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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 3,418,578 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Richard Chase is the 137th most popular extremist (down from 136th in 2019), the 3,058th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,090th in 2019) and the 39th most popular American Extremist.

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  • 3.4M

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  • 54.75

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.65

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.95

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Richard Chase ranks 137 out of 283. Before him are Josef Blösche, Robert Stroud, Albert Anastasia, Charles Whitman, Fred West, and Jalaluddin Haqqani. After him are Joseph Bonanno, Patricia Krenwinkel, Sam Giancana, Leon Czolgosz, Ahmed Jabari, and Ahmad Sa'adat.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Richard Chase ranks 142. Before him are Winfried Schäfer, Elya Baskin, Natalie Cole, Laura Esquivel, John Hughes, and Kozo Arai. After him are Rajinikanth, Eric Maskin, Paul Watson, Angry Grandpa, Rambhadracharya, and Princess Elena of Romania. Among people deceased in 1980, Richard Chase ranks 107. Before him are Josias Braun-Blanquet, Manlio Brosio, Miguel Capuccini, Rosa Albach-Retty, Shigemaru Takenokoshi, and Oskar Kummetz. After him are Yahya Khan, Luigi Longo, Edelmiro Julián Farrell, Ernst Ocwirk, Alf Sjöberg, and Hiroshi Inagaki.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Richard Chase ranks 3,058 out of 20,380. Before him are Judy Chicago (1939), Lisa Bonet (1967), Dana Andrews (1909), William Bates (1860), Cedric Gibbons (1893), and Ted Levine (1957). After him are Levi P. Morton (1824), Richard Conte (1910), Mangas Coloradas (1792), Tommy Bolin (1951), J. C. R. Licklider (1915), and Ellen Pompeo (1969).

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Among EXTREMISTS In United States

Among extremists born in United States, Richard Chase ranks 39. Before him are Aldrich Ames (1941), David Berkowitz (1953), Stephen Paddock (1953), Rodney Alcala (1943), Robert Stroud (1890), and Charles Whitman (1941). After him are Patricia Krenwinkel (1947), Sam Giancana (1908), Leon Czolgosz (1873), Joseph Valachi (1904), Patty Hearst (1954), and Jerry Brudos (1939).

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