in 1996, i was heather wendorf s boyfriend. she was kind of an outcast from the rest of the school, mainly because she was different from anyone in the things that she was into. she believed 100% everything that rod told her. even his story of being a centuries old vampire. and that he would take her away and become a family. will the murders always haunt me? yes, of course they will. i came down with the original intent to merely pick her up, take her back to where i was staying. instead, it led to the actual homicides.
murray, kentucky, seems an unlikely home for a vampire. it s a small college town, set securely in america s bible belt. i m april lindsey. i dated rod on and off and on again and off again. i thought i was going to marry him at one point. i thought we were going to be a family. he didn t have a whole lot to hold on to. i loved him. but he was he had problems. life in murray is generally unhurried, but for young rod ferrell, it was far from idyllic. his mother and father divorced soon after he was born. we were married when we were
18 years old. we didn t live together very long. we married and divorced within the same year of rod s birth. we didn t have a bad divorce or anything like that. it was just that he went on his separate ways and so rod and i were alone. ferrell s boyhood as the only child of a single mother was a chaotic tour of low rent apartments and trailer parks, while shuffling back and forth between murray, kentucky, and florida. rod s mother had relatives in the small town of eustis, close to orlando. and it was in florida that ferrell s mother began to hang out with friends who called themselves vampires. they have clubs where you dress and all that. at one time, i was like a lifestyler is kind of what they call it. i m i don t want to say a vampire advocate, but that kind of sounds like it, in a way, to say that we re for the ones who
that s what caused the major separation with me and him, was him defying me. it wasn t so much defying me, it was defying the rules that were keeping us safe, you know. if you got a bunch of retards running around here, i m a vampire and biting people at random, it s [ bleep ] about to go down and it s not going to be good. ferrell led a breakaway clan. its key members, 16-year-old scott anderson, 19-year-old dana cooper and a new girlfriend, 16-year-old charity casey. rod wanted little puppets which is what he ended up getting. thoughts of marriage with april lindsey, who did not join rod s new clan, had died as his obsession with vampirism and its bloody ways grew. it was a time where he was afraid of it and he tried to back away, and he asked me for help. and i failed.
that was heather s whole position. it wasn t serious. she didn t mean it. rod deserves to be in jail for what he did. it was wrong. it was horrible. i won t tell you that rod was a good person. but he s a passionate person. and if he thinks that he s taking care of somebody he cares about, he s going to act and then think. he knew his actions and he knew what effect would come from them. he knew, you know, the consequences. he just didn t care. it turns out the murder of the wendorfs maybe wasn t the first homicide rod ferrell witnessed. during our exclusive interview, rod ferrell made a startling admission. he says in murray, kentucky, as a child, he watched a human