Thoughtful Planners Richard Trenton Chase - 1565 Words

thoughtful planners like their organized counterparts†¦ Moreover, visionary killers are said to be act focused because the act of killing itself is their immediate goal. Some visionary killers come to believe that they are someone else while others feel compelled to murder at the behest of entities such as the Devil or God. Both God mandated and demon mandated serial killers are fairly common and well documented (Bonn, para. 3-4). Richard Trenton Chase is a serial killer who is described as a disorganized visionary killer. He murdered six people in under a month before he was apprehended. Chase grew up in a very dysfunctional family, had borderline low average intelligence, and consistently received bad grades while in school. He suffered from erectile dysfunction at an early age. He spent much of his life in and out of mental institutions. During his short-lived murder spree he was delusional, he believed that the aliens and Nazi s made him commit kill his victims. According to Storey, Strieter, Tarr and Thornton, he drank the blood of his victims and ate their internal organs. 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 (para. 1). Mission-Oriented Some serial killers are considered to have a mission-oriented motive. Mission-oriented killers typically justify their acts as ridding the world of a certain type of person perceived as undesirable,