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Contents 1 Fetish 2 warning 3 Rewrite 4 Disappointed 5 Question

[edit] Fetish

A "fetish" has several meanings. Quickly, sexual fetishism relies on an object or nonsexual part of the body for arousal. It eventually necessary for someone with the fetish to utilise the item in their sexual acts and fantasies in order to become aroused. Killing an animal is an act and cannot be a sexual fetish. Guns could be a fetish in this sense, but that would imply using them in a sexual act (alone or otherwise). Fetishes are also totems (which I don't see being applicable in this case). Fetish is also used colloquially to mean someone who is abnormally obsessive about something. This connotation is not necessarily appropriate for an encyclopedia entry. Having a fetish for guns or killing animals isn't quite appropriate in the context. The fact that he was also obviously mentally ill also would make his behaviour less fetish-oriented and more compulsive. --Waterspyder 22:40, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] warning

hey I thought wikipedia isn't censored, so what gives?

I wouldn't say putting a warning up is exactly censorship.--Foot Dragoon 02:59, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Is that really necessary? Other similar articles don't have such warnings, if people are reading up on murderers they should already be expecting to hear some pretty undesirable things. Xzamuel 12:36, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rewrite

This article was nearly plagiarized from the Crime Library article on Richard Chase. The original author evidently followed the original CL article very closely, changing wording. It was previous overly graphic and written in a titillating manner, going into great detail about Chase's sodomization of victims, which organs he ate and how, and using language more tabloidesque than encyclopedic. The previous writing style was more "breathless dimestore crime novel" than encyclopedia entry.

I've rewritten it to remove the CL structure, make it more formal, etc. I have no special interest or knowledge of Chase, so I'm relying on the original. Someone should take another pass through it. Afabbro 20:56, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Disappointed

This article is clearly not true. No valid references have been used, and there is no evidence to suggest that Richard Trenton Chase even existed, aside from a few websites that appear to be created by the author of this article. Until more information is provided, this article has no place on wikipedia. As someone who cares about wikipedia, I am deeply offended by these gross falsifications.

Okay, well, he did exist. Robert Ressler, formerly of the FBI, wrote a chapter on him and has met him in person. Just googling "Richard Trenton Chase" brings up rather a lot of articles, in addition to numerous images, all of which the author did not create on his or her own, right? His case has also been profiled on Discovery Channel. I do agree this article needs citations, though! It has zero as it stands now, which makes me keep wondering, as I read through it "Who says so?"71.63.119.49 01:09, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Question

How/when was he apprehended by police? Narrative jumps from his final murder to his court case.

Question

Why does no evidence suggest this individual existed? This is pathetic

I'm not sure if you're the same person as above, but yes Chase did exist, and this article seems to more or less match fmr. FBI Agent Ressler's account of him and his crimes, which also includes his being turned in by a former classmate who encountered Chase in bloody clothes. Citations are really needed to make this article acceptable, though. I'm not sure what kind of evidence he existed you need? Ressler's book is available: http://www.amazon.com/Whoever-Fights-Monsters-Tracking-Killers/dp/0312950446/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-7771131-0317436?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1187917945&sr=8-1 71.63.119.49 01:14, 24 August 2007 (UTC)