Deadly Cults (2019–…): Season 1, Episode 1 - Vampire Clan - full transcript
After Jennifer Wendorf, 17, comes home to find her parents murdered and sister missing, the investigation uncovers a complicated web tracing back to a cult of self-proclaimed vampires.
Jennifer
Wendorf was 17 years old,
pretty, popular, cheerleader.
She had the world by the tail.
And then she comes home,
and there is blood everywhere.
Pieces of skull were
in the next room over.
It was a bloodbath.
Her sister was missing.
We have no idea
if Heather's gone willingly,
if she's been abducted,
or if she's dead somewhere
and we just haven't found
her body.
Her sister, Heather,
had a darker side.
She was hanging around
with very disturbed people.
When you go to church,
you take communion.
When we got together,
we drank blood.
There was
a supernatural mystique.
This would send chills
through my entire body.
Who could have done this?
Here we go.
Here we go, Mustangs...
Lake County is, um, about...
40 miles from Orlando.
Lake County is situated
right in the center
of the state.
We're center east and west,
and we're center
north and south.
Eustis is-is one of those
smaller communities
that had a very
hometown feel to it.
But a lot of
my colleagues from Orlando
would,
would call me and say,
"What in the world
is going on in Lake County?"
Because weird things just
always seem to happen
in Lake County.
Very odd things.
Jennifer Wendorf
was 17 years old,
pretty, popular, cheerleader.
She had a new car that
her folks had given to her.
Everything was going
perfectly for her.
She had the world by the tail.
And then she comes home.
Because it was after
10:00 when she got home,
she knew that she had
broken the rules.
So, she's gonna sneak in.
It's dark in there.
She sees her dad on the couch.
And she thinks,
"Okay, I made it.
I've, you know,
snuck past him."
Then she gets into the kitchen
and there is blood everywhere.
All of a sudden,
everything is completely
upside down, torn apart.
Okay.
A call had come out on 911
in reference to
a death at a home
in the Eustis area.
My zone partner, who was
Deputy Jeff Taylor at the time,
he was the first one
to respond.
Within a very short time frame,
he was shouting
across the radio,
"A signal five,"
which translates to a homicide.
The male victim,
Richard Wendorf,
he was lying on the couch.
He most likely was sleeping...
at the time of the first strike
because he does--
There's not a lot of blood
pooled in other locations.
Most likely, he didn't even
see it coming.
In the kitchen,
we have the mother.
It looks like she was trying
to defend or cover herself
by protecting her face,
and then as she fell
to the floor,
the final blows would have
happened on the ground.
By the time that I made it
out to the call,
Jennifer was able to tell us
that her parents' car
was missing and we also knew
that her sister was missing.
People will say
that the Wendorfs
were a nice family.
The dad had a good job,
as a warehouse manager
for a bottling company.
And Ruth was able
to stay at home.
They weren't rich, but they
were a close family
and they... they seemed
to be fairly normal.
Miss Ruth Wendorf.
She was a very nice lady
who came
and worked on our campus
as a volunteer.
Jennifer, the oldest daughter,
was a cheerleader.
Very nice young lady,
never heard a cross word
said about her as well.
Jennifer...
is bright and pretty.
She had a scholarship
to go to FSU.
She had her bright future
all ahead of her.
Heather was the artist.
The free spirit.
And Heather had a darker side.
She wore outlandish outfits.
Dyed her hair different colors.
Did a lot of bizarre artwork.
Heather was a new student
at Eustis High School.
And I remember
Heather walked by.
She had a hangman's noose
hanging from her backpack.
And in the hangman's noose
was a Barbie doll.
Which I thought
was kind of strange.
Jennifer relayed
that her mother
had told her
that Heather was getting
out of control.
That there were serious
problems at home
and that she had had enough
of Heather's behavior.
Her sister was hanging around
with some very bad people.
Heather had a friend
named Rod Ferrell
that used to go
to Eustis High School.
They'd been best friends
since they were
sophomores in high school.
And they would spend
the whole night
hanging around the cemeteries
and going into
mausoleums and stuff like that.
Rod was another student.
You know, I never did
figure him out.
In August, here in Florida,
it's very, very warm.
It'd feel like it was
100 degrees out there,
even in the shade.
Rod would sit in the sun.
And normally have on, like,
a black trench coat
or something
and just watch people walk by.
Watches other students walk by
and I said,
"You know, this, this is really
different behavior."
I actually
had personally met Rod
when he lived in Eustis
and, and, um,
went to Eustis High School.
I had actually talked to him
in and around town
and on the street and...
Rod had been standing out
on the front porch
and he had brought out
a couple samurai swords.
He was swinging
these swords around
and talking about
his martial arts training
and how he knew how to use
these swords
and how sharp they were.
And then he made the comment,
"You don't see any cats
around here, do you?"
Jennifer was convinced
right from
the very minute
that she called 911
that her sister's friends
were involved in this
because of
things that had been going on.
So it was worrisome
about Heather.
We didn't know if she was
missing by her own free choice
or whether or not
she had been forcibly taken.
The medical examiner
who did the autopsies
saw that there were
some "V" marks
on the bodies.
There were pieces of skull...
that were in the dining room,
the next room over.
Veteran detectives,
who have seen a lot,
are appalled at this bloodbath.
That's what it was, a bloodbath.
In the descriptions
by Deputy Taylor
from when he walked in
and saw the living room
and saw the ceiling,
he kind of described it
as reminiscent of, like,
a Jackson Pollock painting,
only in this case,
it's all the same color.
It's all blood.
When the detectives
are talking with Jennifer
and they're asking,
"Who could have done this?
Who was responsible for this?"
Jennifer is thinking about her
sister, Heather, who's missing,
and she's saying
that she was hanging around
with very disturbed people.
Her sister had friends
who altogether believed
that they were immortal
and had, you know,
different nonhuman aspects.
And they said,
"What do you mean?"
And, she says,
"Vampires."
When the detectives
realized that Rod Ferrell
is from Murray, Kentucky,
they start making phone calls
to Murray, Kentucky.
And that's when it all started
coming together for them.
Rod would take it
as far as he needed to take it.
He believed
that in drinking the blood
and taking a life,
he gained life.
I thought, "This dude
actually has the capability
of killing somebody."
The Wendorfs
were a nice family,
a middle-class family.
All of a sudden,
the parents are dead.
It shook everybody up.
That night, we have no idea
if Heather's gone willingly,
if she's been abducted
or if she's dead somewhere
and we just haven't found
her body.
We have no idea.
When the detectives are talking
with Jennifer,
she mentions to the detectives
that Heather had a friend
named Rod Ferrell that used
to go to Eustis High School
before he moved away
to Kentucky
and that he was
a dangerous character.
So right away, Jennifer's
thinking, you know, that
Heather's either run away with
them or been kidnapped by them
or had something to do
with her parents' death.
Well, the detectives, when
they realized that Rod Ferrell
is from Murray, Kentucky,
they start making phone calls
to Murray, Kentucky.
Rod grew up in Kentucky.
And Rod's father left
the family as a young child.
His father was absent,
his mother was more like
a buddy than a parent.
And they were living together
with his grandparents.
Rod and his mother, Sondra,
both wore dark clothing,
and they were walking around
one evening holding hands.
And the neighbors thought
they were, like,
a boyfriend, girlfriend thing.
When they moved out,
there was a pentagram
etched in the floor--
burned onto the floor.
And then he fell in
with this group of kids
and Scott Anderson.
Me and Rod met and...
it was, "Here's somebody
else that I can connect with,
someone that knows me and knows
what I'm going through."
Scott Anderson lived
in a shack, basically,
with garbage bags nailed
over the broken windows.
The dad was an alcoholic
and a drug addict.
I was working at McDonald's,
and there had been a lot
of times that I would bring,
you know, leftover stuff
from McDonald's home
just so that I'd make sure
my little brothers
would have something to eat.
I guess you could say,
you know,
Rod had this social machismo
about him.
I mean, people would just kind
of gravitate toward him.
I was just happy to be kind of
like his right-hand man.
I knew Jaden,
but I didn't know him
as well as I knew Rod.
I met Rod Ferrell at the...
close to the end of my junior
year at Callaway High.
Rod had the same views, we had
the same principles on life.
Sometimes it's killed
or be killed.
Life will eat your ass up
and spit you out quick.
And we learned that
at a very early age
as children raised in homes
that were, you know,
not so financially sound,
you know, but we learned
how to make do in that and saw
how our parents struggled.
So we had a lot
of those commonalities.
I was introduced
to this path of vampirism
when I was,
16 years of age.
To me, it reflected my soul.
Because the nighttime
called to me
and conveyed the power
in human blood.
This literally would send chills
through my entire body
because I finally found
my spiritual haven.
I knew Rod around
a year and a half
when I finally made
the decision
to bring him into the house.
I had Rod meet me
at a tombstone
that we called the birthplace,
and we began the ritual.
We just used
regular razor blades.
As you can see here,
cut the upper arm.
After we cut ourselves,
he would feed from me first
until pretty much
his heart's content
or until the bleeding stopped,
and I would do
the same as well.
Giving blood as a gift
is one of the most precious
gifts you can give to someone.
It is a total commitment
and there is no turning back
once this is done.
Something that I'd noticed
with a lot of folks
who were coming
to an awareness that the vampire
was something
they associated with,
many came
from a similar background:
from isolated areas,
from rural areas,
where they didn't have
a whole lot of outlets
for their difference.
I didn't really have
a whole lot of friends.
Rod started to kind of
tell me about
the vampire persona.
You know, Rod had me totally
convinced that this was real,
and...
to try to dream outside
of what sh-- hole
of a life that I had,
and to hope to maybe
find something better.
It was just an exchanging
of blood.
Slice on my arm,
he drinks some of my blood,
I drink some
of his blood and...
"Yes, I'm in
with the inner circle."
That's when I really started
to really begin to meet
the people that he started
to gather around him.
For Rod, the idea of
creating his own vampire family
became his motivation
through everything that he did.
And he's one of these kind of
bigger-than-life characters,
you know?
He's got a swagger to him and
he's kind of funny
and he's smart.
Rod, me, Jaden,
Charity and Dana,
we all came from
dysfunctional families
that were barely making it.
I guess in our minds,
it was us against the world.
It seems silly
to adults to think about
a 16-year-old
having a charisma
that he could get kids to do
whatever he wanted to,
but he used it
to be the boss of these...
these kids that were more
dysfunctional than he was.
Rod's mother has a series
of boyfriends and marriages.
And his mother brought him down
to Eustis, Florida
because she was involved
with a man there.
Rod and Heather,
they'd been best friends
since they were sophomores
in high school.
So they were very close.
They would go out and they
would spend the whole night
hanging around cemeteries
and going into mausoleums
and stuff like that.
And then, because his mother's
relationship, as usual,
broke down, she moved back
to Murray, Kentucky.
Rod hated Murray, Kentucky.
He hated it there,
rebelled there,
um, got kicked out
of school there.
After Rod came back
from Florida,
he had this...
...charisma about him.
People would just kind of
gravitate toward him.
You know, when I started
getting into it
and learning from Rod and
learning from Jaden, you know,
they both had two
totally different aspects
of the blood drinking.
Jaden's belief was you only
take what you need to survive.
Rod would take it as far
as he needed to take it.
He believed that in drinking
the blood and taking a life,
he gained life.
I thought,
"This dude actually has
the capability
of killing somebody."
Jennifer was able to tell us
that her parents' car
was missing.
So we're looking
for the blue Explorer.
We put out the tag information.
Lo and behold, we get a hit.
In the initial onset
of the investigation,
we were handling it
as if not only had we
had a homicide
but we may also have had
a child abduction
at the same time.
It was a pretty chaotic scene.
But then Jennifer
was able to tell us
that her parents' car
was missing.
They started looking
for the Wendorfs' stolen
1993 Ford Explorer,
a distinctive blue color.
So, that night
we put out the BOLO,
we put out the tag information.
Lo and behold, we get a hit...
in Seminole County.
Seminole County found a vehicle
with that tag number on it
abandoned
in their jurisdiction.
But the tag wasn't
on the right car.
The tag was on a vehicle
that's VIN number
was registered to Scott
Anderson out of Kentucky.
But it now is bearing the tag
that belongs
to Richard Wendorf.
So this gives us
some good information.
One, we now know
that they've swapped tags.
We have a new tag number,
a Kentucky tag.
We're able to modify
our BOLO for the blue Explorer
to show that
it now is maybe bearing
a Kentucky tag that should be
registered to Scott Anderson.
So that gives us
a little bit of help.
where are they going?
Back in Eustis,
Florida, during the time
before the murders,
Heather was
acting out somewhat.
Heather was running up
fantastically high
long distance
phone call bills...
talking to Rod on the phone.
And her parents
were very upset about it.
Rod, he ran up
a $850 phone bill
talking to Heather Wendorf.
I mean, that's a lot of time
on the phone, you know?
Heather was fascinated with him
because of his demeanor
and his storytelling
and his fantasy,
and so they have a very...
very special bond
with one another.
One of the things
that really typifies a vampire
is this sort of
mesmeric personality.
We see Rod
not merely cultivating it,
but using it to hold people
enthralled, to get them
to agree to things
that maybe they
never would have considered.
I...
have, been present
when Rod talked to Heather
on a few occasions
about her parents.
Now, I did hear her mention
many times
how abusive they were.
Letters were found
that Heather wrote to Rod
and talked about
the hell of-of her family life,
and things of that nature.
Well, you know,
no one really knows
what was going on
inside their family.
Was it really that bad?
It's hard for me to say,
but Rod thought it was.
Rod looked at her as this
damsel he was going to rescue,
who he thinks her parents
are abusive.
So to him this was a modern-day
romance, you know,
he's the knight in shining
demon-scaled armor,
driving to Florida
to rescue this girl
and bring her into the fold,
into his house.
Rod had this...
this family idea.
He was gonna create
his vampire family
and Heather was gonna
be part of it.
I think
he wanted to have a group
that looked up to him.
That's exactly
what Rod was looking for.
He wanted people
to surround him
and to worship him.
He found power in that.
There had to have been
some kind of change,
a crossover from thinking
about killing someone
to literally removing lives
from this realm.
Everything that I'd been
studying before,
it was darkness,
it was nighttime,
and it wasn't evil.
Just like anything,
anything can be turned
into something
that's evil and bad.
It's all on your intent,
and that was not my intent.
That was not
what I was also shown.
That is not what I showed Rod.
The moment when
I was pretty sure
that Rod had,
left what I was teaching him,
that was the last time
that I had seen Rod
before they left
for Eustis, Florida.
We had met up
at a friend's house.
We decided to go for a walk
and talk, as we normally did.
I hadn't talked to him
in a few days.
Well, this cat walked up to us,
out of nowhere,
and... he picked the cat up.
He flips the cat over,
holding onto its neck,
and then hurls it
into the tree.
The cat was convulsing
on the ground, of course,
it didn't die immediately.
And Rod's reaction
was giddy laughter.
And he just kind of grinned.
I was like, "This sh--
is not ---- ing funny, man."
And I was like,
"Dude, what is your problem?"
He goes, "It's you,
you and your holier-than-thou
---- ing attitude
that you've got."
Here's Rod
developing his own take
on what it means
to be a vampire,
building off of those ideas of
feeding off of life force,
taking it
to what he probably thinks
is a pioneering extreme.
"Let's not just take life force
from a friend.
"Let's not just take it
in sips and drabs.
Let's just take a whole life."
The thing that the detectives
wondered about was...
was Heather kidnapped,
or was she a murder victim
herself somewhere?
Or what? Does she have something
to do with this?
Um, did she actually
do it... herself?
They don't know for sure.
Seminole County found
a vehicle abandoned
in their jurisdiction.
So, once we found Scott's car
in Seminole County,
which is to the east of us,
we knew the tags
had been swapped.
But here's the question--
where are they going?
There's a possibility they're
moving towards the Daytona area.
However, we'd also received
information from Jennifer
that she believed they were
possibly going to Louisiana.
The detectives reached out
to the authorities in Louisiana,
passed along the information
and what we were looking for
and what we were working.
Rod had outlined that
we were gonna pick up Heather
and we were gonna go
to New Orleans,
because, supposedly,
that was the city of vampires,
and where we could find a group
of like-minded people that would
accept us, and we could go on
about building
our vampire house.
When he said,
"Hey, let's go to Florida,"
it was like,
"Okay, I got the keys,
I got the car, I got a pocket
full of money. Let's go."
Got into Eustis
on Sunday night.
Then, the next day,
we went and picked Heather up,
and we went to a cemetery.
Rod and Heather walked off,
and they were gone
for about a good hour,
hour and a half.
What he took away
from the vampire
was the vampire as predator,
the predator of humans.
And maybe that's better.
Maybe that's more.
And it seems like he became
intoxicated with that idea.
Well, vampire in literature
and movies
and so on is a predator.
They prey on the innocent
victims, they trick people.
They manipulate people.
I have my speculations
why Rod and Heather were so long
in the graveyard.
Because Heather was being
abused by her father,
and Mom knew about it,
and wasn't doing anything
about it, and
Heather found someone
that she could manipulate
into, you know,
doing something about it.
And, you know...
You know, it goes back
to the earlier,
you know, Rod talking
about wanting to kill someone,
and I guess, you know,
there was his fantasy ---- ing
served up on a silver platter.
We met Heather up the road,
maybe a quarter mile
from her house.
And that's when Rod said,
"Hey, look,
"we're going in here.
"We're gonna get
Heather's parents' Explorer
so we'll have something
to drive."
It was something that I assume
that him and Heather
came up with
while they were in the cemetery.
The girls got in the car,
and they left.
As I'm walking
to Heather's house with Rod,
I was kind of
in my own little space.
I was scared,
but I was also... excited,
because I was doing something
definitely outside my norm.
As we're going
through the garage,
the only vehicle that was there
was the Explorer, so...
I didn't know
if anybody was home or not.
He stops,
and he starts to dig around.
That's when he picks up
this crowbar.
Me and Rod, we go in
through the utility room door
off the garage,
which was unlocked.
We just
walked into the house
like we owned the place.
Send my $1,000
to this address, Mr. Keeper,
and thank you ever so much.
I'm sorry, Mr. Keeper,
but if you only knew
how badly I need to make...
It was kind of okay, hey,
you know, adrenaline kicks in.
You know, we're going in,
you know, to deprive
some people of their stuff.
You know, the vampire mindset
of "Hey, I'm going
to take this.
There's not sh--
you can do about it."
As we go through the house,
I'm walking through,
looking for money
or things that can be used
for money.
Boss.Hiya.
Heather's dad's laying there
on the couch, asleep.
And I'm like, "Okay.
What now? What are we gonna do?"
Rod--
he pretty much swings
for the fences.
He begins to beat her dad
to death with a crowbar.
I actually yelled at him,
"What the hell are you doing?"
And when he turned, he yelled
at me, and ---- ing said,
"What are you doing?
Why are you standing there?
Find the money, find
the car keys, find all this."
You know, and I just kind of
like, "Sh-- !
"If I don't do what this
mother---- er says, he's gonna
do to me
what he just did to him."
Then I see Heather's mom.
I don't know who she saw first,
but I do remember her saying,
"Who are you
and what do you want?"
When he turned
and looked at me,
I didn't recognize him.
Probably the most frightening
look I've ever seen
on anyone's face.
It was like
seeing the devil himself.
She hit him
with a hot cup of coffee.
Scratched him in the face.
And then when she went down,
he... he did more to her
than he did
to Heather's dad.
It was...
I was shell-shocked.
I went into flight mode.
You know,
my first thing was just saying,
"Okay, we got to get
as far away
as possible."
We took the Explorer
and we met up with the girls.
And we eventually ended up
on a dirt road.
I swapped the license plates,
and we headed to New Orleans.
And that's when Rod
told, Heather
and, Dana and Charity
what happened.
You know, it was,
like, shell-shock
with Charity and Dana.
Heather, she went,
screaming and wigging out.
It was a weird mind----
for pretty much everybody
that was riding
in the backseat,
with this bloody crowbar
in the car,
having to
either put their feet on it
or sit in an awkward position so
their feet are not touching it.
On the way over to Heather's,
he was--
he was quiet and, you know,
held to himself.
And then after the incident
in the house,
he was happy and giddy,
and, you know, life was just
roses and flowers
and all that sh-- .
I remember the reaction
when Rod told Heather.
She was, like,
massively distraught.
But, you know,
as I've had time to think
about it over the years,
my speculation is
she was just putting on a show
to throw the rest of us
that were like,
"What the hell just happened?"
off.
It was Heather's
older sister, Jenny,
who found their parents
around 11:00,
when she came home from work.
They were beaten and bloodied.
Police believe Heather
and three of her friends
took the couple's truck
and tried to cover
their tracks.
There were
several possibilities
of where they could be going.
Nobody knew for sure.
It wasn't till we got a break,
when Charity reached out
to her grandmother
in Kentucky
through a phone call,
and we were able to get
the information
from the grandmother
as to the phone number
that she called from.
Well, through
some good detective work
and some backtracing,
they were able to come up
with a pay phone
outside of Baton Rouge.
It's been a few days, and...
now, I guess,
Rod is starting to get spooked,
and he's beginning to think,
"Okay, now there's gonna be
cops looking for us now."
So...
we start to dump stuff.
By the time
they got to Baton Rouge,
they go down to the waterfront
to get rid of
the murder weapon.
They're all exhausted.
They haven't slept.
They haven't eaten.
They're running on empty.
Charity's crying.
We needed money
to try to,
you know, keep going.
Charity figured that her mom
would probably be the best...
best bet.
So, she wants
to call her mother,
and, um, Rod lets her do it.
When the kids
started running out of money
and Charity
needed to reach out to her mom
to try to get some more funds,
she reached the grandmother.
And the grandmother
relayed the information
to the detectives.
So they convince
the grandmother to go ahead
and call her back and let her
know she was gonna send money.
Well, what they
weregonna pick up
was not gonna be money.
It was gonna be the detectives.
Charity's grandmother
gets a call.
Charity says,
"Help me. I need money."
But her grandmother
tricks her into going to
the Howard Johnson to check in.
Detectives were there
waiting for them to show up.
Soon as we got parked,
I turned the Explorer off.
I'd never seen
that many cop cars in my life.
Flashing lights,
spotlights and...
Vampire cult leader Rod Ferrell
and four other teenagers,
including Heather Wendorf,
were arrested in the murders
of Richard and Naomi Wendorf.
The state attorney
was seeking the death penalty
for Rod.
In the hopes of just getting
a life sentence,
Rod pleaded guilty.
They sought the death penalty.
He got the death penalty
from the judge.
But the supreme court
later overturned it
to a life sentence.
Anderson said,
you know, "I didn't do
any of the killing."
But he was in the house.
And, in Florida,
they have a thing called
felony murder.
Anderson
pleaded guilty
to avoid the death penalty
and gets a life sentence.
Charity got
ten and a half years,
and Dana got
17 and a half years in prison.
One of the biggest aspects
of this case
has always been,
especially here
in Lake County,
what responsibility
does Heather have
in the death of her parents?
That's been the burning issue.
The victims'
15-year-old daughter,
in letters written
to one of Ferrell's
acquaintances in Kentucky,
she writes...
Heather Wendorf
was, in fact, a suspect
equal to that of Rod
and Scott and Charity and Dana.
Heather Wendorf
denied she took part
in her parents' murders,
but admitted
she ran to Baton Rouge
with the other teenagers.
But then, as more
and more information came about,
the state attorneys
made the decision
that they were not going
to prosecute Heather Wendorf
in this case, in the homicide
against her parents.
And the sheriff at that time,
Sheriff George Knupp,
was very upset about that,
'cause he thought
she should've been charged, too.
Heather's attorney
says his client did not learn
of her parents' murders
until after she ran away
with the four teenagers already
indicted in the killings.
Many have asked
why didn't she turn herself in
or call for help?
Her attorney says
she feared for her own safety.
Nothing happened
to Heather, and I think that,
by my opinion, you know,
my speculation,
she was the mastermind
of it all. And, you know,
I'm here because of something
I think that she had a hand in.
And she got away scot-free.
This group, led by Rod Ferrell,
took this fairy-tale world
of vampirism,
moved it
into the dark cult world
of murder, and destroyed
a whole bunch of lives
in the process.
Thought my mom got rid
of all this stuff.
I didn't know
she kept this stuff.
I've spent 22 years
in-in prison because
I let this numbskull,
you know,
influence me to that level.
I mean, if I hadn't...
made that decision to...
drive away...
Should they deserve
a second chance?
I believe
the girls are already out.
They're already living a life.
Does Scott have
the ability to do that?
Possibly.
I know from what we learned
about them at that time
that you had a lot of kids
wanting to be part
of something bigger
and being led
by a very disturbed young man.
Heather lived
with her attorney's family
until she became of age.
And, after that, I have no idea
where Heather went to
or what she's doing today.
I hope that she has found
whatever was missing for her
and that she's able
to have become a healthy
and productive member
of society,
because I'm sure
that this will never leave her.
She'll never get her parents
back.
She'll never get her sister
back.
I understand
that they stayed estranged.
So...
hopefully,
she's made peace with herself
and has moved forward.
As far as Scott and Rod go,
they're still locked up.
Wendorf was 17 years old,
pretty, popular, cheerleader.
She had the world by the tail.
And then she comes home,
and there is blood everywhere.
Pieces of skull were
in the next room over.
It was a bloodbath.
Her sister was missing.
We have no idea
if Heather's gone willingly,
if she's been abducted,
or if she's dead somewhere
and we just haven't found
her body.
Her sister, Heather,
had a darker side.
She was hanging around
with very disturbed people.
When you go to church,
you take communion.
When we got together,
we drank blood.
There was
a supernatural mystique.
This would send chills
through my entire body.
Who could have done this?
Here we go.
Here we go, Mustangs...
Lake County is, um, about...
40 miles from Orlando.
Lake County is situated
right in the center
of the state.
We're center east and west,
and we're center
north and south.
Eustis is-is one of those
smaller communities
that had a very
hometown feel to it.
But a lot of
my colleagues from Orlando
would,
would call me and say,
"What in the world
is going on in Lake County?"
Because weird things just
always seem to happen
in Lake County.
Very odd things.
Jennifer Wendorf
was 17 years old,
pretty, popular, cheerleader.
She had a new car that
her folks had given to her.
Everything was going
perfectly for her.
She had the world by the tail.
And then she comes home.
Because it was after
10:00 when she got home,
she knew that she had
broken the rules.
So, she's gonna sneak in.
It's dark in there.
She sees her dad on the couch.
And she thinks,
"Okay, I made it.
I've, you know,
snuck past him."
Then she gets into the kitchen
and there is blood everywhere.
All of a sudden,
everything is completely
upside down, torn apart.
Okay.
A call had come out on 911
in reference to
a death at a home
in the Eustis area.
My zone partner, who was
Deputy Jeff Taylor at the time,
he was the first one
to respond.
Within a very short time frame,
he was shouting
across the radio,
"A signal five,"
which translates to a homicide.
The male victim,
Richard Wendorf,
he was lying on the couch.
He most likely was sleeping...
at the time of the first strike
because he does--
There's not a lot of blood
pooled in other locations.
Most likely, he didn't even
see it coming.
In the kitchen,
we have the mother.
It looks like she was trying
to defend or cover herself
by protecting her face,
and then as she fell
to the floor,
the final blows would have
happened on the ground.
By the time that I made it
out to the call,
Jennifer was able to tell us
that her parents' car
was missing and we also knew
that her sister was missing.
People will say
that the Wendorfs
were a nice family.
The dad had a good job,
as a warehouse manager
for a bottling company.
And Ruth was able
to stay at home.
They weren't rich, but they
were a close family
and they... they seemed
to be fairly normal.
Miss Ruth Wendorf.
She was a very nice lady
who came
and worked on our campus
as a volunteer.
Jennifer, the oldest daughter,
was a cheerleader.
Very nice young lady,
never heard a cross word
said about her as well.
Jennifer...
is bright and pretty.
She had a scholarship
to go to FSU.
She had her bright future
all ahead of her.
Heather was the artist.
The free spirit.
And Heather had a darker side.
She wore outlandish outfits.
Dyed her hair different colors.
Did a lot of bizarre artwork.
Heather was a new student
at Eustis High School.
And I remember
Heather walked by.
She had a hangman's noose
hanging from her backpack.
And in the hangman's noose
was a Barbie doll.
Which I thought
was kind of strange.
Jennifer relayed
that her mother
had told her
that Heather was getting
out of control.
That there were serious
problems at home
and that she had had enough
of Heather's behavior.
Her sister was hanging around
with some very bad people.
Heather had a friend
named Rod Ferrell
that used to go
to Eustis High School.
They'd been best friends
since they were
sophomores in high school.
And they would spend
the whole night
hanging around the cemeteries
and going into
mausoleums and stuff like that.
Rod was another student.
You know, I never did
figure him out.
In August, here in Florida,
it's very, very warm.
It'd feel like it was
100 degrees out there,
even in the shade.
Rod would sit in the sun.
And normally have on, like,
a black trench coat
or something
and just watch people walk by.
Watches other students walk by
and I said,
"You know, this, this is really
different behavior."
I actually
had personally met Rod
when he lived in Eustis
and, and, um,
went to Eustis High School.
I had actually talked to him
in and around town
and on the street and...
Rod had been standing out
on the front porch
and he had brought out
a couple samurai swords.
He was swinging
these swords around
and talking about
his martial arts training
and how he knew how to use
these swords
and how sharp they were.
And then he made the comment,
"You don't see any cats
around here, do you?"
Jennifer was convinced
right from
the very minute
that she called 911
that her sister's friends
were involved in this
because of
things that had been going on.
So it was worrisome
about Heather.
We didn't know if she was
missing by her own free choice
or whether or not
she had been forcibly taken.
The medical examiner
who did the autopsies
saw that there were
some "V" marks
on the bodies.
There were pieces of skull...
that were in the dining room,
the next room over.
Veteran detectives,
who have seen a lot,
are appalled at this bloodbath.
That's what it was, a bloodbath.
In the descriptions
by Deputy Taylor
from when he walked in
and saw the living room
and saw the ceiling,
he kind of described it
as reminiscent of, like,
a Jackson Pollock painting,
only in this case,
it's all the same color.
It's all blood.
When the detectives
are talking with Jennifer
and they're asking,
"Who could have done this?
Who was responsible for this?"
Jennifer is thinking about her
sister, Heather, who's missing,
and she's saying
that she was hanging around
with very disturbed people.
Her sister had friends
who altogether believed
that they were immortal
and had, you know,
different nonhuman aspects.
And they said,
"What do you mean?"
And, she says,
"Vampires."
When the detectives
realized that Rod Ferrell
is from Murray, Kentucky,
they start making phone calls
to Murray, Kentucky.
And that's when it all started
coming together for them.
Rod would take it
as far as he needed to take it.
He believed
that in drinking the blood
and taking a life,
he gained life.
I thought, "This dude
actually has the capability
of killing somebody."
The Wendorfs
were a nice family,
a middle-class family.
All of a sudden,
the parents are dead.
It shook everybody up.
That night, we have no idea
if Heather's gone willingly,
if she's been abducted
or if she's dead somewhere
and we just haven't found
her body.
We have no idea.
When the detectives are talking
with Jennifer,
she mentions to the detectives
that Heather had a friend
named Rod Ferrell that used
to go to Eustis High School
before he moved away
to Kentucky
and that he was
a dangerous character.
So right away, Jennifer's
thinking, you know, that
Heather's either run away with
them or been kidnapped by them
or had something to do
with her parents' death.
Well, the detectives, when
they realized that Rod Ferrell
is from Murray, Kentucky,
they start making phone calls
to Murray, Kentucky.
Rod grew up in Kentucky.
And Rod's father left
the family as a young child.
His father was absent,
his mother was more like
a buddy than a parent.
And they were living together
with his grandparents.
Rod and his mother, Sondra,
both wore dark clothing,
and they were walking around
one evening holding hands.
And the neighbors thought
they were, like,
a boyfriend, girlfriend thing.
When they moved out,
there was a pentagram
etched in the floor--
burned onto the floor.
And then he fell in
with this group of kids
and Scott Anderson.
Me and Rod met and...
it was, "Here's somebody
else that I can connect with,
someone that knows me and knows
what I'm going through."
Scott Anderson lived
in a shack, basically,
with garbage bags nailed
over the broken windows.
The dad was an alcoholic
and a drug addict.
I was working at McDonald's,
and there had been a lot
of times that I would bring,
you know, leftover stuff
from McDonald's home
just so that I'd make sure
my little brothers
would have something to eat.
I guess you could say,
you know,
Rod had this social machismo
about him.
I mean, people would just kind
of gravitate toward him.
I was just happy to be kind of
like his right-hand man.
I knew Jaden,
but I didn't know him
as well as I knew Rod.
I met Rod Ferrell at the...
close to the end of my junior
year at Callaway High.
Rod had the same views, we had
the same principles on life.
Sometimes it's killed
or be killed.
Life will eat your ass up
and spit you out quick.
And we learned that
at a very early age
as children raised in homes
that were, you know,
not so financially sound,
you know, but we learned
how to make do in that and saw
how our parents struggled.
So we had a lot
of those commonalities.
I was introduced
to this path of vampirism
when I was,
16 years of age.
To me, it reflected my soul.
Because the nighttime
called to me
and conveyed the power
in human blood.
This literally would send chills
through my entire body
because I finally found
my spiritual haven.
I knew Rod around
a year and a half
when I finally made
the decision
to bring him into the house.
I had Rod meet me
at a tombstone
that we called the birthplace,
and we began the ritual.
We just used
regular razor blades.
As you can see here,
cut the upper arm.
After we cut ourselves,
he would feed from me first
until pretty much
his heart's content
or until the bleeding stopped,
and I would do
the same as well.
Giving blood as a gift
is one of the most precious
gifts you can give to someone.
It is a total commitment
and there is no turning back
once this is done.
Something that I'd noticed
with a lot of folks
who were coming
to an awareness that the vampire
was something
they associated with,
many came
from a similar background:
from isolated areas,
from rural areas,
where they didn't have
a whole lot of outlets
for their difference.
I didn't really have
a whole lot of friends.
Rod started to kind of
tell me about
the vampire persona.
You know, Rod had me totally
convinced that this was real,
and...
to try to dream outside
of what sh-- hole
of a life that I had,
and to hope to maybe
find something better.
It was just an exchanging
of blood.
Slice on my arm,
he drinks some of my blood,
I drink some
of his blood and...
"Yes, I'm in
with the inner circle."
That's when I really started
to really begin to meet
the people that he started
to gather around him.
For Rod, the idea of
creating his own vampire family
became his motivation
through everything that he did.
And he's one of these kind of
bigger-than-life characters,
you know?
He's got a swagger to him and
he's kind of funny
and he's smart.
Rod, me, Jaden,
Charity and Dana,
we all came from
dysfunctional families
that were barely making it.
I guess in our minds,
it was us against the world.
It seems silly
to adults to think about
a 16-year-old
having a charisma
that he could get kids to do
whatever he wanted to,
but he used it
to be the boss of these...
these kids that were more
dysfunctional than he was.
Rod's mother has a series
of boyfriends and marriages.
And his mother brought him down
to Eustis, Florida
because she was involved
with a man there.
Rod and Heather,
they'd been best friends
since they were sophomores
in high school.
So they were very close.
They would go out and they
would spend the whole night
hanging around cemeteries
and going into mausoleums
and stuff like that.
And then, because his mother's
relationship, as usual,
broke down, she moved back
to Murray, Kentucky.
Rod hated Murray, Kentucky.
He hated it there,
rebelled there,
um, got kicked out
of school there.
After Rod came back
from Florida,
he had this...
...charisma about him.
People would just kind of
gravitate toward him.
You know, when I started
getting into it
and learning from Rod and
learning from Jaden, you know,
they both had two
totally different aspects
of the blood drinking.
Jaden's belief was you only
take what you need to survive.
Rod would take it as far
as he needed to take it.
He believed that in drinking
the blood and taking a life,
he gained life.
I thought,
"This dude actually has
the capability
of killing somebody."
Jennifer was able to tell us
that her parents' car
was missing.
So we're looking
for the blue Explorer.
We put out the tag information.
Lo and behold, we get a hit.
In the initial onset
of the investigation,
we were handling it
as if not only had we
had a homicide
but we may also have had
a child abduction
at the same time.
It was a pretty chaotic scene.
But then Jennifer
was able to tell us
that her parents' car
was missing.
They started looking
for the Wendorfs' stolen
1993 Ford Explorer,
a distinctive blue color.
So, that night
we put out the BOLO,
we put out the tag information.
Lo and behold, we get a hit...
in Seminole County.
Seminole County found a vehicle
with that tag number on it
abandoned
in their jurisdiction.
But the tag wasn't
on the right car.
The tag was on a vehicle
that's VIN number
was registered to Scott
Anderson out of Kentucky.
But it now is bearing the tag
that belongs
to Richard Wendorf.
So this gives us
some good information.
One, we now know
that they've swapped tags.
We have a new tag number,
a Kentucky tag.
We're able to modify
our BOLO for the blue Explorer
to show that
it now is maybe bearing
a Kentucky tag that should be
registered to Scott Anderson.
So that gives us
a little bit of help.
where are they going?
Back in Eustis,
Florida, during the time
before the murders,
Heather was
acting out somewhat.
Heather was running up
fantastically high
long distance
phone call bills...
talking to Rod on the phone.
And her parents
were very upset about it.
Rod, he ran up
a $850 phone bill
talking to Heather Wendorf.
I mean, that's a lot of time
on the phone, you know?
Heather was fascinated with him
because of his demeanor
and his storytelling
and his fantasy,
and so they have a very...
very special bond
with one another.
One of the things
that really typifies a vampire
is this sort of
mesmeric personality.
We see Rod
not merely cultivating it,
but using it to hold people
enthralled, to get them
to agree to things
that maybe they
never would have considered.
I...
have, been present
when Rod talked to Heather
on a few occasions
about her parents.
Now, I did hear her mention
many times
how abusive they were.
Letters were found
that Heather wrote to Rod
and talked about
the hell of-of her family life,
and things of that nature.
Well, you know,
no one really knows
what was going on
inside their family.
Was it really that bad?
It's hard for me to say,
but Rod thought it was.
Rod looked at her as this
damsel he was going to rescue,
who he thinks her parents
are abusive.
So to him this was a modern-day
romance, you know,
he's the knight in shining
demon-scaled armor,
driving to Florida
to rescue this girl
and bring her into the fold,
into his house.
Rod had this...
this family idea.
He was gonna create
his vampire family
and Heather was gonna
be part of it.
I think
he wanted to have a group
that looked up to him.
That's exactly
what Rod was looking for.
He wanted people
to surround him
and to worship him.
He found power in that.
There had to have been
some kind of change,
a crossover from thinking
about killing someone
to literally removing lives
from this realm.
Everything that I'd been
studying before,
it was darkness,
it was nighttime,
and it wasn't evil.
Just like anything,
anything can be turned
into something
that's evil and bad.
It's all on your intent,
and that was not my intent.
That was not
what I was also shown.
That is not what I showed Rod.
The moment when
I was pretty sure
that Rod had,
left what I was teaching him,
that was the last time
that I had seen Rod
before they left
for Eustis, Florida.
We had met up
at a friend's house.
We decided to go for a walk
and talk, as we normally did.
I hadn't talked to him
in a few days.
Well, this cat walked up to us,
out of nowhere,
and... he picked the cat up.
He flips the cat over,
holding onto its neck,
and then hurls it
into the tree.
The cat was convulsing
on the ground, of course,
it didn't die immediately.
And Rod's reaction
was giddy laughter.
And he just kind of grinned.
I was like, "This sh--
is not ---- ing funny, man."
And I was like,
"Dude, what is your problem?"
He goes, "It's you,
you and your holier-than-thou
---- ing attitude
that you've got."
Here's Rod
developing his own take
on what it means
to be a vampire,
building off of those ideas of
feeding off of life force,
taking it
to what he probably thinks
is a pioneering extreme.
"Let's not just take life force
from a friend.
"Let's not just take it
in sips and drabs.
Let's just take a whole life."
The thing that the detectives
wondered about was...
was Heather kidnapped,
or was she a murder victim
herself somewhere?
Or what? Does she have something
to do with this?
Um, did she actually
do it... herself?
They don't know for sure.
Seminole County found
a vehicle abandoned
in their jurisdiction.
So, once we found Scott's car
in Seminole County,
which is to the east of us,
we knew the tags
had been swapped.
But here's the question--
where are they going?
There's a possibility they're
moving towards the Daytona area.
However, we'd also received
information from Jennifer
that she believed they were
possibly going to Louisiana.
The detectives reached out
to the authorities in Louisiana,
passed along the information
and what we were looking for
and what we were working.
Rod had outlined that
we were gonna pick up Heather
and we were gonna go
to New Orleans,
because, supposedly,
that was the city of vampires,
and where we could find a group
of like-minded people that would
accept us, and we could go on
about building
our vampire house.
When he said,
"Hey, let's go to Florida,"
it was like,
"Okay, I got the keys,
I got the car, I got a pocket
full of money. Let's go."
Got into Eustis
on Sunday night.
Then, the next day,
we went and picked Heather up,
and we went to a cemetery.
Rod and Heather walked off,
and they were gone
for about a good hour,
hour and a half.
What he took away
from the vampire
was the vampire as predator,
the predator of humans.
And maybe that's better.
Maybe that's more.
And it seems like he became
intoxicated with that idea.
Well, vampire in literature
and movies
and so on is a predator.
They prey on the innocent
victims, they trick people.
They manipulate people.
I have my speculations
why Rod and Heather were so long
in the graveyard.
Because Heather was being
abused by her father,
and Mom knew about it,
and wasn't doing anything
about it, and
Heather found someone
that she could manipulate
into, you know,
doing something about it.
And, you know...
You know, it goes back
to the earlier,
you know, Rod talking
about wanting to kill someone,
and I guess, you know,
there was his fantasy ---- ing
served up on a silver platter.
We met Heather up the road,
maybe a quarter mile
from her house.
And that's when Rod said,
"Hey, look,
"we're going in here.
"We're gonna get
Heather's parents' Explorer
so we'll have something
to drive."
It was something that I assume
that him and Heather
came up with
while they were in the cemetery.
The girls got in the car,
and they left.
As I'm walking
to Heather's house with Rod,
I was kind of
in my own little space.
I was scared,
but I was also... excited,
because I was doing something
definitely outside my norm.
As we're going
through the garage,
the only vehicle that was there
was the Explorer, so...
I didn't know
if anybody was home or not.
He stops,
and he starts to dig around.
That's when he picks up
this crowbar.
Me and Rod, we go in
through the utility room door
off the garage,
which was unlocked.
We just
walked into the house
like we owned the place.
Send my $1,000
to this address, Mr. Keeper,
and thank you ever so much.
I'm sorry, Mr. Keeper,
but if you only knew
how badly I need to make...
It was kind of okay, hey,
you know, adrenaline kicks in.
You know, we're going in,
you know, to deprive
some people of their stuff.
You know, the vampire mindset
of "Hey, I'm going
to take this.
There's not sh--
you can do about it."
As we go through the house,
I'm walking through,
looking for money
or things that can be used
for money.
Boss.Hiya.
Heather's dad's laying there
on the couch, asleep.
And I'm like, "Okay.
What now? What are we gonna do?"
Rod--
he pretty much swings
for the fences.
He begins to beat her dad
to death with a crowbar.
I actually yelled at him,
"What the hell are you doing?"
And when he turned, he yelled
at me, and ---- ing said,
"What are you doing?
Why are you standing there?
Find the money, find
the car keys, find all this."
You know, and I just kind of
like, "Sh-- !
"If I don't do what this
mother---- er says, he's gonna
do to me
what he just did to him."
Then I see Heather's mom.
I don't know who she saw first,
but I do remember her saying,
"Who are you
and what do you want?"
When he turned
and looked at me,
I didn't recognize him.
Probably the most frightening
look I've ever seen
on anyone's face.
It was like
seeing the devil himself.
She hit him
with a hot cup of coffee.
Scratched him in the face.
And then when she went down,
he... he did more to her
than he did
to Heather's dad.
It was...
I was shell-shocked.
I went into flight mode.
You know,
my first thing was just saying,
"Okay, we got to get
as far away
as possible."
We took the Explorer
and we met up with the girls.
And we eventually ended up
on a dirt road.
I swapped the license plates,
and we headed to New Orleans.
And that's when Rod
told, Heather
and, Dana and Charity
what happened.
You know, it was,
like, shell-shock
with Charity and Dana.
Heather, she went,
screaming and wigging out.
It was a weird mind----
for pretty much everybody
that was riding
in the backseat,
with this bloody crowbar
in the car,
having to
either put their feet on it
or sit in an awkward position so
their feet are not touching it.
On the way over to Heather's,
he was--
he was quiet and, you know,
held to himself.
And then after the incident
in the house,
he was happy and giddy,
and, you know, life was just
roses and flowers
and all that sh-- .
I remember the reaction
when Rod told Heather.
She was, like,
massively distraught.
But, you know,
as I've had time to think
about it over the years,
my speculation is
she was just putting on a show
to throw the rest of us
that were like,
"What the hell just happened?"
off.
It was Heather's
older sister, Jenny,
who found their parents
around 11:00,
when she came home from work.
They were beaten and bloodied.
Police believe Heather
and three of her friends
took the couple's truck
and tried to cover
their tracks.
There were
several possibilities
of where they could be going.
Nobody knew for sure.
It wasn't till we got a break,
when Charity reached out
to her grandmother
in Kentucky
through a phone call,
and we were able to get
the information
from the grandmother
as to the phone number
that she called from.
Well, through
some good detective work
and some backtracing,
they were able to come up
with a pay phone
outside of Baton Rouge.
It's been a few days, and...
now, I guess,
Rod is starting to get spooked,
and he's beginning to think,
"Okay, now there's gonna be
cops looking for us now."
So...
we start to dump stuff.
By the time
they got to Baton Rouge,
they go down to the waterfront
to get rid of
the murder weapon.
They're all exhausted.
They haven't slept.
They haven't eaten.
They're running on empty.
Charity's crying.
We needed money
to try to,
you know, keep going.
Charity figured that her mom
would probably be the best...
best bet.
So, she wants
to call her mother,
and, um, Rod lets her do it.
When the kids
started running out of money
and Charity
needed to reach out to her mom
to try to get some more funds,
she reached the grandmother.
And the grandmother
relayed the information
to the detectives.
So they convince
the grandmother to go ahead
and call her back and let her
know she was gonna send money.
Well, what they
weregonna pick up
was not gonna be money.
It was gonna be the detectives.
Charity's grandmother
gets a call.
Charity says,
"Help me. I need money."
But her grandmother
tricks her into going to
the Howard Johnson to check in.
Detectives were there
waiting for them to show up.
Soon as we got parked,
I turned the Explorer off.
I'd never seen
that many cop cars in my life.
Flashing lights,
spotlights and...
Vampire cult leader Rod Ferrell
and four other teenagers,
including Heather Wendorf,
were arrested in the murders
of Richard and Naomi Wendorf.
The state attorney
was seeking the death penalty
for Rod.
In the hopes of just getting
a life sentence,
Rod pleaded guilty.
They sought the death penalty.
He got the death penalty
from the judge.
But the supreme court
later overturned it
to a life sentence.
Anderson said,
you know, "I didn't do
any of the killing."
But he was in the house.
And, in Florida,
they have a thing called
felony murder.
Anderson
pleaded guilty
to avoid the death penalty
and gets a life sentence.
Charity got
ten and a half years,
and Dana got
17 and a half years in prison.
One of the biggest aspects
of this case
has always been,
especially here
in Lake County,
what responsibility
does Heather have
in the death of her parents?
That's been the burning issue.
The victims'
15-year-old daughter,
in letters written
to one of Ferrell's
acquaintances in Kentucky,
she writes...
Heather Wendorf
was, in fact, a suspect
equal to that of Rod
and Scott and Charity and Dana.
Heather Wendorf
denied she took part
in her parents' murders,
but admitted
she ran to Baton Rouge
with the other teenagers.
But then, as more
and more information came about,
the state attorneys
made the decision
that they were not going
to prosecute Heather Wendorf
in this case, in the homicide
against her parents.
And the sheriff at that time,
Sheriff George Knupp,
was very upset about that,
'cause he thought
she should've been charged, too.
Heather's attorney
says his client did not learn
of her parents' murders
until after she ran away
with the four teenagers already
indicted in the killings.
Many have asked
why didn't she turn herself in
or call for help?
Her attorney says
she feared for her own safety.
Nothing happened
to Heather, and I think that,
by my opinion, you know,
my speculation,
she was the mastermind
of it all. And, you know,
I'm here because of something
I think that she had a hand in.
And she got away scot-free.
This group, led by Rod Ferrell,
took this fairy-tale world
of vampirism,
moved it
into the dark cult world
of murder, and destroyed
a whole bunch of lives
in the process.
Thought my mom got rid
of all this stuff.
I didn't know
she kept this stuff.
I've spent 22 years
in-in prison because
I let this numbskull,
you know,
influence me to that level.
I mean, if I hadn't...
made that decision to...
drive away...
Should they deserve
a second chance?
I believe
the girls are already out.
They're already living a life.
Does Scott have
the ability to do that?
Possibly.
I know from what we learned
about them at that time
that you had a lot of kids
wanting to be part
of something bigger
and being led
by a very disturbed young man.
Heather lived
with her attorney's family
until she became of age.
And, after that, I have no idea
where Heather went to
or what she's doing today.
I hope that she has found
whatever was missing for her
and that she's able
to have become a healthy
and productive member
of society,
because I'm sure
that this will never leave her.
She'll never get her parents
back.
She'll never get her sister
back.
I understand
that they stayed estranged.
So...
hopefully,
she's made peace with herself
and has moved forward.
As far as Scott and Rod go,
they're still locked up.