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Jennifer
Wendorf was 17 years old,
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pretty, popular, cheerleader.
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She had the world by the tail.
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And then she comes home,
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and there is blood everywhere.
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Pieces of skull were
in the next room over.
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It was a bloodbath.
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Her sister was missing.
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We have no idea
if Heather's gone willingly,
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if she's been abducted,
or if she's dead somewhere
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and we just haven't found
her body.
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Her sister, Heather,
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had a darker side.
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She was hanging around
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with very disturbed people.
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When you go to church,
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you take communion.
When we got together,
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we drank blood.
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There was
a supernatural mystique.
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This would send chills
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through my entire body.
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Who could have done this?
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Here we go.
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Here we go, Mustangs...
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Lake County is, um, about...
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40 miles from Orlando.
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Lake County is situated
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right in the center
of the state.
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We're center east and west,
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and we're center
north and south.
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Eustis is-is one of those
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smaller communities
that had a very
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hometown feel to it.
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But a lot of
my colleagues from Orlando
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would,
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would call me and say,
"What in the world
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is going on in Lake County?"
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Because weird things just
always seem to happen
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in Lake County.
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Very odd things.
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Jennifer Wendorf
was 17 years old,
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pretty, popular, cheerleader.
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She had a new car that
her folks had given to her.
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Everything was going
perfectly for her.
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She had the world by the tail.
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And then she comes home.
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Because it was after
10:00 when she got home,
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she knew that she had
broken the rules.
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So, she's gonna sneak in.
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It's dark in there.
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She sees her dad on the couch.
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And she thinks,
"Okay, I made it.
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I've, you know,
snuck past him."
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Then she gets into the kitchen
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and there is blood everywhere.
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All of a sudden,
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everything is completely
upside down, torn apart.
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Okay.
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A call had come out on 911
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in reference to
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a death at a home
in the Eustis area.
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My zone partner, who was
Deputy Jeff Taylor at the time,
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he was the first one
to respond.
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Within a very short time frame,
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he was shouting
across the radio,
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"A signal five,"
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which translates to a homicide.
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The male victim,
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Richard Wendorf,
he was lying on the couch.
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He most likely was sleeping...
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at the time of the first strike
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because he does--
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There's not a lot of blood
pooled in other locations.
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Most likely, he didn't even
see it coming.
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In the kitchen,
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we have the mother.
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It looks like she was trying
to defend or cover herself
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by protecting her face,
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and then as she fell
to the floor,
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the final blows would have
happened on the ground.
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By the time that I made it
out to the call,
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Jennifer was able to tell us
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that her parents' car
was missing and we also knew
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that her sister was missing.
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People will say
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that the Wendorfs
were a nice family.
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The dad had a good job,
as a warehouse manager
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for a bottling company.
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And Ruth was able
to stay at home.
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They weren't rich, but they
were a close family
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and they... they seemed
to be fairly normal.
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Miss Ruth Wendorf.
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She was a very nice lady
who came
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and worked on our campus
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as a volunteer.
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Jennifer, the oldest daughter,
was a cheerleader.
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Very nice young lady,
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never heard a cross word
said about her as well.
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Jennifer...
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is bright and pretty.
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She had a scholarship
to go to FSU.
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She had her bright future
all ahead of her.
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Heather was the artist.
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The free spirit.
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And Heather had a darker side.
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She wore outlandish outfits.
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Dyed her hair different colors.
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Did a lot of bizarre artwork.
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Heather was a new student
at Eustis High School.
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And I remember
Heather walked by.
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She had a hangman's noose
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hanging from her backpack.
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And in the hangman's noose
was a Barbie doll.
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Which I thought
was kind of strange.
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Jennifer relayed
that her mother
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had told her
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that Heather was getting
out of control.
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That there were serious
problems at home
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and that she had had enough
of Heather's behavior.
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Her sister was hanging around
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with some very bad people.
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Heather had a friend
named Rod Ferrell
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that used to go
to Eustis High School.
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They'd been best friends
since they were
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sophomores in high school.
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And they would spend
the whole night
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hanging around the cemeteries
and going into
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mausoleums and stuff like that.
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Rod was another student.
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You know, I never did
figure him out.
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In August, here in Florida,
it's very, very warm.
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It'd feel like it was
100 degrees out there,
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even in the shade.
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Rod would sit in the sun.
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And normally have on, like,
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a black trench coat
or something
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and just watch people walk by.
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Watches other students walk by
and I said,
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"You know, this, this is really
different behavior."
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I actually
had personally met Rod
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when he lived in Eustis
and, and, um,
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went to Eustis High School.
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I had actually talked to him
in and around town
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and on the street and...
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Rod had been standing out
on the front porch
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and he had brought out
a couple samurai swords.
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He was swinging
these swords around
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and talking about
his martial arts training
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and how he knew how to use
these swords
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and how sharp they were.
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And then he made the comment,
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"You don't see any cats
around here, do you?"
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Jennifer was convinced
right from
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the very minute
that she called 911
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that her sister's friends
were involved in this
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because of
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things that had been going on.
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So it was worrisome
about Heather.
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We didn't know if she was
missing by her own free choice
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or whether or not
she had been forcibly taken.
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The medical examiner
who did the autopsies
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saw that there were
some "V" marks
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on the bodies.
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There were pieces of skull...
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that were in the dining room,
the next room over.
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Veteran detectives,
who have seen a lot,
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are appalled at this bloodbath.
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That's what it was, a bloodbath.
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In the descriptions
by Deputy Taylor
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from when he walked in
and saw the living room
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and saw the ceiling,
he kind of described it
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as reminiscent of, like,
a Jackson Pollock painting,
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only in this case,
it's all the same color.
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It's all blood.
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When the detectives
are talking with Jennifer
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and they're asking,
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"Who could have done this?
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Who was responsible for this?"
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Jennifer is thinking about her
sister, Heather, who's missing,
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and she's saying
that she was hanging around
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with very disturbed people.
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Her sister had friends
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who altogether believed
that they were immortal
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and had, you know,
different nonhuman aspects.
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And they said,
"What do you mean?"
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And, she says,
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"Vampires."
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When the detectives
realized that Rod Ferrell
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is from Murray, Kentucky,
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they start making phone calls
to Murray, Kentucky.
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And that's when it all started
coming together for them.
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Rod would take it
as far as he needed to take it.
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He believed
that in drinking the blood
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and taking a life,
he gained life.
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I thought, "This dude
actually has the capability
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of killing somebody."
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The Wendorfs
were a nice family,
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a middle-class family.
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All of a sudden,
the parents are dead.
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It shook everybody up.
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That night, we have no idea
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if Heather's gone willingly,
if she's been abducted
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or if she's dead somewhere
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and we just haven't found
her body.
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We have no idea.
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When the detectives are talking
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with Jennifer,
she mentions to the detectives
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that Heather had a friend
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named Rod Ferrell that used
to go to Eustis High School
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before he moved away
to Kentucky
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and that he was
a dangerous character.
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So right away, Jennifer's
thinking, you know, that
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Heather's either run away with
them or been kidnapped by them
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or had something to do
with her parents' death.
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Well, the detectives, when
they realized that Rod Ferrell
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is from Murray, Kentucky,
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they start making phone calls
to Murray, Kentucky.
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Rod grew up in Kentucky.
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And Rod's father left
the family as a young child.
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His father was absent,
his mother was more like
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a buddy than a parent.
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And they were living together
with his grandparents.
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Rod and his mother, Sondra,
both wore dark clothing,
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and they were walking around
one evening holding hands.
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And the neighbors thought
they were, like,
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a boyfriend, girlfriend thing.
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When they moved out,
there was a pentagram
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etched in the floor--
burned onto the floor.
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And then he fell in
with this group of kids
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and Scott Anderson.
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Me and Rod met and...
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it was, "Here's somebody
else that I can connect with,
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someone that knows me and knows
what I'm going through."
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Scott Anderson lived
in a shack, basically,
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with garbage bags nailed
over the broken windows.
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The dad was an alcoholic
and a drug addict.
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I was working at McDonald's,
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and there had been a lot
of times that I would bring,
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you know, leftover stuff
from McDonald's home
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just so that I'd make sure
my little brothers
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would have something to eat.
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I guess you could say,
you know,
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Rod had this social machismo
about him.
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I mean, people would just kind
of gravitate toward him.
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I was just happy to be kind of
like his right-hand man.
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I knew Jaden,
but I didn't know him
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as well as I knew Rod.
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I met Rod Ferrell at the...
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close to the end of my junior
year at Callaway High.
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Rod had the same views, we had
the same principles on life.
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Sometimes it's killed
or be killed.
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Life will eat your ass up
and spit you out quick.
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And we learned that
at a very early age
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as children raised in homes
that were, you know,
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not so financially sound,
you know, but we learned
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how to make do in that and saw
how our parents struggled.
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So we had a lot
of those commonalities.
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I was introduced
to this path of vampirism
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when I was,
16 years of age.
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To me, it reflected my soul.
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Because the nighttime
called to me
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and conveyed the power
in human blood.
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This literally would send chills
through my entire body
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because I finally found
my spiritual haven.
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I knew Rod around
a year and a half
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when I finally made
the decision
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to bring him into the house.
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I had Rod meet me
at a tombstone
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that we called the birthplace,
and we began the ritual.
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We just used
regular razor blades.
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As you can see here,
cut the upper arm.
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After we cut ourselves,
he would feed from me first
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until pretty much
his heart's content
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or until the bleeding stopped,
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and I would do
the same as well.
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Giving blood as a gift
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is one of the most precious
gifts you can give to someone.
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It is a total commitment
and there is no turning back
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once this is done.
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Something that I'd noticed
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with a lot of folks
who were coming
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to an awareness that the vampire
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was something
they associated with,
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many came
from a similar background:
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from isolated areas,
from rural areas,
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where they didn't have
a whole lot of outlets
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for their difference.
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I didn't really have
a whole lot of friends.
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Rod started to kind of
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tell me about
the vampire persona.
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You know, Rod had me totally
convinced that this was real,
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and...
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to try to dream outside
of what sh-- hole
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of a life that I had,
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and to hope to maybe
find something better.
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It was just an exchanging
of blood.
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Slice on my arm,
he drinks some of my blood,
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I drink some
of his blood and...
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"Yes, I'm in
with the inner circle."
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That's when I really started
to really begin to meet
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the people that he started
to gather around him.
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For Rod, the idea of
creating his own vampire family
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became his motivation
through everything that he did.
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And he's one of these kind of
bigger-than-life characters,
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you know?
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He's got a swagger to him and
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he's kind of funny
and he's smart.
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Rod, me, Jaden,
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Charity and Dana,
we all came from
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dysfunctional families
that were barely making it.
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I guess in our minds,
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it was us against the world.
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It seems silly
to adults to think about
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a 16-year-old
having a charisma
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that he could get kids to do
whatever he wanted to,
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but he used it
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to be the boss of these...
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these kids that were more
dysfunctional than he was.
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Rod's mother has a series
of boyfriends and marriages.
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And his mother brought him down
to Eustis, Florida
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because she was involved
with a man there.
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Rod and Heather,
they'd been best friends
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since they were sophomores
in high school.
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So they were very close.
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They would go out and they
would spend the whole night
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hanging around cemeteries
and going into mausoleums
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and stuff like that.
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And then, because his mother's
relationship, as usual,
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broke down, she moved back
to Murray, Kentucky.
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Rod hated Murray, Kentucky.
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He hated it there,
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rebelled there,
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um, got kicked out
of school there.
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After Rod came back
from Florida,
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he had this...
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...charisma about him.
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People would just kind of
gravitate toward him.
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You know, when I started
getting into it
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and learning from Rod and
learning from Jaden, you know,
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they both had two
totally different aspects
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of the blood drinking.
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Jaden's belief was you only
take what you need to survive.
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Rod would take it as far
as he needed to take it.
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He believed that in drinking
the blood and taking a life,
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he gained life.
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I thought,
"This dude actually has
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the capability
of killing somebody."
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Jennifer was able to tell us
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that her parents' car
was missing.
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So we're looking
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for the blue Explorer.
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We put out the tag information.
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Lo and behold, we get a hit.
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In the initial onset
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of the investigation,
we were handling it
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as if not only had we
had a homicide
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but we may also have had
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a child abduction
at the same time.
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It was a pretty chaotic scene.
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But then Jennifer
was able to tell us
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that her parents' car
was missing.
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They started looking
for the Wendorfs' stolen
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1993 Ford Explorer,
a distinctive blue color.
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So, that night
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we put out the BOLO,
we put out the tag information.
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Lo and behold, we get a hit...
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in Seminole County.
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Seminole County found a vehicle
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with that tag number on it
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abandoned
in their jurisdiction.
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But the tag wasn't
on the right car.
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The tag was on a vehicle
that's VIN number
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was registered to Scott
Anderson out of Kentucky.
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But it now is bearing the tag
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that belongs
to Richard Wendorf.
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So this gives us
some good information.
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One, we now know
that they've swapped tags.
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We have a new tag number,
a Kentucky tag.
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We're able to modify
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our BOLO for the blue Explorer
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to show that
it now is maybe bearing
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a Kentucky tag that should be
registered to Scott Anderson.
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So that gives us
a little bit of help.
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where are they going?
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Back in Eustis,
Florida, during the time
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before the murders,
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00:20:39,977 --> 00:20:42,367
Heather was
acting out somewhat.
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Heather was running up
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fantastically high
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00:20:45,418 --> 00:20:48,458
long distance
phone call bills...
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00:20:48,508 --> 00:20:52,768
talking to Rod on the phone.
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And her parents
were very upset about it.
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00:20:56,516 --> 00:20:59,476
Rod, he ran up
a $850 phone bill
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talking to Heather Wendorf.
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00:21:03,349 --> 00:21:05,609
I mean, that's a lot of time
on the phone, you know?
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00:21:05,655 --> 00:21:09,355
Heather was fascinated with him
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because of his demeanor
and his storytelling
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00:21:12,793 --> 00:21:15,803
and his fantasy,
and so they have a very...
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00:21:15,839 --> 00:21:17,749
very special bond
with one another.
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One of the things
that really typifies a vampire
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00:21:22,803 --> 00:21:24,983
is this sort of
mesmeric personality.
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00:21:26,372 --> 00:21:30,512
We see Rod
not merely cultivating it,
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00:21:30,550 --> 00:21:33,990
but using it to hold people
enthralled, to get them
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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.
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00:21:39,907 --> 00:21:41,597
I...
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00:21:41,648 --> 00:21:44,828
have, been present
when Rod talked to Heather
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00:21:44,868 --> 00:21:46,868
on a few occasions
about her parents.
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00:21:46,914 --> 00:21:48,574
Now, I did hear her mention
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00:21:48,611 --> 00:21:50,921
many times
how abusive they were.
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00:21:56,402 --> 00:21:59,362
Letters were found
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00:21:59,405 --> 00:22:02,835
that Heather wrote to Rod
and talked about
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00:22:02,886 --> 00:22:06,756
the hell of-of her family life,
and things of that nature.
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00:22:06,803 --> 00:22:09,593
Well, you know,
no one really knows
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00:22:09,632 --> 00:22:12,332
what was going on
inside their family.
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00:22:12,374 --> 00:22:14,034
Was it really that bad?
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00:22:14,071 --> 00:22:16,381
It's hard for me to say,
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00:22:16,422 --> 00:22:18,602
but Rod thought it was.
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00:22:19,947 --> 00:22:21,557
Rod looked at her as this
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00:22:21,601 --> 00:22:23,861
damsel he was going to rescue,
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00:22:23,907 --> 00:22:26,867
who he thinks her parents
are abusive.
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00:22:26,910 --> 00:22:30,440
So to him this was a modern-day
romance, you know,
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00:22:30,479 --> 00:22:32,829
he's the knight in shining
demon-scaled armor,
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00:22:32,873 --> 00:22:36,403
driving to Florida
to rescue this girl
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00:22:36,442 --> 00:22:39,362
and bring her into the fold,
into his house.
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00:22:42,796 --> 00:22:44,006
Rod had this...
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00:22:44,058 --> 00:22:45,358
this family idea.
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00:22:45,407 --> 00:22:46,497
He was gonna create
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00:22:46,539 --> 00:22:47,799
his vampire family
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00:22:47,844 --> 00:22:51,374
and Heather was gonna
be part of it.
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00:22:51,413 --> 00:22:52,763
I think
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00:22:52,806 --> 00:22:56,326
he wanted to have a group
that looked up to him.
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00:22:58,899 --> 00:23:00,989
That's exactly
what Rod was looking for.
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00:23:01,031 --> 00:23:03,511
He wanted people
to surround him
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00:23:03,556 --> 00:23:05,116
and to worship him.
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00:23:05,166 --> 00:23:06,946
He found power in that.
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00:23:06,994 --> 00:23:09,914
There had to have been
some kind of change,
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00:23:09,953 --> 00:23:12,963
a crossover from thinking
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00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:16,440
about killing someone
to literally removing lives
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00:23:16,482 --> 00:23:18,792
from this realm.
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00:23:20,050 --> 00:23:22,620
Everything that I'd been
studying before,
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00:23:22,662 --> 00:23:24,972
it was darkness,
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00:23:25,012 --> 00:23:28,102
it was nighttime,
and it wasn't evil.
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00:23:28,145 --> 00:23:30,965
Just like anything,
anything can be turned
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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.
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00:23:36,110 --> 00:23:38,810
That was not
what I was also shown.
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00:23:38,852 --> 00:23:40,512
That is not what I showed Rod.
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00:23:43,944 --> 00:23:45,904
The moment when
I was pretty sure
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00:23:45,946 --> 00:23:49,556
that Rod had,
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00:23:49,602 --> 00:23:51,912
left what I was teaching him,
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00:23:51,952 --> 00:23:54,082
that was the last time
that I had seen Rod
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00:23:54,128 --> 00:23:56,608
before they left
for Eustis, Florida.
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00:23:56,652 --> 00:23:59,832
We had met up
at a friend's house.
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00:23:59,873 --> 00:24:01,483
We decided to go for a walk
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00:24:01,527 --> 00:24:03,007
and talk, as we normally did.
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00:24:03,050 --> 00:24:04,880
I hadn't talked to him
in a few days.
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00:24:04,921 --> 00:24:07,791
Well, this cat walked up to us,
out of nowhere,
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00:24:07,837 --> 00:24:11,797
and... he picked the cat up.
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00:24:11,841 --> 00:24:14,631
He flips the cat over,
holding onto its neck,
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00:24:14,670 --> 00:24:18,630
and then hurls it
into the tree.
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00:24:18,674 --> 00:24:21,504
The cat was convulsing
on the ground, of course,
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00:24:21,547 --> 00:24:23,847
it didn't die immediately.
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00:24:23,897 --> 00:24:27,027
And Rod's reaction
was giddy laughter.
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00:24:27,074 --> 00:24:28,554
And he just kind of grinned.
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00:24:28,597 --> 00:24:31,857
I was like, "This sh--
is not ---- ing funny, man."
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00:24:31,905 --> 00:24:33,595
And I was like,
"Dude, what is your problem?"
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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."
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00:24:42,524 --> 00:24:45,224
Here's Rod
developing his own take
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00:24:45,266 --> 00:24:47,526
on what it means
to be a vampire,
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00:24:47,573 --> 00:24:50,533
building off of those ideas of
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feeding off of life force,
taking it
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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.
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00:25:03,110 --> 00:25:05,850
Let's just take a whole life."
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00:25:14,251 --> 00:25:16,471
The thing that the detectives
wondered about was...
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00:25:16,515 --> 00:25:18,595
was Heather kidnapped,
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00:25:18,647 --> 00:25:22,647
or was she a murder victim
herself somewhere?
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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?
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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
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00:25:35,403 --> 00:25:38,323
a vehicle abandoned
in their jurisdiction.
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00:25:38,362 --> 00:25:40,542
So, once we found Scott's car
in Seminole County,
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00:25:40,582 --> 00:25:42,412
which is to the east of us,
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00:25:42,453 --> 00:25:43,893
we knew the tags
had been swapped.
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00:25:43,933 --> 00:25:46,373
But here's the question--
where are they going?
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00:25:46,414 --> 00:25:49,114
There's a possibility they're
moving towards the Daytona area.
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00:25:49,156 --> 00:25:53,066
However, we'd also received
information from Jennifer
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00:25:53,116 --> 00:25:56,946
that she believed they were
possibly going to Louisiana.
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00:25:56,990 --> 00:25:59,950
The detectives reached out
to the authorities in Louisiana,
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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.
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00:26:08,479 --> 00:26:11,399
Rod had outlined that
we were gonna pick up Heather
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00:26:11,439 --> 00:26:13,619
and we were gonna go
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00:26:13,659 --> 00:26:16,099
to New Orleans,
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00:26:16,139 --> 00:26:19,709
because, supposedly,
that was the city of vampires,
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00:26:19,752 --> 00:26:24,712
and where we could find a group
of like-minded people that would
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00:26:24,757 --> 00:26:26,497
accept us, and we could go on
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00:26:26,541 --> 00:26:29,721
about building
our vampire house.
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00:26:29,762 --> 00:26:31,982
When he said,
"Hey, let's go to Florida,"
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00:26:32,025 --> 00:26:33,545
it was like,
"Okay, I got the keys,
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00:26:33,592 --> 00:26:35,332
I got the car, I got a pocket
full of money. Let's go."
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00:26:52,523 --> 00:26:55,663
Got into Eustis
on Sunday night.
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00:26:55,701 --> 00:26:57,221
Then, the next day,
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00:26:57,267 --> 00:27:01,047
we went and picked Heather up,
and we went to a cemetery.
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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
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797
00:43:33,306 --> 00:43:36,266
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