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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 vam...

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...

She admitted to talking to rod saying, you know, but it was just a teenaged thing. 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 fi...