The Carter Brothers
John and Wayne Carter
In terms of murder rates, New Orleans ranks among the highest. It has always been a notorious place for missing persons—that is, it is a place where people just disappear and no one ever knows what happened to them. The blood of the French, Spanish, Indian, African, Creole, and English all mix together here, where the mosquito is not so picky. Nor, perhaps, are other creatures.
John and Wayne Carter were brothers. They seemed to be normal in every aspect—they both had normal labor jobs down by the river and lived in the French Quarter. It was the 1930s during the Great Depression and times were hard, so a man worked all he could.
One day, a girl was reported to have escaped from the Carter brothers' apartment and run to the authorities. Her wrists were cut—not enough to cause immediate death, but enough to cause her blood to drain slowly over the next several days. The policemen ran to the Carters' third-story apartment and found four other people tied to chairs with their wrists sliced in the same fashion. Some had been there for many days.
The story was that the brothers had abducted these people in order to drink their blood at the end of every day when they came home from work. Police also found about 14 dead bodies. The cops waited for the brothers to return and when they did, it took 7 or 8 of them to hold down the two average-sized men.
A few years later, when the Carters were finally executed, their bodies were placed in a New Orleans vault. Cemeteries in New Orleans are quite picturesque—not only are they more ornate than the rest of the nation's, but they inter many generations of one family inside one vault. The remains sift down into the bottom of the vault and when it is all rubble, a new body is slid inside.
Many years after the Carter brothers' death, when they were placing another Carter in the family vault, they discovered the vault was completely empty—no John or Wayne. They were gone.
To this day, many sightings have occurred in the French Quarter that match the descriptions of these two brothers almost exactly. Years later, an owner of their apartment saw two figures that matched their descriptions outside on the balcony, whispering to each other. Both figures jumped off the top of the third-story balcony and took off running.
The legend goes that if a vampire drinks your blood seven nights in a row, then and only then can you become a vampire. Some of those found in the Carter brothers' apartment had been there for more than seven days. One warped fellow named Felipe went on to become a notorious serial killer. And, of course, he would do more than just kill his victims; he was believed to drink the blood of all 32 of his victims.
Source : exemplore.com
