There are no words....

[Adam]

Barbour body count at 22?

SUNBURY — Nineteen-year-old satanist Miranda Barbour admits to killing Troy LaFerrara of Port Trevorton. In a prison interview Friday night, she said that she considered sparing his life until he said the wrong thing. She also said LaFerrara was one of dozens of such victims she killed in the past six years.

Barbour, with her husband, Elytte Barbour, 22, of Selinsgrove, has been charged by Sunbury police in the Nov. 11 fatal knifing of LaFerrara. She requested an interview that was recorded by the Northumberland County Prison on Friday night.

While she offered scant details of her participation in slayings in Alaska, Texas, North Carolina and California, city police confirmed Saturday they had been working, prior to her revelations Friday night, with investigators from other states and the FBI about Miranda Barbour’s possible connection to other killings. The majority of her murders, she said, took place in Alaska.

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Miranda said when she was 4, she was sexually molested by a relative.

Elizabeth Dean, Miranda’s mother, confirmed Saturday that her sister’s husband was later arrested and charged with sexual abuse of a minor and sentenced to 14 years in prison.

“It was bad,” Dean said. “I never let (her) stay anywhere except for my sister’s house, and I was devastated when I found out.”

Nine years later, Miranda joined a satanic cult in Alaska. Soon after, Miranda said, she had her first experience in murder.

Barbour said she went with the leader of the satanic cult to meet a man who owed the cult leader money.

“It was in an alley and he (the cult leader) shot him,” she said, declining to identify the cult leader.

“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.”

Just unbelievable. It sounds like something out of a movie. I have to confess that I do harbor at least a bit of skepticism over this. It's a bit tough to swallow that some 13-year-old just set off on a murder spree that lasted six years and dropped at least 22 bodies. and it's only just now catching up to her. OTOH, the police do seem to be taking her seriously, so they must think that there's something to it....

IF what she's claiming is actually true, then ... wow. Just wow.

[Frostbit]

Hard to believe the Alaska part. People go missing here but their disappearance does not go unnoticed. Plus our investigative units are top notch. Ask Israel Keyes ...

[Novaheart]

She asked them nicely to turn the fucking music down!

[Novaheart]

[Adam]

Hard to believe the Alaska part. People go missing here but their disappearance does not go unnoticed. Plus our investigative units are top notch.

Seems there's some others who are pretty skeptical, too.

It's definitely pretty hard to believe.

[Lanie]

I don't know. I've heard of attention seekers, but she could get the death penalty.

[Adam]

I don't know. I've heard of attention seekers, but she could get the death penalty.

True. Her crime, the one she's actually charged with at the moment, IS pretty heinous. Pretty much undeniable first-degree murder, and it was murder for the sake of murder, not some spurned lover or something like that; they just wanted to kill somebody for the sake of killing somebody. The DA has already said that he would pursue the death penalty (I'm assuming both for her and for her husband).

I can't really get why anyone would make up something like 22 other murders. I mean, yeah, there are certainly attention-seekers out there, and maybe she's just twisted enough that she wants to put the cops on a wild goose chase. Or maybe she's angling for an insanity defense. I don't know. If it's the latter, then I think she's probably just seen too many episodes of Law & Order: SVU. That sort of stuff happens amongst Hollywood screenwriters, not in real life. In the real world, she's already admitted that she knew what she was doing was wrong and she just didn't care, so any insanity defense left the building weeks ago.

[Adam]

It's sounding more and more like she's FOS.

[Lanie]

True. Her crime, the one she's actually charged with at the moment, IS pretty heinous. Pretty much undeniable first-degree murder, and it was murder for the sake of murder, not some spurned lover or something like that; they just wanted to kill somebody for the sake of killing somebody. The DA has already said that he would pursue the death penalty (I'm assuming both for her and for her husband).

I can't really get why anyone would make up something like 22 other murders. I mean, yeah, there are certainly attention-seekers out there, and maybe she's just twisted enough that she wants to put the cops on a wild goose chase. Or maybe she's angling for an insanity defense. I don't know. If it's the latter, then I think she's probably just seen too many episodes of Law & Order: SVU. That sort of stuff happens amongst Hollywood screenwriters, not in real life. In the real world, she's already admitted that she knew what she was doing was wrong and she just didn't care, so any insanity defense left the building weeks ago.

I think according to statistics, insanity plea works one percent of the time, maybe less.

[Gramps]

There was a case of another 'serial' killer some years back that admitted to an enormous number of killings, but the consensus in the end was that the cops were using his willingness to admit to them to clear up old open murder cases.