Hello all and the very warmest of welcome to the True Crime Enthusiast podcast. Always with me, Paul, and my beloved True Crime Enthusi cat, Peexie. But today I've got something a little bit different for you because I wanted to share with you a show that I've been really enjoying recently.

The episode you're about to hear comes from the investigative podcast

Paranormia, which is available from the Always True Crime Network, and which explores real

crimes where the supernatural, the psychological and the macabre collide. Think Paranoia meets

the paranormal. The episode I'm sharing of Paranoia with you today recounts one of the most disturbing

true crime cases in American history, for in the late 1970s, Sacramento was shaken by a series

of brutal killings carried out by a man who was later labelled the vampire killer.

Convinced that his blood was being poisoned and that he needed to survive by taking blood

from others, his behaviour escalated from harming animals to attacking people and in just one

month he took six lives. This episode explores who the killer was, how his beliefs developed,

and how a suburban city became the backdrop for one of the most disturbing and terrifying

true crime cases in American history. Join Elizabeth McCaffrey, host of Paranormia here,

as she takes us back to explain the story of Richard Trenton Chase,

the Vampire of Sacramento.

A warning, these stories discuss real crimes with real victims and may contain distressing content.

This episode contains graphic violence, murder, mutilation, sexual violence and harm to children.

Please take care as you listen.

There's a reason the vampire survives every era it enters, from the cracked castles of Eastern Europe

to the polished glass of modern cities.

Because it's not only a creature, it's a rule set,

and the most important rule is always the same.

You don't let it in.

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