Monday, 17 February 2014

19-Year-Old And Husband Kill Man To "Do Something Together", Now She Claims To Have Murdered At Least 22 More

 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.Photo: Miranda Barbour pleads guilty to killing scores of people
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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