11.28.1996 Teens Linked to Vampire Cult Flee Murder Charges CNN - Nov. 28, 1996 11:00 p.m. EST EUSTIS, Florida (AP) -- A group of teens from a self-described "Vampire Clan" in Kentucky was being sought on murder warrants Thursday in the bludgeoning deaths of a Florida couple. Richard and Naomi Wendorf were found beaten to death late Monday and their 15-year-old daughter, Heather, was missing. At first, investigators feared she had been abducted. After further investigation she became a suspect, along with her former boyfriend and three other teen-agers linked to the Kentucky group. Police in Kentucky suspect the teen-agers' cult, "The Vampire Clan," has about 30 members. The sheriff's office said there was no evidence of satanic rituals in the deaths, but they said Miss Wendorf had told friends she was a demon in past lives and had talked with spirits during human blood-drinking rituals. Copyright 1996 Associated Press. -------------------------------------------------------- 11.29.1996 Vampire Cult: Teens Linked to Vampire Cult Arrested on Murder Charges World News Digest - Friday, Nov. 29, 1996 - A summary of top world news Friday: BATON ROUGE, La. -- Heather Wendorf wore purple hair and a dog chain around her neck, told friends she was a demon in past lives and had talked with spirits during human blood-drinking rituals. When her parents were found dead and Heather went missing, authorities feared she had been kidnapped by the killers. Then they began to suspect her. Heather, an ex-boyfriend and three other teen-agers believed to be members of a "vampire cult" were in jail Friday, tracked to Louisiana with the help of one girl's mother. Copyright © 1998, Canoe Limited Partnership. -------------------------------------------------------- 11.29.1996 The Florida Killings The Associated Press - AP-NY-11-29-96 12:22 EST BATON ROUGE, La. (Nov. 29) - Five teen-agers believed to be members of a Kentucky ''vampire cult'' were being held in jail Friday in connection with the bludgeoning deaths of one of the parents of one of the youngsters. Richard Wendorf, 49, and Naoma Ruth Wendorf, 53, were found dead Monday night in Eustis, Fla. Their daughter, Heather Wendorf, 15, was one of those arrested. Miss Wendorf had told friends she was a demon in past lives and had talked with spirits during human blood-drinking rituals. Police in western Kentucky, where the other four suspects are from, said the teens were involved in vampire-like activities. ''They cut each other's arms and suck the blood. They cut up small animals and suck the blood,'' Sgt. Mike Jump of the Murray, Ky., police said Thursday. ''They honestly believe they're vampires.'' There was no evidence of bizarre rituals in the deaths, authorities said. Roderick Ferrell, 16, and Dana Cooper, 19, both of Murray, and Scott Anderson, 16, of Mayfield, Ky., were arrested on murder warrants along with Miss Wendorf, whom investigators originally feared had been abducted by her parents' killers. Charity Keesee, 16, was charged with being an accessory to murder after the fact. Her hometown was not immediately available. Miss Wendorf is a granddaughter of James Wendorf, a 75-year-old retired lawyer for the Billy Graham organization. Ferrell had lived in Florida and attended high school with her before dropping out last year and moving back to Kentucky, according to news reports. From what authorities and schoolmates told the Orlando Sentinel, Ferrell and Miss Wendorf dated for two years and both stood out in their rural communities. He sported shoulder-length black hair, wore a black trench coat, carried a wooden stick and boasted of immortality as a vampire. She wore purple hair, black fishnet stockings and a dog chain around her neck. Police in Kentucky suspect the teen-agers' cult, ''The Vampire Clan,'' has about 30 members. Baton Rouge Police Cpl. Don Kelly said the teens have what appear to be self-inflicted cuts on their arms. ''Other than that they have not exhibited any vampirish behaviors,'' he said. Some of them wore black, but ''they're not in black capes and fangs. ''They just look like screwed-up kids. There's no shortage of those.'' Copyright 1996 The Associated Press. -------------------------------------------------------- 11.30.96 Teens in Suspected 'Vampire Cult' Arrested in Double Murder By Leslie Zganjar, Associated Press Writer - Nov 30th 1996 BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Heather Wendorf wore purple hair and a dog chain around her neck, and told friends she was a former demon who had talked with spirits during human blood-drinking rituals. When her parents were found slain and Ms. Wendorf disappeared, authorities feared she had been kidnapped by the killers. Then they began to suspect her. Ms. Wendorf, an ex-boyfriend and three other teen-agers believed to be in a "vampire cult'' in Kentucky were in jail Friday after being tracked to Louisiana with the help of one teen's mother. All are wanted in the slayings of Richard Wendorf, 49, and his wife, Naoma Ruth Wendorf, 53, who were bludgeoned to death Monday night in their Eustis, Fla., home about 20 miles northwest of Orlando. "They just look like screwed-up kids. There's no shortage of those.'' said Baton Rouge Police Cpl. Don Kelly. He said all five have what appear to be self-inflicted cuts on their arms. The Kentucky youths are believed to be in the "The Vampire Clan,'' a group of about 30 that surfaced about two months ago during an investigation into a break-in at an animal shelter. Two puppies were mutilated and their body parts taken. One of two youths charged is a suspect in the Florida case. "They had stomped one of them to death and one of them, they pulled the legs off,'' said Sheriff Stan Scott of Calloway County, Ky., about 180 miles southwest of Louisville. In Baton Rouge, Kelly said the teens were being questioned by Florida authorities and that extradition proceedings would begin next week. Police searched for a murder weapon along the Mississippi levee Friday night but did not find anything, he said. Arrested on murder warrants Thursday were Ms. Wendorf, her ex-boyfriend Roderick Ferrell, 16, and Dana Cooper, 19, both of Murray, Ky., and Scott Anderson, 16, of Mayfield, Ky. Ms. Wendorf, 15, is a granddaughter of James Wendorf, a retired lawyer for the Billy Graham organization. Charity Keesee, 16, also from Murray, was charged with being an accessory to murder after the fact. Few details were available about all of the teens, but Ferrell and Ms. Wendorf stood out in their rural communities, authorities and schoolmates told The Orlando Sentinel. Ferrell sported shoulder-length black hair, wore a black trench coat, carried a wooden stick and boasted of immortality as a vampire. Ms. Wendorf often wore black fishnet stockings, besides the colored hair and dog chain. The two attended high school together in Florida before Ferrell dropped out last year and moved back to Kentucky, according to news reports. "She was a real nice girl, but deep down you could tell she had some heavy problems,'' said Joe Barrett, 15, a friend of Ms. Wendorf's in Eustis. "When she started hanging around a different crowd last year, she went from being real nice to being quiet. "She started dying her hair - purple mostly - and wearing all-black clothes. Some people said she swore she was a vampire.'' Ferrell's mother, Sondra Gibson, was recently charged with trying to coerce a 14-year-old boy into having sex with her and helping her become part of the vampire clan. Prosecutors say Ms. Gibson wrote letters to the boy, urging him "to become a vampire, a part of the family'' and "you will then come for me and cross me over and I will be your bride for eternity and you can be my sire.'' David Keesee said his daughter had never been in trouble before. "She basically ran away from home, but I don't think she knew what she was getting into,'' he said. It was Ms. Keesee's mother who helped lead authorities to the teens, Scott said. He said the girl called her mother in South Dakota on Thursday, told her she was in Louisiana somewhere and needed money. After authorities figured out the youths were in Baton Rouge, Scott said, the mother told the teens during another call to go to a motel and have the clerk call her to arrange to pay for a room. "Believe it or not, they fell for it,'' Scott said. Authorities said the teens were driving the Wendorfs' Ford Explorer when they were arrested. © 1996 Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. Some material ©1996 The Associated Press -------------------------------------------------------- 12.1.1996 Vampire Cult Town Withers Under National Spotlight December 1, 1996 - 4.27 pm EST (2127 GMT) MURRAY, Ky. (AP) -- For years, this quiet college town was perhaps best known as home of the national Boy Scout museum. Now it is newly notorious, and its residents increasingly afraid, with the discovery that some of its teens belonged to a vampire cult. The news that four area teen-agers are suspected of beating a Florida couple to death was frightening enough. Now prosecutors say the youths were involved in a strange role-playing game that went much too far -- from the mutilation of animals to drinking each other's blood and eventually to murder. Few would discuss the case with outsiders, but the cult was the hot topic of hushed gossip among residents. "People are talking about it,'' said Greg Duncan, sipping coffee at the Hungry Bear restaurant. "Some people are afraid.'' Details remain sketchy but the secretive cult known as "The Vampire Clan'' is believed to have been active in Murray, where members were suspected of breaking into an animal shelter and mutilating two puppies. "The fear of the unknown is always greater than the fear of the known,'' said another man at the Hungry Bear, who refused to give his name. Murray, a semi-rural town of about 13,000, lies in southwestern Kentucky near the Tennessee state line. Murray State University is there, a 8,300-student school known for its basketball program. Now the town is linked to three Murray teens arrested along with another youth from nearby Mayfield. All four, along with the daughter of the slain couple, were arrested on Thanksgiving night in Baton Rouge, La. All are suspected in the Nov. 25 slayings of Richard and Naoma Wendorf of Eustis, Fla. Police say Rod Ferrell met the Wendorf's 15-year-old daughter, Heather, when he lived in Eustis with his father. Ferrell, 16, moved back to Murray last year to live with his mother. It was Ferrell who police think broke into the animal shelter, stomping one dog to death and pulling the legs off another. Neighbors at the public housing complex where he lived say they never noticed anything unusual about him or his mother, Sondra Gibson. Yet Ms. Gibson is herself charged with solicitation to commit rape. Police say she wrote to a 14-year-old, inviting sex and hinting she was involved in vampire-type activity. "I longed to be near you ... to become a Vampire, a part of the family immortal and truly yours forever,'' the letter reads. "You will then come for me and cross me over and I will be your bride for eternity and you my sire.'' Accused with Ferrell and Ms. Wendorf of killing the Wendorfs are Dana Cooper, 19, of Murray, and Scott Anderson, 16, of Mayfield. Charity Keesee, 16, of Murray was charged with being an accessory to murder. Extradition proceedings in Baton Rouge are to begin Monday. Calloway County prosecutor David Harrington described Ms. Cooper as a "follower, someone who wanted to be liked. Probably easily manipulated.'' A young woman stopped in a grocery store who graduated from Calloway County High School with Ms. Cooper last year said the girl craved attention. "But this vampire stuff?'' she asked, refusing to give her name. "There was nothing that suggested that. She was just strange.'' Harrington said the youths were involved in an on-going role-playing game, but that Ferrell had begun to take the vampire game more seriously, scaring others into quitting. "The animal shelter thing was the first visible sign he had gone beyond game-playing,'' Harrington said, refusing to disclose more details because the accused are minors. Perhaps the most frightened man in town was Ferrell's grandfather, Harold Gibson. But his fears were for his grandson, not of the youth, whom he insisted was not the group's leader. And he said he fears for himself. "What if they come after me?'' Gibson said at his home Saturday, suddenly overcome by tears. "They're saying Rod is a monster. A monster! He's not a monster, he's not.'' Harrington was eager to write off the lurid story as an isolated escapade. "I think you had a group of kids that just wanted to be a part of something, wanted to belong to a group,'' he said. "And it went too far. Hopefully, it's over.'' © FOX News Network 1996. -------------------------------------------------------- 12.5.1996 Florida Vampire Killings Associated Press - The Washington Post - Thursday, December 5 1996; Page A26 TAVARES, Fla., Dec. 4 -- A 15-year-old girl plotted with four friends who were members of a vampire cult to kill her parents before stealing their sport utility vehicle for a trip to New Orleans,according to an affidavit unsealed today. It said Heather Wendorf asked her 17-year-old sister, Jennifer, if she had ever considered murdering their parents. Jennifer Wendorf told investigators about the conversation soon after their parents, Richard and Naomi Wendorf, were found beaten to death at the family home in Eustis in central Florida on Nov. 25. Heather Wendorf is charged along with the four other teenagers the slayings and was awaiting extradition to Florida with three of them in Baton Rouge, La., where the group was arrested Thanksgiving night. Investigators believe the teenagers became attracted to vampires because of a best-selling role-playing game. Police say the youths drank their own blood and that of mutilated animals. The only adult in the group, 19-year-old Dana Cooper, was extradited to Florida on Tuesday and made her first court appearance today in handcuffs and leg shackles in Tavares. Cooper, who appeared tired and pale, was denied bond by Circuit Judge Donna Miller. The police affidavit told of the teenagers plotting the Wendorfs' murder so they could steal their sport utility vehicle for the trip to New Orleans. Police interviewed a witness named Shannon Yohe, who said four of the teenagers visited her home in Eustis and talked about murdering the Wendorfs. One of them also called Heather Wendorf to get directions to her home, about 30 miles northwest of Orlando. According to the affidavit, Jennifer Wendorf told police soon after the slayings that 16-year-old Roderick Ferrell, who had moved to Kentucky from Eustis, corresponded with Heather Wendorf for more than a year before the killings. The affidavit also said that "within the past 30 days, Heather Wendorf has asked Jennifer if she (Jennifer) had ever planned to kill their parents and went on to state that she (Heather) had decided that Rod Ferrell would be a person to ask if [she] wanted someone killed." The affidavit said Cooper and defendant Sarah Remington were with Ferrell and another defendant, Scott Anderson, 16, when the slayings were discussed at Yohe's home. While the teenagers were there, Cooper, Ferrell and Anderson announced their intentions to kill the Wendorfs, Yohe told police. Remington reportedly said nothing. Cooper, Ferrell, Anderson and Heather Wendorf face first-degree murder charges. Remington is charged with being an accessory to murder. Four of the teenagers traveled from Kentucky to kill the Wendorfs and then picked up Heather Wendorf for the trip to New Orleans, police said. The teenagers, including Heather Wendorf, fled in the Wendorfs' vehicle and were caught in Baton Rouge after the parents of one of them called police, authorities said. Martha Anderson, who drove all night from Kentucky to attend a juvenile court hearing in Louisiana for her son, said today that she wants him to get a psychiatric evaluation. "He fell under the spell of something -- I don't know what it is," she said. © Copyright 1996 The Associated Press -------------------------------------------------------- 12.6.1996 'Vampire cult' murder suspects returned to face charges CNN - Dec. 6, 1996 10:45 p.m. EST BATON ROUGE, Louisiana (AP) -- Four teen-agers believed to be part of a self-described "vampire cult" were returned to Florida Friday to face charges of killing the parents of one of the suspects. They joined another teen-ager extradited earlier charged with the November 25 bludgeoning deaths of Richard and Ruth Wendorf of Eustis, Florida. Legal paperwork delayed extradition for Roderick Ferrell, Charity Keesee and Scott Anderson, all 16 and from Kentucky, and Heather Wendorf, the 15-year-old daughter of the victims. Dana Cooper, 19, of Kentucky, was extradited Monday. The five were arrested Thanksgiving night at a Baton Rouge motel. Police say the youths drank their own blood and that of mutilated animals and became attracted to vampires because of a best-selling, role-playing game. Defense lawyers called them scared youths and dismissed the vampire claims. Copyright 1996 The Associated Press. © 1996 Cable News Network, Inc. -------------------------------------------------------- 12.7.1996 Vampire Cult Mother Says Game Was "Fun" Sat, 7 Dec 1996 12:51:14 PST EUSTIS, Fla. (Reuter) - What started as a role-playing game for a group of teenagers turned into a cult of self-proclaimed ``vampires,'' who cut their bodies, drank blood and now face charges of murdering one members' parents. The five teens, aged 15 to 19, have been extradited to Florida from Louisiana for the slaying of a Eustis couple bludgeoned to death in their home last month. The mother of the accused ringleader of the group told on Saturday of how she played a ``vampire'' game with her son and how she thought it was just fun and make-believe. But police say Sondra Gibson's son Roderick Ferrell, 16, became lost in a delusional world of ``vampire'' rituals and conspiracies that led to the horrific double murder of Richard and Ruth Wendorf on Nov. 25. Police believe the murder weapon was either an axe or claw hammer and that the deadly blows were inflicted by at least three different people. The Wendorf's daughter Heather, 15, was among the group. She, Ferrell, and three others -- 19-year-old Dana Lynn Cooper, Howard Scott Anderson, 16, and Charity Keesee, 16 -- were arrested on Nov. 28 in the murdered couple's car while checking into a Baton Rouge motel. All the teens except Wendorf are residents of rural Murray, Kentucky, a small, predominantly Baptist town where Ferrell's interest in a role-playing board game, ``Vampire: The Masquerade,'' turned into an obsession, according to police. Ferrell had recruited Wendorf, his girlfriend, into the game, his mother said. ``There didn't seem to be anything wrong with it,'' Gibson told Reuters in a telephone interview. ``I played it with him. It's hard enough to find something you can do with your kids today, and the game was fun. It was something, anyway.'' Ferrell moved to Murray from Florida in 1995 to live with his mother and her boyfriend, Kile Newton, a tattoo artist who changed his name to ``Kile,'' a word self-styled vampires are said to use to describe someone who ``crossed over'' to become ``one of the undead.'' The game is similar to the better-known Dungeon And Dragons in which players adapt character names and are led through a series of adventures by a game leader, or storyteller. Ferrell and Gibson met other Vampire players, most of them teens, after moving to Murray. Over time, a group of about 30 youths began trying to live out vampire identities. Gibson said the game had remained a fantasy. ``It was a thrill, sure. But it was still role playing. People pretended to do stuff, but didn't really do it,'' she said. Gibson faces misdemeanor charges of trying to seduce a 14-year-old boy as part of a vampire ritual. Calloway County, Kentucky, prosecutors have released a letter in which she writes, ``I long to be near you ... to become a Vampire, a part of the family immortal and truly yours forever.'' Gibson scoffed. ``All part of the game,'' she said. Ferrell began wearing black shirts, black trousers, a long black jacket and black cowboy boots. He died his blond hair black and painted his fingernails black. He began to call himself Vesago, after a character in a novel by Anne Rice, an author known for her books about vampires. In September, Ferrell was suspended from school, after which, Gibson said, he did not go back, sleeping all day and going out at night with his vampire friends. Calloway County authorites said Ferrell and the other would-be vampires gathered at a ruined building painted with messages like, ``Please deposit dead bodies here,'' but also littered with empty liquor bottles and signs of drug use. ``It's pretty easy to tell who's been a vampire for any length of time,'' said Calloway County Sheriff Stan Scott. ``Most of them are going to have self-inflicted razor cuts or knife cuts. They like to drink each other's blood.'' In October, Ferrell and Anderson were charged with breaking into the county humane society, beating 40 dogs and mutilating two puppies. One dog's hind legs were torn off. Greg Fountain, an executive with White Wolf, of Clarkson, Georgia, which markets ``Vampire: The Masquerade,'' said the game could get intense, but that it was not a cult. ``It can be quite intense,'' he said. ``The core premise is personal exploration.'' Copyright 1996 by Reuters -------------------------------------------------------- 12.8.1996 Posted on rec.games.frp.misc Clipped from EKSTRA BLADET (national Danish newspaper) Sunday, December 8, 1996, page 8, by reporter Jacob Juhl, translated into English by B. Vince Heuschkel Killed Parents And Drank Thier Blood "They seriously believed they were vampires." Detective Mike Jump from Murray in Kentucky was pale as death when he recently explained to a terrified press that the 15-year-old Heather Wendorf coldly and without remorse admitted that she and four friends had murdered her parents. Heather's parents, Richard and Naomi, were pale, just as Mike Jump, when they were found in their Florida home in the small city of Eustis a couple of weeks back. But unlike the poor detective, who was pale from fear, they were pale from a sad absence of blood. Their own daughter had, with her friends, tortured them to death, then drunk their blood. In the faithful belief of a relationship with Count Dracula, the five kids saw themselves as being genuine, real vampires. - We were hungry and needed blood, Heather Wendorf explained to the shocked police. A couple of days after the crime, the group of kids showed up at the site of a vampire sect in Kentucky - quietly driving the Wendorf's car. The police was waiting there, and an investigation of the car revealed evidence of the crime. Technicians determined that the blood traces origined from Heather's parents. (end of article) It is obvious from the debate here on rec.games.frp.misc that this indeed did take place (somebody from Eustis commented upon it), but I'm curious as to how much the story has been altered before it reached Danish press? I know this will be pulled out as 'evidence' against the live games in every incident from now on and well into the next millennium, so as a game advocate, I'd be grateful to anyone who could mail me an account of the true goings-on, however ghastly. Or, as I usually sign my postings, Fight Fire With Information... B. Vince Heuschkel FIGHT FIRE WITH INFORMATION -------------------------------------------------------- 12.6.1996 Posted on alt.vampyres. From: lucadra@aol.com Newsgroups: alt.vampyres Subject: Yes, I Talked With Them...No, I Can't Tell You Anything! Date: 6 Dec 1996 14:46:22 GMT Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com Message-ID: 19961206144600.JAA21178@ladder01.news.aol.com I'm posting this message to the whole group, due to the large amount of e-mail I've received this past week, requesting information on the 5 "vampire-teens" arrested here in Baton Rouge. For those who don't already know, I am a Behavioral Therapist in my "other" life and I consult with the Juvenile Justice Center in Baton Rouge. Ironic as it may be, I was called in when there was a hitch in the extradition proceedings due to the possibility of diminished capacity in 2 of the suspects. Yes, I did read all the reports, and I interviewed 3 of the suspects (Ferrell, Anderson & Keesee). Unfortunately, I cannot legally...or ethically, reveal what I found a s a result of the interviews. I'm sorry if this upsets those out there with piqued curiosity, but that's just the way it is. Bottom line I can tell you 2 things: First, Ferrell, by himself, displays enough dysfunctioning he almost merits his own category in the DSM IV [Diagnostic and Statistical Manual]. Secondly, RPG's and Gothic vampirism were NOT the precipitating factors here. Quite the contrary, they were superficial and inconsequential. However, media being what it is, they jumped on that aspect and are playing it to the hilt. Anyway, they have all been extradited and should be back in Florida by now, and as far as my involvement is concerned, the case is closed. So please refrain from sending me e-mail asking for the "low-down", O.K.? I've told you all I can. If you will excuse me, I'm now going to go to sleep for about 18 hours........ Luc ~Grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change... Courage to change the things I can and... Wisdom enough to hide the bodies of the unfortunate ones ... Who manage to PISS me off! ~ 12.7.1998 Posted on alt.vampyres. From: Cruel Parthenesa salcedo@freenet.msp.mn.us Newsgroups: alt.vampyres Subject: Re: Yes, I Talked With Them...No, I Can't Tell You Anything! Date: Sat, 07 Dec 1996 05:33:36 +0000 Organization: Bassale for me, Guinness for him Message-ID: 32A901B0.F3615C1@freenet.msp.mn.us lucadra@aol.com wrote: << I'm posting this message to the whole group, due to the large amount of e-mail I've received this past week, requesting information on the 5 "vampire-teens" arrested here in Baton Rouge. For those who don't already know, I am a Behavioral Therapist in my "other" life and I consult with the Juvenile Justice Center in Baton Rouge. >> ~snip~ Excuse me, madame - but the District Attorney's office in Baton Rouge (not to mention the Florida DA) wouldn't be very pleased that you posted even the admission that you are involved with an active case over a newsgroup. Are you aware that you have already posted enough details about the defendants to permit their defense lawyers to submit pleas of potential jury tampering - not to mention the possibility of a mistrial? Who can say who lurks this newsgroup and whether or not any of them will be involved and/or considered in the jury selection process? It would perhaps be best for you NOT to share the details of your Real Life profession in such a public arena as this...unless you wouldn't feel any qualms about talking to a reporter? I was always under the impression that such 'interviews', when conducted in a professional capacity, at least merited a level of confidentialism that excludes the therapist tooting their own horn about their involvement in a sensational case. So even though your professional involvement in this case is supposedly over, your conclusions based on your interviews with three of the suspects could be incorporated into the trial - and you might very well find yourself subpoenaed to testify to that effect. In which case, your prior disclosures in public of those interviews of your opinion that Ferrell "displays enough dysfunctioning he almost merits his own category in the DSM IV" and that "RPG's and Gothic vampirism were NOT the precipitating factors here" would be sufficient for their defense attorneys to have your testimony thrown out of court entirely, if not prejudice the case in their favor. Any decent defense attorney would get you on the witness stand and rip apart your 'professionalism' for POSTING your conclusions of a meeting between the suspects in a supposed vampire coven murder and a Behavioral Therapist to an internet newsgroup that is specifically devoted to vampires. They could get your testomony thrown out of court, have you fined for contempt of said court and even manage to convince the jury that these poor, misguided kids don't have a chance because of people like YOU using hapless victims of the system for their own aggrandizement. (this could also impact directly on your career - rather negatively, I should add) If I were on their defense team, I'd consider your extremely public indiscretion to be manna from heaven. - Cruel Parthenesa, Esq. HLS '89, former student clerk for Prof. Tribe. -------------------------------------------------------- 12.7.1996 Posted on alt.vampyres From: lucadra@aol.com Newsgroups: alt.vampyres Subject: Re: Yes, I Talked With Them...No, I Can't Tell You Anything! Date: 7 Dec 1996 16:24:06 GMT Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com Message-ID: 19961207162400.LAA17014@ladder01.news.aol.com In article 32A901B0.F3615C1@freenet.msp.mn.us, Cruel Parthenesa, salcedo@freenet.msp.mn.us, writes: <> Excuse me, but I think you're getting a little too dramatic here. First of all, I've been doing this for quite a long time (probably longer than you've been alive), so when it comes to "...tooting own horn...", believe me when I say I don't have to blow my own horn, for there are many others out there who would gladly blow it for me. The message I posted on this group yesterday was not some spur of the moment whim of mine. That post, in its entirety was scrutinized and edited by legal authorities before I posted it, in order to prevent the arguments you brought up, from having any credence. I did NOT reveal confidential information. In fact, I did not mention anything that hadn't already been broadcast over the local news. As far as my statement regarding RPG's and Goth not being precipitating factors, well if they decide to subpoena me, they'll have to subpoena the judge who conducted the extradition hearings also, because she came to the same conclusion, and said so over the evening news! So basically, counselor, your arguments won't wash. One final note, you mentioned this could have a negative effect on my career....I am semi-retired and ONLY do consultant work...I don't go looking for clients - THEY come looking for me! Now, as far as I'm concerned, this case is closed. Luc -------------------------------------------------------- 12.8.1996 Posted on alt.vampyres From: Cruel Parthenesa, salcedo@freenet.msp.mn.us Newsgroups: alt.vampyres Subject: Re: Yes, I Talked With Them...No, I Can't Tell You Anything! Date: Sun, 08 Dec 1996 03:34:14 +0000 Organization: Tinsel Town Message-ID: 32AA3736.48EE4166@freenet.msp.mn.us lucadra@aol.com wrote: << ~snip~ - Excuse me, but I think you're getting a little too dramatic here. First of all, I've been doing this for quite a long time (probably longer than you've been alive), so when it comes to "...tooting own horn...", believe me when I say I don't have to blow my own horn, for there are many others out there who would gladly blow it for me. The message I posted on this group yesterday was not some spur of the moment whim of mine. That post, in its entirety was scrutinized and edited by legal authorities before I posted it, in order to prevent the arguments you brought up, from having any credence. I did NOT reveal confidential information. In fact, I did not mention anything that hadn't already been broadcast over the local news. As far as my statement regarding RPG's and Goth not being precipitating factors, well if they decide to subpoena me, they'll have to subpoena the judge who conducted the extradition hearings also, because she came to the same conclusion, and said so over the evening news! So basically, counselor, your arguments won't wash. One final note, you mentioned this could have a negative effect on my career....I am semi-retired and ONLY do consultant work...I don't go looking for clients - THEY come looking for me! Now, as far as I'm concerned, this case is closed. >> My apologies, then. From your post there was no indication that your interview with these people would have no bearing on further depositions or interviews with other therapists. - CP -------------------------------------------------------- Date Unknown Murders Cast Spotlight On "Vampire Culture" Ted Bridis, AP Group members hope Lake County Killings won't give them a bad rep. Calling themselves vampires, players of a bizarre role-playing game belong to clans- the Tremere or the Assamite Antiribu. Women submit to sires. They casually mention omens like the Coming of Gehenna. The arrests of five teenagers from Kentucky and Florida in the beating deaths of one of the teenagers parents casts a rare spotlight on members of this underground self-styled vampire culture of mostly teens and young adults nationwide. It has its own jargon, hierarchy and dress - but most of its own members claim harmless fun, and they're revolted, angry and anxious now about bad reputations in the wake of the arrests. "First of all, what kind of pathetic idiots torture puppies and bash their parents to death? This doesn't follow any tenant of vampiric belief," wrote Marjean Stewart, 35, of Denton, Texas, one supporter in an internet disscussion area on vampires. Police in Murray, Ky., believe the Florida slayings may have evolved from the youths involvement in a bizarre fantasy role-playing game "Vampire: The Masquerade," enormously popular since it was created in 1991. Charged with the beating death of Richard and Naoma Wendorf are Rod Ferrell, 16, Dana Cooper, 19 of Murray; Scott Anderson, 16 of Mayfield, Ky. and Heather Wendorf, the victims daughter. Charity Keesee, 16 of Murray was charged with being an accesory to murder. One of the youths is accused of breaking into an animal shelter in Murray where he stomped a dog to death and pulled the legs off another. "There is a certain anxiety in the vampire subculture that events like this will get hung on them," said J. Gordon Melton, who spent four years studing vampire culture and runs the Institute for the Study of American Religion in Santa Barabara, California. © Copyright The Associated Press -------------------------------------------------------- Date Unknown, circa 1997 Teen writes cult leader was hit man Associated Press Letter to sister blames cult leader in parents' deaths TAVARES -- A teen-ager arrested as part of a "vampire" cult in the beating deaths of her parents told her older sister in a letter that cult leader Rod Ferrell was to blame for the killings. But Jennifer Wendorf, the older sister, says she was torn about whether to believe the letter from Heather Wendorf, written shortly after her arrest and blaming Ferrell for everything. "I want to believe that that's true because she's my little sister, and I love her to death," Jennifer Wendorf said. "Maybe she's just putting all the blame on Rod just so she...won't get in trouble. "She could also just be saying this just to get my support, and it could all be a lie." The root of the trouble is Heather's relationship with Ferrell, who moved from Florida a year ago, Jennifer said in her sworn statement. It was in court documents released Thursday and examined by The Orlando Sentinel. About 125 pages of transcripts of interviews done following the Nov. 25 deaths of Richard and Ruth Wendorf of Eustis were released as part of the discovery phase of the case. So far, four teens are charged with murder. A grand jury meets Jan. 28 to decide whether Heather also should be charged. The most poignant of interviews comes from Jennifer Wendorf, 17. She told investigators her sister wrote to her from Baton Rouge, La., where the teens were picked up with the Wendorfs' stolen Ford Explorer. The interviews paint a portrait of Heather as a troubled Eustis High sophomore who rebelled against her parents over cleaning her room and other trivial matters. But in Ferrell, she found a kindred spirit. "I think she just felt she could talk to Rod, and then as they got to know each other, they started relating things," Jennifer said. "And then they just got too serious about something stupid," she said, apparently referring to their shared interest in vampirism. Friends said Heather, 15, confided her deepest, darkest secrets to Ferrell, 16, considered him to be a "father figure" and looked forward to the day he would return to Florida for her and they could live together like "a family." Ferrell and three friends from Kentucky showed up at the house of another Eustis High teen, Shannon Yohe, shortly before the slayings and told her they planned to pick up Heather, kill her parents, steal their car and head for New Orleans, said Jennifer, who discovered the bludgeoned bodies of her parents in their rural home. When Ferrell moved to Kentucky with his family, Heather ran up $60 to $80 monthly phone bills. Her parents stopped Ferrell's collect calls and that made Heather "very angry," her sister said. By then, Heather was dyeing her hair strange colors, wore black, told her sister she was a vampire, and wanted Jennifer to name her cat "Vesago" -- Ferrell's vampire nickname. While Jennifer thought the strange talk was "nonsense," she noticed her sister read books about vampires and had a "witches bible." Heather apparently told pal Mandy Jones she sometimes wished her parents were dead. One night she asked Jennifer if she ever thought about killing their parents. She also told Jennifer if she needed anyone killed, "...next time Rod's down, he can do it." Ferrell, along with three other teens, Dana Cooper, 19, Howard Scott Anderson, 17 and Charity Lynn Keesee, 16, are being held in the Lake County jail. © Copyright 1997 Star-Banner, The Associated Press --------------------------------------------------------