In today's world, you don't hear much about murders involving real vampires and vampire cults.

However, this was the case in 1996, the year of Prince Charles and Diana's divorce.

Bill Clinton's re-election, the first ever flip phone launched by Motorola, and the Macarena came out on top.

A 16-year-old teenager

from Kentucky founded a cult called the Vampire Clan. It started innocently with a role-playing

game, but ended up darker than anyone could have imagined. Welcome to 10-minute murder, brief and bingeable true crime.

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The vampire craze of the 90s had a strong impact on culture.

It seemed like harmless fun for alternative kids,

but this fascination ranged from sporting pale-faced powder and long black coats

to dodgy rituals and blood-tasting.

Rod Farrell was born on March 28, 1980 in Murray, a small town in Calloway County, Kentucky.

His parents got married and quickly divorced soon after his birth.

He was raised without a father by an absent mother involved in drugs and prostitution

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