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In 1996, i was heather wendorfs 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 ...

>> murray, kentucky, seems an unlikely home for a vampire. its a small college town, set securely in americas bible belt. >> im 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 didnt 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 af...

18 years old. we didnt live together very long. we married and divorced within the same year of rods birth. we didnt 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. >> ferrells 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. rods mother had relatives in the small town of eustis, close to orlando. and i...

That was heathers whole position. it wasnt serious. she didnt mean it. rod deserves to be in jail for what he did. it was wrong. it was horrible. i wont tell you that rod was a good person. but hes a passionate person. and if he thinks that hes taking care of somebody he cares about, hes 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 didnt care. >> it turns out the murder of the wendorfs maybe wasnt t...

She admitted to talking to rod saying, you know, but it was just a teenaged thing. that was heathers whole position. it wasnt serious. she didnt mean it. >> rod deserves to be in jail for what he did. it was wrong. it was horrible. i wont tell you that rod was a good person. but hes a passionate person. and if he thinks that hes taking care of somebody he cares about, hes going to act and then think. >> he knew his actions and he knew what effect would come from them. he knew, you know, the cons...

In 1996, i was heather wendorfs 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...

That was heathers whole position. it wasnt serious. she didnt mean it. rod deserves to be in jail for what he did. it was wrong. it was horrible. i wont tell you that rod was a good person. but hes a passionate person. and if he thinks that hes taking care of somebody he cares about, hes 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 didnt care. >> it turns out the murder of the wendorfs maybe wasnt t...

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.

We married and divorced within the same year of rods birth. we didnt 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. >> ferrells 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. rods mother had relatives in the small town of eustis, close to orlando. and it was in florida that ferrells mother began to h...

We didnt live together very long. we married and divorced within the same year of rods birth. we didnt 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. >> ferrells 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. rods mother had relatives in the small town of eustis, close to orlando. it was in florida th...