I was the hunter and they were the victims.

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Forensic Evidence

Lowell Levine with Bundy bite marks evidence

Forensic odontologists can match the bite mark impressions on a body against the teeth of a suspect to decide if there's a match. Ted Bundy was convicted of murder with such evidence, and so was Wayne Boden.
A young schoolteacher, Norma Vaillancourt, was found murdered in 1968 in her apartment in Montreal, Canada. She'd been strangled, raped, and bitten all over her breasts. The crime was sadistic, but among her many boyfriends, there were no good suspects.
Only a day later, another victim was found in the same city in the same condition, and the bite marks were matched. Both women appeared not to have struggled, so it was assumed that they not only knew their attacker but may also have been engaged in something they wanted to do. It was similar to the way a vampire might seduce someone with a hypnotic trance before taking his meal.
In 1969, Marielle Archambault told coworkers that she felt entranced by a man she'd recently met. She, too, turned up dead, and similarly bitten. However, she had put up a struggle.
There were two more victims, one of them in Calgary, before the vampire was stopped in 1971. The police arrested Boden and an odontologist took an impression of his teeth to match to the wounds on each of the victims. The forensic expert had a fairly easy time of it, since there were so many different impressions to use.
Obviously caught, Boden finally admitted that he had killed these women while having rough sex. He would strangle them and then become frenzied with the need to feast on their breasts. Apparently, he figured, he just did it too hard.

 

[AtulaSiriwardane]

Sincerely wish, you could read properlly.

Sincerely wish, you could read properlly.

I really regret the fact
that some Elakirians,
perhaps most Elakirians can't read long articles.
And some get angry at me
for their own inability.
If one is interested in reading
it is a great plus for a Forum.

​

 

[GihanFX]

Influenced by Fiction

The Queen of the Damned
by Anne Rice

Allan Menzies, 22, used to view the vampire film, Queen of the Damned, over and over and over. He admitted that he had obsessively watched his "queen," Akasha, more than 100 times. His fixation on her and his beliefs about how this cruel vampire stepped out of the role and into his life to barter for his soul eventually turned deadly. Menzie's vampire-inspired crime and trial were covered extensively by The Scotsman, as well as by newspapers throughout Great Britain. Both movie critics and religious writers have offered comments and interpretations.Akasha, played by the late actress Aaliyah, is depicted in Queen of the Damned, a film based on Anne Rice's novel of the same name, as the ultimate vampire progenitor. She's also a vicious blood hunter with no remorse.
In the novel, Akasha was an ancient Egyptian queen whose jealousy of the powers of twin witches over a spirit led the spirit to infuse her with its own essence, which carried a powerful thirst for blood. The spirit fused with her heart and brain to mutate her into the first vampire. As Akasha transformed her husband and then turned on others, the "Dark Gift" of blood-spawned immortality spread, and all other vampires were thereby connected to her. Through successive generations and throughout the world, Akasha was the life force of all vampires. Although she eventually went into a stupor, she was revived during the 1980s by the rock songs of the vampire Lestat, and she went out and destroyed most of the world's vampires. Then she started killing mass numbers of humans to feed her pathological need. She demanded more and more blood.
Allan Menzies' best friend, Thomas McKendrick, brought this film over one day, and they watched it together. Then Menzies, who lived in Fauldhouse, West Lothian, in Scotland, borrowed it. He was soon hooked on viewing it every day, sometimes three times a day. Akasha became real, as did other vampires, and he began to call himself "Leon."
Menzies believed that Akasha made regular visits to him and had made a deal to grant him immortality in exchange for killing people to deliver their souls. He spent a lot of time alone in his room and his father could hear him talking to himself and sometimes yelling at no one. Menzies appeared to be changing into someone his father barely knew. "All Allan's talk," Thomas Menzies later said, "was about vampires, the games and blood. It was not normal conversation."

Thomas McKendrick

Then Thomas McKendrick disappeared. He was last seen when he visited the Menzies on December 11, 2002. Menzies' father came home that day and noticed spots of blood in various places around the house. That worried him, but Allan told him it had come from cutting himself on a can. Thomas Menzies told police that McKendrick had indeed come over on December 11, but that was the last time he'd seen him.But then Allan Menzies approached McKendrick's mother in a supermarket, according to Religion News, to ask her if she knew how to remove bloodstains.
The police viewed him as a viable suspect in McKendrick's disappearance, but without evidence, there was nothing they could do.
On January 4, McKendrick's clothing was found in a bag on the moors, so two days later, the police searched the Menzies' home. After they talked with Allan, he took an overdose of drugs and ended up in the hospital for two days.
Then on January 18, 2003, McKendrick's remains were found buried in a shallow grave. The pathology report indicated that he had been stabbed 42 times with a large knife in the face, head, and body, and bludgeoned over the head six times (some reports say ten) with a hammer-like instrument. The attack, the pathologist commented, had been carried out for a prolonged period of time, and he had been hit in the head quite forcefully.
Under questioning, Menzies admitted that he had eaten part of his friend's head and drunk his blood. He said that he had signed an Anne Rice novel with the name, "Vamp," and explained that he had decided to sell his soul to be born into another life, another form. Only later at his trial did he describe the full measure of his atrocity -— as well as deny that he was to blame.

Allan Menzies, police file photo

Menzies tried to plead guilty to culpable homicide on the grounds of diminished capacity, but the Crown rejected it and ordered him to stand trial. That proceeding began in October 2003, before the High Court in Edinburgh. It was clear that Menzies, an unemployed former security guard, now believed that what he had done was "mad." He had not been in his right mind. He cast the blame on an alter ego, developed under the influence of the film, and said he wished he had never seen it. Psychiatrists on both sides had to evaluate his mental state at the time of the offense.Menzies took the stand in his defense. He told the High Court that on December 11, McKendrick had made the fatal error of insulting Akasha. That's what had made Menzies "snap," he claimed. This all had occurred after he had begun buying ox livers and eating them raw to get their blood, and he'd listened to the songs from Queen of the Damned repetitively to develop into a vampire. "I could never get the thought of being a vampire out of my mind," he said. "To put it bluntly, after I had seen the tape so many times, I wanted to go out and murder people."
Donald McCleod, his defense attorney, asked him if he believed he was now a vampire and had achieved immortality. To both questions, he answered, "Yes."
McKendrick allegedly had made an incredulous remark about Menzies' belief in vampires, as well as a sexual comment about the actress playing Akasha. "He should never have insulted my bird," Menzies had told his attorney.
In court he told the full story. The two young men were standing in the kitchen of Menzies' home, where Menzies kept a Bowie knife used for cutting ox livers. Then McKendrick made his remark. Menzies said that Akasha, who was "there" in the kitchen, turned her back to indicate her displeasure, so Menzies stabbed McKendrick three or four times in the neck. Then he continued to stab him in the face, shoulders, and neck, using both a Bowie knife and a kitchen knife. McKendrick ran from the room and went up the steps to Menzies' bedroom, so Menzies grabbed a hammer and went after him, striking him on the head until he collapsed. Akasha, he said, was with him at all times, fully approving of what he was doing.

The late Aaliyah portrayed
Akasha in the movie The
Queen of the Damned

He then turned the body on its side to drain some blood out and drank two cupfuls of it. He also consumed part of the skull, which had broken from the blows. Afterward, he looked into the mirror to ensure that his teeth were covered with blood. Akasha was pleased with this death, he reported, and wanted him to do it again. The only way to please her, Menzies explained, was to kill.To get rid of the body, Menzies took it in a wheeled cart into the woods and buried it.
He had no remorse at the time, he said, because "I knew I had to murder somebody. If you don't murder anybody, you can't become a vampire." He believed that imbibing the blood sealed his pact with Akasha. In court, he offered the excuse that he'd been angry, so he'd acted out. (To his aunt, he had confided while in the hospital that he was acting out against God.) His sudden frenzy, he believed, had come from his delusions at the time.
Yet "snapping" was not altogether inconsistent with Menzies' history. At the age of 14, he had stabbed a classmate and had received a sentence of three years in juvenile detention for that. He said he'd been bullied and had defended himself. Yet others knew him as sadistic. He also had a reputation for obsession with violence, and had described to psychiatrists a fantasy life involving Nazis and serial killers. Since the age of 18, according to associates, he'd been obsessed with vampires, and in 2001 he had shown enthusiasm about a crime committed in Wales in which a young man had killed an older woman to drink her blood to become a vampire.
Dr. Derek Chiswick, one of the three psychiatrists for the Crown who diagnosed Menzies as a psychopath, said he was emotionally disturbed but not mentally ill, and that he was probably faking how extreme his obsession was in order to get a lighter sentence. "I suspect his enjoyment of violence," he added, "is the principal factor in the prolonged and excessively violent nature of this crime."
In fact, from prison, Menzies had been sending letters to himself at his father's house, written by fantasy characters. One from "Vamp," signed in blood, was written to Akasha with a vow to kill again. Those letters appeared to be a calculated attempt to make himself look mentally ill.
Nevertheless, Menzies claimed, it was "Vamp" who had actually done the killing. It was not he who had written in the pages of a novel, "I have chosen to become a vampire. The blood is the life, I have drunk the blood and it shall be mine, for I have seen the horror." That was his alter ego, which he had acquired in the act of killing. Defense psychiatrist Alexander Cooper supported that with a diagnosis of schizophrenia. The delusions had the quality of hallucinations.
The judge picked up on that and explained to the jury that they needed to determine whether Menzies was lying or authentically hallucinating at the time he murdered Thomas McKendrick.
The jury deliberated for an hour and a half. They did not accept the excuse of diminished responsibility in this case. Instead, they returned a unanimous verdict that Menzies was guilty of murder.
The judge gave him a minimum sentence of 18 years, declaring him an outright psychopath---evil, merciless, and dangerous.
When asked if he wished he could turn back time and have the choice not to have killed his friend, he said, "No."
His grieving father quickly put the house on the market.
On November 15, 2004, Alan Menzies was found dead in his cell, an apparent suicide.

 

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Vampires as Victims

As vampires gain in popularity, they start to appeal to a different kind of person as well: the self-styled vampire hunter. The long-running popular television show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, about a group of teenaged vampire fighters in California, has influenced this subculture. While for many, it's just role-playing, some take this game with deadly seriousness.
On March 12, 2004, Timothy White was arrested outside a church in Jacksonville, Florida for shooting a co-worker twice at a Westside Domino's pizza delivery store. He was reputed to be a born-again, Bible-reading Christian with an obsession with vampires and zombies. Allegedly he believed the victim, David Harrison, was a vampire and that he, White, was a vampire slayer. He shot Harrison, 22, in the face and stomach. Then he left, but before the shooting, a witness had spotted him lingering outside the store. Asked why he was there, he replied that he was "vampire hunting."
When taken into custody, he was armed with a knife, a sawed-off shotgun, and three pistols. He had no criminal record, but some people said that he kept to himself. His victim had actually been a long-time friend. Since Harrison was wounded and did not die, White was charged with aggravated battery with a criminal weapon.

****​

In Colorado, Kirk Palmer, 28, killed Antonia Vierira with a shotgun because he believed that Vierira had turned his girlfriend into a vampire. He was charged with murder, but testimony at his trial supported the diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia. He had told a psychologist that four days before the shooting in July 2001, he had removed a splinter from his girlfriend's thumb and "saw" Vierira come out of her body to tell him that she had been bitten and was now a member of his vampire gang. Enraged, he had tried to combat Vierira the only way he could—by killing him.
Directly after the homicide, he had gone to Canada to "cleanse his spirit."
On March 10, 2004, he was found not guilty by reason of insanity and sentenced to a mental hospital in Pueblo.

 

[GihanFX]

Superstition Rules: Death, Murder, and Vampire Hunters

Although it's generally vampires who are considered deadly, those who hunt them down can be just as lethal, as the following modern-day stories reveal.

Shane Chartres-Abbott

In Australia, Shane Chartres-Abbott, 28, was executed in his home in June 2003. He was a male prostitute, and apparently his killers were a pair of hit men. Chartres-Abbott was on trial for rape, and just as its fifth day was about to commence, he was found murdered. At the trial, he claimed he was a vampire, and among the charges was that, during the rape, he had bitten off the tongue of a female client. He also said he drank people's blood. The identity of the suspects is still unknown, but the speculation is that they were hired either by the victim or by clients who feared being exposed. In any event, that supposed vampire was stopped.

Blantyre, Malawi map

Across the world, in Blantyre, Malawi, a small nation in southeastern Africa, government officials were faced with an epidemic of rumors that vampires were attacking several different settlements, according to The New York Times. In early December 2002, some villagers beat a man to death on the suspicion that he was a vampire, others attacked three Roman Catholic priests passing through, while another contingent destroyed the tent encampment for an aid group drilling wells for drinking water. They believed it was the headquarters for the vampires.Apparently the rumors began when President Bakili Muluzi made a bargain to trade human blood assistance for food to mitigate the severe hunger crisis. People thought the government was in collusion with vampires, sending the vampires out to collect the blood. Officials were then sent out to target villages to calm these fears and demonstrate that there are no vampires. But that did not stop villagers from taking the defensive, perhaps because they already felt so defenseless against hunger and AIDS. Some had also heard about people being attacked by vampires, so the government's reassurances were unconvincing. Apparently the aid group had sprayed something into the air that adversely affected one woman, so she had beat a drum to alert others to the danger, and they had run out and retaliated. Eventually the region settled down.
While some people kill vampires outright, others just take precautions.

Transylvania map

In 2002, Nicolae Mihut, living in Transylvania, believed that his mother, who had just died, had become a vampire. A local priest had warned him about the signs: a cat had jumped over her coffin that day, and her cheeks and lips were quite red. Mihut knew that, to release her soul, he had to stab her with a silver knife, either in the chest or the stomach. So he plunged the dagger into her heart. He knew he had done the right thing when he heard a long sigh escape her. Then she became pale. That made everyone involved feel better, and she was buried.
More recently in Martotinu de Sus, Romania, a village of some 300 people southwest of Bucharest, a relative of Toma Petre exhumed his body from the grave, removed his heart to burn, and mixed the ashes with water. He then gave it to three people to drink. It was a routine ritual for that town for slaying suspected vampires, but then something unintended occurred.
The police got involved. They heard about it and they came to investigate. It seems that slaying vampires in that area is illegal. It was considered, according to journalist Matthew Scofield for The Philadelphia Inquirer, an incident of "re-killing."
But the dead man's relatives could not understand. They believed that, by killing this vampire and making certain he could not rise from his grave, they had saved lives the vampire was trying to take. Yet the Romanian police say that, since vampires are mythological creatures, what the Petre relatives had done was a form of corpse abuse known as disturbing the peace of the dead. That carried a three-year stint in prison.
In addition, if this case was so routine for this family, others in the area were probably doing something similar, so a wider investigation was called for. In fact, other villagers acknowledged to reporters that it was occurring quite frequently, not just there but in other villages. Apparently they believed that most families at one time or another had engendered at least one vampire, and they had learned from childhood how to defend themselves.

Bela Lugosi as Dracula

One can tell when someone has become a vampire, according to their ideas, by digging up the coffin and checking the body's position. It may have rolled to the side, in which case the person could not have been dead. In addition, there will be no decomposition, but bloody fluid will be present around the mouth.
Once a vampire has risen from the grave to feed on the living, he or she must be stopped. That is, the heart must be removed, burned, mixed with water and given to relatives who have fallen ill.
In this case, after Petre was buried, three of his relatives grew ill. Upon opening the grave and coffin, Petre was found on his side, with blood on his mouth. Once the heart was burned--and it allegedly sang as it was trapped and decimated--those who were ill grew better, which was proof enough that they had done the right thing.
Whether it's murder or corpse abuse, people who fear supernatural monsters may act out in whatever way seems necessary for protection. To them it's not a crime.

 

[GihanFX]

Vampire Witch

In the Ukraine in March, 2005 Diana Semenuha, 29, was arrested after police discovered that she had lured street children to her home to drink their blood. She admitted to the deed. Apparently, she believed that this practice could thwart a muscle-wasting condition she had, but her crime appears to have a different agenda as well. As reported in the Odessa press, which dubbed Semenuha "the vampire witch," she invited the children in with promises of food and a bed, gave them alcohol and had them sniff glue to make them pliable, and then bled them. Whatever she did not use herself, she sold to practitioners of black magic who participated with her in the Black Sea port's occult network. Once a blood source weakened, she moved the child back out to the streets and found a replacement.

Odessa, Ukraine

The police were tipped off about this and raided her Odessa apartment. The place was painted entirely in black, the windows covered with black cloth, and the lighting done with black candles. Strapped into beds were seven children, all of them drugged. The raid also turned up a large knife and a silver goblet engraved with symbols believed to be for witchcraft. In fact, upon her arrest, Semenuha offered "witch" as her occupation. During the subsequent investigation, after Semenuha admitted that she took blood from the children, it was learned that she taught witchcraft to others and allowed her students to drink blood from her. She did not view what she was doing as a crime, since there was a fair exchange and no force or violence. Since she had fed the children and given them shelter, she believed she had paid for their blood.One male child reported that he actually saw Semenuha drink his blood. She let him sniff glue and then used a syringe to draw blood from his hand. He said that as she muttered in a language he did not understand, she then squirted the blood into a silver bowl and consumed it.
The seven children who were rescued from her home disappeared into the streets again, making the case against the vampire witch difficult to prosecute.

 

[GihanFX]

Canadian Vampire Plot

A case in Canada that acquired the moniker, "the vampire murder" during the trial seems to have less to do with vampires than with the public's fascination with vampire-related crimes.
In Toronto on November 25, 2003, a twelve-year-old boy was found in the crawl space of the basement of his home, murdered and nearly drained of blood. He had been bludgeoned, stabbed and hacked seventy-one times, and his older brother, 16, and two friends were arrested and tried for first-degree murder. Since they were all juveniles, they could not be named in press reports, but during the trial the victim was dubbed "Jonathan." The trial had run for three months, with startling testimony from the girlfriend of one of the accused, and was already in jury deliberations when the whole thing was derailed in February 2005 by a reporter's discovery.
The girl's testimony had centered around one of the boys being affiliated with a vampire subculture and she offered evidence from a taped phone call that the grisly murder had been planned. On the tape, made shortly before Jonathan was murdered, the boy said that they planned to kill the entire family. After Jonathan was bludgeoned and stabbed, one boy fled and the brother and other accomplice allegedly attempted to kill the step-father with a baseball bat. They were both charged with attempted murder.
Defense attorneys for the two accomplices insisted that the phone call to the girl had not been serious, and the fact that the murder had occurred shortly thereafter was only a coincidence. They contended that Jonathan's brother had acted alone in a fit of rage. The alleged accomplice said that his call to the girl to discuss the killing was an attempt to impress her, because she wanted to break up with him. He claimed that he'd said similar things to impress other girls. He was joking as well when he referred to himself as a vampire and drank blood with girlfriends before having sex.
Still, the situation looked bleak for these boys as the jury went into deliberations. But then a reported from the National Post came across a Web site, vampirefreaks.com, on which the girl had kept a blog and posted comments throughout the trial. Although she had testified that she had gone along with the boy's vampire fetish to be involved with him but had thought it childish, her vulgar online comments indicated that in fact she bore a fondness for blood, pain, and cemeteries, and hated people.
When the contents of the Web site were revealed, the judge noted that the veracity of the witness's testimony was now in doubt, and declared a mistrial. Legal commentators said that personal Web logs (known as Blogs) on the Internet add a new dimension to criminal trials. Things get exposed that could affect evidence or jury deliberations. Prior to going back to court for a new trial, the prosecutors in this case will have to evaluate whether the girl's Web postings are sincere and, if so, just how they may undermine her testimony.

 

[GihanFX]

You have a Friend in Pennsylvania

Map of Pennsylvania with Collegeville locator


Lisa Manderach was three weeks short of her thirtieth birthday when she went for a quick errand to Your Kidz & Mine, a new children's clothing store in Collegeville, Pennsylvania on September 10, 1995. She took her daughter, Devon, only nineteen months old, and that was the last time anyone saw either of them alive. The details of this case are from the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Since Lisa's husband knew where she had gone, he sent the police to the store, where they found her car parked outside. They searched the premises and found a stash of pornography, stains that looked like blood, long black hairs consistent with the missing woman (including a few in the vacuum cleaner bag), and peepholes drilled into the dressing rooms. Caleb Fairley, 21, had been minding the store for his mother. When located, he presented an even better suspect: His face was covered with fresh scratches. He said he'd gotten them in the scramble of a "mosh pit" at a local club called the Asylum, but a doctor's examination indicated they were from fingernails. He was arrested.
By that time, Devon's body had already been found by hikers, strangled and dumped on a hill at the Valley Forge National Park, but Lisa was not with her. Fairley's defense attorney cut a smart deal: take the death penalty off the table and my client will tell you where he dumped the murdered woman. The DA accepted it, because the sooner they found her, he knew, the more likely it was that they could get evidence to ensure that Fairley never walked out of prison. Even so, the decision haunted him and drew quick criticism. Some people believed that Lisa would have been found quickly without the deal.
Fairley showed them where he had placed the body behind an abandoned industrial building in a wooded area of King of Prussia. From the exposed position, it was assumed that Lisa had been sexually assaulted. She was taken for an autopsy.
The media was quick to learn about Fairley's dark background. He'd played Dungeons & Dragons, had groped or propositioned women, was known to read pornography avidly, and collected vampire paraphernalia. He'd also joined the Asylum, a members-only nightclub that resembled a padded cell and catered to people who dressed in Goth-style clothing and sported dramatic make-up as part of the vampire subculture. The place regularly hosted vampire live action role-playing games, such as Vampire: The Masquerade (and club members interviewed by the media pointed out that they were being unfairly stigmatized because of one person's sickness). Overweight, Fairley had often been a target of ridicule, especially from girls at school, and tended to keep to himself. He'd once been close to his younger brother, who had accidentally shot himself when he was four, and Fairley had told some people that he felt empty and lost.

Game: Vampire: The Masquerade


After his arrest, a stain on his shirt was tested and found via DNA analysis to be a match for Lisa Manderach. Stains at the store on different carpets matched mother and daughter, and tissue found underneath Manderach's fingernails matched Fairley's DNA. Prosecutors surmised that Fairley had tried to rape Lisa after she entered the store, she had struggled and scratched him, so he had strangled her. (He had so much as admitted that her resistance had made him blindingly angry.) He then killed Devon and took both bodies to remote areas to dump.
Fairley was tried in April 1996 and convicted on two counts of first-degree murder. He received two life terms. Those acquainted with him could hardly believe that he could have harbored such violence, but his indulgence in pornography and vampire fantasies, coupled with his frustration over his helplessness around women, is all too often a formula for such violence of opportunity

 

[GihanFX]

Valentine's Day Surprise

A Valentine's Day surprise occurred in Arizona when an apparent agreement between a man and woman became much rougher than expected — even terrifying. Robert McDaniel, 46, learned to his dismay he was with a "vampire."

Robert McDaniel


On Feb 14, 2007, the two of them had consumed drugs and alcohol together in a shack behind an abandoned house, and McDaniel voluntarily allowed his "friend," Tiffany Sutton, 23, to tie him up. She'd been staying with him for a couple of days and had agreed to participate in kinky sex, although no mention is made of who came up with this idea. With them was a book, The Eighth Circle, a reference to one of the lower arenas in Dante's literary circles of hell. McDaniel ended up in a hell of his own, once he was bound and vulnerable.

Tiffany Sutton


According to his story, pieced together from several accounts, Sutton, whom he barely knew, had tied him up and then pulled out several knives and a pickax. She sliced him across the leg with one of the knives, and when he demanded to know what she was doing, she allegedly told him she liked to drink blood and wanted to drink his. Then she placed her mouth to his fresh wound and did just that.
But it didn't end there. She also stabbed him several times in the upper torso. Fearing for his life, McDaniel struggled to get free of his bonds. He knew that if Sutton sliced too deeply or in the wrong place, he could bleed to death in short order. This was most definitely not what he had in mind when he'd envisioned their sexual encounter.
Finally, he managed to get loose of his bonds and escape the shed. However, when he started to run, Sutton allegedly came after him, ax in hand. No mention was made of wounds from this implement, so she apparently did not catch him. Or if she did, she didn't use it on him. He managed to get to a phone to call a friend before passing out.
The friend arrived to find McDaniel's blood-covered body, with Sutton standing nearby, covered only in a blanket. He called 911 and got McDaniel transported by ambulance to a hospital. There, ER staff counted seven stab wounds and several slices. Fortunately, McDaniel survived.
According to newspapers local to Phoenix, such as the Sun, Tempe police arrested Sutton for aggravated assault, although she initially claimed that she had been the victim. In newspaper photos, she appears as a brunette with the typical Goth look of heavy black eye-liner. She insisted that the entire incident had been consensual, so if this case gets to court, it will probably be a matter of which participant the jury believes.
McDaniel told police that he had been tricked: While he'd consented to be bound, he'd had no idea, he said, what Sutton had in mind. He was not keen when she'd cut and stabbed him, and he'd believed she might actually kill him. Yet it came out later that McDaniel had signed a disclaimer before they'd started their Valentine's Day tryst that he would not prosecute if the sex became "crazy." Attorneys will no doubt try to determine whether it's binding.
In August Sutton pleaded guilty to charges of aggravated assault and in October was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Tiffany Sutton

 

[GihanFX]

The Fearful Vampire Killers

The fate of one "vampire killer" was determined in Arkansas recently, while three people in Guyana still await their chance to prove in court that they acted rationally...if they can.

Nathan Chipps

On August 15, 2006, Nathaniel Chipps shot Teresa Tracy McCartney in the head outside Rockport, Arkansas. They were together in the travel trailer of a friend, also present but in another room, and they started to argue. Chipps then shot McCartney, fled the trailer, stole a car, and high-tailed it to hide out in the home of a relative.

Rockport, Arkansas map


The friend who owned the trailer called the police, who transported the victim, but she had died from her wound. She'd been shot with a .38-calibre weapon, the type of gun that the police located in the vicinity where they arrested Chipps after a two-hour manhunt. He went with them without further incident and was locked up in the county jail. The gun was sent for a ballistics examination, as Chipps had no weapon on him.
Chipps, 21, claimed that McCartney, 35, had told him she was a vampire and wanted to suck his blood. He'd shot her in self-defense. However, it was found that he'd taken drugs that night and was hallucinating at the time of the incident.
Chipps was charged with aggravated assault and murder, according to a Caller-Times report. The case went to trial and, with a murder conviction, Chipps could have gotten 99 years, but instead, on June 15, a jury found him guilty of the lesser charge of manslaughter. They sentenced him to 20 years in prison and a fine of $10,000.
Next: The situation was more confused on the East Demerara Coast of Guyana.

 

[GihanFX]

The Fearful Vampire Killers (Continued)

Map of Guyana


On April 30, 2007, a media report stated that three people in Guyana had been arrested in the killing of a woman who'd apparently inspired a superstitious revulsion. During the early morning hours, she had wandered into the village of Bare Root, where even people possessing cell phones still believed in superstition. Two men called out to her, believing she was a girl from the village, and when she snarled at them, they decided she was not human. Around the same time, a village resident spotted a red mark on her child's chest that indicated an "Old Higue" — a vampiric spirit that sheds its skin and transforms into fire - had come and sucked the child's blood.

A sketch of 'Old Higue', a vampiric spirit


Several people banded together to trap the woman in a circle of rice — which a vampire is compelled to count. They then attempted to burn her with kerosene, but supposedly she did not ignite — one more sign, to their minds, that she was not human. Some said that when she was surrounded, she became a ball of hair.
The villagers waved a manicole (palm) broom over the woman (another vampire-related ritual) and asked her where she was from, to which she replied "Non Pariel," then repeated the phrase, "ow me daddy" several times. As the sun came up (supposedly allowing the Old Higue to return to human form), the woman stood straight, revealing that her dress did not fully cover her and she wore no underwear. No one knew her identity, so those who surrounded her apparently beat her and when she went down, someone shoved objects into her. They then left her to die where she lay.
The body was found on the road, states Stabroek News, and the police transported it to a funeral home to await an autopsy. A number of villagers told reporters that if the woman was an Old Higue, "she had to go, we don't want dem kinda thing in this place." An elderly woman who lived there but disapproved of what had happened surmised that the victim had been mentally unstable and thus an easy target for the fearful and superstitious.

the Guyana Chronicle


In fact, this turned out to be the case. A few days later, the Guyana Chronicles reported the victim's name, Mrs. Radika Singh, and described her as a mentally disabled, fifty-five-year-old psychiatric patient who had wandered away from relatives tending her and into the village. She'd been disoriented and probably did not speak clearly.
Her cause of death was found to be blunt force trauma to the head. Three people were charged in her murder: Roland Spencer, 41, Rayon Bobb, 28, and Alita Roberts, 25. Given the facts, it's unlikely they'll be able to mount any kind of defense, especially since they attacked the victim in the dark, before they could even see her properly.

 

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A Most Unusual Team

In July 2007, a girl who participated in a triple homicide was convicted in Canada. Due to her age, Canadian media sources observed the Youth Criminal Justice Act and declined to reveal her name, but it has turned up in many international reports.

Jasmine Richardson

On April 23, 2006, in a town in southeastern Alberta called Medicine Hat, the parents and younger brother of Jasmine Richardson were discovered murdered in their home. A six-year-old friend came to the house early on Sunday afternoon, saw a body through the window, and alerted his mother, who called the authorities.

Map of North America with Alberta Locator

Police arrived and discovered three victims. Debra Richardson, 48, lay at the foot of the basement stairs, according to the Ottawa Citizen, covered in blood and stabbed 12 times. Her husband, Marc, was stabbed twice as many times, all over his face and torso, including his crotch. He'd bled out so much there was little left in his body, but from the spatters all over the TV room it was clear he had put up a tremendous fight. Eight-year-old Jacob was found in his bed, with his throat cut.
Detectives sent for the forensic unit to process the scene, and they brought dogs to go through the home and grounds. A white truck sat in the driveway with a smashed window, and another truck belonging to the family was found off the property. Items in the home indicated that there was a twelve-year-old daughter, Jasmine, who was missing. Police did not know if she had been abducted, so a country-wide warrant was issued for her.

 

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"Runawaydevil"

sketch Jeremy Allen Steinke

Friends of Jasmine's twenty-three-year-old boyfriend, Jeremy Allen Steinke, pointed authorities to a town in Saskatchewan, and they found Jasmine alive and with Steinke. He was an unemployed high school dropout, considered the unofficial leader of a group of Goth-punks. The two were arrested without incident and returned to Medicine Hat. After a hearing, Jasmine was sent to the Calgary Young Offenders Centre to await a trial. Within days, she had penned an apology letter to her family, admitting she had taken part in their slaughter. She wrote that she wished she could "take it all back" because now she "had no one." She said her brother was killed because he was too sensitive to survive without her parents. She herself had choked him to make him unconscious.
Supposedly, this all occurred because the seventh-grade girl had reacted badly to being grounded for dating Steinke behind her parents' backs. They told her she could no longer see him. Yet Jasmine had already agreed to marry Steinke and she was determined to be with him. She urged him to help her get rid of them.

Logo: VampireFreaks.com

A romantic bond was not all this couple shared: they had a fixation on Goth culture and Steinke even claimed to be a 300-year-old werewolf. Both had posts on a Web site known as VampireFreaks.com, and Steinke reportedly wore a vial of blood around his neck. Jasmine referred to herself on another site as "runawaydevil". They shared an appreciation for razor blades, serial killers, vampires, and blood. They would soon learn that murder was not fantasy.

 

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Inspired by Blood

During the 2007 trial, covered by reporters from around Canada, some facts about Jasmine came out that indicated her state of mind. Not only did she and her boyfriend ascribe to the darker side of Goth culture, with a fixation on death and imaginary monsters, but they had watched the film Natural Born Killers.

Movie Poster: Natural Born Killers

Oliver Stone produced this 1994 film, which is engorged with gratuitous violence. A killing couple, Mickey (Woody Harrelson) and Mallory (Juliette Lewis), were based on spree killers Charles Starkweather and his girlfriend. Throughout the film they commit some 52 murders, including massacres with multiple victims. They start with the slaughter of Mallory's abusive parents, one by drowning the other by burning, but spare the younger brother. One can see how an angry couple who embrace death culture and find parents an annoying hindrance might see in this film an affirmation of their bid for freedom and a violent solution.
While Jasmine's apology letter was not read to the jury, deemed to have been gained via improper interrogation protocol, jurors did see a drawing found in Jasmine's locker that depicted four stick figures. The middle-sized figure throws gasoline on the other three with a smile, lights them ablaze, and then runs to a vehicle labeled "Jeremy's truck." In addition, the two had exchanged letters after their arrest that indicated they wished they had run away together. There was no indication in these communications that Jasmine was remorseful or an unwilling accomplice. She also had stolen her mother's ATM card that night, got money, and had sex with her lover — all pointing to a callous attitude. (Even her apology letter was largely self-pitying.)

 

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Jasmine's Trial

Jasmine's attorney, Tim Foster, accepted the idea that Jasmine might have engaged in discussions about killing her parents, but said she did not mean that she would literally do it. The scenario he painted was that Steinke had gotten high on cocaine, watched the violent movie, and undertook to rescue Jasmine, as "Mickey" had done for "Mallory. " The idea was his alone, as was the act. Thus, Jasmine, too, was a victim.
She took the stand in her own defense and affirmed that her boyfriend was the killer. She cried when asked about choking and stabbing her brother and said that Steinke had made her do it, as her brother begged for his life. She had a knife in her hand, she said, for self-defense, but Steinke had taken it and slit her brother's throat.
While the prosecutor conceded that Jasmine did not engage in the act of murder, she had persuaded and encouraged Steinke to do it, telling him which window would be unlocked for entering the home on Saturday night. She also willingly fled with him. Thus, she was eligible for a murder conviction. He urged the jury to remember her part.
On July 9, 2007, after the jury deliberated just over four hours, Jasmine was convicted of three counts of first-degree murder. She began to weep, according to the Edmonton Sun. Under Canadian law, she cannot receive an adult sentence, so she faced a maximum of six years in prison and four of probation. Steinke faces trial for murder next year; he has not yet entered a plea.
Jasmine Richardson is the youngest person to be convicted of multiple murder in Canadian history. For that matter, she's the youngest in North American history.

 

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