A TEEN who attempted to lure a gay man to his home with the intent to kill and eat him has been given a 45-year prison term.
Chance Seneca, 19, admitted that the cannibal serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer served as the inspiration for his evil plot.
pictured: Chase Seneca
Seneca met Holden White, then 18 years old, on the day dating app Grindr, and kidnapped him in 2020.
He made an effort to murder him with the intention of preserving and eating some of his body.
Seneca told the police that he used Grindr as his “hunting ground” and had been motivated by serial murderer Jeffrey Dahmer, who inspired him to spend months devising his plan of attack.
“Seneca intentionally targeted gay men, as Dahmer had done,” wrote the Justice Department.
“Seneca had also intended to eat and preserve the bodies of his victims, as Dahmer had done.”
Seneca and White’s exchanges began around May 2020, with the two interacting via Grindr and Snapchat.
Seneca pretended to be interested in White and planned an outing to meet him, luring him with the promise of playing video games at his apartment.
“But Sencea’s true purpose was to seize, inveigle, kidnap, abduct, and hold (White) for the unlawful purpose of killing and dismembering him for his own gratification,” reads the complaint.
In June of that year, Seneca and White had their first encounter. Seneca picked White up in his car and drove him to his residence in Louisiana.
As a “dark joke,” Seneca asked White to have sex and had him put on handcuffs.
“To make sure that H.W. was dead, Seneca hit H.W. in the back of the head with a hammer and stabbed him in the neck with an ice pick,” explain the court documents.
“Seneca also used a Bowie knife to slit H.W.’s wrist.”
White was severely hurt, but he managed to survive the attack.
White, who is still recovering from his injuries, spent three days in a coma, according to NBC News.
Seneca claimed he was prevented from carrying out the crime after witnessing the exposed bones in White’s wrists. Dahmer had previously preserved some of White’s body parts.
Seneca contacted 911 after the assault and reported that he had killed a man.
He was detained immediately and charged with three offences: kidnapping, possession of a firearm, and hate crime with an attempted murder.
For kidnapping and attempted murder, Seneca received a 45-year prison sentence from the federal government.
After engaging in some awkward discussion with Seneca, White claims that he was choked so hard that he passed out and the blood vessels in his face burst on the day of the incident.
“I remember thinking, ‘Well, this is it,’” said White to The Acadiana Advocate.
“The last words I said to myself were just ‘stay calm.’
“Over and over and over in my head, I was just repeating to myself to stay calm.”
