he just, you know, all of a 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
red. he told her in effect i just killed your husband and now i m going to kill you. she had several defensive wounds on her forearms, where she tried to deflect the blows. he had scratches on the right side of his face. those scratches were delivered by mrs. wendorf when she tried to fight him off. i can t imagine the fright that she was feeling, the hopelessness. it was just amazing as far as the intensity of everything that you were looking at, you were listening to. it was like pure amphetamine. that s what it felt like. only more pure. she was struck four times in the back of the head as she was moving through the kitchen. some of the skull fragments lay in the dining room.
this is where richard wendorf, a manager at a packaging firm, lived with his wife, naomi and their two teenaged daughters. the day it happened, heather wasn t in school that day. she had met up with rod. i believe they came to greenwood cemetery. i didn t speak with her until that evening when she called me to tell me that he had showed up in town and we re planning on running away. it was tough because i had very strong feelings for her. i told her that i had wanted to see her and talk to her and at that point, she was driven to my house. they left rod and scott back near to the wendorfs home and that s when he went in and did what he did.
when i walked in, i walked right past him. i had no intention of harming him at that point. it was only when i returned back to the living area where he laid, i guess my mind just shattered finally. the blows were so forceful, blood spatters were found 360 degrees around that living room. we even found tooth fragments on his shirt, where he was struck so hard that it had knocked his teeth out. i did not see naomi anywhere in the house at that time. mrs. wendorf was showering for the night. she came out of the bathroom, put her robe on and as she comes through the kitchen, she comes toe-to-toe with rod ferrell. it was like seeing red, pure
ferrell told the girls that under the cover of darkness, he would steal the wendorf family suv. on november 25th, 1996, heather s 19-year-old sister jennifer returned from an evening out around 11:00. when i got the call, i was approximately two blocks away and got there within just a couple of minutes. you can see mr. wendorf laying face up on the couch and just covered in blood. his head was just bashed in. his glasses were all mangled, twisted. his face and head looked like hamburger. that s the only thing i could