recommend to the court that it impose the death penalty upon roderick ferrell. death was simply an inevitability. when i told them that execution meant little to nothing to me, and that death would be preferable, i meant that. the rest of ferrell s cult avoided capital punishment. scott anderson was convicted of armed robbery and first degree murder. he is serving life without parole. dana cooper was sentenced to 17 years for armed robbery and third degree murder. charity casey received ten years for armed robbery and third degree murder. of those arrested, only heather wendorf went free. a grand jury deciding that she knew nothing of rod ferrell s murderous intentions.
sudden asks me, do you want me to kill your parents and i said, no, i don t. at the trial, jennifer wendorf testified that heather had talked to her about killing their parents. just like you can t remember everything that you say over a two-year period, i don t think anyone can remember exactly what happened on a specific date during a specific conversation. my personal belief is that a passing remark was taken the wrong way by rod, and he got the wrong idea. they didn t come off as being the type of people that would do that to heather at all. there was no evidence and heather denied that part. she admitted to talking to rod saying, you know, but it was just a teenaged thing.
on ferrell s orders, scott anderson stole his parents battered buick. two other female members of ferrell s clan, dana cooper and charity casey, agree to join scott and rod on the 800 mile drive from murray to eustis. they bade farewell to their friends at their favorite hangout. we saw him as hardy s. i really wish i had had, you know, a vision or something that said, hey, stop them. heather s house sat at the end of a quiet country road, five miles outside eustis.
to see bone fragments traveling that far, it just it just now, they were on the run. heather wendorf joining the gang of four in a stolen wendorf family car. in the days immediately after the killing, really the most intensified part was a realization, an amazing it was an epiphany, really. you were like, oh, my god. i ve done something that is re gated only to god as far as choosing who lives and dies, and i ve just done it. the clan headed west, towards new orleans, the big easy.
no, i don t. at the trial, jennifer wendorf testified that heather had talked to her about killing their parents. just like you can t remember everything that you say over a two-year period, i don t think anyone can remember exactly what happened on a specific date during a specific conversation. my personal belief is that a passing remark was taken the wrong way by rod, and he got the wrong idea. they didn t come off as being the type of people that would do that to heather at all. there was no evidence and heather denied that part. she admitted to talking to rod saying, you know, but it was