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November 25, 1996. The kind of night that should have been quiet, the kind of night where families

were still picking at Thanksgiving leftovers and settling back into normal life. But inside a

Florida home, something dark had already crossed the threshold.

Two parents were brutally bludgeon to death in their own bedroom. Their daughter was gone. And the

killers? Well, they weren't seasoned criminals hiding in the shadows. They were teenagers.

At the center of all this was a pale 17-year-old drifter from Kentucky who called himself a vampire.

His name was Rod Farrell, leader of a small group of misfit teens who gathered into the darkness obsessed with blood rituals,

gothic fantasy, and the dangerous line between role-playing and reality.

Now, to the media, it was the perfect nightmare headline,

the vampire clan murder, runaway teens, a self-proclaimed immortal, a brutal double homicide,

and a boy who had become the youngest person in modern history sentenced to death in Florida.

But the stories like this, they're rarely simple as just the headlines. So

tonight we step into the twisted mind of Rod Farrell and his cult followers with Eric Werner,

whose book Vampire Cult Killer takes us deep into the mythology, the media frenzy, and the

unsettling reality behind the legend. So with that being said, it's time to start the show.

Let's hit it. The

The and the other, Hi. Hi. Hi, welcome to another episode of Mysteries Mayhem.

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