The Victims
Teresa Walli
Jason Miroth and David FerreiraAmbrose Griffin
On the 29th of December 1977, 51-year-old Ambrose Griffin was shot by Richard Chase in a random drive-by shooting, outside his home after a shopping trip. The father of two was an engineer and had been helping his wife with bags from the car when she saw him fall to the ground.
Two days earlier, a woman reported a man had shot at her home. She lived a couple of blocks from Ambrose Griffin and his family, and a search of her home found a .22 calibre casing, the same gun used to kill Ambrose.
Despite eyewitnesses coming forward with a description of the killer fleeing the area, leads dried up quickly and Ambrose Griffin’s murder lay unsolved.
Teresa Wallin
On the 23rd of January 1978, pregnant Teresa was taking out the rubbish when Chase entered her home through the unlocked front door.
He shot Teresa three times and then stabbed her with a butcher knife. When she was dead, he raped her and mutilated her body, cutting off her nipples and removing her internal organs. He drank her blood and smeared the remainder on the walls.
Chase believed that an unlocked door was an invitation to enter someone’s property, and a few days earlier, the Edwards family returned to their home to find Chase in their house. He had entered through an unlocked door and defecated in their infant’s bed. Robert Edwards pursued the intruder, but Chase escaped by jumping over a fence.
Evelyn Miroth, Jason Miroth, David Ferreira and Dan Meredith
Four days later, on the 27th of January, Chase was checking homes for unlocked doors when he found 38-year-old Evelyn Miroth’s door unlocked.
Chase killed 51-year-old Dan Meredith in the hallway, with a single gunshot to the head. Evelyn was killed by another gunshot to her head and was found naked on her bed, raped after her death. Her abdomen had been opened and her intestines protruded from the wound. There was also evidence that her blood had been removed.
Six-year-old Jason was found in his mother’s bedroom. He had been shot twice in the head but his body was still intact. However, 22-month-old David was missing from the home. His mutilated body was found a few months later behind a church, near Chase’s apartment.
Jason Miroth and David Ferreira
In haste, Chase had left bloody footprints all over the house. He had also taken Dan Meredith’s car which was found a few blocks from the murder scene with the engine still running. Investigators were yet to realise that the car has been abandoned a few hundred yards from Chase’s apartment.
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