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When eighteen-year-old Jennifer Wendorf returned home
one evening, she was witness to the most horrific scene
she would ever set eyes upon: her own parents' brutally
bludgeoned bodies. It was later discovered that both
Richard and Naoma Wendorf each received over twenty
ferocious blows to the head.
As this atrocious crime came to light, so too did many
troubling questions: Who, in a quiet Florida town, could
harbor such hatred toward the genial couple? Where was
the Wendorfs' troubled fifteen-year-old daughter,
Heather? And could this ungodly murder be connected to
Heather's friends, a bizarre group of teens who were
obsessed with blood drinking and other vampire rituals?
Read with fascination as police track down the renegade
teens, extract their startling confessions, and watch
as bestselling author Clifford Linedecker uncovers the
twisted tale in a true-crime case as shocking as any
fiction. . .
The Vampire Killers by Clifford L. Linedecker
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(Includes a small mention of The Vampire Clan)
In the summer of 1996, a young female
reporter named Susan Walsh disappeared
while writing a story on downtown
Manhattan's mysterious "vampire"
underground. Suspicion immediately fell on the
bizarre cultists who wore black, painted their
faces white, and drank (or claimed to drink)
human blood. One of the experts consulted in
the search for Susan Walsh was clinical
psychologist Katherine Ramsland, who was
steeped in the subject as a journalist and
bestselling biographer.
Susan Walsh was never seen again. But the
search for her opened new doors of inquiry for
Ramsland, who found herself drawn almost
against her will into a world she had
previously explored only through the
investigations and research of others. Now
Ramsland was face-top-face with her
subjects and the questions were alarmingly
intimate and direct: Were these vampires for
real? Did they act from compulsion or choice?
Did they really drink blood? What else did they
do?
Often against her better judgment, Ramsland
began to follow up personal ads and Internet
inquiries with actual forays into the vampire
scene, penetrating deeper and deeper into a
world few Americans even dream exists. What
she found was all too real. Hidden beneath
the media images and the talk-show circuses,
lies a dark realm with its own rituals, rules,
boundaries -- and penalties.
Written in the bold tradition of participatory
journalism, Ramsland's extraordinary
investigative memoir takes you directly into
the world of the urban vampire: a
transgressive arena of dark energy and heat
that overlaps with S&M, Bondage, and Gothic
cults. Here you will learn the distinctions
between Bloodists, Classicals, Nighttimers,
and Inheritors. You will visit the members-only
clubs where "liquid electricity" (blood) is the
favored currency of intimate exchange, and
explore the "feeding circles" that avoid the
risk of AIDS. You will hang out with lovers
whose sex toy is a razor and meet others who
shun normality as we would shun the secret
practices they hold sacred.
Ramsland returned with her eyes opened to
new kinds of darkness. You may think you
have seen or heard everything. You may even
think you are unshockable.
You are wrong.
A daring writer's intimate odyssey into a world
of darkness.
Piercing The Darkness--By Kathleen Ramsland
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The "Vampire Clan" was a loosely knit gang of Southern U.S. teenagers who played at being outcasts and goths, and then pretended to be vampires. The twisted fantasies and dark mind of their young leader, Rod Ferrell, dominate The Embrace. Aphrodite Jones wastes no time in getting inside the troubled 16-year-old's head, detailing his elaborate delusions (he sometimes claims to be 500 years old; at other points, he was born 60,000 years ago and "sent to earth to destroy it") and his eerie abilities to control other troubled souls. With a Jim Jones-like knack for bizarre showmanship, Ferrell picked up followers and "true loves" with ease, then led his small, unmerry band on a mission from his home base in Kentucky to pick up yet another groupie--15-year-old Heather Wendorf--in Florida. The journey ended in violence in 1996, however, when Ferrell decided to kill Heather's parents with a crowbar. The group (Heather in tow) fled to New Orleans, where Rod promised his "vampire friends" would take them in; they were arrested a few days later. Ferrell, who now holds the record as the youngest inmate on death row, still insists he's the Antichrist.
Jones's account is rather spare, but feels balanced and honest. Like untold thousands of other American youths, Ferrell had the requisite bad childhood and unpleasant memories to later cause him both melancholy and grief. But unlike most of his peers, Rod Ferrell seems to have been born with a genius intelligence and the ability to memorize names, accents, and customs from different eras and places with ease, along with a talent to "perform" what he claimed to be. That he also happened to be deranged shouldn't be overlooked, but the real tragedy and concern here is that there might exist a rip in the fabric of our society large enough to allow healthy, normal teenagers like his group to fall through the tear and into the arms of animalistic hucksters like Rod Ferrell. --
The Embrace--by Aphrodite Jones
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