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The Vampire Killers: A Horrifying True Story of Bloodshed and Murder [Mass Market Paperback]

Clifford L. Linedecker (Author)
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Vampire Killers October 15, 1998
When eighteen-year-old Jennifer Wendorf returned home one evening, she was witness to the most horrific scene she would ever set eyes upon: her own parents' brutally bludgeoned bodies. It was later discovered that both Richard and Naoma Wendorf each received over twenty ferocious blows to the head.

As this atrocious crime came to light, so too did many troubling questions: Who, in a quiet Florida town, could harbor such hatred toward the genial couple? Where was the Wendorfs' troubled fifteen-year-old daughter, Heather? And could this ungodly murder be connected to Heather's friends, a bizarre group of teens who were obsessed with blood drinking and other vampire rituals?

Read with fascination as police track down the renegade teens, extract their startling confessions, and watch as bestselling author Clifford Linedecker uncovers the twisted tale in a true-crime case as shocking as any fiction...


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"There is blood everywhere. Please, come as fast as you can..." --Jennifer Wendorf's desperate plea to the 911 operator

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When 18-year-old Jennifer Wendorf returned home one evening from her part-time job, she was witness to the most horrific scene she would ever set eyes upon: her own parents' brutally bludgeoned bodies. It was later discovered that both Richard and Naomi Wendorf each received over twenty ferocious blows to the head.

As this atrocious crime came to light, so too did many troubling questions: Who, in the quiet Florida town just outside of Orlando, could harbor such hatred toward the genial couple? Where was the Wendorf's troubled fifteen-year-old daughter, Heather? And could this ungodly murder be connected to Heather's friends, a bizarre group of teens who were obsessed with blood drinking and other vampire rituals?

Read with fascination as police track down the renegade teens, extract their startling confessions, and watch as bestselling author Clifford Linedecker uncovers the twisted tale in a true-crime case as shocking as any fiction...


Product Details

  • Mass Market Paperback: 296 pages
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks (October 15, 1998)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0312966725
  • ISBN-13: 978-0312966720
  • Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.3 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 6.1 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,091,279 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Compiled and rephrased newspaper articles, November 29, 1998
This review is from: The Vampire Killers: A Horrifying True Story of Bloodshed and Murder (Mass Market Paperback)
By now, nearly everyone who followed the "vampire murders" of 1996 in Eustis, FL, knows about confessed killer Rod Ferrell and how the case against him and his Kentucky cult wound down.

But Clifford Linedecker returns us to the beginning, when all anyone knew was that on Nov. 25, 1996, someone fatally bludgeoned Richard Wendorf, 49, on his living-room couch and his wife, Naoma Ruth Queen, 54, in their kitchen.

Linedecker recaptures the various parties' moods as the case unfolds because his chief sources are the local newspapers that reported it fresh.

By far, most of what is in "The Vampire Killers" came from a newspaper. I should know. I wrote some of the original stories Linedecker used. I covered the case from Day 1 for The (Leesburg, Fla.)  Daily Commercial, and I can recognize my phrases in the book, as well as those from my counterparts on The Orlando Sentinel.

The reader new to the case can catch up on pretty factual news coverage in between the author's passages of commentary. But I was hoping the first book out on this case would advance my own understanding of it, and not just parrot it back to me.

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars info on teh case is good but incomplete, November 10, 2002
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foreverknitefan "moemcal" (Dardanelle, Arkansas USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Vampire Killers: A Horrifying True Story of Bloodshed and Murder (Mass Market Paperback)
Being an avid reader of both vampires and true crime, I picked up this book with great interest. My fave TV series" Forever Knight" is mentioned twice in passing, which gives you an indication of the half-done research done here. Basically the author goves an overall good synposis of what happened, but omitted ( as I found out in other books) some info, such as the possible emotional shock of one of the four accused of the murders.

Background info, such as cult mind thinking and exactly WHY the group went as far as they did is not looked into here. It is an okay resource into the case, but incomplete.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars early release of book, February 15, 1999
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This review is from: The Vampire Killers: A Horrifying True Story of Bloodshed and Murder (Mass Market Paperback)
I thought the overall story was well written, but I was disappointed that the book was published before all the sentences were handed down. It left me wondering and curious as to the fate of Dana and Che. Another mystery is the fact that the book I bought has a 5th picture on the front of a boy who from the best of my knowledge is not in the story at all. Who is he? I purchased this book at Lambert Field gift shop, St. Louis, MO
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A few minutes before 8 p.m., Jennifer Lynn Wendorf began preparing to wind up her shift as a cashier at the Publix Supermarket in Mount Dora, balancing out her cash register and turning over the cash drawer to the night supervisor. Read the first page
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Lake County, Baton Rouge, Calloway County, Richard Wendorf, New Orleans, Greentree Lane, Naoma Wendorf, Sheriff Scott, Eustis High School, Ford Explorer, Judge Lockett, Mount Dora, Steven Murphy, Rod Ferrell, Main Street, Heather Wendorf, Sondra Gibson, Daily Commercial, Orlando Sentinel, Murray State, South Side Manor, White Wolf, Judge Johnson, Marion County, Martha Anderson
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