1998 Itvw True Vampire Raphael Osiris aka Ralph SpindellTRANSCRIPTRAPHAEL:Most likely the depression is because they need to get in touch with themselves, maybe to find out why they are taking this path, and to have more understanding about it, and to feel better about it. I think a lot of the depression that vampires may have is due to the fact that they feel outside, ostracized, and a bit lonely. DOMINIQUE:You know, it's like with the punk, or any of those genres, when you are in high school, and there's not very many punks and freaks and Goths and vampires in high school usually, so a lot of high school kids feel like that, they get depressed, they're like, I'm the only one...SONDRA:Well, it starts off to be a statement of being somebody, even though you don't belong. But you see today so many more are becoming outsiders, it's hardly outside any more. RAPHAEL:Right. As this chrysalis bursts forth into society and more people are becoming aware of it, it's important to create the right image at the onset, so that it will be accepted more. SONDRA:I understand that as a vampire activist, your are interested in being sure that everyone understands that all vampires are not out on a killing spree, but I am very interested in looking into the vampires that are out on a killing spree. I wonder if you could speculate with me. I mean, you're not one of those, and neither am I. But certainly you know from the background that you have, I wonder if you could speculate on the recent two gangs of teen killer vampires coming out of Kentucky. What's with that?RAPHAEL:My first analysis of that would be that they are very misled people. They are obviously very pathological.SONDRA:This one said he wanted to open the Gates of Hell, and this one said she was the Daughter of Satan. RAPHAEL:Right. I don't put a lot of faith in either of these two being possible. I don't think she is the Daughter of Satan, and I don't think anybody is able to open the Gates of Hell, by themselves, and find the key or something.SONDRA:All they did was kill people. And they didn't suck their blood either. They weren't vampiric murders. They were just wilding, basically.RAPHAEL:And they just took the vampiric symbolism or whatever and shrouded their activities with it to make it sensational. Because no one in the vampire community that I know or operate with would consider these activities that they would partake of, or would consider those people vampires, in the true right. They are basically just misguided youths who have turned into killers, and who have just shrouded themselves with the vampire myth for a sense of sensationalism.SONDRA:After the Rod Ferrell gang had committed the double murder of one of their member's parents, they set out for New Orleans. They wanted to go there because of the vampire mystique of the city. I noticed at the trial, that Rod Ferrell's Vampire Mom Sondra had an Anne Rice novel clutched very closely throughout the trial as she sat out in the hall. And I wonder, what about the appeal, the glamour, the sexier the style, and then the overlay between that and getting into something like killing innocent people. It seems to be they are verging from one to the other, but you are saying that as responsible vampires, if you will, that this really isn't a part of being a vampire at all.