Episode Details

On the night of November 25, 1996, four troubled teenagers left their homes in Murray, Kentucky, and drove through the night to a quiet house in Eustis, Florida. They called themselves a vampire clan, and their leader—a 16-year-old boy who went by the name Vesago—believed he was an immortal vampire who needed human blood to survive. They broke into the home of Richard and Ruth Wendorf through an unlocked garage door. Richard was asleep on the sofa. The first blow of the crowbar crushed his skull. Then Ruth stepped out of the shower, and the screaming began.

In this episode, we uncover the chilling true story that inspired the horror story "A Vampire Cult Broke Into Their Home… Then the Screaming Started." Rod Ferrell and his followers were obsessed with the role-playing game *Vampire: The Masquerade*, cutting themselves to drink each other's blood and meeting in cemeteries for rituals. Ferrell claimed he was 500 years old and drank blood to stay immortal. But on that November night, the fantasy became horrifyingly real. He bludgeoned Richard and Ruth Wendorf to death with a crowbar, leaving their bodies to be discovered by their daughter. Then the clan fled across state lines in the victim's Ford Explorer, sparking a multi-state manhunt that ended in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, three days later. Rod Ferrell was sentenced to death for the murders—the youngest person on Florida's death row at the time. His sentence was later reduced to life in prison without parole. This is the true story of the Vampire Clan murders, a case that shocked the nation and blurred the line between teenage obsession and cold-blooded murder.

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