A sex offender, who identifies as a trans woman and vampire, has been convicted of sexually terrorizing a 16-year-old Wisconsin girl with learning disabilities.
Adam ‘Sabrina’ Hetke, 35, has been jailed twice for sexual offenses against women dating back to 2007, and police warned she had a “high probability of reoffending” when she was released in 2016.
But she was free to scare the young teenager 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 earlier, Hetke allegedly admitted to 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.
Police noted that Hetke had begun identifying as a woman when she was released again on mandatory parole in November 2020 after serving her last sentence for sexual assault.
Adam ‘Sabrina’ Hetke, 35, has been jailed twice for sexual offenses dating back to 2007.
Police warned she had a “high probability of reoffending” when she was released in 2016.
Hetke will be tried for the murder of 28-year-old mentally disabled Vydale Thompson-Moody, who was strangled to death in Hetke’s Milwaukee home two months earlier.
Five months later he was living with three women in a house in the Concordia neighborhood of Milwaukee when he invited a young man with learning difficulties.
Vydale Thompson-Moody, 28, was found dead in the home the next morning with a 15-foot electrical cord underneath him and marks on his neck and forehead.
One of his housemates told police that Hetke had been bullying Thompson-Moody and had wrapped a rope around his neck.
She said Hetke said he was removing demons from Thompson-Moody as she tightened the cord, but the housemates removed it from their victim and eventually went to sleep, only to find their guest dead the next morning.
Hetke was arrested within 24 hours and told police that Thompson-Moody had been “possessed by a demon” and had stabbed himself in the chest with pliers before wrapping the cord around his own neck.
She claimed she had managed to exorcise the “demon” and was released days later on administrative release as investigators struggled to bring charges against 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 to wanting to kill her son for being “disrespectful.”
He took his findings to the police, who decided to re-interview the housemates, one of whom said Hetke had admitted to the murder immediately after being released from custody.
One said he was afraid of Hetke, who claimed he could inject demons into people’s bodies, the witness said.
The evidence was enough for police to re-arrest Hetke, but not before she sexually assaulted the teenager in Waukesha, threatened her with a knife and warned her that she was a vampire.
“Because they let this person go and he committed another crime, it hurt,” Serena Thompson said. “It could have been avoided.”
Hetke was charged three days later with first-degree sexual assault with a dangerous weapon and second-degree sexual assault on a mentally disabled person.
She was given two tests to see if she could plead innocent due to mental illness or defect, but in both tests she was determined to be sane.
A jury found her guilty of both charges last week and her sentencing is scheduled for June 7.
Two weeks after being arrested in Waukesha, she was charged with Thompson-Moody’s homicide.
Thompson-Moody’s mother Serena was instrumental in finding witnesses in the case.
Serena said that after his death she discovered a letter revealing that her son had been accepted to the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.
Kent Lovern, Milwaukee County’s chief deputy prosecutor, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that it was “important for us to receive additional information related to the investigation before filing criminal charges.”
Serena Thompson said: ‘Vydale would have wanted him to be persistent. I’ll never give up on him.’
Vydale’s grandfather, Thomas Lloyd, said his grandson had a hard time knowing when people wanted to hurt him. “He never met a person he couldn’t be friends with,” 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 prosecute Hetke.
“She stepped up and got that evidence, I’m proud that she did that.”
She said that after his death she discovered a letter revealing that her son had been accepted to the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.
“I was very proud,” she said. She 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 like any other human being.