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?Victim? Comes Clean: It Was a Vampire Attack

By Jack Huber

  At first she told police that the bite marks on her body were from an assault by a stranger who attacked her as she was jogging. But her story was slowly drained of all credibility and she was forced to admit that the marks were from the bite of one of Satan's undead minions ? a vampire. Or, more accurately, a pretend vampire. Authorities say the 15-year-old Florida girl is a fan of the vampire-based ?Twilight? movies and books. She eventually admitted to sheriff's officials that she had engaged in ?fantasy biting? with a 19-year-old man and she was worried that her mother would see the marks. And so a tale of mugging, more plausible to mere mortals, had to be concocted. No charges were filed against the would-be vampire, although it seems that authorities would be powerless to prevent malignant creatures of the night from exacting their own unique brand of revenge on the fang-less imposter...continue to full post

Full post as published by Bizarre Crimes of the Week on February 15, 2011 (boomark / email).