The hospital determined she was missing between 40 and 45 percent of her blood and had ligature marks on her neck. In a handwritten letter addressed to Deborah, postmarked Feb. 4, a week after her disappearance, Crutchley apologized for falling asleep and told her to call him when she returned, said Wilt. The Brevard County Sheriffs Office now hopes that newer techniques and technology will help solve several missing person cases and finally pin the label of murderer on Crutchleys legacy. A spokesperson for Brevard County Sheriffs Department stated: John Crutchley is not currently a suspect in the disappearance of Tammy Leppert. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Brennan Crutchley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia. He was a rapist and (maybe) a murderer with a Dominance and Submission fetish that involved draining the blood from at least one victim until she came close to death. Possible suspect or as his wife described him at the time of his trial for kidnapping and rape, "Just a kinky sort of guy.". Could the beauty queen have been one of Crutchley's victims? But who could identify a little gold necklace? WebWhen a young woman was found staggering down an unpaved road in Malabar, Florida, in 1985, bound, pale, and nearly naked, the passerby who rescued her could barely believe her horrifying story of kidnapping, rape, and sadistic bloodletting. A rapist who drank the blood of his 19-year-old victim left prison today after serving 10 years and, having been rejected by two communities where the authorities had tried to relocate him, was brought to a state halfway house here. The Co-ed Killings which involved two female freshmen in Morgantown W.Va. who were last seen getting into a cream/light colored Chevrolet on January 18, 1970. WebAccording to FBI profiler Robert K. Ressler, Crutchley fit the profile of a serial killer, even though he was convicted of only a single non-fatal kidnapping and sexual assault. It was after the attacker had left the house that she was able to push out of the bathroom window and crawl to the road. sea wall at the Norfolk base. You have to assume foul play was involved until you eliminate that possibility.. "We're satisfied," said Wolfinger. He noted the location, took her home, and called for police and an ambulance. Are Florida police forces usually this incompetent? I have re-listened and had friends unfamiliar with the show experience it as well. 'Cause Dee was her granddaddy's breath.". When contacted, some of the partners indicated that Crutchley had crossed the line from "kinky" consensual acts into sexual assaults involving restraint. Its evidence like the single earring in a small sealed plastic bag that has Laufenberg intrigued. Then he inserted needles into her arm and wrist and carefully extracted blood and began to drink it, telling her that he was a vampire. Even though he denied smoking marijuana (saying that inmates blew marijuana smoke in his face), prosecutors in the subsequent trial showed Crutchley confessing to a corrections inspector that he smoked the substance because he was nervous about his impending release and he thought that the drug would make him relaxed. The hitchhiker awoke to find that she was tied to a kitchen countertop, arms and legs immobilized. Phil seems to have a particular thoroughness and precision while delivering tales like these. About one in five suicide victims had contact with mental health services within a month before their suicide. John Brennan Crutchley was a disturbed man that would stop at nothing to curb his desires. Apparently, he would drink their blood until they died, Mitchell said. The skeletal remains of the young Fairfax County woman were found about nine months after she disappeared. "A car goes by and you wonder, 'Gee, that looked like Dee -- everybody called her Dee' -- in there." No evidence was found to link these deaths to Crutchley, however. Officials in Fairfax County, Virginia, where his mother lived, did not want him, nor did the people in Malabar and Melbourne. Against this background, the Observatory of Religious Freedom in Africa has published a Report on Nigeria Violence (2019-2022) .It is a careful and thorough piece of work, giving a monthly breakdown of religiously based killings and abductions in this period as well as the factors contributing to the variation between months. Your California Privacy Rights / Privacy Policy. Mr. Crutchley was an engineer in Melbourne, Fla., when, in 1985, he picked up a young hitchhiking California woman, raped her, used surgical instruments to drain some of her blood and then drank it. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. On March 30, 2002, Crutchley died in prison. TITUSVILLE - John Brennan Crutchley was sent to prison 10 years ago for kidnapping, raping and drinking the blood of a 19-year-old woman he had held in After that, he handcuffed her and put her in the bathtub, returning later for another round of sexual assault and blood extraction. Another suspect was serial killer, John Crutchley, who is suspected of killing as many as 30 women. I completely agree with Ryan. escaped and Crutchley was later convicted of the assault. Fairfax police said they believe that Deborah Fitzjohn visited Crutchley at his house trailer at Waple's Mobile Home Estates the night she disappeared. But my recollection of it was that we talked about Crutchley entering a plea, Mitchell said. While working as an engineer in Fairfax County, Va., Crutchley was a suspect in the 1977 slaying of his girlfriend. He's been working on the case ever since and has been chasing leads as far away as California. Defiance is about 300 miles from Morgantown and if he had family in either Pittsburgh or Clarksburg he would be close to Morgantown. Young women went missing everywhere Crutchley lived, and the disappearances stopped every time he moved away, according to police. "We've drawn no conclusions," the prosecutor said. Two months later, 18-year-old actress Tammy Lynn Leppert ("Spring Break," "Scarface") disappeared. The man raped her and videotaped the action. Had she not escaped then, doctors believed, she might well have died from a further round of blood extraction. He is a subject of a book by JT Hunter, The Vampire Next Door, although I haven't read this one yet. said Fitzjohn. He would have been about 24 in 1970, which he stated was about the time he was introduced into drinking blood by a nurse. John Crutchley, 49, returned to jail Friday after being accused of using marijuana and violating conditions of his release this week from a North Florida prison. It has a mediocre rating on IMDb: 5.9 stars out of 10. John Crutchley, rapist who drank victim's blood, is freed from Florida prison after serving 10 years; is confined temporarily to halfway house, Orlando, after being Carol Ann Molnar, a 21-year-old Navy clerk, disappeared Feb. 6, 1983. "We wanted him off the street." This violation of his parole resulted in a sentence of life imprisonment to be imposed on Crutchley on January 31, 1997 under the three strikes law. This was his third conviction; the first two were for the kidnapping and the rape of the Brevard teen. However an interesting suspect does make an appearance. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. said. This time with a more recent one. He invited her in, and she refused, and he got into the back seat of the car and choked her unconscious. Among the items in the boxes are handcuffs he used on the rape victim, a handgun, ropes, homemade sex tapes of he and his wife, dozens of candid photographs of women in public places, a book titled The Dracula Syndrome, and an earring. We do know he was in her company in the days before her disappearance. They would have been able to get a lot farther on a case like this with the technology today than they did back then.. WebJohn Brennan Crutchley is in a Florida prison for raping a 19-year-old woman in 1985. half of the victim's blood. It was after the attacker had left the house that she was able to push out of the bathroom window and crawl to the road. Olivia Crutchle, 23, robbed 79-year-old Roy Crutchley of his life savings after he covered the costs of an ongoing fabricated court case. A second, later, search did not turn up these credit cards, nor a collection of women's necklaces concealed in a closet which had been noted, but not confiscated, by the police during the first search. After that, he handcuffed her and put her in the bathtub, returning later for another round of sexual assault and blood extraction. Last year I chanced on a six part podcast calle Mared and Karen: The WVU Coed Murders. WebJohn Brennan Crutchley (October 1, 1946 March 30, 2002) was an American convicted kidnapper, rapist, and suspected serial killer who was suspected of murdering up to 30 He married his first wife in 1969. She had been in his mobile home and police identified Crutchley as the last person to see her alive. "I couldn't identify those. You can listen now below. "If you've just got bones, what do you know you've got?" She was later found dead in her car, submerged at the between the unsolved slayings of two local Navy women and a blood-drinking Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. The Sheriffs Office has had success with the technique before. WebJohn Brennan Crutchley (October 1, 1946 March 30, 2002) was an American convicted kidnapper and rapist who was suspected of murdering up to 30 women, but was never When contacted, some of the partners indicated that Crutchley had crossed the line from "kinky" consensual acts into sexual *aults involving restraint. He said it should not be considered in his sentencing, because in this case, he had not drunk the blood; he claimed that it had coagulated before he could drink it, "and he couldn't get it down." In 1983, John Crutchley, the vampire rapist, moved to Brevard County. This is strange in that I lived in Defiance Ohio, Pittsburgh PA AND Morgantown WV and never heard of him or the Co-ed Murders. Check out Part 2 for Makenna's discussion on the history of vampires and the vampires of today! She had been p*ed by several trucks before someone stopped to help her. Terry Laufenberg has already started going through the dozen or so boxes of case files and evidence collected from Crutchleys home and his desk at Harris Corp., where he worked as an engineer. He was also married and had a child. Sometimes, Fitzjohn said, she'll see someone in a store who looks like Deborah, and she takes a closer look. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. necklace and class ring were in there and they made it sound like they would have an answer soon. He was called the "Vampire Rapist" because he drained the blood of his victim almost to the point of death while he repeatedly raped her. information in its current state has piqued our interest for a variety of The man raped her and videotaped the action. WebAn article me and Gianluca Dianese, MBA wrote on the administrative and criminal procedures in protecting the financial interests of the EU. He also mightve been a spy: At the time of his arrest, Crutchley was found to be in possession of a great deal of highly classified information regarding naval weaponry and communications. Eventually, he graduated with a bachelor's degree in physics from Defiance College in Ohio in 1970, and earned a master's degree in engineering administration at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Tammy's story and the possible connection to suspected serial killer John Crutchley arefeatured in the special three-episode podcast "Murder on the Space Coast: Obsessed with Murder.". https://www.nytimes.com/1996/08/09/us/freed-but-shunned-a-rapist-is-confined.html. The skeletal remains of 25-year-old Debbie Fitzjohn were found in the woods in 1978. Infection wise, it would really only be if the victim had some sort of blood born pathogen like HIV, Hepatitis B/C etc. In addition to suspecting Crutchley of murders in Florida and Pennsylvania, Ressler also suspected Crutchley for murder in the 1977 disappearance of Debbora Fitzjohn, the secretary whom he met in Fairfax, Virginia. Crutchley, who worked for at least two high-tech companies in the Washington suburbs and holds a graduate degree from George Washington University, blamed pornography as the root of all evil and said he got a lot of his ideas from a magazine. Pamela Anne Kimbrue, a 23-year-old Navy messenger, disappeared from the Fitzjohn said she and her husband, who also raised Deborah's sister and brother, paid the bills on her granddaughter's condominium unit in Centreville and watered the plants for about two years, just in case. His former lawyer said in 1989 that Crutchley was prepared But you can send us an email and we'll get back to you, asap. He was of above average intelligence and a fascination with electronics and keeping a highly organized sex life with his partners listed on 75 3x5 inch index cards with names, sun signs and sexual activity described. um filme longa-metragem com tempo de durao de 1h 31min. Anatoly Slivko. My taxes are a mess, I suspect because I got caught up in the conclusion of the story. About this season: In 1983, John Crutchley, the vampire rapist, moved to Brevard County. similarities to others for which Crutchley is suspected, or to the rape for [3] Crutchley's employer, Harris Corporation, was highly involved with not only the NASA research and launch facilities at Cape Canaveral, but also with other Naval contractors and subcontractors. (From Wikipedia). This episode of American Occult includes interviews with "vampirism sociologist" Katherine Ramsland, as well as law enforcement officers from Brevard County, Florida, Robert Leatherow and Jake Miller, and also identifies the victim as one Laura Murphy. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Loved ones closure is one of the main reasons Laufenberg is digging through the old evidence. He said it should not be considered in his sentencing because in this case, he had not drunk the blood; he claimed that it had coagulated before he could drink it, "and he couldn't get it down". By the time Crutchley became a murder suspect, the state asked him to take a polygraph test. He was called the "Vampire Rapist" because he drained the blood of his victim almost to the point of death while he He Anyone can read what you share. He noted the location, took her home, and called for police and an ambulance. The videotape in the camera was partially erased, which according to the victim would otherwise have contained footage of her rape and the extraction of her blood. Pfeiff, among Crutchley's possessions. As a result, he was questioned several times for his possible involvement in her disappearance. KEYWORDS: RAPE MURDER U.S NAVY BASE FLORIDA Among other remarks, she commented on his attack on the handcuffed teen which took place while she was away with their own daughter for Thanksgiving calling it "a gentle rape, devoid of any overt brutality. Fairfax County authorities have said they are investigating Crutchley in the killing of Deborah Fitzjohn, 25, who was believed to have been at the engineer's trailer home near Fairfax City on Jan. 27, 1978, the night she disappeared. Crutchley was arrested during the search, which took place at 2:30 a.m. Photographs of the house taken at the time of this first search showed, among other things, a stack of credit cards several inches thick. Officials in Bridgeport, West Virginia, where his mother lived, did not want him, nor did the people in Malabar and Melbourne. Two months later, 18-year-old actress Tammy Lynn Leppert ("Spring Break," "Scarface") disappeared. Ressler noted that there had been four female bodies found in Brevard County in the previous year, and that unexplained bodies had been found and missing women reported in Pennsylvania while he lived there. Lately their attention has focused on Crutchley. A search warrant was served for John Brennan Crutchley, whose wife and child were away for the Thanksgiving holiday. The agents who are driven to investigate homicides refuse to accept the possibility that a murderer will never be caught.. In late The podcast is free and available onfloridatoday.com, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Soundcloudand several other podcast sites. She sounds like a peach. Police had to call on the help of a forensic expert from the Smithsonian Institution to identify the bones -- an identification her grandparents have yet to fully accept. They had been to the Metropolitan Theatre where Oliver was playing. And there I was thinking I have read pretty much every twisted MO there is. end of a seaplane ramp. She had been in his mobile home, and police identified Crutchley as the last person to see her alive. He pleaded guilty Thursday in Brevard County Circuit Court to charges of kidnaping and three sexual assault charges, according to State Attorney Norm Wolfinger. The videotape in the camera was partially erased, which according to the victim would otherwise have contained footage of her rape and the extraction of her blood. Less than a day later, he was arrested again for violating his parole after being tested positive for marijuana. negotiations between Crutchley and the prosecutors fell through. I listened to the first five then things seemed to stop. Here is a prior detailed post that it currently archived: https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/duplicates/48y4rx/mystics_murder_and_missing_heads_the_1970_wvu/, I was clear in the other end of the state when this story hit the newspapers but it inspired a lot of new stories and a lot of conversation and speculation. In late November 1985, in Malabar, Brevard County, Florida, a nude teenaged girl, handcuffed at both feet and ankles, was found crawling along the side of the road. "I sent him everywhere," she said. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Investigator Pfeiff recently drove to the Fitzjohns' home in Fauquier County to see if Milda Fitzjohn could identify it as jewelry her granddaughter was wearing when she disappeared. WebHe was of above average intelligence and a fascination with electronics and keeping a highly organized sex life with his partners listed on 75 3x5 inch index cards with names, This violation of his parole resulted in a sentence of life imprisonment to be imposed on Crutchley on January 31, 1997, under the "three strikes law". for taking the woman's blood - were dropped as part of a plea agreement. Wolfinger said "a significant portion" of blood was taken from the 19-year-old woman, who was hospitalized after the assault. On several occasions, while she was bound and gagged in his Malabar home, Crutchley drank her blood. Always baffling how inept cops can be, took photos of something clearly illegal to posses and then just leave it for the perp to dispose of. I had found the story of Crutchley's attack on the woman he kidnapped in Florida an interesting and unusual true crime story, but I had no idea of his various connections to W.Va. She had been in his mobile home, and police identified Crutchley as the last person to see her alive. Based on testimony from Ressler at the sentencing hearing, the judge chose to exceed state guidelines and sentenced Crutchley to 25 years to life in prison with 50 years of subsequent parole. A search warrant was served for John Brennan Crutchley, whose wife and child were away for the Thanksgiving holiday. But I don't think he necessarily drank all of the victim's blood. After being contacted by local authorities for his input, Ressler was convinced that Crutchley had almost certainly killed before, identified him as a "serial killer of the organized type." Crutchley had access to the Norfolk Naval Air Station during the time two He denied. Homicides become more difficult to successfully close as time passes, said Sheriff Jack Parker. John Crutchley, 55, who drained and drank blood from a 19-year-old woman he abducted in 1985, was found early Saturday morning at Hardee Correctional Institution After being contacted by local authorities for his input, Ressler was convinced that Crutchley had almost certainly killed before, identified him as a "serial killer of the organized type." It's not a satisfactory resolution because no one gets fingered as the murderer. Name: John Brennan Crutchley aka The Vampire Rapist Born - 1946 / Died - 2002 Number of victims: Between 1 and 30+ As a child, John was reclusive and EPPO and OLAF - Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. Found in his cell with a plastic bag over his dead. At that time as a computer engineer he had a high-level security clearance because of his work with government contracts. Its interesting, so I will quote an articles write up on it: Writing in 1992 about the 1986 conviction, Ressler predicted that Crutchleys 25 to life sentence would result in release as soon as 1998. Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. Even though six drivers licenses belonging to dead women were found in his desk at work, no murders could ever be linked to Crutchley. He said that he might be able to extract some DNA from it and match it against DNA from the skeletal remains. JohnTorres: Help me find out what happened to missing model and actress Tammy Lynn Leppert, Murder on the Space Coast returns with a 3-episode mini season. ", Fitzjohn does remember, however, Deborah's gloves and hat lying on the seat of her blue Subaru station wagon the day she found it in the parking lot of Hunter's Lodge in Fairfax in January 1978. He said he has interviewed innumerable people, including Crutchley, whose phone-answering machine played the "Twilight Zone" musical theme. She begged the driver to not take her back "to that house,"; when he asked where, she told him to remember a certain house. been in the Florida prison since 1986. Tammy's story and the possible connection to suspected serial killer John Crutchley arefeatured in the special three-episode podcast "Murder on the Space Coast: Obsessed with Murder.". Historians believe John, Elvira, Kate, and John Jr. brutally murdered at least 12 victims, earning this family the terrifying nickname of the Bloody Benders. After that, he handcuffed her and put her in the bathtub, returning later for another round of sexual *ault and blood extraction. I think it was a combination of letting them bleed out from their wounds too. He invited her in, and she refused, and he got into the back seat of the car and choked her unconscious. Fitzjohn said Crutchley was polite, invited her into his trailer and told her that Deborah had stopped by that night. In fact, Crutchley was released two years earlier than that. His victims usually suffered a brutal death, including sodomy, strangulation, and mutilation. Unnamed federal agencies other than the FBI considered opening an espionage case against him. "They've brought some jewelry out here, little necklaces and things," said Milda Fitzjohn, sitting in her living room filled with family pictures, many of Deborah. EPPO and OLAF - Then he inserted needles into her arm and wrist and carefully extracted blood and began to drink it, telling her that he was a vampire. Crutchley had been working at General Motors' Central Foundry Division in Defiance, Ohio, where he was responsible for the installation of a new plant security system. Hope I haven't bollocksed this up too bad. Then, while she was tied Between killing his first victim in 1982 and his capture in 2001, he murdered at least 49 women, most of them prostitutes or teenage runaways. ``The Prison officials are scrambling to find a home for the "Vampire Rapist," who served 10 years behind bars for raping a hitchhiker and drinking her blood. Keep supporting great journalism by turning off your ad blocker. After reading the first post here I went and discovered Vic Prell, Radio Psychic nearly pissed myself laughing. He invited her in and she refused, and he got into the back seat of the car and choked her unconscious. Corll would use the board by handcuffing a victim's hands to each top hole and binding their feet with nylon rope through the bottom holes. The podcast is supposed to do one last update (not a full episode) when this has been done. See the article in its original context from. (Crutchley) definitely was a person of interest in this and it was a possibility because of the nature of the crimes that he was convicted of, Reyes said. He applied for a transfer to Delco Electronics in Kokomo, where the systems were designed and built, and worked there for several years as an electrical systems engineer. A presentence report will be prepared in about 30 days. But I believe if they searched his property or his house at that time, they might have found something.. John Crutchley: Dayle Hinman: Self - Florida Department of Law Enforcement: Michael Hannon: Narrator: David Callin: Self - Orange County Sheriff's Office: Kent Card: Self - Shauna's Father: Thomas Hegert: Self - Forensic Pathologist, Orlando Regional Medical Center: Harry Hopkins II: Self - Crime Lab Analyst Supervisor, FDLE