Everything I was listening to was dark, it was hard driven, it was based upon hate,

war, death, pain. That's all my music, all of my movies that I watched. He was

also in the black arts. He was teaching other kids and other people about being in

the black arts and about witchcraft. My bedroom was an array of the darker side of

the occult, such as the Necronomicon, the Satanic Bible. I had upside down

crosses. I had broken charge of glass laying about in the corner. I had hooks and

metal cables wrapped around. Do you ever find yourself unable to sleep? Thinking

about the proverbial monsters under the bed? The things that haunt us, witches and

warlocks, vampires and demons? As the nights get longer and the winter closes

in. I can't help thinking about the cases that scare me, that leave me shivering

in the night. Tonight's case involves blood, the dark arts and a seemingly

charismatic leader who convinced his peers turned disciples to join him on a

mission that would ruin more lives than one. Tonight we're traveling across the

Southern United States, from Kentucky to Florida to Louisiana, alongside a

group of teenagers who believed they were part of a vampire cult, led by a boy

who believed himself in mortal.

Hello and welcome to True Crime Daily After Dark, a podcast that dives into some

of the darkest and most shocking true crime stories. This podcast will immerse you

in a world where we can only wish that what we hear is fiction. I'm your host,

Olivia Owens. In this episode we're looking at the case of Roderick Farrell, a

teen from Kentucky who became absolutely convinced he was actually a vampire.

In the heinous crime he committed, not long after drinking a new recruits blood. He

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