Miranda Barbour
SUNBURY, PA - 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
LeFerrara 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.
"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 AP 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.
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.
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