before. The victim's body was deliberately disfigured in nightmarish ways, and evidence suggested the culprit had collected large volumes of her blood. In less than a month, a two-year-old boy was missing, and two men, another woman, and a five-year-old child dead, their bodies contorted, like Wallin's, to fulfill the killer's demented sexual desires, and--most disturbingly--his taste for human blood.