Suspect for accessory to murder claims she's a vampire-werewolf

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Trigger warnings for this article: mention of murder. Not graphic.

In September in Panama City, Florida: According to CBS, MSNBC, and other news, Stephanie P., 18, was charged with accessory to the murder of Jacob H., 16 in July. One of six suspects for involvement in the murder, Stephanie told the news station that she believes herself to be part vampire and part werewolf. At the time of arrest, her Facebook and Myspace described this as well.

The news articles conflict with one another a lot. Apparently the story has changed a few times.

I do not know whether any of the people mentioned in these articles have any involvement with the vampire or otherkin communities. The articles do not mention any such thing.

Just to reiterate from my earlier article on a different vampire criminal: People who call themselves “vampires” and/or are part of the vampire or otherkin communities are not necessarily violent criminals. From time to time, a criminal claims to be a vampire, and then the vampire community gets a lot of undesirable attention. Generally, these criminals weren't involved with the vampire community themselves. The vampire community strives to develop a respectable public image, and encourages development and discussion of ethics and safety.

For a collection of all news articles on this topic, see the thread on the Atlanta Vampire Alliance (AVA) Media Center forums, which I highly recommend for following any vampire-related news. Here’s a link to that thread, with trigger warnings for what the articles describe: murder, rape, violence, blood-drinking, teenagers in a cult, animal sacrifice. Some of which is described in semi-graphic detail.

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Channel 4 documentary about Wolfie Blackheart's pack

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Trigger warnings for this post: publicity; animal death.

Correction: I made large changes to this post May 25, 2022, to correct misinformation about Blackheart that had previously appeared in this post. The post had originally repeated false rumors that Blackheart had ritually killed a dog. I recently found reliable sources that set the record straight. I added the most relevant source for that, the retrospective by Chasnoff. I apologize for the error.

According to Channel 4 press releases, a TV documentary will air on November 13, 2011. This documentary will be about the Crimson Blood Wolf Pack, which is a handful of teenagers in San Antonio, Texas, some of whom identify as werewolves, some as vampires.

The alpha of the pack is teen werewolf Wolfie Blackheart, who had attracted media attention in early 2010 because online vigilantes had accused her of killing a dog. Animal Care Services, a police investigation, and a necropsy on the animal remains proved that Blackheart had neither harmed nor killed the dog. The dog had already been dead when someone who claimed to be the dog's owner had asked Blackheart to preserve the dog with taxidermy. Blackheart was aspiring to a career in taxidermy, and occasionally accepted requests to preserve people's pets. A friend had photographed the remains without Blackheart's consent, and then the photos somehow ended up online. During the investigation, the news picked up the story and played up the shock value. Since then, numerous news articles and a short news story on TV last year have been about Blackheart and the pack, often with shocking and misleading headlines.

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