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John Brennan Crutchley (1 October 1946 - 30 March 2002) was an American convicted kidnapper and rapist and suspected serial killer. He was suspected of up to 30 murders but was never charged with any of them due to lack of evidence. He was called the "Vampire Rapist" because he drained the blood of his victim almost to the point of death while he repeatedly raped her.
Biography
Suspected Murders
According to FBI profiler Robert K. Ressler, Crutchley fit the profile of "a serial killer of the organized type" - a serial killer with advanced social skills who plans their crimes in advance and is intelligent enough to dispose of evidence.
In 1977, a secretary named Debbora Fitzjohn disappeared in Fairfax, Virginia. Crutchley was Fitzjohn's boyfriend at the time and had been the last person to see her alive. Crutchley had been suspected at the time but was never arrested as there was no evidence that Fitzjohn was dead.
During Ressler's extensive investigation into Crutchley, he discovered that Crutchley had been living in Brevard County when four girls were murdered and the perpetrator was never found. He had also lived in Pennsylvania for a time, during which time many unsolved murders and disappearances occurred. Ressler concluded that Crutchley was likely guilty of around 30 murders.
Vampire Rapist
In November 1985 in Malabar, Florida, a driver found a naked teenage girl handcuffed at the feet and crawling along the side of the road. She begged him not to take her back to "that house" and gave the location when asked. Upon being taken to hospital, the woman was determined to be missing around 40 - 45% of her blood. When asked the woman claimed that she'd been hitchhiking and had been picked up by a man who took her back to his house, strangled her, raped her and drained her blood.
The house the woman claimed to have been taken to was identified as John Brennan Crutchley's. A search warrant was obtained and several videotapes were seized, but were found to have been edited to remove several minutes believed to have been footage of the crime. The search also turned up a ledger containing the names of several of Crutchley's sexual partners and his rating of their performances. When contacted, some partners indicated that Crutchley had crossed the line from kinky sex into outright sexual assault and even rape.
Crutchley claimed that he and the victim had consensual sex and he had drained her blood as part of an agreed-upon ritual. Although admitting to having a vampirism fetish, he denied that he had drunk the victims blood, claiming that it had congealed before he could drink it. However, he eventually agreed to plead guilty to kidnapping and rape in return for grievous bodily harm charges being dropped. Following testimony from Robert Ressler about the threat he posed to the public, Crutchley was sentenced to 25 years to life.
After eleven years in prison Crutchley was released on probation in 1996. Less than a day later he was arrested for smoking marijuana and was returned to prison to serve a life sentence under Florida's three-strikes rule. On 30 March 2002 he was found dead in his cell from autoerotic asphyxiation.