A Florida teenager who is charged in connection with the murder of a 16-year-old boy claims she is a vampire/werewolf hybrid.
Stephanie Pistey, 18, is in jail in Panama City, awaiting trial in the July killing of Jacob Hendershot. Four other people have also been charged in the crime.
Police say the defendants lured Hendershot to a house, where they beat him to death and dumped his body in a storm drain.
Police said Pistey had accused Hendershot of raping her, according to Panama City television station WTSP.
"Jacob didn't deserve to die. I didn't even know he was going to die. But I honestly knew that they were going to beat him up and, in my opinion, he deserved to get the [expletive] beat out of him. He didn't deserve to die," Pistey told WPTV of Palm Beach.
Police believe the suspects were involved in a vampire cult.
Pistey told TV station WJHG, "Since I was like, 12 ... I know this is going to be crazy, but I believe that I'm a vampire. Part of a vampire and part of a werewolf."
Pistey has admitted being at the home where Hendershot was killed but says she was babysitting and did not participate in the murder.
She says she didn't drink Hendershot's blood, but reportedly said she has drunk the blood of her fiance and co-defendant, William Chase, 25.
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