Kentucky Teenage Vampires PDF

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Dr. Ashley Wellman Contemporary Topics in CRJU Cults class. Class was mostly documentary-based....

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Kentucky Teenage Vampires Monday, April 1, 2019

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• Kentucky teenage vampires investigates a group of youth living in Murray, Kentucky back in the nineties who believe they're all vampires • Rod Ferrel was a teenage outcast, Jaden Steven Murphy taught him the ways of the vampires ○ Led Rod to believe he was an actual vampire • Vampires believe that human life is sacred, and the regular cutting and drinking of others blood makes you sacred • You drain the energy of someone else into you • They said that if you go weeks without drinking blood, you feel drunk • "we are more sexual than humans" • They see themselves as a different race/breed, higher form of evolution--"we get to where most people dream about" • "Freak lifestyle" to be different and express myself • "I found the evil path, the darker path was more exciting" • To become a vampire, go to a cemetery and taken to a tree and make three slits on your arm, drink from the other person • One man killed a cat by slamming it into a tree • They mutilated puppies to initiate new members • Rod says he is still a vampire • Jaden continues to initiate teenagers into his cult ○ "I'm the sire, I'm the one that has chosen him" • They said pain helps relieve their adrenaline rushes, so they cut themselves on their upper arms and shoulders • "cutting yourself is the same thing as smoking a cigarette, you're damaging your body and you know you are but you are taking pleasure out of it" • They do elaborate roleplaying exercises • On drugs--marijuana, acid, PCP, heroin • On November 25, 1996 Rod Ferrell and his accomplice Howard Scott Anderson went to Heather's parents house and circled the house, entered the garage area, and found a short crowbar, entered through the garage into a washroom and went to a house where they dad was lying watching TV and knocked him across the temple of his head and beat him until he

entered the garage area, and found a short crowbar, entered through the garage into a washroom and went to a house where they dad was lying watching TV and knocked him across the temple of his head and beat him until he died ○ Killed the mom when she left the shower, she tried to fight back and he hit her until she died as well • The teenagers were arrested in Baton Rouge, Louisiana • Rod was originally sentenced to death and was the youngest person on death row, but sentenced reduced to life without parole...