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Village puts vampire to residuum IN THE windswept lowlands of Romania the villagers of Marotinul de "For centuries we have had to protect ourselves against these The village of the vampire slayers has become the focus of a police The saga began when Petre Toma, 76, was cached at the New Year. His "He sucked the life from us so that he could live," said Mirela Armed with hammers and chisels, and fortified with dwelling house-made "When we lifted the coffin chapeau his arms were not on his breast every bit we After the corpse's chest had been opened with a wooden pale the The eye was burnt over the embers of a fire and the ashes stirred Investigators shortly discovered evidence of up to twenty vampire slayings The Australian
From a Sun Times (London) correspondent in Bucharest
April 12, 2004 http://world wide web.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,9255296%
255E13762,00.html
Sus know better than to skirt the cemetery after nightfall. Later
all, 1 of the wooden crosses shifting in the wind may lie over the
grave of a bloodthirsty vampire.
creatures by finding the graves of the undead and risking our lives
by ripping out their hearts," said 68-year-sometime local farmer Tita
Musca.
investigation that has highlighted not only local fears of the undead
but a startling willingness to act on them.
nephew's family unit fell ill with an unexplained sickness and a few days
later a witness claimed to have seen Toma leaving their house before
sunrise as a flock of crows flew portentously overhead.
Marinescu. "Nosotros were all dying, my husband and my child, and we all
saw him come to us in the same dream."
schnapps, four men led by Gheorghe Marinescu, the supposed vampire's
brother-in-police force, set out for the cemetery.
had left them but at his sides," said Marinescu. "His head was turned
to the side and his lips were stained with stale blood."
heart was removed. "It was full of fresh blood," said Marinescu. "His
body relaxed and we heard him sigh."
into a bottle of water from the village well to brand a potion. The
vampire's "victims" recovered after drinking it but Toma'southward daughter
called the police.
in the by few years. At the regional police force station, the
commissioner, Gheorghe Sandu, said: "I'd similar to be able to say this
village is unique, but unfortunately I tin't considering I know but how
strong belief in vampires is here."
Body of 'vampire' dug up
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A Family unit dug up the torso of a dead relative and then cutting out and burnt They as well drove wooden stakes through Petre Toma'south body, saying he Toma'due south blood brother-in-constabulary Gheorghe Marinescu, who lives at Marotinul de "I decided to unbury him. I've seen these kinds of things before. "When we took him out of the grave he had blood around his oral cavity. "Nosotros took his heart and he sighed when nosotros stabbed him. We burned it, "They got better immediately. Information technology was similar someone took away all their The family said the ritual ÃÆ'ƒÆ’ÃÆ'‚¢ÃÆ'ƒÂ¢ÃÆ'¢â‚¬Å¡ÃÆ'‚¬ÃÆ'ƒÂ¢ÃÆ'¢â€šÂ¬ÃÆ'‚ like to those in Hammer Horror films Police were last night investigating after another relative One cop said: "We volition open up the grave and see what we find."
Past CLODAGH HARTLEY
his eye after claiming he was a VAMPIRE.
had boozer their blood at night and cursed them.
Sus in Dracula's homeland of Romania, said: "If we hadn't done
anything, my wife, son and girl-in-law would have died.
then dissolved the ash in h2o. The people who had fallen sick drank
it.
pain and sickness."
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of Toma, who died terminal year aged 76.
complained Toma'southward grave had been desecrated.
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/2916394/particular.html POSTED: 4:43 pm MST March 11, 2004 A man who killed another man considering he thought his girlfriend was The verdict against Kirk Palmer, 28, was delivered Midweek past Testimony during the trial indicated that Palmer killed Antonia Palmer told a psychologist that four days before the July 2001 Other testimony indicated that Palmer fled to Canada hours after the If Palmer is institute to be sane at any time, he could exist released from
Man Beats Murder Rap With Vampire Defense
Psychologists Evidence About Palmer's Mental Illness
beingness turned into a vampire has been found not guilty by reason of
insanity.
Boulder District Approximate Morris Sandstead, who sentenced him to the
mental infirmary in Pueblo, Colo. Palmer had been charged with murder
in the case.
Vierira with a shotgun blast because he was suffering from paranoid
schizophrenia at the time of the crime.
killing, he was removing a splinter from his girlfriend's finger when
he saw Vieira come out of his girlfriend'due south body and say, "I flake her.
Ha ha. She is a member of a vampire gang."
killing, but his defence force chaser said that information technology was not an effort to
avoid arrest just was part of a pre-planned trip to California -- by
way of Canada -- in lodge "cleanse his spirit."
confinement.
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Posted on Wed, Mar. 24, 2004 The cemetery in Marotinu de Sus, Romania. Villagers here are not upwards By MATTHEW SCHOFIELD Knight Ridder Newspapers MAROTINU DE SUS, Romania - Before Toma Petre's relatives pulled his That'south often the fashion here with vampires. Quiet lives, active deaths. Villagers hither aren't upwards in arms nigh the undead - they're pretty "What did nosotros exercise?" pleaded Flora Marinescu, Petre'due south sister and the Yes, according to the Romanian State Police. Its view, expressed past He doesn't really have much more than to say on this example, other than "The investigation is ongoing, and we look to file charges later," Romania has been filled with news of the vampire-slaying Vampire slaying is a custom that's been passed downward from mother to Little has inverse since the days that Turkish invaders rolled On a recent afternoon, the hamlet'southward single shop, which also serves Theirs is not a Hollywood tale, and they laugh at Hollywood No, vampires are humans who take died, commonly babies before baptism Vampires are obvious when dug upwardly considering while they will have been But the biggest tip-off that a vampire is nigh is his or her family unit, "That'due south the problem with vampires," said Doru Morinescu, a 30-yr- Ion Balasa, 64, explained that there are two ways to cease a vampire, "Earlier the burial, you can insert a long sewing needle, merely into But once they've get vampires, all that'due south left is to dig them up, "The heart of a vampire, while you burn it, will squeak like a mouse Which is exactly what happened with Petre, co-ordinate to Gheorghe Marinescu's story goes like this: Afterwards Petre died, Marinescu's son, The get-go time, he was frightened, so he had a little graveside Marinescu said he found Petre on his side, his mouth bloody. His His married woman, Petre'south sister, interrupted his story with a broom, But and so his son Costel chosen what happened next a phenomenon. Later on "We were all saved," he said. "We had been saved from a vampire." Just how could he exist sure his illness came from a vampire? "What other explanation is possible?" he asked.
in arms about the undead-they're pretty common-simply the fact that the
police are involved. Bogdon Croitoru / KRT |
body from the grave, ripped out his heart, burned it to ashes, mixed
information technology with h2o and drank it, he hadn't been in the news much.
common - simply they are outraged that the police are involved in a
simple vampire slaying. After all, vampire slaying is an accustomed,
though hidden, bit of national heritage, fifty-fifty if illegal.
wife of the homo defendant of re-killing him. "If they're correct, he was
already dead. If nosotros're correct, nosotros killed a vampire and saved three
lives. ... Is that so wrong?"
Constantin Ghindeano, the master agent for the region, is that
vampires aren't real, and expressionless bodies in graves aren't to be dug out
and killed once more, fifty-fifty past relatives.
noting that Petre had been removed from his grave, his middle had been
cut out and it was presumed to have been consumed by his relatives.
Ghindeano added that constabulary were expanding the investigation, which
began in mid-Jan, to include the after-deaths of others in area.
he said, referring to possible charges of disturbing the peace of the
expressionless, which could conduct a three-year jail term. "We are determining
whether this was an isolated case or whether there is a pattern in
the village."
investigation, and villagers admit in that location's a pattern, simply they contend
that that'southward the reason these matters shouldn't make it to court.
In that location's too much of it going on, and too few complain almost the
practice.
daughter, father to son, for generations beyond memory, not just in
this tiny village of 300 huts astride a dirt cart path nigh 100
miles southwest of Bucharest, but in scores of villages throughout
southern Romania.
through 500 years ago, seeking the mineral riches of Transylvania
just to the due north. By twenty-four hours, the people are Roman Catholics. At night,
they fear the strigoi, or vampires.
as its solitary bar, was filled with men drinking hard, as they explained
the vampire facts to a stranger. Most had at least one vampire in
their family histories, and many were related to vampire victims.
Most had learned to kill a vampire while all the same children.
conventions: that vampires tin exist warded off by crosses or cloves of
garlic, or that they tin't be seen in mirrors. Utter nonsense.
Vampires were once Catholics, were they not? And if a vampire tin be
seen, the mirror tin run into him. And why would you wear garlic around
your neck? Are you adding taste?
or people unfortunate plenty to have black cats spring over their
coffins. Vampires occur everywhere, but in decorated cities no one
notices, the men said.
laid to rest on their backs, artillery folded neatly across their chests,
they volition be constitute on their sides or even their stomachs. They will
non have decomposed. Beards will take connected to grow. Their arms
will exist at their sides, as if they are clawing out of their coffins.
And they volition take blood - sometimes stale, sometimes fresh - around
their mouths.
for vampires always casualty on their families. If family members fall
ill after a decease, odds are a vampire is draining their claret at
night, looking for company.
quondam shepherd who, similar many in the village, has a family connexion
to the electric current instance. "They'd exist all correct if you could set them after
your enemies. Only they just kill loved ones. I can understand why,
but they have to exist stopped."
but only one after he or she has risen to feed.
the omphalos," he said. "That will stop them from becoming a
vampire."
apply a curved haying sickle to remove the eye, burn down the heart to
ashes on an iron plate, and then have the ill relatives beverage the ashes
mixed with water.
and try to escape," Balasa said. "Information technology's all-time to take a wooden stake
and pin it to the pan, so it won't go away."
Marinescu, a cheery, aging vampire slayer who was Petre's brother-in-
constabulary.
daughter-in-law and granddaughter fell sick. Marinescu knew the cause
was his dead blood brother-in-law. So he had to exit to the cemetery.
potable, for courage. He ended upward with a little too much courage and
couldn't use the shovel. So the next night he returned, and with a
proper amount of courage, was successful.
heart squeaked and jumped as it was burned. When it was mixed with
water and taken to those who were sick, it worked.
swinging it at him and a stranger. She was worried that he would
incur the wrath of the police, who would jail him.
weeks in bed, Costel got upwards to walk. His caput wasn't pounding. His
chest wasn't aching. His stomach felt fine.
Police: Suspected Gunman "Vampire Slayer" According to police, the suspect 35-year-sometime Timothy White told the White allegedly shot David Harrison, an employee of the store Friday White remains in the Duval Canton Jail. Previoius Story: According to reports, disgruntled worker Timothy White entered a White was arrested in a nearby church parking lot. White had a knife,
Final Update: 3/15/2004 6:32:33 AM
employees he was a vampire slayer.
night. Harrison was reported to be in critical condition at Shands
Jacksonville Sat.
(3/thirteen/04)
A hunt for a heavily armed man suspected of shooting a pizza shop
worker ended in a church parking lot Friday night.
Domino's Pizza Shop on Normandy Boulevard around 8pm. White allegedly
shot store employee David Harrison. Harrison was taken to Shands
Jacksonville with life-threatening injuries. He was last reported in
critical status.
a sawed off shotgun and three pistols with him.
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Monday, November xi 12:34 AM EST The Hague, Netherlands - Undertakers are puzzled and irritated past a Verdomde Klootzak, the Dutch html developer credited with scripting Grounds director Vlad Diggoort expressed his frustration. "Nosotros close Tim Berners-Lee, Klootzak'southward one-time co-worker at C.E.R.N. on the "Frankly, I'm bewildered," he confesses. "I'm sure they'll be able to
Popular-Upwards Windows Inventor Refuses to Stay Cached
By Dale McFarland
coffin that refuses to stay underground. Later on numerous attempts to
inter the trunk, cemetery staff is at a loss.
the primeval popular-up window codes, was establish violently murdered in his
dwelling house weeks agone. Authorities accept no solid leads in the strange case,
and this latest enigma has served only to hamper their investigation.
the box and we recollect we're rid of him, and so he pops upward somewhere
else. We bury the bastard over here, but then he reappears over
there. Information technology's driving united states all crazy."
French-Swiss border w of Geneva, has no explanation for the
mystery.
dispose of the casket eventually. Just I wouldn't be surprised if his
murderer is never identified. There are merely too many people in the
world who wanted him to disappear."
http://www.castleofspirits.com/coffins.html
On the outskirts of Barbados, West Indies a strange and unexplainable Within the Hunt vault at Christ Church overlooking oistin's Bay The offset published business relationship of these moving coffins was by Sir J. E. "Each time that the vault was opened the coffins were replaced in The last time the vault was opened was in 1819. Lord Combermere There have been many varied accounts printed of this detail story In 1907 a noted English language folklorist Andrew Lang reviewed the affair, Lang was mainly interested in the episode considering of similar events However in that location is another moving coffin story that is believed to be F. A. Paley told of another incident when his father was the rector All these occurrences took place in the 1800's but the 1900's accept no
occurrence happened in one of the oldest cemeteries in the area.
somewhere betwixt 1812 and 1820, coffins moved inside the vault with
no reasonable explanation as to why or how?
Alexander's Transatlantic Sketches (1833):
their proper situations, that is, three on the ground side by side,
and the others laid on them. The vault was then regularly airtight; the
door (a massive stone which required six or vii men to motion) was
cemented by masons; and though the floor was of sand there were no
marks of footsteps or water.
(governor of the colony) was and then present, and the coffins were institute
confusedly thrown well-nigh the vault, some with their heads down and
others upwards. What could have occasioned this phenomenon? In no other
vault in the isle has this ever occurred".
over time. One of the alleged witnesses, the Rev. Thomas H. Orderson,
the rector of Christ Church gave conflicting accounts to the
inquirers. Other accounts were published in 1944 (Sir Robert
Schomburgk's History of Barbado'southward) and 1860 (Mrs. D. H. Cusson'south
Death'southward Deeds).
taking information from his brother-in-law'south investigation in
Barbados and using the printed cloth. Lang examined the vault
records merely establish absolutely nothing to substantiate the story. He
also constitute that the Islands newspapers of that time did not print
anything well-nigh the moving coffins. Almost the only interesting thing
he came across was an unpublished description by Nathan Lucas, who
witnessed the last interment of the vault in April 1920.
he had heard of in a Lutherian Cemetery on the Isle of Oesel, in the
Baltic Sea. This happened in 1844 and the occurrence was documented
by American diplomat Robert Dale Owen who reported it in Footfalls on
the boundary of Another Globe - 1960; no other written records are
known to exist. Lang suspected that the inventors of this story
somehow used the Barbados story as a source for their ain variation
on the moving coffin story, adding a few charming flourishes of their
own, such every bit a hand of suicide being plant sticking out of one of the
coffins.
original and genuine and could not of been from the Barbados story.
It was printed in The European Mag September 1815. This story
told of the example of "The Curious Vault at Stanton in Suffolk" in
which coffins were "displaced" several times under mysterious
circumstances. Nathan Lucas, one of the alleged witnesses to the
final (1820) interment at the Hunt Vault, mentions this English
example, even quoting the commodity, in his private account of 1824.
in the parish of Gretford, near Stamford (England). His begetter noted
that two or three times the coffins in a vault were found on re
opening to take been moved around. The incidence created some
excitement within the village at the time and of class brought out
every superstitious belief that existed within the English village.
The incident was quickly hushed up out of respect for the family to
whom the vault belonged.
record of any such occurrence at all. It has been heavily suggested
and well argued that the unabridged thing (originally in Barbados) was a
Masonic hoax. The general belief notwithstanding of this mysterious
occurrence is that none of the cases were existent. Peradventure they were
simply invented by bored Englishmen in the 1800's looking for a scrap
of attention?
| | Some sucker buys 'vampire killing kit' for $12,000 U.s.a. at Sotheby's auction NEW YORK (AP) - Just in time for Halloween, a vampire-killing kit complete with a wooden stake and 10 silvery bullets sold for $12,000 Us at auction Th. The kit, a walnut box that also contained a crucifix, a pistol, a rosary and vessels for garlic powder and diverse serums, was bought past an bearding phone bidder. According to Sotheby's, some experts believe that such kits were commonly available to travellers in Eastern Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries, while others think the kits were fabricated in the early on 20th century, peradventure to greenbacks in on interest in vampires sparked by the 1897 publication of Bram Stoker'due south Dracula. Elaine Whitmire, caput of 19th century furniture for Sotheby'southward, said she believes the kit was assembled in the early 20th century and sold to travellers equally a souvenir. "My opinion is this is a memento that you lot bought while y'all were in Europe," she said. "I doubt information technology was cheap to buy." A label on the kit says: "This box contains the items considered necessary for persons who travel into certain little known countries of Eastern Europe where the populace are plagued with a particular manifestation of evil known every bit Vampires." The vampire killing kit was part of Sotheby'due south sale of 19th century furniture and decorative works of art. The auction house did non identify the seller of the kit. The price includes Sotheby's auction house's commission. |
Murder trial reveals sinister link to British vampire groups John Hooper in Berlin Friday Feb 1, 2002 A young married couple who admitted to a ritual Satanic killing were yesterday told they could spend the residue of their lives in a secure psychiatric unit afterward a trial which has raised the spectre of bizarre underground occult groups in Britain. Manuela Ruda, anile 23, who told a German court she had become a vampire in London, and her husband, Daniel, aged 26, were given prison house sentences of 13 and xv years respectively later admitting to the hacking to expiry of a friend in their flat in Witten, in the Ruhr valley. The victim, a 33-year-erstwhile colleague of Daniel'south, Frank Hackert, was targeted equally suitable prey for his mild temperament and love of The Beatles, and was lured to their flat where he was attacked repeatedly with a hammer. Manuela Ruda told the court: "So my knife started to glow and I heard the command to stab him in the heart." The couple stabbed Hackert 66 times, carving an occult pentagram on his breast and collecting his blood in a basin and then drinking it. When police broke into the flat they institute a scalpel nonetheless embedded in his stomach with his body lying beneath a banner saying "When Satan Lives". They too constitute imitation human being skulls and a coffin in which Manuela slept during the solar day. The judge in the case, which has led to disturbing scenes in court, coupled their jail terms with an gild that they be held indefinitely for psychiatric treatment. Neither of the two self-styled devil worshippers showed the slightest emotion as the sentences were read out to a court dotted with supporters and admirers of the bizarre couple, many dressed in black and belongings roses. Throughout the trial in the western town of Bochum, the couple had remained defiant, making rude gestures, rolling their eyes maniacally, sticking their tongues out and flashing smiles at journalists. Manuela had told the courtroom how, later on working in the Scottish Highlands, she had headed for north London where she se cured a job in a gothic lodge. It is hither she made her first forays into the world of bloodsucking. In the words of her lugubriously bizarre testimony, it was frequented "by both vampires and homo beings". Returning to Germany she began to give substance to her sinister fantasies. She started to mix with people who went to graveyards at night where they would "have a perfectly normal chat and drink some blood". The blood came from donors contacted on the internet. She also learned how to suck blood from another person'southward cervix without penetrating the artery. And she had two of her teeth removed and replaced with long animate being fangs. A psychologist said she appeared to have been unable to develop whatever feeling of cocky-worth. Born into a working-class family unit, she was selected to nourish a gymnasium, the German equivalent of a grammar school, intended to groom its pupils for university. But she dropped out at the historic period of 14, at nearly the aforementioned time as she tried to kill herself with an overdose. When she was on the stand up, Manuela's lawyer asked her if she had really signed over her soul to the devil. "That was two-and-a-half years ago, on the night earlier Halloween," she replied, adding in quasi-Biblical language: "That was when I placed myself in, and swore myself, to, the service of our Lord, his will to perform." Her Lord, though, was Satan, and he had come to play a big role also in the life of Daniel, the car parts salesman she met through an advert he placed in a heavy metallic magazine in Baronial 2000. "Pitch-black vampire seeks princess of darkness who hates everything and anybody," he wrote. She and her married man were arrested after beingness spotted at a petrol station after a nationwide manhunt. Police establish a list in their flat of their intended future victims. There were xvi names on it. Manuela, in verbal testimony, and Daniel, in a argument read to the courtroom, both denied murder on the grounds that they were acting on a control from a college authority. "I got the order to sacrifice a human for Satan," Daniel insisted.
Guardian
Claret-sucking vampires may take their history in illness rather than the supernatural, according to a Spanish neurologist. Animate being killer: Myth maker? He said: "I watched the film as a doctor and became impressed by some obvious similarities betwixt vampires and what happens in rabies." Both legendary vampires and rabies victims share the symptoms of aggressiveness and hypersexuality. Dr Gomez-Alonso'due south thesis was published in the journal Neurology after he investigated further links between vampire stories and outbreaks of rabies in Europe. He said: "Sometimes things that are apparently baroque and senseless can take a logical explanation." Balkan base The neurologist, who works at Xeral Hospital in Vigo, Spain, establish that 25% of rabid men "have a tendency to bite others". Further study of history Dr Gomez-Alonso believes he tin can ascribe well-nigh all vampire characteristics to rabies victims. He says that: Dracula's famous weaknesses - garlic and light - could exist ascribed to hypersensitivity, a symptom of rabies. Dr Gomez-Alonso said: "Homo has a tendency to bite, both in fighting and in sexual activities. "The intensification of such tendency by rabies increases the risk of transmission, as the virus is in saliva and other trunk secretions." In his article for Neurology, Dr Gomez-Alonso wrote: "Hypersexuality may be a hitting manifestation of rabies. Literature reports cases of rabid patients who practised intercourse up to 30 times in a day." He added: "Men with rabies ... react to stimuli such equally h2o, light, odours or mirrors with spasms of the facial and vocal muscles that can cause hoarse sounds, bared teeth and frothing at the mouth of bloody fluid."
Dr Juan Gomez-Alonso has put forward a novel theory to explain the Dracula fable - vampires were suffering from rabies.
The neurologist striking on the rabid vampire theory after watching a Dracula motion picture.
The vampire'southward voracious sexual appetite and nocturnal habits could exist attributed to the effect of rabies on parts of the brain that assistance regulate sleep cycles and sexual behaviour.
In the past a man was non considered rabid if he could look at his own reflection - an caption for vampires non having a reflection.
The clan of vampires with animals such as wolves and bats could be explained by the fact that those creatures are susceptible to the affliction.
Fifty-fifty the vampire'south fatal bite could exist traced to rabies, he says.
Slain Scientist'south Daughter arrested.
Written past: Matthew Barakat Leesburg, VA- 3 months afterwards Dna scientist Robert Schwartz was stabbed to death with a 2-foot sword and left with a ritualistic X carved in to the back of his neck, the case has turned out to be less exotic than investigators thought, but chilling nonetheless. Schwartz on daughter a 21 year old college student, is under arrest along with three other friends, Ranging from 18-21, whos signed confessions are agonizing in both their macabre detail and the banality of their launguage. Kyle Hulbert, an 18 yr old with an involvement in vampires and a history of mental illness, told police in a rambling 7 page confession that he had killed schwartz to protect Prosecuters and defence force attorneys take said next to zilch about the case. Schwartz relatives have said the notion that he was poisoning his girl was ludacris. The 57 year old biophiscist was a respected researcher in Deoxyribonucleic acid sequencing and a contributor to i of the starting time online database of DNA sequencing information. His wife Claras mother had died several years before from cancer. He was killed December. 8 and was found 2 days later in his farmhouse in Hamilton, nigh 40 miles w of Washington D.C. The investigation turned chop-chop to HUlbert, Micheal Paul Pfohl and his girlfriend,Katherine Inglis. Neighbors had seen them drive to Schwartz firm and become stuck in the mud. The three were charged with murder Dec. 12. Clara Schwartz a student at James Madison University, was later implicated and arrested on February. one. Prosecuters said she was involved in the plot. But she was not there during the slaying itself. All iv are beingness held without bail. The mysterious Ten in Schwartz neck was said to have been related to a ritualistic murder. Friens said the ones who commited the law-breaking had a facsination for medieval times and wizardry. and that they had met at a renissance festival. But investigators said the X was just a coincidental stab wound, and Hulbert said he did not call back doing it. Hulbert was alledgedly the only one that had entered the house.the other 2 waited in the car. According to one of the accounts, Schwartzs, on his knees before Hulbert delivered the fatal blow looked upwardly and asked " What did i ever do to yous?" In his confession Hulbert referred to vampirism and the occult and said the taste of schwartz blood got in his mouth and " drove me into a frenzy" Hulbert also wrote that he would have let Schwartz live if information technology had not been for the confession in his eyes when he confronted him about abusing his daughter. Defence attorney Connie Maggie said Hulberts testiment is unreliable because of his mentall history. Hulberts father had said that Hulbert had suffered from schizophrenia.Hulbert told investigators that he had stopped taking his medication a couple of days before the murder because he was having trouble with medicaid.
Clara Schwartz from her father "who had poisoned her many times with diverse chemicals."
Vampire Bats Attack Indians/Kill Cattle
Story Filed: Friday, Apr 05, 2002 8:31 AM EST San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico, April 05, 2002 (EFE via COMTEX) -- Five Indians were attacked by hundreds of vampire bats in the municipality of Ocosingo, in the southeastern Mexican state of Chiapas, the Health Secretariat reported. Health authorities noted that thousands of vampire bats accept killed more than 100 head of cattle in the area and that some 30 people who came in contact with infected cattle have received anti-rabies vaccines. The Health Secretariat said that the Indians attacked by vampire bats are residents of the towns of Santa Rosa, El Jardin and Ubilio Garcia. Authorities explained that vampire bats make their dwelling house in caves and tree hollows during the day and at night assail animals and, now, fifty-fifty people. According to medical reports, the victims are in stable status, and no intoxication cases due to consumption of infected meat accept been reported. mdc/advertising/rm
Story Filed: Mon, Apr 01, 2002 11:38 PM EST BOWLING Light-green, Fla. (AP) -- A human dubbed ``the Vampire Rapist'' because he drank the blood of a kidnapped hitchhiker killed himself in his prison cell, officials said Monday. John Crutchley, 55, who drained and drank blood from a nineteen-year-one-time woman he abducted in 1985, was constitute early on Saturday morning time at Hardee Correctional Institution with a plastic pocketbook wrapped around his head, the Florida Department of Corrections said. Crutchley drained nearly half of his victim's blood with a syringe and drank some before she escaped his home in Malabar, 60 miles southeast of Orlando. Sentenced to 25 years in prison, Crutchley served 10 years before he was released to a halfway house in Orlando in Baronial 1996. He was arrested the next solar day when country probation officials said he tested positive for marijuana. Crutchley received a life sentence after that violation. The Florida Department of Police Enforcement is investigating Crutchley'southward death. Copyright © 2002 Associated Press Information Services, all rights reserved. Romania has sunk its fangs into the vampire legend with a horror fest for Dracula devotees in deepest Transylvania. No garlic, crucifixes or other banes of vampires were in sight when 30 Dracula buffs from the United States, Uk, Switzerland, Serbia and Canada joined locals to talk over Romania's most infamous son. Instead, the ideas were more 21st century, equally participants talked nigh Dracula on the Internet, for instance, or listened to the thoughts of an actress famed for playing Countess Dracula in the nude. Some Romanians are offended that a national hero, Vlad the Impaler, a 16th century Romanian prince who hoisted his enemies on stakes, inspired writer Bram Stoker'southward 1897 novel, "Dracula," which in plough spawned the 20th–century vampire industry. Ane presentation was besides much fifty-fifty for die–hard Dracula fans – several congress participants walked out during the showing of a video showing a woman sucking claret from a man's neck. The footage was real. Still, there were no detractors of the legend at the gathering within the muddied Hotel Favorit, a communist–era hostel nestled in the pine trees and mountains of Transylvania, some 160 kilometers (100 miles) northward of Bucharest. The four–day congress, which lasted through Lord's day, is simply part of a total bout devoted to Dracula. At dlrs 468 to dlrs 824 per head, the consequence is expensive in Romania, where the average monthly salary is less than the equivalent of dlrs 100. However, tourist managers hope the Count Dracula congress – the second since 1995 – will help attract badly needed tourists to Romania, if not at present, then in the future. A masked brawl in Castle Dracula in Transylvania's Borgo Pass is planned next week, as is a visit to Vlad the Impaler's tomb on an island opposite a villa owned by quondam dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. Mention of Dracula was officially forbidden nether Ceausescu, who himself was nicknamed "Vampirescu" by Romanians for his draconian policies that sucked the country dry out during 25 years of rule, ended in 1989 with his overthrow and execution. At the congress, the experts paused in their discussions of Dracula for long lunches of encarmine steak and Romanaian white wine. "Vlad was non devilish for his fourth dimension. In fact he saved Romania," said Polish–born British actress Ingrid Pitt, alluding to his battles against invading Turks. Pitt starred in the 1970 motion picture Countess Dracula and 1971 movie The Vampire Lovers, in which she strips in several scenes. "Dracula represents a freedom of sexuality that is something the American order has mixed feelings about," said Victoria Amador from Silver Metropolis, New Mexico, who teaches a grade on vampire literature at Western New United mexican states University. She is planning a vampire–theme nuptials in Scotland this fall. A dress of deep raspberry silk, drop earrings in the shape of fangs and raspberry dial are some of the tributes she plans to pay to Dracula. For Romanian craftsman Teodor Stanciu, who makes Dracula copper engravings and sells plum brandy, the vampire is his lifeblood. "It is an inestimable legacy that Bram Stoker left united states, and we don't know how to use it." Others question whether the hoopla is fitting. "If he rose from his grave and saw how nosotros accept mocked him, he'd impale the lot of us," said Maria Pascu, selling Dracula dolls from Bran Castle about 35 kilometers (23 miles) south of Poiana Brasov.
Romania revamps Dracula legend to earn tourist dollars
Article by Alison Mutler, Associated Press Writer
Youth guilty of vampire ritual killing A teenager has been found guilty of murdering his elderly neighbour and drinking her blood in a vampire ritual.
second August 2002, NTL world news (Wales –U.G.)
Art pupil Mathew Hardman, 17, butchered Mabel Leyshon at her habitation in Llanfairpwll, Anglesey, last November.
He has been jailed for a minimum of 12 years.
The ninety-year-old widow'due south heart was cut out and her blood appeared to have been drunk from a saucepan.
The teenager was said to exist obsessed past vampires and killed Mrs Leyshon in a bid to become one of the creatures.
He had denied any involvement in the murder and claimed his alleged fascination with vampires was no more than a "subtle interest".
Hardman was convicted by a unanimous verdict at Mold Crown Court.
After the verdict was reached, trial Mr Justice Richards lifted an order banning his identification.
The 17-year-old wept when the male foreman read out the verdict and his female parent shrieked and sobbed in the public gallery.
Judge Mr Justice Richards says all the evidence pointed to the fact Hardman believed he could reach immortality past killing Mrs Leyshon and drinking her blood.
VAMPIRE SLEUTH STAKES OUT RHODE ISLAND BLOODSUCKERS NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) -- Rhode Islanders have been guarding themselves for months confronting mosquitoes infected with a potentially deadly virus, just Christopher Rondina (Vamptopher@aol.com) says the state'southward past is filled with stories of a far scarier bloodsucker: vampires. Afterwards 10 years of research, the 29-year-sometime Newport homo has written and illustrated a book, "Vampire Legends of Rhode Island" (ISBN 0-924771-91-7 Covered Span Printing, 1997). Last Halloween, Rondina and two friends camped amid the common cold ruins and dark shadows of Castle Dracula in Romania. They're traveling for 18 days in the Transylvania countryside tracking both the Dracula of history and sites associated with the bloodsucking fable made famous by the 1897 novel "I personally believe that Stoker based a lot of the domestic events of his story on the Rhode Island legends,'' said Rondina, noting Stoker read newspaper clippings on New England vampire tales while researching the volume. "1 article focused on Rhode Island and reported dozens of cases over a number of years,'' Rondina said. "Information technology mentions Newport ofttimes, and vaguely refers to a legend not far from Newport. "Unfortunately no one has been able to pin down a vampire story in Newport -- alibi the pun.'' Tuberculosis caused the mysterious deaths once attributed to Rhode Island vampires, including the case of Mercy Brown. Brownish died in 1892 at age xix. Her death followed those of her mother and older sis. At the time, her brother, Edwin, was seriously ill and the family was desperate to save him. Family members attributed the deaths to a expletive on the family and Modern science may have driven the stake through the center of local vampire tales but Dracula however grips Rondina's fascination. "I yet enjoy the romance of the story, the snappy wardrobe and the bats -- I love bats," Rondina said.
by Bram Stoker.
decided to dig upwards the bodies of the women, including Mercy, who had been cached for about a calendar month. When Mercy's body was exhumed, observers noted it appeared to have moved inside the coffin and blood was present in her eye and veins. Fearing she was a vampire, townspeople removed her heart and burned information technology on a rock earlier reburying her. The family dissolved the ashes in medicine and gave information technology to Edwin, who died two months subsequently.
Vampires arrested for Vandalism
The burn down early Th destroyed the office and fellowship hall at Bethany Lutheran Church. Its outside walls were scrawled with satanic graffiti in hot pink and white pigment. ``My sadness is non for united states of america. Information technology is for those people who don't know the joy of life,'' said pastor Carol Spencer, whose church is in the mostly white, middle-class suburb of Lake Highlands. Evidence from the fire speedily led regime to the nearby dwelling of a sixteen-yr-old boy, who was not identified because he is a juvenile. He and the others - Lucas Charles Simms, 17, Brandon Lee Ramsey, 18, and Charles Randal Kinnard, 19 - were arrested on arson charges. The Dallas Morning News reported that one of them told detectives the teens believe they are vampires and that the teen-agers had marks on their arms from sucking each other's claret. The newspaper said the teens smoked marijuana laced with some kind of a substance before the rampage. They slashed car tires, broke windows and spray-painted vulgarities on cars, homes and fences, police said. An acid used to treat swimming pools was spread on cars. ``I expected it to be messed-up kids. But this was really bad,'' said Elwin Setliff, one of the dozens of vandalism victims. Investigators would not disclose the evidence that led them to the teen-agers. Before their arrest, some of the teens sat in backyard chairs on top of a carport and watched as investigators went through the ruins of the church Thursday, said Deputy Burn Chief Tom Oney. ``It appeared to me that they were savoring the fruits of the damage,'' he said. ``They were enjoying watching us look at it.''
DALLAS (AP) - Iv teen-agers claiming to exist vampires went on a drug-crazed rampage, vandalizing dozens of cars and homes, spray-painting racial slurs and burning a church, constabulary say.
Monday, 23 December, 2002, 23:40 GMT
'Vampires' strike Republic of malaŵi villages
By Raphael Tenthani BBC
Rumours of people being attacked for their claret have swept southern areas of Malawi. Terrified villagers accept left their fields untended, too scared of becoming the side by side victims of the mysterious claret-suckers. President Bakili Muluzi has joined other officials in trying to calm fears and has said the rumours are unfounded and a plot to undermine the government.
But residents have been taking the police force into their own hands, killing one man thought to exist a human vampire and desperately injuring iii others.
Some people - mainly women and children - have come frontward to say they accept been victims of the claret-thieves. I woman showed journalists a mark on her arm where she said a needle was inserted to draw her blood. The alleged attacks have taken place over the last 3 weeks in Blantyre also as the districts of Thyolo, Mulanje and Chiradzulu. Strangers are becoming victims of vigilantes as villagers are wary of anyone who is not known in their area. One man was stoned to death after being suspected of working with the vampires.
In Thyolo, villagers attacked three Roman Catholic priests who were strangers to the area. They were beaten and detained overnight before a woman recognised ane of them as a priest.
'Malicious stories'
Police and government officials have visited the areas striking past the stories to try to calm fears. Mr Muluzi, back from a private visit to Britain, has at present joined that campaign.
He said he had been told the rumours had been spread by "malicious and irresponsible" members of the opposition.
He had learnt the stories included claims that his regime was colluding with international aid agencies to supply them with man blood in exchange for nutrient help. "No authorities tin get about sucking blood of its ain people," said the president. "That's thuggery." He said there would exist severe penalty for the unnamed opposition politicians once they were caught.
Real-Life Vampire Lawsuit and Werewolf Trial Inspiration for UofA Grad'south New Mystery Novel. | ||
| In 1946 Romanian villagers executed a shoemaker considering they thought he was a vampire. His outraged widow fought a l-year legal battle for the right to coffin his head with the rest of his trunk. (His head had been buried separately to preclude the vampire from returning to life.) Class of 1992 Academy of Arizona graduate Courtney 50. Mroch found inspiration for her debut mystery novel, Beneath the Morvan Moon, in this wacky lawsuit. Jacksonville, FL (PRWEB) April 20, 2004 –- "After graduating from the UofA I became a paralegal. My sis was always giving me trinkets for my office and ane day she found one of those themed desk calendars where each twenty-four hour period there's a new interesting fact. This agenda focused on outrageous lawsuits from around the earth. Different customs lend themselves to some very interesting legal problems, only when I read the Apr 8th account of the Romanian widow who had fought to get her husband buried in 1 grave, the story caught burn in my imagination." Every bit much every bit the plot parallels certain elements of the true story, Mroch exercised her creative liberties also. For instance, the setting is in France instead of Romania; the executed man was engaged instead of married, was a baker instead of a cobbler, and was suspected of beingness a werewolf instead of a vampire. As well, no courts are involved in the exhumation procedure. "Everybody has a vampire volume, you know?" says Mroch. "Originally I started out trying to make information technology a vampire-based story, but I speedily scrapped that thought when I decided to set up the story in French republic. Wolves are a huge part of their history. When I stumbled across the Morvan in the Burgundy region and decided that would be the setting for my volume, I knew only a werewolf would exercise. Especially when I stumbled across the real-life trial of Jean Grenier." In 1603, in the Southwest of France, Jean Grenier boasted of having killed and eaten many girls. He was believed and brought to trial because many children had been murdered in the area. He explained he had achieved his crimes through shapeshifting with the assist of a magical ointment and a cloak given to him by a mysterious black man he had met in the forest. Neither the mysterious man nor the cloak were e'er found. The courtroom ruled Grenier suffered from lycanthropy brought on by demonic possession. He was imprisoned for the residue of his life in a monastery. "In real-life no 1 always establish the cloak, simply you better believe it's constitute information technology in my book. It'due south a subplot that creates much chaos for my heroine." But that's not the merely thing creating bug for Mroch's principal character. Unlike the Romanian widow –who eventually proved her husband suffered from porphyria, not vampirism, and saw his remains placed in one grave—Mroch'due south heroine has to encounter a few more obstacles earlier her task is complete. (Like falling in love with a handsome stranger, fending off a werewolf, and defending herself when she's unjustly accused of murder.) "The Romanian widow'southward story would have made a expert book too. I'one thousand even still toying with the idea of tackling that as my commencement non-fiction work. Only for this volume I wanted romance and adventure mixed in with the mystery. To do that I had to change sure elements and make information technology harder on the heroine. Like having her dementia-afflicted grandmother whom she adores asks her to exercise this incredibly crazy chore of digging up former bones in a foreign country. The heroine can't say no to her Gram, nor tin she tell anyone what she's really doing in French republic. It gets her in all sorts of problem." After graduating from the UofA, Mroch moved to Phoenix, where she worked for the police firm of Snell & Wilmer. She and then moved to Jacksonville, Florida, where she currently resides with her husband and their dog and cat. A member of Mystery Writers of America and the Short Mystery Fiction Society, her award-winning short stories take appeared in numerous zines. Her short story, "Skin Ish Ca," ranked #two in the 2003 Preditors & Editors Readers Poll. Her e-volume, "Cellfish Ways," published past Echelon Printing, is the publisher's twelvemonth-to-date #2 best-selling dollar download. To larn more visit For boosted information, or to club a copy of the book, contact the publisher: PublishAmerica, P.O. Box 151, Frederick, MD 21705, (301) 695-1707. Beneath the Morvan Moon, ISBN 1-4137-1178-two, available from PublishAmerica, | ||
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