Australian police have posted a $1m (£565,000) reward for a man suspected of ordering the killing of a self-proclaimed vampire.
Police in the south-eastern state of Victoria said they had offered the bounty to help find Mark Perry, who is wanted in relation to the 2003 murder of male prostitute Shane Chartres-Abbott.
At the time of his death, 28-year-old Chartres-Abbott was on trial for allegedly attacking and raping a client.
The victim of the crime was said to have had her tongue bitten off.
He allegedly told the woman, a former girlfriend of Perry’s, that he was a 200-year-old vampire who drank blood to survive.
Police Deputy Commissioner Ken Jones said that Perry, who is believed to have travelled overseas after learning he was wanted for questioning in relation to the murder, could have disguised his identity and may be living between Australian states.
“There are people out there who know where he is, they know when he fled, they know who he’s associating with and that’s why we’re putting this amount of money to this particular individual, because we are keen to arrest him,” Dep Com Jones told reporters.
Chartres-Abbott was shot in suburban Melbourne on the day he was meant to face trial for the rape.
His father and pregnant girlfriend witnessed the killing.
When Commissioner Jones was asked if this was the most bizarre case he had ever seen he replied: “The sort of wickedness that’s been revealed in this case, it’s uncommon, but I’m afraid it’s not absolutely off the wall.”
I find the whole vampire thing really funny. It gets even funnier when when people think they are “psychic vampires,” feeding off the feelings and emotions of people.
The other day my wife’s sister called her laughing about what she was watching on the Tyra Show. (I’m stil not sure why my sister-in-law was watching Tyra to begin with…) Tyra’s episode was about vampires. Apparently an old friend of my wife’s was on it. So my wife taped it and we watched part of it together, laughing. The girl was strange when she knew her, but really started to get strange shortly before we moved out of Vegas. The friendship fell apart, thank goodness, though they communicated some after we moved. Though she claims to have known she was a vampire for some time she never exhibited any such behaviors when my wife (and later me through my wife) knew her.
You can see the ex-friend Vampyra on Tyra here. We watched maybe ten minutes of the show then couldn’t take anymore and deleted it.
Actually, it was Anne Rice who started the decline of the vampire. From bloodsucking fiends, monsters to be feared and reviled, we got tortured, angsty souls, living with the burdern of a curse that makes them strong, intelligent, and pretty… Yeah.
Twilight just put a final nail in the coffin, though, reducing them even further to the level of teen-crush fanfiction characters. Yay.
Sure, we can have pretty, we can have aristocratic, but let’s have some actual, bona-fide terror.. a reason to fear them, something that not even the most desperate and romantically blind person could overlook as indicating that this is a Bad Thing. An abomination of nature, predatory and interested in you for the sole sake of lunch.
I have been reading the Charlaine Harris novels, and she kinda puts the fear back into vampires.
While depicted as being able to move through society, she also shows that they are something utterly alien to a standard human and look upon ‘mere mortals’ as Big Macs with a personality. (My kind of evil undead…)
No more ‘angsty’ “I’m too good to feed!” responses. More like “And i can’t feed on them because.......”?
I find the whole vampire thing really funny. It gets even funnier when when people think they are “psychic vampires,” feeding off the feelings and emotions of people.
The other day my wife’s sister called her laughing about what she was watching on the Tyra Show. (I’m stil not sure why my sister-in-law was watching Tyra to begin with…) Tyra’s episode was about vampires. Apparently an old friend of my wife’s was on it. So my wife taped it and we watched part of it together, laughing. The girl was strange when she knew her, but really started to get strange shortly before we moved out of Vegas. The friendship fell apart, thank goodness, though they communicated some after we moved. Though she claims to have known she was a vampire for some time she never exhibited any such behaviors when my wife (and later me through my wife) knew her.
You can see the ex-friend Vampyra on Tyra here. We watched maybe ten minutes of the show then couldn’t take anymore and deleted it.
Oh. And I have nothing really to say about the news article.
Wow Tah! I can’t believe you and your wife knew that crazy woman! I think my favorite part is when she says she likes to bite people and when tyra asks her if she breaks the skin, she says “no, that would be unsanitary.”
