The Hammet Cult: A Chronicle of Blood and Betrayal

In the shadowy corners of Vancouver’s underground scene, where Gothic clubs pulse with dark music and vampire fantasies bleed into reality, a disturbing tale unfolded that would shatter the thin line between obsession and horror. This is the story of Edgar Hammet and The Hammet Cult, his cult of blood. A narrative that begins with childhood fixations and spirals into a nightmare of manipulation, murder, and the ultimate betrayal of human trust.

Section Index:

• The Making of a Monster
• The Seduction Begins
• Building The Hammet Cult’s Inner Circle
• The Descent into Horror
• The Deaths Begin
• The Laurie Bader Incident
• The Systematic Hunting Phase
• Kat Jones’ departure
• Neyla Reed departs
• The world discovers
• Edgar remains free

Edgar Hammet: The Making of a Monster

Edgar Hammet’s descent into darkness began long before he would claim his first victim. Born an “accident” on a remote rural farm, Edgar emerged into a world where his parents, despite their religious convictions, would indulge his increasingly disturbing whims. Perhaps it was fear, perhaps denial, but whatever drove their permissiveness would prove catastrophic.

From his earliest years, Edgar exhibited an unhealthy fascination with vampire lore. He would spend hours researching the mythology, romanticizing the darkness, and attempting to live as he imagined the undead might. Sleep became his enemy—he would force himself to stay awake through the night, sleeping only during daylight hours, convinced he suffered from an “allergy” to sunlight. His brother Marcus, homeschooled alongside Edgar in their isolated rural setting, watched with growing unease as animals on their farm began dying under mysterious circumstances. Creatures were found drained of blood or mutilated, their corpses bearing the hallmarks of deliberate cruelty. Marcus suspected Edgar, but their parents remained willfully blind to the horror growing in their midst.

As Edgar reached his teenage years, he abandoned his family entirely, severing all contact as he moved to the city. Behind him, he left a trail of dead animals and a brother who would grow to harbor nothing but hatred for the monster Edgar had become.

The Seduction Begins

The year 2010 marked Edgar’s emergence into Vancouver’s Gothic underground, where his twisted charisma would find fertile ground among the lonely and the searching. It was December when he encountered Neyla Reed at a 24-hour coffee shop, the clock striking 12:30 AM—an appropriately gothic hour for their first meeting. Neyla, petite and conservatively dressed, found herself simultaneously intimidated and drawn to Edgar’s strange magnetism.

Their courtship would prove to be anything but conventional. What began as dating soon evolved into something far more sinister, as Edgar’s blood obsession found its first willing participant. During a night of heavy drinking, Edgar made his first move—cutting himself and feeding his blood to Neyla. The act was reciprocated later that evening, establishing what they would euphemistically call their “kink.” But this was no mere sexual experimentation; it was the first step in Edgar’s grand design.

Even as his relationship with Neyla deepened, Edgar was already expanding his web of influence. In early 2011, he met Olya Palinski, a blonde Eastern European woman, at a local Goth club. Where Neyla represented innocence corrupted, Olya would become Edgar’s co-conspirator, embracing what they termed “The Lifestyle” with an enthusiasm that matched Edgar’s own dark vision.

The dynamic between Edgar’s two lovers grew increasingly complex and volatile. Edgar made no attempt to hide his dual relationships, instead reveling in the control it gave him over both women. When Neyla discovered labeled blood bags in Edgar’s freezer and learned of Olya’s existence, the revelation led to violence—but not separation. Instead, the confrontation ended with Neyla tasting Edgar’s blood once again, sealing her deeper commitment to his cause.

Building The Hammet Cult’s Inner Circle

Edgar’s true genius lay not just in his ability to corrupt individuals, but in his skill at building a community of corruption. Through Olya, he met Brandon Smith, a macho individual who found himself inexplicably drawn to Edgar’s detailed explanations of how blood consumption could lead to immortality. Brandon, in turn, introduced Remy White and Kyp Malkmus to Edgar’s candlelit basement lair in Kitsilano.

The six core members—Edgar, Neyla, Olya, Brandon, Remy, and Kyp—began their journey into darkness with what seemed like harmless ritual. Over five nights, they shared drops of each other’s blood, finding the experience both exciting and bonding. But Edgar’s ambitions extended far beyond symbolic gestures.

The group’s first attempt at serious blood consumption proved disastrous. They began alternating daily donations of a full litre of blood, then consuming glasses of each other’s blood the following week. Most members became violently ill, vomiting as their bodies rejected the foreign blood. Only Brandon, Olya, and Edgar seemed unaffected—a detail that should have served as a warning to the others.

Brandon’s observation of his own urine color led to a crucial realization: drinking blood wasn’t achieving their supposed goal of eternal life. This moment of clarity should have ended their experiment, but Edgar was far from finished. Instead, he introduced syringes to the group, transforming their crude drinking rituals into something far more invasive and medical in nature.

The Descent into Horror

The transition to injection marked a turning point in the group’s evolution from misguided seekers to willing accomplices in atrocity. Initially, the members fumbled with the unfamiliar medical equipment, leading to painful mishaps, broken needles, and botched insertions. Olya’s violent reaction to persistent attempts on her arm should have signaled the danger they were courting, but Edgar’s patient instruction gradually made the procedure “second nature” to them all.

Even Remy, initially terrified of needles, found herself not just accepting but anticipating the injections, her transformation illustrating Edgar’s insidious power over his followers’ psychological states. The group had crossed a line from which there would be no return.

Recognizing the need to expand their operation, Edgar’s circle began actively recruiting new members through vampire dating websites, with Kyp and Brandon using Remy and Olya as bait to lure the unwary. Their success was immediate and disturbing—within a short time, they had amassed approximately twenty followers.

Among these new recruits was Kat Jones, initially drawn by Kyp’s online persona but quickly transferred her allegiance to Edgar himself. She would become another of Edgar’s lovers, sharing his bed with Olya while the rest of the group looked on with a mixture of envy and revulsion.

As the group grew, Edgar began to withdraw into an increasingly isolated leadership role, speaking only to his original five disciples while the newer members existed in a subordinate status. It was during this period that Edgar introduced the chant that would become their dark mantra: “We regret nothing.” The words, repeated in unison, served to reinforce their collective commitment to increasingly horrific acts.

The structure Edgar established was brutally hierarchical. The original six members had graduated beyond mere participation—they no longer donated blood but continued injecting it. New recruits, however, were expected to contribute a full liter per week, their bodies serving as the source for the inner circle’s obsession.

The Deaths Begin

Jeremy Rush, a hacker who joined the group with characteristic techie enthusiasm, became Edgar’s first clear victim. Jeremy threw himself into the cult’s practices with reckless abandon, not just injecting blood but drinking it, mixing it with cereal, and even attempting to wash his face with it. His extremism, rather than earning Edgar’s approval, marked him for elimination.

The details of Jeremy’s fate remain disputed among the surviving cult members, but the broad strokes are chillingly clear. Edgar, either alone or with help from others, allegedly handcuffed Jeremy to a tree in a remote forest during the harsh Vancouver winter. Stripped of his clothes and identification, Jeremy was left to die in the elements. Police would later discover his body, mutilated beyond recognition, his face described as being “smashed to mush.”

Jeremy’s death established a pattern that would claim seven more lives in rapid succession. Scott Marshall, Margaret Woo, Joan Swanson, Cinnamon Morales, Ian Arnold, Martin Perry, and Jay Marx all died from what Edgar termed “over-donation.” Scott’s death proved particularly revealing of the cult’s twisted psychology—obsessed with Remy White, he had convinced himself that donating increasingly large amounts of blood (up to two liters per week) would somehow earn her love. His collapse and death served as what Remy would later call a “lesson,” though she showed little genuine remorse for her role in his demise.

Edgar’s response to these deaths revealed the full extent of his callousness. Rather than showing any recognition of wrongdoing, he coldly dismembered the bodies, removing fingers and teeth, bleaching heads beyond recognition, and orchestrating the disposal of body parts across neighboring cities. His followers, paralyzed by fear and complicity, carried out these grisly tasks without question.

The cult’s review of their policies following these deaths focused not on preventing future casualties, but on avoiding detection by what they dismissively termed “normal society.”

The Laurie Bader Incident

Laurie Bader’s recruitment through Remy’s dating site activities initially appeared routine, but her strong personality would prove incompatible with Edgar’s absolute control. Unlike other victims who succumbed to fear or manipulation, Laurie became “very much against the whole situation” and had the courage to argue directly with Edgar.

Her resistance sealed her fate. Laurie was found dead in her home, her throat cut and tongue removed—the latter detail suggesting a symbolic punishment for her verbal defiance. A suspicious suicide note accompanied the scene, but police investigations revealed clear evidence of foul play. The message was clear to the remaining cult members: opposition to Edgar’s will carried a death sentence.

The Systematic Hunting Phase

By mid-2011, Edgar had refined his operation into something approaching industrial efficiency. The cult abandoned their earlier reliance on dating websites and Gothic clubs, instead implementing a more systematic approach to victim acquisition. They would drive through the city’s nighttime scene, targeting lonely individuals in bars during quiet periods, using false identities and carefully rehearsed stories to lure victims back to their lair.

The selection criteria revealed a calculated cruelty—while they avoided “barely legal or underage Twilight fans,” they specifically targeted those whose isolation made them unlikely to be quickly missed. The victims would be bound, gagged, and confined to individual soundproofed rooms, each equipped with televisions playing movies continuously to mask the sounds of their suffering.

Edgar’s system of captivity was designed for maximum efficiency in blood extraction. Victims were force-fed liquefied proteins, fruits, and vegetables to maintain their health between weekly blood draws. Those who attempted escape were met with increasingly sophisticated countermeasures, including the strategic timing of washing to occur only after blood extraction, when victims were too weakened to resist.

Edgar’s personal involvement in the abuse of female victims added another layer of horror to the operation. His voyeuristic participation during the washing of female captives, described euphemistically as “inappropriate things,” revealed the sexual component of his sadism.

Kat Jones’ departure

Kat Jones’s disillusionment with the cult reached a breaking point when the group captured Douglas Hanna, someone she knew personally. Her attempts to convince Brandon and Remy to release him were met with cold refusal, forcing her to confront the reality of what she had become part of.

On July 22nd, while Edgar and Olya slept, Kat made her desperate move. She freed and fed Douglas Hanna before escaping herself. Her act of rebellion would prove partially futile—Douglas hanged himself just two days after his release, the psychological trauma of his captivity proving too much to overcome.

Kat’s call to police two days after her escape marked the beginning of Edgar’s downfall, though not before he had demonstrated his foresight by immediately relocating the cult’s entire operation. When police arrived to investigate Kat’s report, they found only an abandoned building and falsified contact information, leading to a frustrating dead end in their initial investigation.

Neyla Reed departs

Neyla Reed’s discovery of the cult’s true nature came on December 14th, 2011, when she arrived at Edgar’s relocated lair to find an 18-year-old girl bound, gagged, and unconscious, with a metal bedpan positioned beneath her body. The stark medical efficiency of the scene—so different from the romantic vampire fantasy she had initially embraced—finally shattered her willful blindness to Edgar’s true nature.

Her documentation of the scene with her iPhone provided the first concrete evidence of the cult’s activities. She found Troy Rothko and other victims including Tea Wu and Stephanie Radcliffe in individual rooms, each bearing the visible track marks of repeated blood extraction. Her decision to free Troy and provide him with a sports drink may have saved his life.

But Neyla’s most strategically important action was her sabotage of Edgar’s blood supply. By emptying all the blood bags from his freezer, she struck at the heart of his operation while simultaneously ensuring that any future victims would not immediately become part of his collection.

Her phone call to police that same night—reporting “human torturing and slaughtering” at 1246 Marsden Avenue—finally provided law enforcement with the actionable intelligence they needed to move against the cult.

The world discovers the truth

The arrests came around Christmas 2011, as police raided what they termed the “Draining House.” Edgar Hammet, along with Kyp Malkmus, Remy White, Brandon Smith, and Olya Palinski, were taken into custody and subsequently convicted for their roles in killing 16 people out of an alleged total of 48 victims.

The psychological evaluations that followed revealed the varying degrees of remorse among the cult members. Kyp Malkmus emerged as the only member expressing genuine regret for his actions, while others like Olya remained completely unrepentant, convinced of their superiority over ordinary humanity. Brandon Smith’s pending appeal suggested his continued belief in the righteousness of their cause.

But the system’s ultimate failure came with Edgar’s escape from the psychiatric ward where he was undergoing evaluation. His disappearance launched a full investigation and prompted police warnings for the public not to approach him under any circumstances. Olya’s elated reaction to news of his escape demonstrated that even conviction and psychiatric treatment had failed to break the hold Edgar maintained over his most devoted followers.

The aftermath saw Neyla Reed, Kat Jones, and Troy Rothko relocated for their safety, their refusal to grant further interviews speaking to the ongoing trauma of their experiences. Troy’s gratitude toward both Neyla and his father—whose persistent searching had helped lead to his rescue—provided one of the few redemptive elements in an otherwise unrelentingly dark story.

Edgar Hammet remains a free man

As investigators closed their files and survivors attempted to rebuild their lives, Edgar Hammet remained at large—a predator whose combination of charisma, intelligence, and absolute lack of empathy had enabled him to transform vulnerable seekers into willing accomplices in atrocity.

His story serves as a chilling reminder that evil rarely announces itself with obvious signs. Instead, it often wears the mask of charisma and offers the promise of belonging to those most desperate to find their place in the world. Edgar’s ability to transform a romantic vampire fantasy into systematic murder reveals the dangerous intersection of manipulation, isolation, and the human need for connection.

The Hammet cult’s legacy extends beyond its immediate victims to encompass a broader warning about the vulnerability of those seeking meaning in alternative communities. Edgar’s success in corrupting not just individuals but entire social networks demonstrates the insidious nature of charismatic authority when divorced from any moral constraints.

Perhaps most disturbing of all is the knowledge that Edgar Hammet’s story may not be over. Somewhere in the shadows, the man who convinced others to kill for his twisted vision of immortality remains free, carrying with him the hard-earned knowledge of how to identify, isolate, and corrupt the vulnerable. His escape represents not just a failure of the justice system, but a continuing threat to anyone unfortunate enough to cross his path.

The blood has been spilled, the bodies buried, and the survivors relocated. But the monster who orchestrated it all remains at large, a reminder that some hunts never truly end.

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