Media Coverage
On October 30, 2010, the cable channel "Investigation Discovery" broadcast a 20-minute summary of the Brevard County incident which led to Crutchley's incarceration. This episode of "American Occult" includes interviews with "vampirism sociologist" Katherine Ramsland, PhD, as well as law enforcement officers from Brevard County, Florida Robert Leatherow and Jake Miller, and also identifies the victim as one Laura Murphy.
This episode also includes archival video imaging of Crutchley, including his declaration that the attribution of vampirism is pointless, declaring that "it's all about the label of the 'big V', the 'big V' is empty, that's not me". Several archival photographs included in this program show the young Mr Crutchley as looking very typical of the times and places of his youth, totally unremarkable. Professor Ramsland notes of Mr Crutchley, that there was nothing at all about him which would send danger signals to potential victims, indeed, she states that there was "nothing about him that would indicate he was anything but an engineer".
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