“Victim” Comes Clean: It Was a Vampire Attack

February 15, 2011

 

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.

We're just saying.

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Dallas DNA

April 30, 2009

Dallas DNA chronicles a pioneering unit within the Dallas County District Attorney's office where post-conviction DNA testing is being used to clear the innocent, as well as confirm the guilty.

When Craig Watkins ran for district attorney in Dallas County, he promised to fight for justice and through an innovative and unconventional new division he founded; he's been true to his word. In July 2007, Watkins created the nation's first Conviction Integrity Unit (CIU) run by a DA's office and tasked it with re-examining hundreds of petitions submitted by inmates seeking post-conviction DNA testing and reinvestigating the cases that could be possible examples of injustice.

Dallas County has more exonerations than any other jurisdiction in the nation since state law began allowing post-conviction testing in 2001. In that time, more than 40 cases have received post-conviction DNA evidence analysis and the results have stunned the nation - to date, 19 cases were found to have wrongful convictions, and under DA Watkins' leadership ten innocent men have walked free.

The legal drama and the astounding ramifications including exonerations after men wrongfully spent decades behind bars is captured in Investigation Discovery's new six-part series DALLAS DNA, which is now on Investigation Discovery Tuesdays at 10 p.m. ET.

Click here to learn more about the show