TEEN CULTISTS SOUGHT IN DEATH OF COUPLE YOUTHS, LINKED TO ``VAMPIRE CLAN,'' INCLUDE A DAUGHTER OF THE FLA. PAIR.(FRONT)

Byline: ASSOCIATED PRESS

EUSTIS, FLA. -- A group of teens from a self-described ``Vampire Clan'' in Kentucky was being sought on murder warrants Thursday in the bludgeoning deaths of a Florida couple.

Richard and Naomi Wendorf were found beaten to death late Monday and their 15-year-old daughter, Heather, was missing. At first, investigators feared she had been abducted. Then they realized she was a suspect, along with her former boyfriend and three other teen-agers linked to the Kentucky group.

``They apparently like to suck blood. They cut each other's arms and suck the blood. They cut up small animals and suck the blood. They honestly believe they're vampires,'' Murray, Ky., police detective Sgt. Mike Jump said Thursday.

Heather was thought to be traveling with the Kentucky teens in her father's blue 1994 Ford Explorer.

The vehicle was missing when Heather's 17-year-old sister, Jennifer, found her parents' bodies in separate rooms of their rural home late Monday night, the Lake County sheriff's office said.

The sheriff's office said there was no evidence of satanic rituals in the deaths, but said Heather had told friends she was a demon in past lives and had talked with spirits during human blood-drinking rituals.

Prosecutors issued murder warrants Wednesday for Heather Wendorf; Roderick Ferrell, 16, and Dana Cooper, 19, both of Murray; and Scott Anderson, 16, of Mayfield, Ky.

From what authorities and schoolmates told the Orlando Sentinel, Ferrell and Heather Wendorf stood out in their rural communities. He sported shoulder-length black hair, wore a black trench coat, carried a wooden stick and boasted of immortality as a vampire. She wore purple hair, black fishnet stockings and a dog chain around her neck.

TEEN CULTISTS SOUGHT IN DEATH OF COUPLE YOUTHS, LINKED TO ``VAMPIRE CLAN,'' INCLUDE A DAUGHTER OF THE FLA. PAIR.(FRONT)

Byline: ASSOCIATED PRESS

EUSTIS, FLA. -- A group of teens from a self-described ``Vampire Clan'' in Kentucky was being sought on murder warrants Thursday in the bludgeoning deaths of a Florida couple.

Richard and Naomi Wendorf were found beaten to death late Monday and their 15-year-old daughter, Heather, was missing. At first, investigators feared she had been abducted. Then they realized she was a suspect, along with her former boyfriend and three other teen-agers linked to the Kentucky group.

``They apparently like to suck blood. They cut each other's arms and suck the blood. They cut up small animals and suck the blood. They honestly believe they're vampires,'' Murray, Ky., police detective Sgt. Mike Jump said Thursday.

Heather was thought to be traveling with the Kentucky teens in her father's blue 1994 Ford Explorer.

The vehicle was missing when Heather's 17-year-old sister, Jennifer, found her parents' bodies in separate rooms of their rural home late Monday night, the Lake County sheriff's office said.

The sheriff's office said there was no evidence of satanic rituals in the deaths, but said Heather had told friends she was a demon in past lives and had talked with spirits during human blood-drinking rituals.

Prosecutors issued murder warrants Wednesday for Heather Wendorf; Roderick Ferrell, 16, and Dana Cooper, 19, both of Murray; and Scott Anderson, 16, of Mayfield, Ky.

From what authorities and schoolmates told the Orlando Sentinel, Ferrell and Heather Wendorf stood out in their rural communities. He sported shoulder-length black hair, wore a black trench coat, carried a wooden stick and boasted of immortality as a vampire. She wore purple hair, black fishnet stockings and a dog chain around her neck.