Newlywed 'Craigslist killer' claims she has killed more than 22 people across the country in shocking jailhouse interview

[Peikko 1,575]

A Pennsylvania teenager charged with the gruesome murder of a man she met along with her husband through Craigslist has claimed to have killed more than 22 other people across the country in a jailhouse interview. In the local newspaper piece, Miranda Barbour, 19, claims she will plead guilty to the butchering of Troy LaFerrara, 42, in November in addition to more than 20 victims from Alaska to North Carolina 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,' Barbour told the newspaper for a story published Saturday night. 'When I hit 22, I stopped counting,' she said on the paper's website. She now just wanted to be honest, she said.

Sunbury police Chief Steve Mazzeo told the newspaper that investigators have been in contact with the FBI and law enforcement in several other states.'From information we gathered and from information gathered from her interview we are seriously concerned and have been in contact with the proper authorities,' Mazzeo said. Lawyers for the couple did not immediately return messages from The Associated Press left at their offices Saturday night. An FBI spokesman referred questions to its Philly office, but an email message wasn't immediately returned. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against Barbour and her husband, 22-year-old Elytte Barbour. Authorities said Miranda 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. Over the course of the deeply unsettling interview, Barbour claims that she is ready and able to cooperate with authorities to reveal where the bodies are buried. 'I can pinpoint on a map where you can find them,' she said. Claiming to have been sexually abused at the age of four, Barbour told the Daily Item that she only killed 'bad people' and was brought up in a satanic cult by a man she would not identify after joining them at the age of 13.

Indeed, it was this individual who introduced Barbour to murder - killing a man down an alley in Alaska with a gun. 'It was in an alley and he (the cult leader) shot him,' she said, declining to identify him. 'Then he said to me that it was my turn to shoot him. I hate guns. I don’t use guns. I couldn’t do it, so he came behind me and he took his hands and put them on top of mine and we pulled the trigger. And then from there I just continued to kill.' During her time in the cult, Barbour claims that at one point she fell pregnant and was subjected to a dangerous 'in-house abortion' by members after they drugged her and tied her to a bed.

Barbour has said that the majority of the murders she committed were in Alaska, but that she has also killed in North Carolina, Texas and California. After leaving Alaska as a high-ranking member of the satanic cult, Barbour said that she will tell police anything they want to know about the murders. Asked why she pleaded not guilty to the LaFerrara muder, she replied, 'I didn't want to.'

'When I was at my arraignment and the judge asked me how do I plead, I was ready to say guilty and my attorney (chief public defender Ed Greco) grabbed the microphone and said not guilty.' Miranda Barbour said she has not spoken with her husband since the day she was arrested. 'He is proud of what he did,' she said. 'I will always love him.' 'I know I will never see my husband again and I have accepted that. I know I wanted to talk about all this because I know I had a 20-year window where I would possibly get out of jail and I don’t want that to happen. If I were to be released, I would do this again.' Police allege in court papers that Elytte Barbour told investigators they committed the crime because they wanted to kill someone together.

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[luckytxn 2,264]

Wow. We better start banning knives.

[Peikko 1,575]

Wow. We better start banning knives.

I am sure this is a stupid question, but why? What possible reason do you have for making such an irrelevant statement?

[Pooky 3,784]

I am sure this is a stupid question, but why? What possible reason do you have for making such an irrelevant statement?

Because banning forks sounds silly?

[luckytxn 2,264]

Certain calibers of knives will be OK.

Because banning forks sounds silly?

[Peikko 1,575]

Certain calibers of knives will be OK.

Seriously? Is this your contribution? This nutter killed or was there when at least one person was murdered for no other reason than the perpetrators wanted to kill someone and all you can bang on about is some stupid irrelevant argument about whether or not various common household objects should be classified as weaponry and banned. Talk about an obsession making for irrational thinking.

[Pooky 3,784]

Certain calibers of knives will be OK.

Plastic knives won't set off airport metal detectors.

[Peikko 1,575]

Plastic knives won't set off airport metal detectors.

Unless safely stored in a metal knife locker

[Pooky 3,784]

Unless safely stored in a metal knife locker

Most are stored safely in a cardboard box, with a see-through plastic bit.

[luckytxn 2,264]

She used a knife and butchered him.

Seriously? Is this your contribution? This nutter killed or was there when at least one person was murdered for no other reason than the perpetrators wanted to kill someone and all you can bang on about is some stupid irrelevant argument about whether or not various common household objects should be classified as weaponry and banned. Talk about an obsession making for irrational thinking.

[Merle 458]

Well we could say she deserves the death penalty to which I'm sure many here will protest. She has even admitted she would kill again if released. What do we do with people like this if we shouldn't execute them? I'm sure that her perverse upbringing made her into what she is today but is there any hope that someone like her could be rehabilitated?

[DavenRoxy 1,073]

She doesn't deserve the death penalty. Just 5 or so years to rehabilitate. Give her an Obama phone and she'll be good.

Ironically, she will actually get truly free health care for a while...

[GandD 5,966]

Well we could say she deserves the death penalty to which I'm sure many here will protest. She has even admitted she would kill again if released. What do we do with people like this if we shouldn't execute them? I'm sure that her perverse upbringing made her into what she is today but is there any hope that someone like her could be rehabilitated?

Probably not. But who is qualified to make that determination?