Rod Ferrell
True Crime All The Time
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4.7 • 13.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2020
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
By 1996, 16-year-old Rod Ferrell was the leader of a vampire clan in Murray, Kentucky. He began telling everyone that he was a 500-year-old vampire. When his female friend in Florida began complaining about her family, Rod devised a plan to rescue her. But somewhere along the way, the plan changed to murder.
Join Mike and Gibby as they discuss the life and crimes of Rod Ferrell. Rod, along with fellow teenagers Scott Anderson, Dana Cooper, and Charity Keesee, drove to Florida to rescue 15-year-old Heather Wendorf. On Nov 25, 1996, Richard and Ruth Wendorf were murdered. How did this vampire clan, which started out as a role-playing game, evolve into murder? Did Heather Wendorf know that when the group rolled into town, they were planning to murder her parents? And, how did 16-year-old Rod Ferrell rise to cult-like status within the group and get others to follow his lead?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Hannah and I'm Sirete and we are the hosts of a Red Handed a weekly true crime podcast |
| 0:05.7 | Every week on Red Handed we get stuck into the most talked about cases from the Idaho student killings the Delphi murders and our recent rundown of the Murdoch saga |
| 0:14.7 | Last year we also started a second weekly show |
| 0:17.6 | Shorthand which is just an excuse for us to talk about anything we find interesting because it's our show and we can do what we like |
| 0:22.6 | We've covered the death of Princess Diana and unholy Quran written in Saddam Hussein's blood |
| 0:26.8 | The gruesome history of European witch hunting and the very uncomfortable phenomenon of genetic sexual attraction |
| 0:32.8 | Whatever the case we want to know what pushes people to the extremes of human behavior |
| 0:37.8 | Like can someone give consent to be cannibalized what drives a child to kill and what's the psychology of a terrorist |
| 0:44.4 | Listen to Red Handed wherever you get your podcasts and access our bonus shorthand episodes exclusively on Amazon music or by subscribing to |
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| 1:27.2 | You |
| 1:29.2 | Hello everyone and welcome depth so one eighty eight of the true crime all the time podcast |
| 1:34.4 | I'm Mike Ferguson and with me as always is my partner in true crime might Gibson. Give me how are you good man? |
| 1:40.2 | How about you? I'm doing very well. Yeah, I've actually had a really good week |
| 1:44.4 | That's good man got out on the motorcycle a little bit. Yeah got some sun |
| 1:49.4 | So |
| 1:51.6 | Little tan going on man. That's the extent of my |
| 1:54.6 | doings, but that's it for me. That's a good week. Yeah, well, that's good |
| 1:58.6 | I didn't ride my motorcycle because I don't have one. Yeah, you keep saying you're gonna buy one |
| 2:04.1 | We're gonna go on the t-cat easy rider tour and then we don't do it one of these days. You just tease me man. I know |
| 2:11.5 | I do want to take a minute to thank everyone that |
| 2:14.8 | Took time out to go |
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