19-year-old Female Serial Killer Admits killing more Than 22 People
A Pennsylvania woman charged along with her newlywed
husband in the murder of a man they met through Craigslist admitted to
the slaying in a jailhouse interview with a newspaper and said she has
killed more than 20 others across the country, claims police said they
are investigating.
In an interview with the Daily Item
in Sunbury, Pa., 19-year-old Miranda Barbour said she wants to plead
guilty to killing Troy LaFerrara in November. She also said in the
interview that she has killed at least 22 other people 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," Barbour told the newspaper for a story published Saturday night.
Sunbury police Chief Steve Mazzeo told the newspaper that investigators have been in contact with the FBI and law enforcement in several other states.
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
Philadelphia 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.
Police allege in court papers that
Elytte Barbour told investigators they committed the crime because they
wanted to kill someone together. The couple, who were married in North
Carolina and moved to Pennsylvania about three weeks before the crime,
told police Miranda Barbour stabbed LaFerrara in the front seat of her
car while her husband held a cord around his neck.
She said in the interview that she doesn't want to get out of jail and that she would kill again if she were released.
Miranda 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. Online records
for the woman that the newspaper identified as Barbour's mother show her
as having lived in both Alaska and North Carolina.
Last week, a judge granted a
lawyer's request to have a forensic psychiatrist evaluate Miranda
Barbour. The judge earlier approved a psychiatrist to evaluate Elytte
Barbour.
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