Craigslist Murder Suspect Says She Was Part of Satanic Cult; Killed Dozens of Others
A 19-year-old Pennsylvania woman, charged in the killing of a man she and her husband met through Craigslist, told a newspaper in a prison interview she was part of a satanic cult and killed many more people but stopped counting after 22.
Miranda Barbour told Daily Item in a telephone interview she killed at least 22 others from Alaska to North Carolina as part of her involvement in a satanic cult. "When I hit 22, I stopped counting," she said.
Barbour and her husband, Elytte Barbour, 22, of Selinsgrove, Pa., have been charged in the Nov. 11 killing of Troy LaFerrara, Pa.
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Barbour enticed LaFerrara through a Craigslist ad to a car park by agreeing to have sex with him for $100. They then drove together to Sunbury. "He said the wrong things, and then things got out of control. I can tell you he was not supposed to be stabbed. My husband was just supposed to strangle him."
She said she lied to him that she just turned 16. "He told me that it was OK. If he would have said no, that he wasn't going to go through with the arrangement, I would have let him go."
The suspect said she had no regrets because the victims were "bad people."
"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 said. "I remember everything. It is like watching a movie."
She said she was sexually molested by a relative when she was just 4. She joined a satanic cult in Alaska when she was 13. Soon thereafter, she went with the leader of the cult, whom she did not name, to meet a man who owed him money. "It was in an alley and he shot him," she recalled. "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."
Barbour was in Alaska for three years, and participated in several murders. "I wasn't always there (mentally)," she said. "I knew something was bad inside me and the satanic beliefs brought it out. I embraced it."
She said she was using drugs and got pregnant twice. During the first pregnancy, cult members tied her to a bed, gave her drugs and she had an "in-house abortion."
Barbour said she moved to North Carolina as a high-ranking official in the satanic world, leaving the father of her second pregnancy, whom she identified as Forest, the No. 2 leader in their cult, who was murdered.
She said she loves her husband, who is being held in Columbia County Jail. "He is proud of what he did. I will always love him."
Barbour said she doesn't want to get out of jail. "If I were to be released, I would do this again." She added she wasn't seeking attention. "I'm telling you because it is time for me to be honest and I feel I need to be honest."
