By Victoria Cavaliere
NEW YORK, Feb 16 (Reuters) – The FBI said on Sunday it was
in contact with local police in the case of Miranda Barbour, who
is charged with murdering a Pennsylvania man she lured via the
website Craigslist and reportedly admits to the killing and at
least 22 other slayings.
Barbour, 19, could face the death penalty in connection with
the murder of the 42-year-old man who answered her bogus ad
offering sex for $100, authorities said.
In a jailhouse interview, Barbour said she was part of a
satanic cult and had no remorse for her victims, according to an
article published in Saturday’s edition of the Daily Item
newspaper in Sunbury, Pennsylvania.
She admitted that she and her husband stabbed and strangled
Troy LaFerrara in Sunbury in November because “he said the wrong
things.”
Barbour also said she had killed at least 22 people in
different parts of the country, including Alaska, California,
Texas and North Carolina.
“When I hit 22, I stopped counting,” she said in the article
on the paper’s website.
“I can pinpoint on a map where you can find them,” she said.
The FBI said on Sunday in a statement that its Philadelphia
division “has recently been in contact with the Sunbury Police
Department regarding Miranda Barbour, and will offer any
assistance requested in the case.”
Barbour and her husband, Elytte Barbour, 22, in state court
in December pleaded not guilty to killing LaFerrara, whose body
was found dumped in an alley.
The Daily Item, which has a circulation of about 25,000, has
been following the case closely.
Prosecutors say the husband hid under a blanket in the back
of the car when his wife picked up LaFerrara at a mall near
Harrisburg, about 50 miles (80 km) south of Sunbury.
Barbour said she would have let LaFerrara go but after
telling him she was just 16, he said he wanted to proceed with
their pay-for-sex arrangement.
“If he would have said no, that he wasn’t going to go
through with the arrangement, I would have let him go,” she told
the newspaper.
On her signal, Elytte Barbour, her husband of just three
weeks, strangled LaFerrara with a cord while his wife stabbed
him about 20 times, police say.
(Editing by Ellen Wulfhorst and Matthew Lewis)
