Rod Ferrell was born in Murray, Kentucky in 1980. He had an unstable upbringing, surrounded by drug use, often neglected, probably abused, and without a father figure. He started telling his friends he was an ancient vampire and that he was immortal. And they could be too, if they let him drink their blood. Things took an especially dark turn in November 1996 when Rod was sixteen. He and three friends left Murray to pick up two more friends in Florida, then on to New Orleans to start new lives as a vampire family. A double homicide derailed their plan.