A transgender woman who identified as a vampire has been convicted of sexually terrorizing a 16-year-old Wisconsin girl with learning difficulties – while under investigating for a strangling a man to death in her home.
Adam ‘Sabrina’ Hetke, 35, has already been jailed twice for sex offences against women dating back to 2007, and police warned that she had a ‘high probability to reoffend’ when she was released in 2016.
But she was free to scare the young teen into jumping out of her bedroom window after following her home from a Waukesha gas station with a knife and sexually assaulting her in July 2021.
Just weeks before the sex assault, Hetke allegedly admitted strangling a man to death in Milwaukee, after telling a friend: ‘I killed him. God can’t bring him back but I can because I’m the devil.’
It was only after she assaulted the 16-year-old that she was arrested for murder.
Adam ‘Sabrina’ Hetke, 35, has been jailed twice for sex offences dating back to 2007
Police warned she had a ‘high probability to reoffend’ when released in 2016
Hetke is due to stand trial for the murder of mentally disabled 28-year-old Vydale Thompson-Moody who was strangled to death at Hetke’s home in Milwaukee two months earlier
Police noted that Hetke had begun identifying as a woman when she was freed again on mandatory release in November 2020 after serving her latest sentence for sexual assault.
Five months later she was living with three women in a house in the Concordia neighborhood of Milwaukee when she invited a young man with learning difficulties around.
Vydale Thompson-Moody, 28, was found dead in the house the following morning with a 15-foot electrical cord underneath him and marks to his neck and forehead.
One of his housemates told police that Hetke had been bullying Thompson-Moody and wrapped a cord around his neck.
She said Hetke said he was removing demons from Thompson-Moody as she tightened the cord but was pulled off her victim by the housemates who eventually went to sleep, only to find their guest dead the next morning.
Hetke was arrested within 24 hours and told police Thompson-Moody had been ‘possessed by a demon’ and stabbing himself in the chest with tongs before wrapping the cord around his own neck.
She claimed she had succeeded in exorcising the ‘demon’ and was discharged days later on administrative release as investigators struggled to pin charges on her.
Thompson-Moody’s mother Serena took matters into her own hands and managed to track down another of the housemates who told her that Hetke had admitted wanting to kill her son for being ‘disrespectful’.
She took her findings to police who decided to re-interview the housemates, one of whom said that Hetke had admitted the killing immediately after being released from their custody.
One said he was afraid of Hetke, who claimed she could inject demons into people’s bodies, the witness said.
The evidence was enough for police to re-arrest Hetke, but not before she had sexually assaulted the teenage girl in Waukesha, threatened her with a knife and warned her that she was a vampire.
‘Being that they let this person go and commit another crime, it hurt,’ Serena Thompson said. ‘It could’ve been prevented.’
Thompson-Moody’s mother Serena was instrumental in tracking down witnesses for the case
Serena said that after his death she discovered a letter revealing her son had been accepted to the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
Hetke was charged three days later with first-degree sexual assault with a dangerous weapon and second-degree sexual assault of a mentally disabled person.
She was given two examinations to check whether she could plead not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect, but both found she was sane.
She was convicted of both counts by a jury last week and is due to be sentenced on June 7.
Two weeks after she was arrested in Waukesha, she was charged with Thompson-Moody’s homicide.
Kent Lovern, the Milwaukee County Chief Deputy District Attorney told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel it was ‘important for us to receive additional information related to the investigation before issuing criminal charges’.
Serena Thompson said: ‘Vydale would have wanted me to be persistent. I will never give up on him.’
Vydale’s grandfather Thomas Lloyd said his grandson struggled to tell when people wanted to do him harm. ‘He never met a person he couldn’t be a friend to,’ he explained.
‘He was just friendly. He didn’t think people could hurt him. I’m sure people took advantage of him because of how he was.’
And he praised his daughter for finding the evidence to put Hetke on trial.
‘She hustled and got that evidence, I’m proud of her to have done that.’
She said that after his death she discovered a letter revealing her son had been accepted to the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.
‘I was so proud,’ she said. ‘He didn’t like taking no for an answer.
‘You couldn’t tell him that his disability would stop him. He just wanted to be recognized as any other human being.’