10 Terrifyingly Evil Killer Cults
Cults are a mind-boggling aspect of civilization. The question always arises, how is it possible for people to get caught up in that type of madness? Even scarier is when the cult turns deadly. How could a group of people possibly go through with the murder of another person? Yet, if the right people get together, it does happen and it’s always terrifying.
10The Vampire Clan
Like many teenagers, 16-year-old Rod Ferrell was obsessed with dark subjects, specifically vampires. However, Ferrell took things a bit further by declaring that he actually was a 500-year-old vampire named Vesago. While it’s not unusual for people to role-play, Ferrell’s dark obsessions would have tragic consequences.
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The court case involving a 1996 vampire cult-related double homicide in Eustis will be featured 8 p.m. Sunday on Court TV’s “Judgement with Ashleigh Banfield.”
Former vampire cult leader Rod Ferrell is serving life sentences for two murders. Image: FDOC
The cult leader is serving two life sentences at Tomoka state prison.
Veteran reporter Frank Stanfield was interviewed for the program and is writing a book on the case. He spoke with me over the phone.
“Judgment with Ashleigh Banfield” is scheduled to air at 8 p.m.
The show features original trial footage from 1998 and interviews with people familiar with the case. One of those witnesses will be journalist Frank Stanfield, who has covered the case for decades, including Ferrell’s rehearing, for the Daily Commercial.
Ferrell and a small band of followers from Kentucky came to Florida to pick up cult member Heather Wendorf, 15, and head for New Orleans.
Heather left in a car with two cult members. Ferrell, 16, and Howard Scott Anderson, 16, snuck into the house in the 24000 block of Green Tree Lane in search of the keys to the family’s Ford Explorer.