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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:03,046 --> 00:00:05,396 Jennifer Wendorf was 17 years old, 2 00:00:05,440 --> 00:00:08,660 pretty, popular, cheerleader. 3 00:00:08,704 --> 00:00:10,364 She had the world by the tail. 4 00:00:10,401 --> 00:00:12,491 And then she comes home, 5 00:00:12,534 --> 00:00:15,194 and there is blood everywhere. 6 00:00:22,109 --> 00:00:25,459 Pieces of skull were in the next room over. 7 00:00:25,503 --> 00:00:26,503 It was a bloodbath. 8 00:00:31,118 --> 00:00:32,418 Her sister was missing. 9 00:00:32,467 --> 00:00:36,077 We have no idea if Heather's gone willingly, 10 00:00:36,123 --> 00:00:38,173 if she's been abducted, or if she's dead somewhere 11 00:00:38,212 --> 00:00:39,522 and we just haven't found her body. 12 00:00:39,561 --> 00:00:41,611 Her sister, Heather, 13 00:00:41,650 --> 00:00:43,090 had a darker side. 14 00:00:43,130 --> 00:00:44,350 She was hanging around 15 00:00:44,392 --> 00:00:45,522 with very disturbed people. 16 00:00:45,567 --> 00:00:46,867 When you go to church, 17 00:00:46,916 --> 00:00:48,526 you take communion. When we got together, 18 00:00:48,570 --> 00:00:49,960 we drank blood. 19 00:00:50,006 --> 00:00:53,176 There was a supernatural mystique. 20 00:00:53,227 --> 00:00:55,487 This would send chills 21 00:00:55,533 --> 00:00:57,103 through my entire body. 22 00:00:57,144 --> 00:01:00,064 Who could have done this? 23 00:01:17,642 --> 00:01:19,342 Here we go. 24 00:01:19,383 --> 00:01:20,823 Here we go, Mustangs... 25 00:01:20,863 --> 00:01:25,223 Lake County is, um, about... 26 00:01:25,259 --> 00:01:26,389 40 miles from Orlando. 27 00:01:26,434 --> 00:01:28,874 Lake County is situated 28 00:01:28,914 --> 00:01:29,874 right in the center of the state. 29 00:01:29,915 --> 00:01:31,435 We're center east and west, 30 00:01:31,482 --> 00:01:33,092 and we're center north and south. 31 00:01:34,268 --> 00:01:35,398 Eustis is-is one of those 32 00:01:35,443 --> 00:01:38,923 smaller communities that had a very 33 00:01:38,968 --> 00:01:40,138 hometown feel to it. 34 00:01:42,624 --> 00:01:44,414 But a lot of my colleagues from Orlando 35 00:01:44,452 --> 00:01:46,192 would, 36 00:01:46,236 --> 00:01:47,586 would call me and say, "What in the world 37 00:01:47,629 --> 00:01:50,239 is going on in Lake County?" 38 00:01:50,284 --> 00:01:51,594 Because weird things just always seem to happen 39 00:01:51,633 --> 00:01:52,593 in Lake County. 40 00:01:56,855 --> 00:01:59,595 Very odd things. 41 00:02:13,524 --> 00:02:15,614 Jennifer Wendorf was 17 years old, 42 00:02:15,657 --> 00:02:19,617 pretty, popular, cheerleader. 43 00:02:19,661 --> 00:02:23,271 She had a new car that her folks had given to her. 44 00:02:23,317 --> 00:02:26,227 Everything was going perfectly for her. 45 00:02:26,276 --> 00:02:27,926 She had the world by the tail. 46 00:02:30,933 --> 00:02:33,463 And then she comes home. 47 00:02:34,502 --> 00:02:38,292 Because it was after 10:00 when she got home, 48 00:02:38,332 --> 00:02:40,292 she knew that she had broken the rules. 49 00:02:40,334 --> 00:02:43,294 So, she's gonna sneak in. 50 00:02:47,863 --> 00:02:48,953 It's dark in there. 51 00:02:48,994 --> 00:02:51,394 She sees her dad on the couch. 52 00:02:51,432 --> 00:02:53,652 And she thinks, "Okay, I made it. 53 00:02:53,695 --> 00:02:55,385 I've, you know, snuck past him." 54 00:02:55,436 --> 00:02:57,216 Then she gets into the kitchen 55 00:02:57,264 --> 00:02:59,614 and there is blood everywhere. 56 00:03:22,071 --> 00:03:24,031 All of a sudden, 57 00:03:24,073 --> 00:03:27,563 everything is completely upside down, torn apart. 58 00:03:36,607 --> 00:03:37,647 Okay. 59 00:03:43,353 --> 00:03:45,883 A call had come out on 911 60 00:03:45,921 --> 00:03:47,051 in reference to 61 00:03:47,096 --> 00:03:49,006 a death at a home in the Eustis area. 62 00:03:55,583 --> 00:03:58,893 My zone partner, who was Deputy Jeff Taylor at the time, 63 00:03:58,934 --> 00:04:02,504 he was the first one to respond. 64 00:04:02,546 --> 00:04:05,326 Within a very short time frame, 65 00:04:05,375 --> 00:04:06,895 he was shouting across the radio, 66 00:04:06,942 --> 00:04:09,032 "A signal five," 67 00:04:09,074 --> 00:04:10,424 which translates to a homicide. 68 00:04:13,035 --> 00:04:14,515 The male victim, 69 00:04:14,558 --> 00:04:17,468 Richard Wendorf, he was lying on the couch. 70 00:04:17,518 --> 00:04:18,908 He most likely was sleeping... 71 00:04:18,954 --> 00:04:20,654 at the time of the first strike 72 00:04:20,695 --> 00:04:22,345 because he does-- 73 00:04:22,392 --> 00:04:24,392 There's not a lot of blood pooled in other locations. 74 00:04:24,438 --> 00:04:26,528 Most likely, he didn't even see it coming. 75 00:04:28,572 --> 00:04:29,972 In the kitchen, 76 00:04:30,008 --> 00:04:32,578 we have the mother. 77 00:04:32,620 --> 00:04:34,930 It looks like she was trying to defend or cover herself 78 00:04:34,970 --> 00:04:36,450 by protecting her face, 79 00:04:36,493 --> 00:04:39,633 and then as she fell to the floor, 80 00:04:39,670 --> 00:04:41,850 the final blows would have happened on the ground. 81 00:04:44,893 --> 00:04:47,423 By the time that I made it out to the call, 82 00:04:47,461 --> 00:04:48,901 Jennifer was able to tell us 83 00:04:48,940 --> 00:04:50,940 that her parents' car was missing and we also knew 84 00:04:50,986 --> 00:04:52,286 that her sister was missing. 85 00:05:01,388 --> 00:05:02,868 People will say 86 00:05:02,911 --> 00:05:05,871 that the Wendorfs were a nice family. 87 00:05:05,914 --> 00:05:09,094 The dad had a good job, as a warehouse manager 88 00:05:09,134 --> 00:05:10,884 for a bottling company. 89 00:05:10,919 --> 00:05:13,439 And Ruth was able to stay at home. 90 00:05:13,487 --> 00:05:16,577 They weren't rich, but they were a close family 91 00:05:16,620 --> 00:05:20,060 and they... they seemed to be fairly normal. 92 00:05:20,102 --> 00:05:21,932 Miss Ruth Wendorf. 93 00:05:21,973 --> 00:05:24,673 She was a very nice lady who came 94 00:05:24,715 --> 00:05:26,455 and worked on our campus 95 00:05:26,500 --> 00:05:28,070 as a volunteer. 96 00:05:28,110 --> 00:05:30,980 Jennifer, the oldest daughter, was a cheerleader. 97 00:05:31,026 --> 00:05:32,936 Very nice young lady, 98 00:05:32,984 --> 00:05:36,034 never heard a cross word said about her as well. 99 00:05:36,074 --> 00:05:37,474 Jennifer... 100 00:05:37,511 --> 00:05:39,691 is bright and pretty. 101 00:05:39,730 --> 00:05:43,870 She had a scholarship to go to FSU. 102 00:05:43,908 --> 00:05:46,428 She had her bright future all ahead of her. 103 00:05:48,522 --> 00:05:51,002 Heather was the artist. 104 00:05:51,046 --> 00:05:53,876 The free spirit. 105 00:05:53,918 --> 00:05:54,958 And Heather had a darker side. 106 00:05:56,878 --> 00:05:59,658 She wore outlandish outfits. 107 00:05:59,707 --> 00:06:01,667 Dyed her hair different colors. 108 00:06:01,709 --> 00:06:04,629 Did a lot of bizarre artwork. 109 00:06:06,627 --> 00:06:09,187 Heather was a new student at Eustis High School. 110 00:06:09,238 --> 00:06:12,548 And I remember Heather walked by. 111 00:06:12,589 --> 00:06:14,029 She had a hangman's noose 112 00:06:14,069 --> 00:06:17,419 hanging from her backpack. 113 00:06:17,464 --> 00:06:21,424 And in the hangman's noose was a Barbie doll. 114 00:06:21,468 --> 00:06:23,468 Which I thought was kind of strange. 115 00:06:26,603 --> 00:06:28,693 Jennifer relayed that her mother 116 00:06:28,736 --> 00:06:30,126 had told her 117 00:06:30,172 --> 00:06:33,442 that Heather was getting out of control. 118 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:35,180 That there were serious problems at home 119 00:06:35,220 --> 00:06:38,620 and that she had had enough of Heather's behavior. 120 00:06:40,269 --> 00:06:41,919 Her sister was hanging around 121 00:06:41,966 --> 00:06:44,526 with some very bad people. 122 00:06:44,578 --> 00:06:46,098 Heather had a friend named Rod Ferrell 123 00:06:46,144 --> 00:06:48,454 that used to go to Eustis High School. 124 00:06:48,495 --> 00:06:50,105 They'd been best friends since they were 125 00:06:50,148 --> 00:06:51,588 sophomores in high school. 126 00:06:51,628 --> 00:06:52,978 And they would spend the whole night 127 00:06:53,021 --> 00:06:55,241 hanging around the cemeteries and going into 128 00:06:55,284 --> 00:06:58,074 mausoleums and stuff like that. 129 00:06:58,113 --> 00:07:00,163 Rod was another student. 130 00:07:00,202 --> 00:07:01,992 You know, I never did figure him out. 131 00:07:02,030 --> 00:07:06,120 In August, here in Florida, it's very, very warm. 132 00:07:06,164 --> 00:07:07,994 It'd feel like it was 100 degrees out there, 133 00:07:08,036 --> 00:07:09,686 even in the shade. 134 00:07:09,733 --> 00:07:11,523 Rod would sit in the sun. 135 00:07:11,561 --> 00:07:13,001 And normally have on, like, 136 00:07:13,041 --> 00:07:15,001 a black trench coat or something 137 00:07:15,043 --> 00:07:16,913 and just watch people walk by. 138 00:07:16,958 --> 00:07:19,048 Watches other students walk by and I said, 139 00:07:19,090 --> 00:07:22,050 "You know, this, this is really different behavior." 140 00:07:24,182 --> 00:07:26,232 I actually had personally met Rod 141 00:07:26,271 --> 00:07:29,271 when he lived in Eustis and, and, um, 142 00:07:29,318 --> 00:07:30,708 went to Eustis High School. 143 00:07:30,754 --> 00:07:32,934 I had actually talked to him in and around town 144 00:07:32,974 --> 00:07:33,984 and on the street and... 145 00:07:35,629 --> 00:07:37,889 Rod had been standing out on the front porch 146 00:07:37,935 --> 00:07:39,675 and he had brought out a couple samurai swords. 147 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:41,550 He was swinging these swords around 148 00:07:41,591 --> 00:07:43,591 and talking about his martial arts training 149 00:07:43,637 --> 00:07:46,597 and how he knew how to use these swords 150 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:48,210 and how sharp they were. 151 00:07:48,250 --> 00:07:49,900 And then he made the comment, 152 00:07:49,947 --> 00:07:53,167 "You don't see any cats around here, do you?" 153 00:07:54,169 --> 00:07:56,689 Jennifer was convinced right from 154 00:07:56,737 --> 00:08:00,957 the very minute that she called 911 155 00:08:01,002 --> 00:08:03,092 that her sister's friends were involved in this 156 00:08:03,134 --> 00:08:04,964 because of 157 00:08:05,006 --> 00:08:07,136 things that had been going on. 158 00:08:07,182 --> 00:08:09,272 So it was worrisome about Heather. 159 00:08:09,314 --> 00:08:12,584 We didn't know if she was missing by her own free choice 160 00:08:12,622 --> 00:08:15,022 or whether or not she had been forcibly taken. 161 00:08:16,583 --> 00:08:19,893 The medical examiner who did the autopsies 162 00:08:19,934 --> 00:08:22,024 saw that there were some "V" marks 163 00:08:22,066 --> 00:08:23,976 on the bodies. 164 00:08:24,025 --> 00:08:27,155 There were pieces of skull... 165 00:08:27,202 --> 00:08:30,602 that were in the dining room, the next room over. 166 00:08:30,640 --> 00:08:33,900 Veteran detectives, who have seen a lot, 167 00:08:33,948 --> 00:08:36,598 are appalled at this bloodbath. 168 00:08:36,646 --> 00:08:38,606 That's what it was, a bloodbath. 169 00:08:38,648 --> 00:08:40,998 In the descriptions by Deputy Taylor 170 00:08:41,042 --> 00:08:42,702 from when he walked in and saw the living room 171 00:08:42,739 --> 00:08:45,659 and saw the ceiling, he kind of described it 172 00:08:45,699 --> 00:08:49,269 as reminiscent of, like, a Jackson Pollock painting, 173 00:08:49,311 --> 00:08:51,181 only in this case, it's all the same color. 174 00:08:51,226 --> 00:08:53,096 It's all blood. 175 00:08:54,316 --> 00:08:57,886 When the detectives are talking with Jennifer 176 00:08:57,928 --> 00:08:59,578 and they're asking, 177 00:08:59,626 --> 00:09:01,886 "Who could have done this? 178 00:09:01,932 --> 00:09:03,632 Who was responsible for this?" 179 00:09:03,673 --> 00:09:08,033 Jennifer is thinking about her sister, Heather, who's missing, 180 00:09:08,069 --> 00:09:11,159 and she's saying that she was hanging around 181 00:09:11,202 --> 00:09:12,642 with very disturbed people. 182 00:09:12,682 --> 00:09:15,032 Her sister had friends 183 00:09:15,076 --> 00:09:17,946 who altogether believed that they were immortal 184 00:09:17,992 --> 00:09:20,952 and had, you know, different nonhuman aspects. 185 00:09:20,995 --> 00:09:22,335 And they said, "What do you mean?" 186 00:09:22,387 --> 00:09:24,127 And, she says, 187 00:09:24,172 --> 00:09:26,092 "Vampires." 188 00:09:31,266 --> 00:09:35,096 When the detectives realized that Rod Ferrell 189 00:09:35,139 --> 00:09:36,969 is from Murray, Kentucky, 190 00:09:37,011 --> 00:09:39,361 they start making phone calls to Murray, Kentucky. 191 00:09:39,404 --> 00:09:42,064 And that's when it all started coming together for them. 192 00:09:43,278 --> 00:09:45,368 Rod would take it as far as he needed to take it. 193 00:09:47,935 --> 00:09:50,145 He believed that in drinking the blood 194 00:09:50,198 --> 00:09:52,978 and taking a life, he gained life. 195 00:09:53,027 --> 00:09:53,977 I thought, "This dude actually has the capability 196 00:09:54,028 --> 00:09:55,068 of killing somebody." 197 00:10:08,651 --> 00:10:12,741 The Wendorfs were a nice family, 198 00:10:12,786 --> 00:10:14,396 a middle-class family. 199 00:10:14,439 --> 00:10:17,229 All of a sudden, the parents are dead. 200 00:10:17,268 --> 00:10:18,708 It shook everybody up. 201 00:10:27,452 --> 00:10:29,802 That night, we have no idea 202 00:10:29,846 --> 00:10:32,406 if Heather's gone willingly, if she's been abducted 203 00:10:32,457 --> 00:10:33,677 or if she's dead somewhere 204 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:35,460 and we just haven't found her body. 205 00:10:35,504 --> 00:10:36,644 We have no idea. 206 00:10:37,854 --> 00:10:40,814 When the detectives are talking 207 00:10:40,857 --> 00:10:43,767 with Jennifer, she mentions to the detectives 208 00:10:43,817 --> 00:10:46,377 that Heather had a friend 209 00:10:46,428 --> 00:10:48,648 named Rod Ferrell that used to go to Eustis High School 210 00:10:48,691 --> 00:10:51,431 before he moved away to Kentucky 211 00:10:51,476 --> 00:10:53,826 and that he was a dangerous character. 212 00:10:53,870 --> 00:10:56,700 So right away, Jennifer's thinking, you know, that 213 00:10:56,743 --> 00:11:00,143 Heather's either run away with them or been kidnapped by them 214 00:11:00,181 --> 00:11:02,841 or had something to do with her parents' death. 215 00:11:05,839 --> 00:11:10,229 Well, the detectives, when they realized that Rod Ferrell 216 00:11:10,278 --> 00:11:11,888 is from Murray, Kentucky, 217 00:11:11,932 --> 00:11:14,672 they start making phone calls to Murray, Kentucky. 218 00:11:17,285 --> 00:11:19,765 Rod grew up in Kentucky. 219 00:11:20,854 --> 00:11:25,774 And Rod's father left the family as a young child. 220 00:11:25,815 --> 00:11:28,855 His father was absent, his mother was more like 221 00:11:28,905 --> 00:11:31,465 a buddy than a parent. 222 00:11:31,516 --> 00:11:36,646 And they were living together with his grandparents. 223 00:11:36,696 --> 00:11:40,566 Rod and his mother, Sondra, both wore dark clothing, 224 00:11:40,612 --> 00:11:44,182 and they were walking around one evening holding hands. 225 00:11:44,225 --> 00:11:45,395 And the neighbors thought they were, like, 226 00:11:45,443 --> 00:11:47,663 a boyfriend, girlfriend thing. 227 00:11:47,707 --> 00:11:49,837 When they moved out, there was a pentagram 228 00:11:49,883 --> 00:11:51,803 etched in the floor-- burned onto the floor. 229 00:11:51,841 --> 00:11:55,451 And then he fell in with this group of kids 230 00:11:55,497 --> 00:11:56,797 and Scott Anderson. 231 00:11:58,848 --> 00:12:02,458 Me and Rod met and... 232 00:12:02,504 --> 00:12:04,554 it was, "Here's somebody else that I can connect with, 233 00:12:04,593 --> 00:12:07,813 someone that knows me and knows what I'm going through." 234 00:12:09,250 --> 00:12:12,380 Scott Anderson lived in a shack, basically, 235 00:12:12,427 --> 00:12:16,867 with garbage bags nailed over the broken windows. 236 00:12:16,910 --> 00:12:20,780 The dad was an alcoholic and a drug addict. 237 00:12:20,827 --> 00:12:22,867 I was working at McDonald's, 238 00:12:22,916 --> 00:12:25,786 and there had been a lot of times that I would bring, 239 00:12:25,832 --> 00:12:28,532 you know, leftover stuff from McDonald's home 240 00:12:28,573 --> 00:12:29,883 just so that I'd make sure my little brothers 241 00:12:29,923 --> 00:12:31,403 would have something to eat. 242 00:12:32,926 --> 00:12:34,666 I guess you could say, you know, 243 00:12:34,710 --> 00:12:37,890 Rod had this social machismo about him. 244 00:12:37,931 --> 00:12:40,541 I mean, people would just kind of gravitate toward him. 245 00:12:40,585 --> 00:12:43,455 I was just happy to be kind of like his right-hand man. 246 00:12:52,467 --> 00:12:54,557 I knew Jaden, but I didn't know him 247 00:12:54,599 --> 00:12:56,559 as well as I knew Rod. 248 00:12:57,951 --> 00:13:00,481 I met Rod Ferrell at the... 249 00:13:00,518 --> 00:13:03,648 close to the end of my junior year at Callaway High. 250 00:13:03,695 --> 00:13:07,435 Rod had the same views, we had the same principles on life. 251 00:13:07,482 --> 00:13:08,922 Sometimes it's killed or be killed. 252 00:13:08,962 --> 00:13:11,492 Life will eat your ass up and spit you out quick. 253 00:13:11,529 --> 00:13:14,529 And we learned that at a very early age 254 00:13:14,576 --> 00:13:17,926 as children raised in homes that were, you know, 255 00:13:17,971 --> 00:13:20,671 not so financially sound, you know, but we learned 256 00:13:20,712 --> 00:13:24,892 how to make do in that and saw how our parents struggled. 257 00:13:24,934 --> 00:13:26,944 So we had a lot of those commonalities. 258 00:13:37,729 --> 00:13:42,729 I was introduced to this path of vampirism 259 00:13:42,778 --> 00:13:46,428 when I was, 16 years of age. 260 00:13:48,044 --> 00:13:49,924 To me, it reflected my soul. 261 00:13:49,959 --> 00:13:52,529 Because the nighttime called to me 262 00:13:52,570 --> 00:13:55,790 and conveyed the power in human blood. 263 00:13:55,835 --> 00:14:01,485 This literally would send chills through my entire body 264 00:14:01,536 --> 00:14:06,446 because I finally found my spiritual haven. 265 00:14:15,463 --> 00:14:17,683 I knew Rod around a year and a half 266 00:14:17,726 --> 00:14:19,466 when I finally made the decision 267 00:14:19,510 --> 00:14:21,900 to bring him into the house. 268 00:14:21,948 --> 00:14:24,648 I had Rod meet me at a tombstone 269 00:14:24,689 --> 00:14:29,429 that we called the birthplace, and we began the ritual. 270 00:14:32,480 --> 00:14:34,660 We just used regular razor blades. 271 00:14:34,699 --> 00:14:37,659 As you can see here, cut the upper arm. 272 00:14:37,702 --> 00:14:40,492 After we cut ourselves, he would feed from me first 273 00:14:40,531 --> 00:14:43,491 until pretty much his heart's content 274 00:14:43,534 --> 00:14:45,014 or until the bleeding stopped, 275 00:14:45,058 --> 00:14:48,798 and I would do the same as well. 276 00:14:48,844 --> 00:14:51,674 Giving blood as a gift 277 00:14:51,716 --> 00:14:54,756 is one of the most precious gifts you can give to someone. 278 00:14:54,806 --> 00:14:56,936 It is a total commitment and there is no turning back 279 00:14:56,983 --> 00:14:58,683 once this is done. 280 00:14:58,723 --> 00:15:00,773 Something that I'd noticed 281 00:15:00,812 --> 00:15:03,862 with a lot of folks who were coming 282 00:15:03,903 --> 00:15:05,733 to an awareness that the vampire 283 00:15:05,774 --> 00:15:07,044 was something they associated with, 284 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:09,650 many came from a similar background: 285 00:15:09,691 --> 00:15:11,911 from isolated areas, from rural areas, 286 00:15:11,954 --> 00:15:14,484 where they didn't have a whole lot of outlets 287 00:15:14,522 --> 00:15:15,482 for their difference. 288 00:15:18,091 --> 00:15:22,011 I didn't really have a whole lot of friends. 289 00:15:22,051 --> 00:15:25,531 Rod started to kind of 290 00:15:25,576 --> 00:15:29,746 tell me about the vampire persona. 291 00:15:29,798 --> 00:15:33,628 You know, Rod had me totally convinced that this was real, 292 00:15:33,671 --> 00:15:35,631 and... 293 00:15:35,673 --> 00:15:39,723 to try to dream outside of what sh-- hole 294 00:15:39,764 --> 00:15:41,774 of a life that I had, 295 00:15:41,810 --> 00:15:44,730 and to hope to maybe find something better. 296 00:15:49,470 --> 00:15:52,780 It was just an exchanging of blood. 297 00:15:52,821 --> 00:15:55,961 Slice on my arm, he drinks some of my blood, 298 00:15:55,998 --> 00:15:57,908 I drink some of his blood and... 299 00:15:57,957 --> 00:15:59,997 "Yes, I'm in with the inner circle." 300 00:16:00,046 --> 00:16:04,566 That's when I really started to really begin to meet 301 00:16:04,615 --> 00:16:06,835 the people that he started to gather around him. 302 00:16:15,104 --> 00:16:19,504 For Rod, the idea of creating his own vampire family 303 00:16:19,543 --> 00:16:22,943 became his motivation through everything that he did. 304 00:16:22,982 --> 00:16:26,902 And he's one of these kind of bigger-than-life characters, 305 00:16:26,942 --> 00:16:28,512 you know? 306 00:16:28,552 --> 00:16:29,642 He's got a swagger to him and 307 00:16:29,684 --> 00:16:32,694 he's kind of funny and he's smart. 308 00:16:33,731 --> 00:16:36,041 Rod, me, Jaden, 309 00:16:36,082 --> 00:16:37,952 Charity and Dana, we all came from 310 00:16:37,997 --> 00:16:41,697 dysfunctional families that were barely making it. 311 00:16:41,739 --> 00:16:43,919 I guess in our minds, 312 00:16:43,959 --> 00:16:45,659 it was us against the world. 313 00:16:45,700 --> 00:16:49,490 It seems silly to adults to think about 314 00:16:49,530 --> 00:16:52,530 a 16-year-old having a charisma 315 00:16:52,576 --> 00:16:55,576 that he could get kids to do whatever he wanted to, 316 00:16:55,623 --> 00:16:57,583 but he used it 317 00:16:57,625 --> 00:17:00,535 to be the boss of these... 318 00:17:00,584 --> 00:17:03,024 these kids that were more dysfunctional than he was. 319 00:17:09,811 --> 00:17:15,511 Rod's mother has a series of boyfriends and marriages. 320 00:17:15,556 --> 00:17:20,076 And his mother brought him down to Eustis, Florida 321 00:17:20,126 --> 00:17:22,866 because she was involved with a man there. 322 00:17:26,132 --> 00:17:29,572 Rod and Heather, they'd been best friends 323 00:17:29,613 --> 00:17:32,573 since they were sophomores in high school. 324 00:17:32,616 --> 00:17:34,526 So they were very close. 325 00:17:34,575 --> 00:17:36,925 They would go out and they would spend the whole night 326 00:17:36,968 --> 00:17:40,318 hanging around cemeteries and going into mausoleums 327 00:17:40,363 --> 00:17:41,893 and stuff like that. 328 00:17:41,930 --> 00:17:46,540 And then, because his mother's relationship, as usual, 329 00:17:46,587 --> 00:17:49,977 broke down, she moved back to Murray, Kentucky. 330 00:17:50,025 --> 00:17:52,105 Rod hated Murray, Kentucky. 331 00:17:52,158 --> 00:17:53,678 He hated it there, 332 00:17:53,724 --> 00:17:55,644 rebelled there, 333 00:17:55,683 --> 00:17:57,693 um, got kicked out of school there. 334 00:17:57,728 --> 00:18:00,688 After Rod came back from Florida, 335 00:18:00,731 --> 00:18:03,781 he had this... 336 00:18:03,821 --> 00:18:06,261 ...charisma about him. 337 00:18:06,302 --> 00:18:08,742 People would just kind of gravitate toward him. 338 00:18:08,783 --> 00:18:11,873 You know, when I started getting into it 339 00:18:11,916 --> 00:18:14,696 and learning from Rod and learning from Jaden, you know, 340 00:18:14,745 --> 00:18:17,265 they both had two totally different aspects 341 00:18:17,313 --> 00:18:20,063 of the blood drinking. 342 00:18:20,099 --> 00:18:25,279 Jaden's belief was you only take what you need to survive. 343 00:18:25,321 --> 00:18:26,931 Rod would take it as far as he needed to take it. 344 00:18:26,975 --> 00:18:30,715 He believed that in drinking the blood and taking a life, 345 00:18:30,761 --> 00:18:32,291 he gained life. 346 00:18:32,328 --> 00:18:33,848 I thought, "This dude actually has 347 00:18:33,895 --> 00:18:35,235 the capability of killing somebody." 348 00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:40,250 Jennifer was able to tell us 349 00:18:40,293 --> 00:18:41,083 that her parents' car was missing. 350 00:18:41,120 --> 00:18:43,380 So we're looking 351 00:18:43,426 --> 00:18:44,336 for the blue Explorer. 352 00:18:44,384 --> 00:18:46,654 We put out the tag information. 353 00:18:46,690 --> 00:18:48,300 Lo and behold, we get a hit. 354 00:18:56,483 --> 00:18:58,793 In the initial onset 355 00:18:58,833 --> 00:19:01,883 of the investigation, we were handling it 356 00:19:01,923 --> 00:19:04,143 as if not only had we had a homicide 357 00:19:04,186 --> 00:19:05,536 but we may also have had 358 00:19:05,579 --> 00:19:08,279 a child abduction at the same time. 359 00:19:08,321 --> 00:19:10,761 It was a pretty chaotic scene. 360 00:19:16,459 --> 00:19:18,459 But then Jennifer was able to tell us 361 00:19:18,505 --> 00:19:20,285 that her parents' car was missing. 362 00:19:20,333 --> 00:19:24,213 They started looking for the Wendorfs' stolen 363 00:19:24,250 --> 00:19:27,860 1993 Ford Explorer, a distinctive blue color. 364 00:19:27,905 --> 00:19:30,555 So, that night 365 00:19:30,604 --> 00:19:33,484 we put out the BOLO, we put out the tag information. 366 00:19:33,520 --> 00:19:35,570 Lo and behold, we get a hit... 367 00:19:35,609 --> 00:19:37,789 in Seminole County. 368 00:19:39,830 --> 00:19:42,440 Seminole County found a vehicle 369 00:19:42,485 --> 00:19:43,785 with that tag number on it 370 00:19:43,834 --> 00:19:46,194 abandoned in their jurisdiction. 371 00:19:46,228 --> 00:19:48,538 But the tag wasn't on the right car. 372 00:19:48,578 --> 00:19:51,448 The tag was on a vehicle that's VIN number 373 00:19:51,494 --> 00:19:56,244 was registered to Scott Anderson out of Kentucky. 374 00:19:56,282 --> 00:19:57,892 But it now is bearing the tag 375 00:19:57,935 --> 00:19:59,585 that belongs to Richard Wendorf. 376 00:19:59,633 --> 00:20:02,423 So this gives us some good information. 377 00:20:02,462 --> 00:20:05,472 One, we now know that they've swapped tags. 378 00:20:05,508 --> 00:20:07,898 We have a new tag number, a Kentucky tag. 379 00:20:07,945 --> 00:20:09,425 We're able to modify 380 00:20:09,469 --> 00:20:10,859 our BOLO for the blue Explorer 381 00:20:10,905 --> 00:20:13,205 to show that it now is maybe bearing 382 00:20:13,255 --> 00:20:16,905 a Kentucky tag that should be registered to Scott Anderson. 383 00:20:16,954 --> 00:20:18,914 So that gives us a little bit of help. 384 00:20:18,956 --> 00:20:21,176 where are they going? 385 00:20:35,930 --> 00:20:38,800 Back in Eustis, Florida, during the time 386 00:20:38,846 --> 00:20:39,926 before the murders, 387 00:20:39,977 --> 00:20:42,367 Heather was acting out somewhat. 388 00:20:42,415 --> 00:20:43,755 Heather was running up 389 00:20:43,807 --> 00:20:45,367 fantastically high 390 00:20:45,418 --> 00:20:48,458 long distance phone call bills... 391 00:20:48,508 --> 00:20:52,768 talking to Rod on the phone. 392 00:20:52,816 --> 00:20:54,906 And her parents were very upset about it. 393 00:20:56,516 --> 00:20:59,476 Rod, he ran up a $850 phone bill 394 00:20:59,519 --> 00:21:03,309 talking to Heather Wendorf. 395 00:21:03,349 --> 00:21:05,609 I mean, that's a lot of time on the phone, you know? 396 00:21:05,655 --> 00:21:09,355 Heather was fascinated with him 397 00:21:09,398 --> 00:21:12,748 because of his demeanor and his storytelling 398 00:21:12,793 --> 00:21:15,803 and his fantasy, and so they have a very... 399 00:21:15,839 --> 00:21:17,749 very special bond with one another. 400 00:21:19,365 --> 00:21:22,755 One of the things that really typifies a vampire 401 00:21:22,803 --> 00:21:24,983 is this sort of mesmeric personality. 402 00:21:26,372 --> 00:21:30,512 We see Rod not merely cultivating it, 403 00:21:30,550 --> 00:21:33,990 but using it to hold people enthralled, to get them 404 00:21:34,031 --> 00:21:35,251 to agree to things 405 00:21:35,294 --> 00:21:36,954 that maybe they never would have considered. 406 00:21:39,907 --> 00:21:41,597 I... 407 00:21:41,648 --> 00:21:44,828 have, been present when Rod talked to Heather 408 00:21:44,868 --> 00:21:46,868 on a few occasions about her parents. 409 00:21:46,914 --> 00:21:48,574 Now, I did hear her mention 410 00:21:48,611 --> 00:21:50,921 many times how abusive they were. 411 00:21:56,402 --> 00:21:59,362 Letters were found 412 00:21:59,405 --> 00:22:02,835 that Heather wrote to Rod and talked about 413 00:22:02,886 --> 00:22:06,756 the hell of-of her family life, and things of that nature. 414 00:22:06,803 --> 00:22:09,593 Well, you know, no one really knows 415 00:22:09,632 --> 00:22:12,332 what was going on inside their family. 416 00:22:12,374 --> 00:22:14,034 Was it really that bad? 417 00:22:14,071 --> 00:22:16,381 It's hard for me to say, 418 00:22:16,422 --> 00:22:18,602 but Rod thought it was. 419 00:22:19,947 --> 00:22:21,557 Rod looked at her as this 420 00:22:21,601 --> 00:22:23,861 damsel he was going to rescue, 421 00:22:23,907 --> 00:22:26,867 who he thinks her parents are abusive. 422 00:22:26,910 --> 00:22:30,440 So to him this was a modern-day romance, you know, 423 00:22:30,479 --> 00:22:32,829 he's the knight in shining demon-scaled armor, 424 00:22:32,873 --> 00:22:36,403 driving to Florida to rescue this girl 425 00:22:36,442 --> 00:22:39,362 and bring her into the fold, into his house. 426 00:22:42,796 --> 00:22:44,006 Rod had this... 427 00:22:44,058 --> 00:22:45,358 this family idea. 428 00:22:45,407 --> 00:22:46,497 He was gonna create 429 00:22:46,539 --> 00:22:47,799 his vampire family 430 00:22:47,844 --> 00:22:51,374 and Heather was gonna be part of it. 431 00:22:51,413 --> 00:22:52,763 I think 432 00:22:52,806 --> 00:22:56,326 he wanted to have a group that looked up to him. 433 00:22:58,899 --> 00:23:00,989 That's exactly what Rod was looking for. 434 00:23:01,031 --> 00:23:03,511 He wanted people to surround him 435 00:23:03,556 --> 00:23:05,116 and to worship him. 436 00:23:05,166 --> 00:23:06,946 He found power in that. 437 00:23:06,994 --> 00:23:09,914 There had to have been some kind of change, 438 00:23:09,953 --> 00:23:12,963 a crossover from thinking 439 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:16,440 about killing someone to literally removing lives 440 00:23:16,482 --> 00:23:18,792 from this realm. 441 00:23:20,050 --> 00:23:22,620 Everything that I'd been studying before, 442 00:23:22,662 --> 00:23:24,972 it was darkness, 443 00:23:25,012 --> 00:23:28,102 it was nighttime, and it wasn't evil. 444 00:23:28,145 --> 00:23:30,965 Just like anything, anything can be turned 445 00:23:31,018 --> 00:23:33,148 into something that's evil and bad. 446 00:23:33,194 --> 00:23:36,074 It's all on your intent, and that was not my intent. 447 00:23:36,110 --> 00:23:38,810 That was not what I was also shown. 448 00:23:38,852 --> 00:23:40,512 That is not what I showed Rod. 449 00:23:43,944 --> 00:23:45,904 The moment when I was pretty sure 450 00:23:45,946 --> 00:23:49,556 that Rod had, 451 00:23:49,602 --> 00:23:51,912 left what I was teaching him, 452 00:23:51,952 --> 00:23:54,082 that was the last time that I had seen Rod 453 00:23:54,128 --> 00:23:56,608 before they left for Eustis, Florida. 454 00:23:56,652 --> 00:23:59,832 We had met up at a friend's house. 455 00:23:59,873 --> 00:24:01,483 We decided to go for a walk 456 00:24:01,527 --> 00:24:03,007 and talk, as we normally did. 457 00:24:03,050 --> 00:24:04,880 I hadn't talked to him in a few days. 458 00:24:04,921 --> 00:24:07,791 Well, this cat walked up to us, out of nowhere, 459 00:24:07,837 --> 00:24:11,797 and... he picked the cat up. 460 00:24:11,841 --> 00:24:14,631 He flips the cat over, holding onto its neck, 461 00:24:14,670 --> 00:24:18,630 and then hurls it into the tree. 462 00:24:18,674 --> 00:24:21,504 The cat was convulsing on the ground, of course, 463 00:24:21,547 --> 00:24:23,847 it didn't die immediately. 464 00:24:23,897 --> 00:24:27,027 And Rod's reaction was giddy laughter. 465 00:24:27,074 --> 00:24:28,554 And he just kind of grinned. 466 00:24:28,597 --> 00:24:31,857 I was like, "This sh-- is not ---- ing funny, man." 467 00:24:31,905 --> 00:24:33,595 And I was like, "Dude, what is your problem?" 468 00:24:33,646 --> 00:24:37,206 He goes, "It's you, you and your holier-than-thou 469 00:24:37,258 --> 00:24:38,868 ---- ing attitude that you've got." 470 00:24:42,524 --> 00:24:45,224 Here's Rod developing his own take 471 00:24:45,266 --> 00:24:47,526 on what it means to be a vampire, 472 00:24:47,573 --> 00:24:50,533 building off of those ideas of 473 00:24:50,576 --> 00:24:53,186 feeding off of life force, taking it 474 00:24:53,230 --> 00:24:57,890 to what he probably thinks is a pioneering extreme. 475 00:24:57,931 --> 00:25:01,061 "Let's not just take life force from a friend. 476 00:25:01,108 --> 00:25:03,068 "Let's not just take it in sips and drabs. 477 00:25:03,110 --> 00:25:05,850 Let's just take a whole life." 478 00:25:14,251 --> 00:25:16,471 The thing that the detectives wondered about was... 479 00:25:16,515 --> 00:25:18,595 was Heather kidnapped, 480 00:25:18,647 --> 00:25:22,647 or was she a murder victim herself somewhere? 481 00:25:22,695 --> 00:25:26,475 Or what? Does she have something to do with this? 482 00:25:26,525 --> 00:25:31,355 Um, did she actually do it... herself? 483 00:25:31,399 --> 00:25:32,659 They don't know for sure. 484 00:25:32,705 --> 00:25:35,355 Seminole County found 485 00:25:35,403 --> 00:25:38,323 a vehicle abandoned in their jurisdiction. 486 00:25:38,362 --> 00:25:40,542 So, once we found Scott's car in Seminole County, 487 00:25:40,582 --> 00:25:42,412 which is to the east of us, 488 00:25:42,453 --> 00:25:43,893 we knew the tags had been swapped. 489 00:25:43,933 --> 00:25:46,373 But here's the question-- where are they going? 490 00:25:46,414 --> 00:25:49,114 There's a possibility they're moving towards the Daytona area. 491 00:25:49,156 --> 00:25:53,066 However, we'd also received information from Jennifer 492 00:25:53,116 --> 00:25:56,946 that she believed they were possibly going to Louisiana. 493 00:25:56,990 --> 00:25:59,950 The detectives reached out to the authorities in Louisiana, 494 00:25:59,993 --> 00:26:01,603 passed along the information 495 00:26:01,647 --> 00:26:03,467 and what we were looking for and what we were working. 496 00:26:08,479 --> 00:26:11,399 Rod had outlined that we were gonna pick up Heather 497 00:26:11,439 --> 00:26:13,619 and we were gonna go 498 00:26:13,659 --> 00:26:16,099 to New Orleans, 499 00:26:16,139 --> 00:26:19,709 because, supposedly, that was the city of vampires, 500 00:26:19,752 --> 00:26:24,712 and where we could find a group of like-minded people that would 501 00:26:24,757 --> 00:26:26,497 accept us, and we could go on 502 00:26:26,541 --> 00:26:29,721 about building our vampire house. 503 00:26:29,762 --> 00:26:31,982 When he said, "Hey, let's go to Florida," 504 00:26:32,025 --> 00:26:33,545 it was like, "Okay, I got the keys, 505 00:26:33,592 --> 00:26:35,332 I got the car, I got a pocket full of money. Let's go." 506 00:26:52,523 --> 00:26:55,663 Got into Eustis on Sunday night. 507 00:26:55,701 --> 00:26:57,221 Then, the next day, 508 00:26:57,267 --> 00:27:01,047 we went and picked Heather up, and we went to a cemetery. 509 00:27:05,362 --> 00:27:08,802 Rod and Heather walked off, and they were gone 510 00:27:08,844 --> 00:27:11,634 for about a good hour, hour and a half. 511 00:27:11,673 --> 00:27:14,503 What he took away from the vampire 512 00:27:14,545 --> 00:27:16,105 was the vampire as predator, 513 00:27:16,156 --> 00:27:17,806 the predator of humans. 514 00:27:17,853 --> 00:27:19,683 And maybe that's better. 515 00:27:19,725 --> 00:27:21,245 Maybe that's more. 516 00:27:21,291 --> 00:27:25,381 And it seems like he became intoxicated with that idea. 517 00:27:25,426 --> 00:27:28,336 Well, vampire in literature 518 00:27:28,385 --> 00:27:30,335 and movies and so on is a predator. 519 00:27:30,387 --> 00:27:33,387 They prey on the innocent victims, they trick people. 520 00:27:33,434 --> 00:27:34,784 They manipulate people. 521 00:27:34,827 --> 00:27:36,607 I have my speculations 522 00:27:36,655 --> 00:27:38,695 why Rod and Heather were so long 523 00:27:38,744 --> 00:27:41,364 in the graveyard. 524 00:27:41,398 --> 00:27:43,748 Because Heather was being abused by her father, 525 00:27:43,792 --> 00:27:46,142 and Mom knew about it, 526 00:27:46,186 --> 00:27:49,486 and wasn't doing anything about it, and 527 00:27:49,537 --> 00:27:51,537 Heather found someone that she could manipulate 528 00:27:51,582 --> 00:27:53,852 into, you know, doing something about it. 529 00:27:53,889 --> 00:27:56,149 And, you know... 530 00:27:56,196 --> 00:27:58,716 You know, it goes back to the earlier, 531 00:27:58,764 --> 00:28:01,164 you know, Rod talking about wanting to kill someone, 532 00:28:01,201 --> 00:28:03,381 and I guess, you know, there was his fantasy ---- ing 533 00:28:03,420 --> 00:28:05,600 served up on a silver platter. 534 00:28:15,432 --> 00:28:18,352 We met Heather up the road, 535 00:28:18,392 --> 00:28:20,312 maybe a quarter mile from her house. 536 00:28:20,350 --> 00:28:23,090 And that's when Rod said, "Hey, look, 537 00:28:23,136 --> 00:28:24,616 "we're going in here. 538 00:28:24,659 --> 00:28:26,709 "We're gonna get Heather's parents' Explorer 539 00:28:26,748 --> 00:28:28,528 so we'll have something to drive." 540 00:28:28,576 --> 00:28:30,526 It was something that I assume 541 00:28:30,578 --> 00:28:32,408 that him and Heather came up with 542 00:28:32,449 --> 00:28:34,409 while they were in the cemetery. 543 00:28:37,367 --> 00:28:40,367 The girls got in the car, and they left. 544 00:28:44,331 --> 00:28:47,381 As I'm walking to Heather's house with Rod, 545 00:28:47,421 --> 00:28:49,121 I was kind of in my own little space. 546 00:28:51,860 --> 00:28:54,860 I was scared, but I was also... excited, 547 00:28:54,907 --> 00:28:57,907 because I was doing something definitely outside my norm. 548 00:28:59,650 --> 00:29:01,780 As we're going through the garage, 549 00:29:01,827 --> 00:29:04,787 the only vehicle that was there was the Explorer, so... 550 00:29:04,830 --> 00:29:07,400 I didn't know if anybody was home or not. 551 00:29:08,964 --> 00:29:11,494 He stops, and he starts to dig around. 552 00:29:11,532 --> 00:29:14,492 That's when he picks up this crowbar. 553 00:29:15,971 --> 00:29:17,931 Me and Rod, we go in 554 00:29:17,973 --> 00:29:21,543 through the utility room door off the garage, 555 00:29:21,585 --> 00:29:23,585 which was unlocked. 556 00:29:25,372 --> 00:29:27,332 We just 557 00:29:27,374 --> 00:29:29,554 walked into the house like we owned the place. 558 00:29:29,593 --> 00:29:31,813 Send my $1,000 to this address, Mr. Keeper, 559 00:29:31,857 --> 00:29:34,337 and thank you ever so much. 560 00:29:40,866 --> 00:29:42,866 I'm sorry, Mr. Keeper, 561 00:29:42,911 --> 00:29:45,781 but if you only knew how badly I need to make... 562 00:29:45,827 --> 00:29:48,127 It was kind of okay, hey, you know, adrenaline kicks in. 563 00:29:48,177 --> 00:29:49,827 You know, we're going in, 564 00:29:49,875 --> 00:29:51,875 you know, to deprive some people of their stuff. 565 00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:53,010 You know, the vampire mindset 566 00:29:53,052 --> 00:29:54,232 of "Hey, I'm going to take this. 567 00:29:54,270 --> 00:29:56,100 There's not sh-- you can do about it." 568 00:29:58,144 --> 00:30:01,844 As we go through the house, 569 00:30:01,887 --> 00:30:03,927 I'm walking through, 570 00:30:03,976 --> 00:30:05,406 looking for money 571 00:30:05,455 --> 00:30:08,065 or things that can be used for money. 572 00:30:08,110 --> 00:30:10,160 Boss.Hiya. 573 00:30:15,248 --> 00:30:17,898 Heather's dad's laying there on the couch, asleep. 574 00:30:26,868 --> 00:30:28,998 And I'm like, "Okay. 575 00:30:29,044 --> 00:30:31,184 What now? What are we gonna do?" 576 00:30:35,050 --> 00:30:37,010 Rod-- 577 00:30:37,052 --> 00:30:38,922 he pretty much swings for the fences. 578 00:30:55,027 --> 00:30:57,987 He begins to beat her dad to death with a crowbar. 579 00:31:06,908 --> 00:31:09,818 I actually yelled at him, "What the hell are you doing?" 580 00:31:09,868 --> 00:31:12,438 And when he turned, he yelled at me, and ---- ing said, 581 00:31:12,479 --> 00:31:14,439 "What are you doing? Why are you standing there? 582 00:31:14,481 --> 00:31:16,831 Find the money, find the car keys, find all this." 583 00:31:16,875 --> 00:31:18,875 You know, and I just kind of like, "Sh-- ! 584 00:31:20,443 --> 00:31:23,883 "If I don't do what this mother---- er says, he's gonna 585 00:31:23,925 --> 00:31:26,145 do to me what he just did to him." 586 00:31:38,026 --> 00:31:40,806 Then I see Heather's mom. 587 00:31:40,855 --> 00:31:43,375 I don't know who she saw first, but I do remember her saying, 588 00:31:43,423 --> 00:31:46,033 "Who are you and what do you want?" 589 00:31:46,078 --> 00:31:48,858 When he turned and looked at me, 590 00:31:48,907 --> 00:31:51,037 I didn't recognize him. 591 00:31:51,083 --> 00:31:54,043 Probably the most frightening look I've ever seen 592 00:31:54,086 --> 00:31:56,036 on anyone's face. 593 00:31:56,088 --> 00:31:57,958 It was like 594 00:31:58,003 --> 00:32:00,273 seeing the devil himself. 595 00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:07,140 She hit him with a hot cup of coffee. 596 00:32:07,186 --> 00:32:09,876 Scratched him in the face. 597 00:32:09,928 --> 00:32:11,928 And then when she went down, 598 00:32:11,973 --> 00:32:15,193 he... he did more to her than he did 599 00:32:15,237 --> 00:32:16,937 to Heather's dad. 600 00:32:21,461 --> 00:32:24,071 It was... 601 00:32:30,861 --> 00:32:31,911 I was shell-shocked. 602 00:32:46,051 --> 00:32:48,011 I went into flight mode. 603 00:32:48,053 --> 00:32:49,843 You know, my first thing was just saying, 604 00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:51,270 "Okay, we got to get as far away 605 00:32:51,317 --> 00:32:52,797 as possible." 606 00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:55,280 We took the Explorer and we met up with the girls. 607 00:32:55,321 --> 00:32:57,191 And we eventually ended up 608 00:32:57,236 --> 00:32:58,146 on a dirt road. 609 00:32:58,193 --> 00:32:59,373 I swapped the license plates, 610 00:32:59,412 --> 00:33:01,462 and we headed to New Orleans. 611 00:33:01,501 --> 00:33:03,941 And that's when Rod 612 00:33:03,982 --> 00:33:05,942 told, Heather 613 00:33:05,984 --> 00:33:08,944 and, Dana and Charity what happened. 614 00:33:08,987 --> 00:33:10,247 You know, it was, 615 00:33:10,292 --> 00:33:12,952 like, shell-shock with Charity and Dana. 616 00:33:12,991 --> 00:33:16,431 Heather, she went, screaming and wigging out. 617 00:33:17,473 --> 00:33:20,173 It was a weird mind---- 618 00:33:20,215 --> 00:33:21,905 for pretty much everybody 619 00:33:21,956 --> 00:33:23,176 that was riding in the backseat, 620 00:33:23,218 --> 00:33:26,918 with this bloody crowbar in the car, 621 00:33:26,961 --> 00:33:28,141 having to 622 00:33:28,180 --> 00:33:29,790 either put their feet on it 623 00:33:29,833 --> 00:33:33,013 or sit in an awkward position so their feet are not touching it. 624 00:33:37,058 --> 00:33:39,228 On the way over to Heather's, he was-- 625 00:33:39,278 --> 00:33:41,888 he was quiet and, you know, held to himself. 626 00:33:41,932 --> 00:33:46,152 And then after the incident in the house, 627 00:33:46,198 --> 00:33:50,028 he was happy and giddy, 628 00:33:50,071 --> 00:33:52,031 and, you know, life was just 629 00:33:52,073 --> 00:33:55,213 roses and flowers and all that sh-- . 630 00:33:56,382 --> 00:34:00,472 I remember the reaction when Rod told Heather. 631 00:34:00,516 --> 00:34:03,126 She was, like, massively distraught. 632 00:34:03,171 --> 00:34:05,001 But, you know, 633 00:34:05,043 --> 00:34:07,183 as I've had time to think about it over the years, 634 00:34:07,219 --> 00:34:10,139 my speculation is she was just putting on a show 635 00:34:10,178 --> 00:34:13,358 to throw the rest of us that were like, 636 00:34:13,399 --> 00:34:15,969 "What the hell just happened?" off. 637 00:34:18,230 --> 00:34:20,100 It was Heather's 638 00:34:20,145 --> 00:34:22,095 older sister, Jenny, who found their parents 639 00:34:22,147 --> 00:34:24,237 around 11:00, when she came home from work. 640 00:34:24,279 --> 00:34:26,369 They were beaten and bloodied. 641 00:34:26,412 --> 00:34:28,242 Police believe Heather and three of her friends 642 00:34:28,283 --> 00:34:29,633 took the couple's truck 643 00:34:29,676 --> 00:34:32,026 and tried to cover their tracks. 644 00:34:33,245 --> 00:34:35,065 There were several possibilities 645 00:34:35,116 --> 00:34:36,416 of where they could be going. 646 00:34:36,465 --> 00:34:38,335 Nobody knew for sure. 647 00:34:38,380 --> 00:34:41,080 It wasn't till we got a break, 648 00:34:41,122 --> 00:34:45,082 when Charity reached out to her grandmother 649 00:34:45,126 --> 00:34:46,996 in Kentucky through a phone call, 650 00:34:47,041 --> 00:34:48,701 and we were able to get the information 651 00:34:48,738 --> 00:34:50,698 from the grandmother as to the phone number 652 00:34:50,740 --> 00:34:51,830 that she called from. 653 00:34:51,872 --> 00:34:53,962 Well, through some good detective work 654 00:34:54,004 --> 00:34:55,184 and some backtracing, 655 00:34:55,223 --> 00:34:57,103 they were able to come up with a pay phone 656 00:34:57,138 --> 00:34:58,308 outside of Baton Rouge. 657 00:35:05,494 --> 00:35:09,194 It's been a few days, and... 658 00:35:09,237 --> 00:35:10,407 now, I guess, 659 00:35:10,456 --> 00:35:13,236 Rod is starting to get spooked, 660 00:35:13,285 --> 00:35:14,845 and he's beginning to think, 661 00:35:14,895 --> 00:35:18,155 "Okay, now there's gonna be cops looking for us now." 662 00:35:18,203 --> 00:35:19,773 So... 663 00:35:19,813 --> 00:35:21,423 we start to dump stuff. 664 00:35:21,467 --> 00:35:24,637 By the time they got to Baton Rouge, 665 00:35:24,687 --> 00:35:26,337 they go down to the waterfront 666 00:35:26,385 --> 00:35:29,335 to get rid of the murder weapon. 667 00:35:35,481 --> 00:35:37,441 They're all exhausted. 668 00:35:37,483 --> 00:35:40,093 They haven't slept. They haven't eaten. 669 00:35:40,138 --> 00:35:41,438 They're running on empty. 670 00:35:41,487 --> 00:35:43,397 Charity's crying. 671 00:35:45,143 --> 00:35:46,453 We needed money 672 00:35:46,492 --> 00:35:49,672 to try to, you know, keep going. 673 00:35:49,712 --> 00:35:51,712 Charity figured that her mom 674 00:35:51,758 --> 00:35:54,018 would probably be the best... best bet. 675 00:35:54,064 --> 00:35:55,464 So, she wants to call her mother, 676 00:35:55,501 --> 00:35:57,461 and, um, Rod lets her do it. 677 00:36:03,073 --> 00:36:05,733 When the kids started running out of money 678 00:36:05,772 --> 00:36:06,642 and Charity 679 00:36:06,686 --> 00:36:08,336 needed to reach out to her mom 680 00:36:08,383 --> 00:36:10,173 to try to get some more funds, 681 00:36:10,211 --> 00:36:13,171 she reached the grandmother. 682 00:36:13,214 --> 00:36:14,784 And the grandmother relayed the information 683 00:36:14,824 --> 00:36:16,834 to the detectives. 684 00:36:16,870 --> 00:36:19,660 So they convince the grandmother to go ahead 685 00:36:19,699 --> 00:36:23,179 and call her back and let her know she was gonna send money. 686 00:36:23,224 --> 00:36:25,494 Well, what they weregonna pick up 687 00:36:25,531 --> 00:36:27,051 was not gonna be money. 688 00:36:27,097 --> 00:36:30,137 It was gonna be the detectives. 689 00:36:35,845 --> 00:36:38,975 Charity's grandmother gets a call. 690 00:36:39,022 --> 00:36:40,242 Charity says, 691 00:36:40,285 --> 00:36:42,715 "Help me. I need money." 692 00:36:42,765 --> 00:36:44,545 But her grandmother 693 00:36:44,593 --> 00:36:49,163 tricks her into going to the Howard Johnson to check in. 694 00:36:52,601 --> 00:36:53,991 Detectives were there 695 00:36:54,037 --> 00:36:56,207 waiting for them to show up. 696 00:37:00,783 --> 00:37:02,663 Soon as we got parked, 697 00:37:02,698 --> 00:37:04,178 I turned the Explorer off. 698 00:37:05,614 --> 00:37:07,534 I'd never seen that many cop cars in my life. 699 00:37:09,314 --> 00:37:12,144 Flashing lights, spotlights and... 700 00:37:14,754 --> 00:37:17,584 Vampire cult leader Rod Ferrell 701 00:37:17,626 --> 00:37:20,186 and four other teenagers, including Heather Wendorf, 702 00:37:20,238 --> 00:37:23,758 were arrested in the murders of Richard and Naomi Wendorf. 703 00:38:18,034 --> 00:38:19,994 The state attorney 704 00:38:20,036 --> 00:38:22,776 was seeking the death penalty for Rod. 705 00:38:22,822 --> 00:38:25,262 In the hopes of just getting a life sentence, 706 00:38:25,303 --> 00:38:27,313 Rod pleaded guilty. 707 00:38:41,231 --> 00:38:42,621 They sought the death penalty. 708 00:38:42,668 --> 00:38:44,628 He got the death penalty from the judge. 709 00:38:52,373 --> 00:38:54,423 But the supreme court later overturned it 710 00:38:54,462 --> 00:38:56,332 to a life sentence. 711 00:38:58,205 --> 00:38:59,765 Anderson said, 712 00:38:59,815 --> 00:39:02,985 you know, "I didn't do any of the killing." 713 00:39:03,036 --> 00:39:05,296 But he was in the house. 714 00:39:05,343 --> 00:39:07,263 And, in Florida, they have a thing called 715 00:39:07,301 --> 00:39:08,391 felony murder. 716 00:39:08,433 --> 00:39:10,133 Anderson 717 00:39:10,173 --> 00:39:13,873 pleaded guilty to avoid the death penalty 718 00:39:13,916 --> 00:39:16,176 and gets a life sentence. 719 00:39:16,223 --> 00:39:19,273 Charity got ten and a half years, 720 00:39:19,313 --> 00:39:21,233 and Dana got 17 and a half years in prison. 721 00:39:23,448 --> 00:39:26,888 One of the biggest aspects of this case 722 00:39:26,929 --> 00:39:29,319 has always been, especially here 723 00:39:29,367 --> 00:39:32,807 in Lake County, what responsibility 724 00:39:32,848 --> 00:39:35,898 does Heather have in the death of her parents? 725 00:39:35,938 --> 00:39:37,718 That's been the burning issue. 726 00:39:37,766 --> 00:39:39,676 The victims' 15-year-old daughter, 727 00:39:39,725 --> 00:39:41,245 in letters written 728 00:39:41,291 --> 00:39:43,161 to one of Ferrell's acquaintances in Kentucky, 729 00:39:43,206 --> 00:39:44,206 she writes... 730 00:39:53,216 --> 00:39:55,346 Heather Wendorf 731 00:39:55,393 --> 00:39:57,443 was, in fact, a suspect 732 00:39:57,482 --> 00:40:00,962 equal to that of Rod 733 00:40:01,007 --> 00:40:05,227 and Scott and Charity and Dana. 734 00:40:05,272 --> 00:40:06,972 Heather Wendorf denied she took part 735 00:40:07,013 --> 00:40:08,973 in her parents' murders, but admitted 736 00:40:09,015 --> 00:40:11,835 she ran to Baton Rouge with the other teenagers. 737 00:40:11,887 --> 00:40:14,317 But then, as more and more information came about, 738 00:40:14,368 --> 00:40:16,758 the state attorneys made the decision 739 00:40:16,805 --> 00:40:19,325 that they were not going to prosecute Heather Wendorf 740 00:40:19,373 --> 00:40:22,203 in this case, in the homicide against her parents. 741 00:40:22,245 --> 00:40:25,895 And the sheriff at that time, Sheriff George Knupp, 742 00:40:25,945 --> 00:40:27,765 was very upset about that, 743 00:40:27,816 --> 00:40:30,336 'cause he thought she should've been charged, too. 744 00:40:30,384 --> 00:40:33,174 Heather's attorney says his client did not learn 745 00:40:33,213 --> 00:40:35,353 of her parents' murders until after she ran away 746 00:40:35,389 --> 00:40:38,869 with the four teenagers already indicted in the killings. 747 00:40:38,914 --> 00:40:41,354 Many have asked why didn't she turn herself in 748 00:40:41,395 --> 00:40:42,825 or call for help? 749 00:40:42,875 --> 00:40:45,265 Her attorney says she feared for her own safety. 750 00:40:45,312 --> 00:40:48,532 Nothing happened to Heather, and I think that, 751 00:40:48,576 --> 00:40:50,796 by my opinion, you know, my speculation, 752 00:40:50,839 --> 00:40:53,279 she was the mastermind of it all. And, you know, 753 00:40:53,320 --> 00:40:57,320 I'm here because of something I think that she had a hand in. 754 00:40:57,367 --> 00:40:59,327 And she got away scot-free. 755 00:41:03,286 --> 00:41:05,986 This group, led by Rod Ferrell, 756 00:41:06,028 --> 00:41:09,768 took this fairy-tale world of vampirism, 757 00:41:09,815 --> 00:41:12,945 moved it into the dark cult world 758 00:41:12,992 --> 00:41:15,952 of murder, and destroyed 759 00:41:15,995 --> 00:41:19,425 a whole bunch of lives in the process. 760 00:41:30,357 --> 00:41:33,227 Thought my mom got rid of all this stuff. 761 00:41:33,273 --> 00:41:35,193 I didn't know she kept this stuff. 762 00:41:36,494 --> 00:41:40,244 I've spent 22 years in-in prison because 763 00:41:40,280 --> 00:41:42,460 I let this numbskull, 764 00:41:42,500 --> 00:41:44,330 you know, influence me to that level. 765 00:41:47,026 --> 00:41:49,416 I mean, if I hadn't... 766 00:41:49,463 --> 00:41:51,423 made that decision to... 767 00:41:51,465 --> 00:41:53,895 drive away... 768 00:42:08,221 --> 00:42:09,571 Should they deserve a second chance? 769 00:42:09,614 --> 00:42:11,444 I believe the girls are already out. 770 00:42:11,485 --> 00:42:13,565 They're already living a life. 771 00:42:13,618 --> 00:42:16,228 Does Scott have the ability to do that? 772 00:42:16,272 --> 00:42:17,752 Possibly. 773 00:42:17,796 --> 00:42:21,836 I know from what we learned about them at that time 774 00:42:21,887 --> 00:42:24,587 that you had a lot of kids 775 00:42:24,629 --> 00:42:26,849 wanting to be part of something bigger 776 00:42:26,892 --> 00:42:28,242 and being led 777 00:42:28,284 --> 00:42:31,554 by a very disturbed young man. 778 00:42:33,028 --> 00:42:36,158 Heather lived with her attorney's family 779 00:42:36,205 --> 00:42:37,725 until she became of age. 780 00:42:37,772 --> 00:42:40,302 And, after that, I have no idea where Heather went to 781 00:42:40,340 --> 00:42:41,910 or what she's doing today. 782 00:42:41,950 --> 00:42:45,430 I hope that she has found 783 00:42:45,475 --> 00:42:47,425 whatever was missing for her 784 00:42:47,477 --> 00:42:51,477 and that she's able to have become a healthy 785 00:42:51,525 --> 00:42:53,005 and productive member of society, 786 00:42:53,048 --> 00:42:56,308 because I'm sure that this will never leave her. 787 00:42:56,356 --> 00:42:57,486 She'll never get her parents back. 788 00:42:57,531 --> 00:42:58,791 She'll never get her sister back. 789 00:42:58,837 --> 00:43:01,317 I understand that they stayed estranged. 790 00:43:01,361 --> 00:43:03,671 So... 791 00:43:03,711 --> 00:43:05,231 hopefully, 792 00:43:05,278 --> 00:43:07,978 she's made peace with herself 793 00:43:08,020 --> 00:43:10,240 and has moved forward. 794 00:43:10,283 --> 00:43:12,423 As far as Scott and Rod go, 795 00:43:12,459 --> 00:43:14,419 they're still locked up. 796 00:43:14,461 --> 00:43:17,251 Captioned by Media Access Group at WGBH access.wgbh.org 797 00:43:33,306 --> 00:43:36,266 For more information on Deadly Cults, go to oxygen.com. 59601

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