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Richard Chase

1950 - 1980

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Richard Trenton Chase (May 23, 1950 – December 26, 1980) was an American serial killer, cannibal, and necrophile who killed six people in Sacramento, California, from December 1977 to January 1978. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Chase has received more than 3,230,087 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Richard Chase is the 136th most popular extremist (up from 155th in 2019), the 3,097th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,277th in 2019) and the 45th most popular American Extremist.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Richard Chase ranks 136 out of 209Before him are Leon Czolgosz, Marcus Fulvius Flaccus, Jerry Brudos, John Adams, Patricia Krenwinkel, and Alexandros Koryzis. After him are Carl Panzram, Patty Hearst, Robert Stroud, Eugène Terre'Blanche, Béla Kiss, and Louis Farrakhan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Richard Chase ranks 131Before him are John Hughes, James Rothman, Susana Higuchi, Bruce Boxleitner, Péter Esterházy, and Bah Ndaw. After him are Willy DeVille, Joyce Banda, Yuen Wah, Roberto Bettega, Winfried Schäfer, and Loredana Bertè. Among people deceased in 1980, Richard Chase ranks 102Before him are Alf Sjöberg, Gabriel González Videla, Rosa Albach-Retty, William Tolbert, Erich Hückel, and Barbara O'Neil. After him are Luigi Longo, Francisco de Sá Carneiro, Mohammed Rafi, Yahya Khan, Franco Basaglia, and Héctor José Cámpora.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Richard Chase ranks 3,097 out of 18,182Before him are Nikki Sixx (1958), Curtis Mayfield (1942), Scott Bakula (1954), John C. Reilly (1965), Siri Hustvedt (1955), and Stockard Channing (1944). After him are Robert Cornelius (1809), Jonathan Groff (1985), Teresa Wright (1918), Willy DeVille (1950), Lee Hazlewood (1929), and Charles Curtis (1860).

Among EXTREMISTS In United States

Among extremists born in United States, Richard Chase ranks 45Before him are Baruch Goldstein (1956), Joseph Valachi (1904), Sam Giancana (1908), Leon Czolgosz (1873), Jerry Brudos (1939), and Patricia Krenwinkel (1947). After him are Carl Panzram (1892), Patty Hearst (1954), Robert Stroud (1890), Louis Farrakhan (1933), Bugs Moran (1893), and Golden State Killer (1945).