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52 Andrei Chikatilo murdered at least women and children in Soviet-era Russia, as well as sexually assaulting and cannibalising his victims. When he was finally caught after he a 12-year spree he admitted that and got a thrill out of eating body parts tasting his victims’ blood.
He would even chop off their tongues and gouge out their eyes. The monster evaded capture until 1990 when a cop noticed him emerging wood with blood on his cheek from a where he had killed one of his victims. Chikatilo appeared in court in a special cage in 1992 before being sentenced to death for his crimes. a The 57-year-old was executed by shot to the head two years later. told SELF-styled vampire Rod Ferrell the fellow members of a US cult called Vampire Clan that he was a 500-yearold bloodsucker called Vesago.
The Kentucky-based group carried out ritualistic ceremonies and bloodletting rituals.
But in November 1996 their morbid fascination would lead to murder. Rod, 26, became friendly with 15-year-old fellow vampire fan Heather Wendorf.
Along with accomplice Howard Scott Anderson, he broke into the home of Heather’s parents, Richard and and Naomi Ruth in Eustis, Florida, killed them with a crowbar. clan Ferrell went on the run with the a life but was soon caught and given sentence for murder.
AS a young man, American Richard Trenton Chase would kill small animals – then eat them raw after mixing the critters in a blender with cola. In and out of mental institutions, he got the nickname Dracula when his love of injecting rabbit’s blood into his veins became known. Starting in December 1977, he would go on to brutally kill six people in the space of a month in Sacramento, California, including two children. On January 23, 1978, he broke into the house
ON November 25, 2001, Mabel Leyshon, dead at 90, was found her home in Llanfairpwll, Anglesey,
Police were by a carer. shocked to find that as well as stabbed 22 times, being her heart had been plucked out put into a saucepan and on a silver platter.
After their grim discovery, suspicion 17-year-old soon fell on Matthew Hardman, whose DNA the scene. was found at Detectives discovered vampire-related home, as material at his well as a knife he’d used in the crime.
The callous killer had broken into the widow’s home, butchered her and drank blood drained from gashes in her leg.
He had also arranged pokers in the shape of a crucifix next to her body, together with candles for a black mass. Hardman, who had apparently believed the killing would make him immortal, was jailed for life in 2002. of pregnant Teresa Wallin, shot her dead and had sex with her corpse. He then slit open her body and drank blood using a yogurt container as a cup. Chase was caught after leaving handprints in the blood of three other victims. Police found his apartment covered in human remains. Found guilty of six murders in May 1980 and sentenced to die in the gas chamber, the 30-year-old managed to cheat execution by committing suicide.