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Teens Carry Out Gruesome ‘Vampire Murder’ Inspired by Blockbuster Movie

On March 22, 1988, teenagers planned an attack at Riverside Park below the 10th Street dam, killing 30-year-old Donald Wayne Gall whose body was found floating nearby.
The teens had acquired 'The Lost Boys' about a month earlier and investigators uncovered evidence linking them to organized cult or Satanism.
After Gall lost consciousness, a teen slit his throat while others licked blood from the blade and their hands; other teens then kicked him to death and pushed his body into the Mississippi River.
Timothy Michael Erickson later confessed after forensic tests and is serving life at Minnesota Correctional Facility in Faribault for first-degree murder.
At about 4:00 a.m. on March 24, 1988, a drunken Benedict reported the killing to the St. Cloud Law Enforcement Center, triggering the investigation.

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Teens carry out gruesome "vampire murder" inspired by blockbuster movie

ST. CLOUD, Minn. — Mark Lee Erickson hoped his brother was joking. Talking about becoming a vampire cult after watching the new blockbuster movie “The Lost Boys” was one thing, but killing someone for their blood was something entirely different. It was murder. While searching for branches to burn along with runaways Andrew Thielen, 17, and a never-before-named 13-year-old early on March 22, 1988, Mark tried to convince himself everything was ok…

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