According to authorities, the mother of two allegedly let her children watch the killing happen.
Jacob Hendershot did not live in Hagerstown very long, but the people who still live there said they are saddened by what happened to him.
Michelle Brown said, "It would make me hurt whether he lived here or not, but no child deserves that. No human being deserves that."
Hendershot was 16 when he attended Hagerstown High School for a semester in 2010, so people are watching closely to what happens in the case.
Stephanie Pistey, of Parker, Fla., said, "In my opinion he deserved to get **** (expletive) beat out of him, but he didn't deserve to die."
Pistey is Hendershot's ex-girlfriend and one of five people who have been charged in his death.
Police said three men lured Hendershot to a home, where they attacked him, cutting his throat and choking him with a chain.
"Jacob never deserved to die. I didn't think he was going to die, but I honestly knew they were going to beat him up," Pistey said.
Police said another woman at the home, let her two young children, age 4 and 10, watch the killing and then clean it up.
Pistey said she was baby-sitting the children, but that is not all she told a Florida television station.
"I believe I'm a vampire. Part vampire and part werewolf," Pistey said.
She said she drank the blood of her boyfriend who is one of the three men who are charged.
People in Indiana said the bizarre twists are overshadowing the loss of a young life.