Police are investigating after Miranda Barbour, accused with
her husband of killing a man they met through the Craigslist website,
admits to the crime in a newspaper interview and claims she has killed
at least 22 more.
In an interview with The Daily Item
in Sunbury, 19-year-old Miranda Barbour said she wants to plead guilty
to killing Troy LaFerrara in November. She also said in the interview
she has killed at least 22 others from Alaska to North Carolina in the
last six years as part of her involvement in a satanic cult.
"I feel it is time to get all of this out. I don't care if people believe me. I just want to get it out," Mrs
Barbour told the newspaper for a story published Saturday night.
Sunbury Police Chief Steve Mazzeo told the newspaper that investigators
were aware of Mrs Barbour's claims of involvement in other murders.
He
said they are "seriously concerned" and have contacted police in other
jurisdictions. In a statement issued on Sunday, the FBI's Philadelphia
division said it had been in contact with Sunbury police and "will offer
any assistance requested in the case."
Mrs Barbour's lawyer did
not immediately return messages from The Associated Press left at his
office Sunday. Attorneys for Barbour and her husband, 22-year-old Elytte
Barbour, have both sought psychiatric evaluations for their clients.
Mrs
Barbour said in the jailhouse interview that she wanted to plead guilty
at her arraignment, but that Greco pleaded not guilty for her.
Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for both defendants in Mr
LaFerrara's killing.
Mrs Barbour, a petite woman with long brown
hair, told investigators she met the 6-foot-2, 278-pound victim after he
responded to her Craigslist ad offering companionship for money.
Mr Barbour told investigators they committed the crime because they wanted to kill someone together, according to court papers.
The
couple, who were married in North Carolina and moved to Pennsylvania
about three weeks before the crime, told police Mrs Barbour stabbed Mr
LaFerrara in the front seat of her car while her husband held a cord
around his neck.
Mrs Barbour said in the interview that she doesn't want to get out of jail and that she would kill again if released.
She
said she had no remorse and killed only "bad people." Mrs Barbour
offered little detail on the murders she claimed to have participated
in, in Alaska, Texas, North Carolina and California.
She claims she joined a satanic cult in Alaska when she was 13 before moving to North Carolina.
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