With good reason it has been argued that Rasputin, an unordained
Russian mystic and holy man, who helped discredit the tsarist
government, leading to the fall of the Romanov dynasty in 1917, was a
vampire.
Contemporary opinions variously saw Rasputin as a saintly mystic,
visionary, healer, and prophet, or as a debauched religious charlatan.
Historians can find both to be true, but also much uncertainty:
accounts of his life have often been based on dubious memoirs, hearsay,
and legend.
The
murder of Rasputin has become legend, some of it invented by the very
men who killed him, so that it becomes difficult to discern exactly
what happened. However, it is generally agreed that on December 16,
1916, having decided that Rasputin's influence over the Tsarina made
him too dangerous to the Empire, a group of nobles led by Prince Felix
Yusupov, and the Grand Duke, Dmitri Pavlovich apparently lured
Rasputin to the Yusupovs' Moika Palace, where they served him cakes and
red wine laced with a large amount of cyanide.
According to the legend, Rasputin was not affected, although there
was enough poison to kill ten men. Maria Rasputin's account says that
if her father ate poison, it was not in the cakes or wine, because
after the attack by Guseva, he had hyperacidity, and avoided anything
with sugar. She expressed doubt that he was poisoned at all.
Determined to finish the job, Yusupov worried that Rasputin would
live until morning, so that the conspirators wouldn't have time to
conceal his body. He ran upstairs to consult with the others, then came
back down and shot Rasputin through the back with a revolver. Rasputin
fell. When Yusupov went to check on the body, Rasputin opened his
eyes, grabbed Felix by the throat, strangling him, and then threw him
across the room and took off. As he made his bid for freedom, the rest
of the conspirators arrived and fired at him. After being hit three
times in the back, he fell. As they neared his body, they found he was
trying to get up so they clubbed him into submission. Then after
wrapping his body in a sheet, threw him into the icy Neva River. (Other
accounts says he was not dead when he fall into the Neva but he
received two silver bullets in the chest and was eventually defeated
because of the running water flaw of the vampire.)
Three days later the body of Rasputin — poisoned, shot four times,
and badly beaten — was recovered from the river and autopsied. The
cause of death was drowning. His arms were apparently found in an
upright position, as if he had tried to claw his way out from under the
ice. In the autopsy, it was found that he was poisoned, and that the
poison alone should have killed him.
Subsequently, the Empress Alexandra buried Rasputin's body in the
grounds of Tsarskoe Selo. After the February Revolution, a group of
workers from Petrograd uncovered Rasputin's body, carried it into a
nearby wood and burned it.
Weeks before he was assassinated in December 1916, according to his secretary Simonovich, Rasputin wrote the following:
The Count of St. Germain
The Count of St. Germain (allegedly died February
27, 1784) was an adventurer, inventor, amateur scientist, alchemist,
violinist, and a mysterious gentleman who haunted the royal and imperial
Courts of France, Germany and Russia. Since his death, various occult
organizations have adopted him as a model figure or even as a powerful
deity. In recent years several people have claimed to be the Count of
St. Germain.
St.
Germain never revealed his actual background and identity, leading to
many speculations about him and his origin and ancestry. Some of these
include the possibility that he was the son of Francis II Rákóczi, the
Prince of Transylvania.
What we do know about him is that he always wore black or white, never
ate or drank in public, could speak at least twelve languages and
several sources, including documents signed by his own hand, suggest
that his apparent death in 1786 was faked. He evidently worked as a spy
for several European governments, and Frederick the Great called him
'the man who does not die'.
He visited Marie Antoinette and her intimate friend, Madame d'Adhémar,
who later wrote the story of his abilities as an Adept, and that he had
warned of the coming debacle and death of the king and
queen.Theosophists consider him to be a Mahatma, Master or adept.
Aleister Crowley identified with him. Helena Blavatsky said he was one
of her Masters of Wisdom and hinted at secret documents.
Many groups in occultism honor St. Germain as an Ascended Master. As
such, he is believed to have many magical powers such as the ability to
teleport, levitate, walk through walls, influence people telepathically,
etc.
Some esoteric groups credit him with inspiring the Founding Fathers,
George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, to draft the Declaration of
Independence and the United States Constitution, as well as providing
the design of the Great Seal of the United States.
There were rumors of him alive in Paris in 1835, in Milan in 1867, and
in Egypt during Napoleon's campaign. Annie Besant said that she met the
Count in 1896. Theosophist C. W. Leadbeater claimed to have met him in
Rome in 1926, and said that St. Germain showed him a robe that had been
previously owned by a Roman Emperor and that St. Germain told him that
one of his residences was a castle in Transylvania.
Theosophist Guy Ballard claimed that the Count had introduced him to
visitors from Venus and published a book series about his channelings;
Ballard founded the "I Am" Activity.
In the books
The Chronicles of Saint Germain, writer Chelsea
Quinn Yarbro turn the man into and humanist vampire, then in subsequent
books placed the same character in various times and settings, ranging
from Ancient Babylon to Nazi Germany.
According to her own vampire mythology, blood provides physical
sustenance only in a very limited manner, if at all, and is far more
important for its intimacy with the life of the victim. 'Thus, it is not
the blood itself, but the act of taking it that gives the vampire
nourishment.'
Arnaud Paole
Arnaud Paole (d. c. 1726) (
Arnont Paule
in the original documents; an early German rendition of a Serbian name
or nickname, perhaps Арнаут Павле, Arnaut Pavle) was a Serbian hajduk
who was believed to have become a vampire after his death, initiating
an epidemic of supposed vampirism that killed at least 16 persons in
his native village of Medwegya, located at the Morava river near the
town of Paraćin.
His case, like the
similar case of Peter Plogojowitz, became famous because it was
officially investigated and documented by Austrian physicians and
officers, who confirmed the reality of vampires. Their report of the
case was distributed in Western Europe and contributed to the spread of
vampire belief among educated Europeans.
In
1732, three Austrian medical officers were dispatched from Belgrade to
investigate reports of an outbreak of vampirism in the nearby Serbian
village of Medvegia. The exhumation of the corpses involved was delayed
until their arrival.
After arriving at the village, the officers were told by villagers
that the problem had actually started five years before with the death
of Arnaud Paole (Arnold Paul). Paole had died after falling off a hay
wagon and breaking his neck.
A few weeks after his burial, people had begun complaining of him
coming to them at night, and four of these people had soon died
afterwards. It was remembered that, before he had died, Paole had once
talked about being attacked by a vampire in Turkish held southern
Serbia during his military service. He had said that he'd destroyed
this vampire.
He also had said that he ate earth from the vampire's grave and
smeared the vampire's blood on his own body so that he himself would
not become a vampire when he died.
The villagers had decided that the latter two remedies had failed.
Forty days after Paole's burial, his body had been exhumed and found to
be in a fresh condition with fresh blood having leaked from the mouth,
nose, ears and eyes, and the corpse's shirt and cloth covering were
bloody. This had been taken as final proof that Paole was a vampire.
A stake was driven through the heart, causing a loud moan to issue
from the rhroat, and the wound bled profusely. The corpse was then
cremated. The ashes were returned to the grave. Not taking any chances,
the villagers had next exhumed the four corpses of Paole's victims,
also staking and cremating them.
There had been no further problems from vampires for about the next
five years, until about three months before the medical officers were
sent to the village. At that time, a 60 year old woman named Miliza had
died following three months of illness.
After her death, sixteen more deaths had followed. In one case, a 21
year old woman named Stanoicka, had woke up at midnight with a scream.
She said she'd been attackeded by a 16 year old boy named Milloe who
had died nine weeks before, following a three-day illness.
Stanoicka had then felt that her throat was being throttled by
Milloe, and afterwards became greatly ill. She died three days later.
Twelve of the seventeen total cases clearly involve a short but fatal
illness. Besides Miliza, there is also one other case of illness
lasting 3 months. (The circumstances of death for the remaining three
are not given.)
The villagers had decided that this recent plague was initiated by
Miliza after her death. It was believed that, five years before, she
had eaten mutton from sheep that the vampire Arnaud Paole had preyed
upon.
On the same day that the three medical officers arrived, all
seventeen corpses were exhumed. Five of the seventeen bodies were found
to be decomposed. But the rest, who included Miliza, Stanacka, and
Milloe, were found to be in "the condition of the vampire."
The medical officers dissected the corpses and verified that the
internal organs were fresh and contained fresh blood. The officers
found the evidence of vampirism to be quite convincing. The twelve
bodies in "fresh" condition were then decapitated and cremated by hired
gypsies. The ashes were thrown into the nearby Morava River.
Various versions of the official report by the chief medical officer
to the Habsburgh emperor of Austria and Hungary, all titled
Visum et Repertum ("Seen and Discovered"), were printed in newspapers in England and elsewhere that same year, 1732.
The sources are
Vampires, Burial, and Death by Paul Barber and Dom Augustine Calmet's
Treatise on Vampires and Revenants.
Mercy Brown
The
Mercy Brown Vampire Incident which occurred in 1892, is one of the best
documented cases of the exhumation of a corpse in order to perform
rituals to banish an undead manifestation.
In Exeter, Rhode Island, the family of George and Mary Brown suffered a
sequence of tuberculosis infections in the final two decades of the 19th
century. Tuberculosis was called "consumption" at the time and was a
devastating and much-feared disease.
The mother, Mary, was the first to die of the disease, followed in 1888
by their eldest daughter, Mary Olive. Two years later, in 1890, their
son Edwin also became sick.
In 1891, another daughter, Mercy, contracted the disease and died in
January 1892. She was buried in the cemetery of the Baptist Church in
Exeter.
Friends and neighbors of the family believed that one of the dead family
members was a vampire (although they did not use that name) and caused
Edwin's illness. This was in accordance with threads of contemporary
folklore linking multiple deaths in one family to undead activity.
Consumption was a poorly understood condition at the time and the
subject of much superstition.
George Brown was persuaded to exhume the bodies, which he did with the
help of several villagers on March 17, 1892. While the bodies of both
Mary and Mary Olive had undergone significant decomposition over the
intervening years, the more recently buried body of Mercy was still
relatively unchanged and had blood in the heart. This was taken as a
sign that the young woman was undead and the agent of young Edwin's
condition. The cold New England weather made the soil virtually
impenetrable, essentially guaranteeing that Mercy's body was kept in
freezer-like conditions in an above-ground crypt during the 2 months
following her death.
Mercy's heart was removed from her body, burnt, and the remnants mixed
with water and given to the sick Edwin to drink. He died two months
later.
Mercy Brown is the most famous of about 100 persons desecrated post
mortem in the 1800's during the more than 75 years of the "New England
Vampire Hysteria." Dr. Michael Bell's book
Food for the Dead
comprehensively covers the story of Mercy Brown and outlines the many
cases of this frightening and bizarre historical era that earned Rhode
Island the historical nickname of being the "Transylvania of North
America".
The Highgate Vampire
Over the past 37 years, many popular
books on ghosts have mentioned a vampire which purportedly haunted
Highgate Cemetery in the early 1970s. The growth of its reputation is a
fascinating example of urbanlegend-building, which can be traced
through contemporary media reports and subsequent books by two
participants, Sean Manchester and David Farrant.
The Highgate Cemetery is an old Victorian-style cemetery
located on the beautiful North London hill site where 165,000 people
are spread over 37 acres. It is rumoured to have been the source of
inspiration for the famous scene of the cemetery in Bram Stoker's
'Dracula'.
Sean Manchester,self-proclaimed vampire hunter and then President of
The British Occult Society, relates in his autobiographical '
The Highgate Vampire'
. The whole affair started when a pair of female teenage students from
La Sainte Union Convent saw what they described as graves opening and
bodies rising in the north gate section.
On 21 December 1969 another student, David Farrant, decided to spend
the night there, according to his account written in 1991. In a letter
to the Hampstead and Highgate Express on 6 February 1970, he wrote
that when passing the cemetery on 24 December 1969 he had glimpsed "a
grey figure", which he considered to be supernatural, and asked if
others had seen anything similar. On the 13th, several people replied,
describing a variety of ghosts said to haunt the cemetery or Swains
Lane besides.
The description of these ghosts included a tall man in a hat, a
spectral cyclist, a woman in white, a face glaring through the bars of a
gate, a figure wading into a pond, a pale gliding form, bells ringing,
and voices calling. Hardly two correspondents gave the same story, a
common feature in genuine folk traditions about eerie places.
A second local man, Sean Manchester, was just as fired as Farrant to
identify and eliminate what he and Farrant believed was a paranormal
creature in the cemetery. The Hampstead and Highgate Express reported
him on 27 February 1970 as saying that he believed that 'a King Vampire
of the Undead', a medieval nobleman who had practised black magic in
medieval Wallachia, had been brought to England in a coffin in the
early eighteenth century, by followers who bought a house for him in
the West End and later leased the home of Sir William Ashurst (Lord
Mayor of London in 1694) on the site that later became Highgate
Cemetery.
Manchester claimed that modern Satanists had roused him. He said the
right thing to do would be to stake the vampire's body, and then
behead and burn it, but regrettably this would nowadays be illegal. The
paper headlined this: 'Does a Wampyr walk in Highgate?'
Famous vampire killers
Vampire criminals, vampire killers or
psychopatic vampires
are people who commit murders and drink the blood of their victims. In
order to for a crime to be considered a vampire crime, the drinking of
blood or the desire to drink blood must be a major motive.
The three known reasons why vampire crimes are committed are:
- Hematomania, or the deriving of pleasure from drinking blood,
- Renfield's Syndrome, the belief that a person is actually a vampire,
- involvement in satanic rituals
The vampire subculture as a whole does not associate themselves with
these individuals, stating that they are not real vampires, and that the
subculture does not promote violence or crime in any form.
The following vampire killers are listed in chronological order. It is
only a very small sample since many crimes remain insolved.
Fritz Haarmann
Also known as the
Vampire of Hanover or
The butcher of Hanover,
this German serial killer is believed to be responsible for at least 27
murders, and was convicted of 24. Although his criminal career began in
1898 (for molesting children) and later came to include assault, petty
theft and burglary, his first known murder did not take place until
September of 1918.
From September of 1898 to June of 1924, he would go on to rape, murder
and butcher at least 27 youths (spanning from ages 10 to 22). He killed
many of his victims by biting through their throats. He sold personal
belongings acquired from his victims, and reportedly sold their flesh on
the black market, although this may just be a rumor.
Haarmann is considered one of Germany’s most prolific killers, both
for the number of victims and the extremely grisly nature of his crimes.
He was guillotined, on April 15, 1925. His last words were: “I repent,
but I do not fear death.”
His head was preserved in a jar by scientists so they could study his brain, and is now at Gottingen medical school.
Peter Kürten
Peter Kürten (May 26, 1883-July 2, 1931) was a German serial killer dubbed
The Vampire of Düsseldorf by
the contemporary media. He committed a series of sex crimes, assaults
and murders against adults and children, most notoriously from February
to November 1929 in Düsseldorf.
Kürten admitted to a feeling of tension before and after the crime: a
condition that convinced the experts of the sexual character of the
motive. The attacks were planned and carried out in order to achieve a
sexual satisfaction that could only be obtained through acts of
violence. This is the ultimate operation of a monstrous and unique
egotism — the satisfaction of one’s sexual urges at all costs.
Charged with a total of nine murders and seven attempted murders (he
claimed 79), the trial of the ‘Düsseldorf Vampire’ opened on April 13th
1931. In answer to the judge’s question as to whether he had a
conscience, Kuerten replied:
"I have none. Never have I felt any misgiving in my soul; never did I
think to myself that what I did was bad, even though human society
condemns it. My blood and the blood of my victims will be on the heads
of my torturers. There must be a Higher Being who gave in the first
place the first vital spark to life. That Higher Being would deem my
actions good since I revenged injustice. The punishments I have suffered
have destroyed all my feelings as a human being. That was why I had no
pity for my victims."
On July 2nd 1932, the ‘Düsseldorf Vampire’ went to his death at a
guillotine erected in the yard of the Klingelputz Prison. Kürten
expressed his last earthly desire on the way to the yard: "Tell me", he
asked the prison psychiatrist, "after my head has been chopped off, will
I still be able to hear, at least for a moment, the sound of my own
blood gushing from the stump of my neck?" He savoured this thought for a
while, then added, "that would be the pleasure to end all pleasures."
John George Haigh
John George Haigh (July 24, 1909 — August 10, 1949), nicknamed the
Acid Bath Murderer and
The Vampire of London was an English serial killer during the 1940s.
First arrested in England in 1949, Haigh confessed to the murder of
nine people. He claimed he hit them over the head, opened an artery in
their throats, and drank the blood to make him feel better.
He was convicted of the murders of six people, dissolving their
bodies in sulphuric acid before forging papers in order to sell their
possessions and collect substantial sums of money. He acted under the
mistaken belief that police needed a body before they could bring a
charge of murder. He was convicted through forensic evidence and
executed.
Richard Chase
Richard
Chase (May 23, 1950 – December 26, 1980) was an American serial killer
who killed six people in California in one month. He was called the
Vampire of Sacramento due
to his drinking of his victims' blood and his cannibalism. The product
of a troubled household, Chase showed signs of psychological problems at
an early age and, later, gained himself a reputation as an alcoholic
and chronic drug user during his adolescence. He became obsessed with
bodily fluids, once being hospitalized for blood poisoning due to
injecting himself with rabbit’s blood.
He committed his first murder on December 29, 1977. He would prowl homes
and enter if the door was unlocked, believing that a locked door was a
sign that he was not wanted but an unlocked door was an invitation to
enter.
On January 27, he committed his last murder, slaying 38-year-old
Evelyn Miroth, her six-year-old son, Jason, and her 22-month-old nephew,
David. He engaged in necrophilia and cannibalism with Evelyn’s corpse.
He also drank her son’s blood and ate several of his internal organs,
including his brain. On May 8, 1979, he was found guilty of six counts
of murder in the first degree and was sentence to die in the gas
chamber.
He was found dead in his prison cell on December 26, 1980, having
committed suicide with doctor-prescribed anti-depressants that he had
stored up over several weeks.
Wayne Boden
Wayne
Clifford Boden (c. 1948 - March 27, 2006) was a Canadian serial killer
and rapist active from 1968-1971. He earned the nickname
the Vampire Rapist
because he had the penchant of biting the breasts of his victims, a
modus operandi that led to his conviction due to forensic odontological
evidence, the first such conviction in North America. Essentially
indulging himself in vampirism, Boden liked the taste of blood,
especially when it came directly from the breast.
Boden was locked up in 1972 after four women in Montreal were found
raped and strangled, all with bite marks on their breasts, between 1968
and 1970.
He was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Elizabeth Porteous,
Shirley Audette, Marielle Archambault, and Jean Wray. After serving 25
years in prison, Wayne Boden died of skin cancer in 2006 at the age of
58.
Andrei Chikatilo
Also known as the
Rostov Ripper and the
Shelter Belt killer,
Andrei Chikatilo claimed his first victim (a nine year old girl by the
name of Lena Zakotnova) on December 22nd, 1978, and would go on to kill
52 more. He evaded capture for almost 15 years. Mutilation of the eyes
and complete or partial removal of the sexual organs became two
signatures of his grisly crimes.
He targeted adolescent boys and girls, often raping and cannibalizing
them, as well as drinking their blood. Despite the ineptitude of local
police, he was eventually captured and found guilty of 53 counts of
murder.
During the trial, he behaved erratically, screaming obscenities and
beating himself against the bars of the cage to which he had been
confined for the duration of the proceedings. He stated “I am a mistake
of nature, a mad beast.” He was executed in 1994.
James P. Riva
In
April of 1980, when James P. Riva was 22 old, he shot his handicapped
grandmother twice as she sat in her wheelchair. The gun was loaded with
golden bullets. He drank the warm blood gushing from the wounds before
trying to cover his tracks by burning her body and her home.
Jimmy Riva was a troubled youngster who developed a bloodlust in his
kindergarden days. He became obsessed with the notion that his infirm
grandmother was a vampire predator, who was robbing him of his blood as
he slept. He believed that his only hope lay in shooting her with golden
bullets. Not only did he shoot her, but he also stabbed her repeatedly
because a "vampire told him that was what he had to do." He thought that
if he killed "everybody who was bad to him, he would come back as a
handsome man and have a car and girls and his life would be fine."
He was convicted of second degree murder, arson, assault and battery. He
was sentenced to life in prison on the murder charge, and ten to twenty
years for the arson charge.
Tsutomu Miyazaki
Known as
The Little Girl Killer, The Otaku Killer and
Dracula,
this Japanese serial killer mutilated and murdered four little girls.
His murders spanned 1988–1989 and took place in Tokyo’s Saitama
Prefecture. His youngest victim was four years old, the oldest was
seven. He molested their corpses and drank the blood of one victim, also
eating her hands.
He terrorized the families of all four victims, sending them letters
and postcards where he described his heinous crimes, and also may have
called their houses.
Tsutomu never repented for his crimes, was sentenced to death on April
14, 1997, and executed on June 17, 2008. The very mention of his name
still draws contempt and disgust from the Japanese public.
Marcelo de Andrade
Marcelo
de Andrade was the son of poor, Northeastern migrants and grew up in
Rio de Janeiro’s Rocinha Slum. As a child, he was the victim of physical
and sexual abuse and lived without running water. In 1991, over a
period of nine months Andrade brutally raped and strangled 14 boys
aged 6 to 13. His victims of choice were poor street kids whom he
attracted to deserted areas.
He practiced necrophilia, decapitated one of them, crushed the head
of another one, and, in two occasions, drank their blood. He later
confessed that he did it to
“become as beautiful as them”. His
mind unbalanced by the sermons of a priest from the “Universal Church
of the Kingdom of God”, Andrade declared that children would
automatically go to heaven if they died before they’re thirteen and
that he had done them a favour by sending them to heaven. I.
He is now in a psychiatric asylum, having been recaptured after escaping, in 1997.
Nicolas Claux
Nicolas
Claux (born March 22, 1972, in Cameroon) is a convicted French murderer
and was a self-proclaimed cannibal and vampire. He is sometimes
referred to as Nico Claux or even the
Vampire of Paris. After serving seven years of his sentence, he was released from prison on March, 2002.
Described as a “nearly psychotic sadist” Nicola Claux was a mortician at
the time of his arrest, in 1994. Upon interrogation, Nico confessed to
murder and grave robbing. When his apartment was searched, police found
unidentified skeletal remains and blood stolen from the local blood
bank. A self-confessed cannibal, Claux would eat strips of flesh cut
from corpses to which he had access as an assistant mortician.
Claux was found guilty of one count of murder and then condemned to
12 years in prison, despite debates over whether or not he was sane
enough to be held accountable for his acts. After his release from
prison, he has been painting portraits of serial killers and depictions
of crime scenes and murder victims. On his website (dedicated to
selling his murder-themed art) he stated:
“This website is my only official website…
I have worked hard to improve myself through the development of
artistic abilities. I cannot erase the past, but my goal is to channel
the negativity that I have caused into pure creativity … I do not
encourage other people into doing the things that I have done. The
spiritual and social prices to pay are far too high.”
He is currently residing in Paris. In 2006, a company in the U.S. began marketing a 2007 calendar showcasing Claux's paintings.
Rod Ferrell
Rodrick Justin Ferrell (born March 28, 1980) was the leader of a
loose-knit gang of teenagers from Murray, Kentucky infamously known as
the "Vampire Clan". In 1998 Ferrell pled guilty to the double-slaying of
a couple from Eustis, Florida, becoming the youngest person in the
United States on Death Row. Ferrell told people that he was a
500-year-old vampire named "Vesago."
The tendency of teenagers to be drawn to this group, and to the
charismatic Rod Ferrell is thought to have been helped by the presence
of a ruined structure nicknamed "Vampire Hotel" that sat in the hills of
the Land Between The Lakes National Recreation Area located in
southwestern Kentucky and northwestern Tennessee.
On September 1999 the Florida Supreme Court reduced his sentence to life
without parole. Ferrell is serving his sentence at the Union
Correctional Institution in Raiford, Florida as inmate DC# 124473.
Philip Onyancha
With
a murder toll of at least 17 (possibly 19), 32 year old Philip Oyancha
confessed to Kenyan police that he had murdered and drunk the blood of
his victims, supposedly as part of a cult ritual. His victims were women
and children, and he claims to have committed his crime under the
influence of evil “spirits” that made him thirst for blood. He claimed
the same spirits gave him special powers to subdue his victims.
He did admit that he only killed women, because they are more
vulnerable, saying; “When the urge comes, they are the easiest victims.”
According to his confession, he was initiated into a blood cult by a
female teacher who initiated him into ritual murder. He has led police
to the bodies of some of his victims, and claims to have been aiming to
kill 100 people in total “My target was to kill 100 women. I managed 17
and there were 83 to go”.
In an emotionless explanation of why he claimed to senselessly take
lives, Mr Onyacha said he felt a “powerful and unstoppable” urge to kill
and derived pleasure and satisfaction from strangling his victims and
drinking their blood. The urge became more and more powerful as time
went on, he said.
Daniel and Manuela Ruda
In 2002 in Bochum, Germany, Manuela Ruda and her husband Daniel, a
couple in their twenties, stabbed their friend Frank Haagen to death and
drank his blood. Afterwards, they had sex in Manuela’s coffin. His
decomposing body, a pentagram carved into the chest, was kept near the
coffin where Manuela slept. They claim to have acted on the devil’s
orders and said they chose their victim because he was “so funny and
would be the perfect court jester for Satan”
Manuela claimed she got a taste for blood at vampire cult “bite parties”
where willing donors volunteer to be bitten. She then became involved
in Satanism, and believed a sacrifice was necessary.
During their trial, they acted completely without remorse, threatening
witnesses and flashing satanic symbols. Daniel Ruda was committed for 15
years and his wife for 13. In passing the sentence, Judge Arnjo
Kerstingtombroke commented that
"This
case was not about satanism but about a crime committed by two people
with severe disorders. Nothing mystical or cult-like happened here; just
simple, base murder."
Anastasie Dieudonne
Anastasie Dieudonne, a coppery-haired, handsome mulatto woman,
confessed in 2009 that she had for several months been draining the
blood from her nine-year old niece.
The child, once healthy and robust, had begun to fade away. Neighbors
and relatives thought she had some wasting disease. Physicians,
including those of the American clinic at Trouin, could find nothing
wrong with her. Then an old black native doctor was called into
conference. "She is the victim," he said, "of a vampire, or a loup
garou.
The life-blood is being secretly sucked from her body. If the monster
is not discovered, she will die." "Bosh!" said many of the natives, who
are not very superstitious in a modernized town like Aux Cayes. It
looked like, bosh, indeed, when the old man carefully went over the
girl's entire body and found not even a pinch-prick. But he was not
satisfied and made a second examination.
This time he discovered, a small, clean, unhealed incision hidden on
the middle of her great toe. Anastasie Dieudonne subsequently confessed
that she had been giving the girl a stupefying vegetable drug and then
sucking her blood. She was, of course, an unbalanced creature, driven to
this dreadful practice by an uncontrollable urge.
Mauricio Lopez
In
2010 Mauricio Lopez found out that his niece (Mariella Mendez) was
having an affair with her sister’s husband, Macario Cruz. He stabbed
Macario Cruz in his heart and liver in front of Mendez and her four
children. He then proceeded to fill a plastic cup with Cruz’s blood and
drank it before fleeing the scene.
Lopez remained free for three days until he tried to get a ride from a
woman. The woman recognized him from wanted posters and he was quickly
captured by police in Bartow, Florida.
Lopez told the cops that he drank the blood based on a ritual from
Mexico. It was supposed to allow him to evade the police, but we're
guessing it doesn't work very well, judging by the results.
This
section is dedicated to the famous cases of vampirism, as they were
considered at the time they occurred. Today, we would probably call it
mass-murders.
The
murder of Rasputin has become legend, some of it invented by the very
men who killed him, so that it becomes difficult to discern exactly
what happened. However, it is generally agreed that on December 16,
1916, having decided that Rasputin's influence over the Tsarina made
him too dangerous to the Empire, a group of nobles led by Prince Felix
Yusupov, and the Grand Duke, Dmitri Pavlovich apparently lured
Rasputin to the Yusupovs' Moika Palace, where they served him cakes and
red wine laced with a large amount of cyanide.
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