An Attempted Suburban Vampire Cult

In March 1988 St. Cloud, Minnesota, was a city of about 45,000 people in the middle of the state, known as the Granite City for the quarries that had opened in the 1880s. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it Neighbours and a repairman described the place as a flop house for adults and runaway juveniles, with people coming and going at all hours. Police had been called there 22 times in less than a year and a half.

The brothers had grown up in a violent home. this part of the story is covered for now All four children left home early. details of the account remain covered until revealed He drank and took drugs, and in December 1987 he was taken to St. Cloud Hospital unconscious with acute alcohol intoxication. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it

After watching Conan the Barbarian and the Highlander, Tim began carrying a sword and telling anyone who would listen that he was immortal and that his wounds healed faster than other people's. His sister had been asking the family for months to have him committed. In the middle of March 1988 he saw The Lost Boys, and on about 15 March he sat the boys at the house down and announced that they were going to form a vampire cult. this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed

the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it That night the group decided to go camping at Riverside Park, just south of St. Cloud on the Mississippi River, even though it was freezing. Gall arrived at about 11.30 p.m. sloppy drunk and joined in. After midnight Bill Benedict decided not to go. At about one o'clock in the morning six of them set off with a case of beer, marijuana, ephedrine and hot dogs. At about 4.30 a.m. the unidentified 15-year-old left because he was cold and tired, and Gall lay down by the fire. this part of the story is covered for now

Tim's first plan was for the others to wake Gall and for him to stab him. Gall woke as they approached and asked what was going on; they told him they were only messing with the fire and he went back to sleep. The group retreated to the woods and revised the plan. Tim would hit Gall with a log, the others would kick him, and Tim would stab him and they would drink his blood. details of the account remain covered until revealed

Tim clubbed Gall with the log. Gall jumped up, scrambled onto a strip of ice on the river and was cut off. The boys kicked him in the head and jumped on his neck. The beating lasted about 90 minutes. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it Tim licked the blood from his hands and made the other two do the same, saying they were vampires now. They took Gall's leather jacket, watch and wallet, which held $5, burned his identification and pushed the body into the open water. Afterwards they burned the log on the campfire, took a different route home and stopped at a convenience store to buy cigarettes with the $5.

Back at the house Tim bragged to the two teenage girls, saying he had beaten Gall with a log, stabbed him and thrown him in the river, and showed them the blood-soaked jacket. this part of the story is covered for now At 4 a.m. on 24 March, Bill walked into the St. Cloud Law Enforcement Center and reported the murder. Police searched the river near Riverside Park and found Gall's body a short distance away, still caught in the ice. The autopsy found 12 stab wounds to his face, deep slashes to his neck and left wrist, and skull fractures too numerous to count; the top of his skull came apart in four pieces. details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it He told the police that a lawyer would not help him.

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details of the account remain covered until revealed A doctor said he had consumed a great deal of beer, ephedrine and marijuana and had a high tolerance, but two witnesses, including his brother, said he was not especially drunk. The prosecution pointed to the two separate plans, the huddle in the woods, the throat cutting, the blood drinking, the clean-up, the burned identification, the stolen property and the different route home. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it In the sanity phase his lawyers blamed mental illness, his viewing of Conan, the Highlander and The Lost Boys, and 51 doses of amphetamine. His mother described the beatings, though she admitted her husband had stopped drinking in 1973. this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed

the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now Nobody really mourned Donald Gall; as the hosts put it, he had a shit life and a bad end.