10 Shocking Real Life Vampire Stories You Won't Believe

3. Daniel And Manuela Ruda

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These crazies aren’t just self-titled vampires, they’re also convicted murderers. 

In 2001, couple Daniel and Manuela Ruda murdered Frank Hackert by stabbing him 66 times and carving a pentagram into his chest in their flat in Witten, Germany. Then, they drank his blood and took a nap in a coffin because murder must really work up an appetite. When authorities entered the scene, the walls were covered with blood spatter, and skulls and scalpels littered the home.

The Rudas not only claimed to be vampires, they also claimed that Satan told them to sacrifice Hackert. The spent the majority of their trial in Germany making faces and rude hand gestures for the public gallery. Daniel Ruda was sentenced to at least 15 years and Manuela Ruda was sentenced to 13. 

She was released from prison and lives in an undisclosed location. Let’s hope Satan stopped talking to her while she was in the psych ward. 

 
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