

Heather and the other girls that were with Ferrell and Anderson were not at the Wendorf home when the murders took place. The victims were the parents of Heather Wendorf, a long-time friend of Rod's whom he was helping to run away from a home that she described as "hell". It was said that the V was Ferrell's symbol, which he accompanied with a dot for each person he considered to be in his vampire cult. Richard had burn marks in the shape of a V. He claimed in his confession, however, that in his original plan he was going to allow Naomi Ruth to live, but she first attacked him by lunging at him and throwing a very hot cup of coffee on him, which angered him and made him change his mind and so he killed her also.

When Ruth had found Ferrell and Anderson in the home moments later, Ferrell bludgeoned her to death, bashing her head with the crowbar. While 49-year-old Richard Wendorf was asleep on his couch and Ruth was in the shower, Ferrell and accomplice Howard Scott Anderson had entered the home through the unlocked garage, picking up the murder weapon, a crowbar.īefore Richard had even awakened, Ferrell beat him multiple times with it, fracturing both his skull and ribs, almost instantly knocking him out, and killing him shortly thereafter. On November 25, 1996, Naomi Ruth Queen and Richard Wendorf were found by their daughter Jennifer Wendorf, beaten to death in their Eustis home. Originally sentenced to death, Ferrell's penalty has since been reduced to life imprisonment. In 1998, Ferrell pleaded guilty to the double slaying of a couple from Eustis, Florida, becoming the youngest person in Florida on Death Row at that time. It was his mother, Sondra Gibson who first introduced this game to Rod. Ferrell claimed to be a 500-year-old vampire named Vesago, a character he created for himself after becoming obsessed with the role playing game Vampire: The Masquerade. He was a member of a loose-knit gang of teenagers from Murray, Kentucky, known as the "Vampire Clan".

Roderrick Justin "Rod" Ferrell (born March 28, 1980) is an American murderer and cult leader. Incarcerated in Tomoka Correctional Institution
