Episode 17 - Dungeons & Dragons and The Vampire Cult
Tune in this week to listen to Zig as he discusses the original RPG, Dungeons & Dragons. Geoffrey meanwhile covers an RPG tie in murder with Rod Ferrell and his Vampire Cult.
Nerdery Links
D&D official website - https://dnd.wizards.com/
D&D Gaming Resources - https://www.dndbeyond.com/
Wikipedia General D&D info - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons
Youtube How to Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TsicWGho7c
Denton Recycled Books Store - The Wright Opera House - http://recycledbooks.com/the-wright-opera-house
William in Zig’s mind
Playing D&D on a grid map
Playing D&D on a tile board
Original D&D White Box
D&D Red Box
D&D Blue Box
Murdery Links
Parcast – Cults - https://www.parcast.com/cults
Internet Archive Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20070311035849/http://www.sacrosanctum.org/vampires/encyclopedia/serial_killers/family.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Ferrell
Bear Grass Thunder - https://www.beargrassthunder.com/post/murray-ky-vampire-clan
Orlando Sentinel - https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-1998-02-20-9802200388-story.html
Tampa Bay Times - https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1998/02/18/witness-cult-head-molested-as-a-boy/
Video – Occult Crimes Season 1 Episode 5 – The Vampire Gang - Since recording the episode this video seems to have been pulled. I did find another though that was not mentioned in the episode and you can watch this which is a good documentary: Kentucky Teenage Vampires - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWclRSulGFQ
Sondra Gipson at Rod’s trial
Jaden Murphy
Rod hanging upside down
Crime scene photo of Richard Wendorf
Crime scene photo of Naoma (or Naomi) Wendorf
Rod being taken into court and his antics
More of Rod’s antics