May 1, 2003 - A Satan-worshipping baby-faced vampire killer has confessed to beating a hooker to death while high on cocaine and drinking her blood. But Perry Cerf, 20, insists the brutal slaying of Flo Andrade, 47, was "unintentional". Sex offender Cerf, from Bergenfield, New Jersey, has officially pleaded not guilty to murder and rape.

In the early 1730s, a band of Austrian medical officers were summoned to the Serbian village of Medvegia. An investigation was underway concerning the strange deaths of several villagers. The locals claimed the deaths were caused by vampires. The first of these vampires was Arnold Paole, a man who had died several years earlier by falling off a hay wagon.

The cold rushes in
and knocks me from
my steady climb
and then I fall
further then ever.
There used to be a
safety net called
love, but that net
has turned to dust
and was blown as
was my strength
before and also as
was my wisdom of
long-past years,
blown from my grip
and out of my last
reach for you too.
Blown from my hope
and my love, blown
so far away just
like I'm blown out
of any's reach and
everyone's grace.

Prince Angel
January 4, 2002

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• Cleaver, Hanna. "Satanic Killers Tell of Blood Drinking Rites," portal.telegraph.co.uk, January 21, 2002.
• "Doctor says German Satanists could kill again," Reuters Limited, January 24, 2002.

August 22, 2007 (Boston Herald / Laurel J. Sweet) -- A Jamaica Plain "vampire" who drank the blood of his wheelchair-bound grandmother after shooting her to death is trying to sell his amateurish art online to bankroll "a new start" if he’s freed.