Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI

by Robert K. Ressler

Perhaps the most important information that I obtained from this interview came from a question as to how Chase had chosen his particular victims. It was a point that had eluded many other of Chase’s interviewers, but I had gained his confidence enough that he was comfortable telling me. He had been hearing voices that told him to take a life, and he just went down the street, rattling doors. If a door was locked, he wouldn’t go in. If it was open, however, he went in. I asked him why he hadn’t simply broken down a door if he wanted to go inside. “Oh,” he said, “if the door is locked, that means you’re not welcome.” How slim the line between those who escaped being the victims of a heinous crime and those who died awful deaths at the hands of Chase!

Lock your doors people!