Show Notes
A teenager who thinks he's a 100-year-old vampire leads a cult of kids to murder a girls' parents in Florida.
Sources for this episode include:
Kentucky Teenage Vampires (Real Stories)Court Transcript - Rod Ferrell’s Appellate Brief“Interview with ‘The Vampire’” (Orlando Sentinel)“Chronology of the Wendorff Slayings” (Orlando Sentinel)“Man who “Sired” Rod Ferrell Tells All” (Oxygen)“Teens in Suspected ‘Vampire Cult’ Arrested in Double Murder” (AP News)
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