Pennsylvania newlyweds "just wanted to murder someone together"
Miranda signaled to Elytte, “Did you look at the stars tonight?”, who jumped out and wrapped a cord around Troy LaFerrara's neck as Miranda stabbed him 20 times.
On November 11, 2013, Troy LaFerrara, a resident of Port Trevorton, Pennsylvania, was killed. In September 2014, Miranda Barbour and her husband, Elytte Barbour, were found guilty and given a life sentence. The murder is notable because one of the perpetrators, Miranda Barbour, falsely claimed that she had also murdered at least 22 other people, which led to extensive international media coverage of the case.
Miranda offered to have sex with Troy LaFerrara for money in an ad on Craigslist, which is how the couple first connected. Elytte has flatly refuted Miranda's accusation of being a sex worker. He claimed she had encountered men who paid her for "delightful conversation." According to Miranda, she agreed to meet LaFerrara for sex in exchange for $100.
On November 11, 2013, Miranda allegedly met LaFerrara at the Susquehanna Valley Mall parking lot in Hummels Wharf, Pennsylvania. After settling on payment, Miranda and LaFerrara then drove six miles to Sunbury, a small city located about 100 miles northwest of Philadelphia. Elytte Barbour told police that he hid under a blanket in the back seat waiting. After she allowed LaFerrara into her vehicle, Miranda signaled to Elytte, “Did you look at the stars tonight?”, who jumped out and wrapped a cord around LaFerrara's neck as Miranda stabbed him 20 times in their Honda CR-V. LaFerrara's body was discovered the next day, November 12, 2013, in a residential back yard in Sunbury.
Police said after Miranda and Elytte dumped LaFerrara's body, the couple then bought bleach wipes, towels and cleaning liquid to remove the blood from inside the vehicle and then went to dinner. According to the arrest affidavit, Elytte said the couple killed LaFerrara because they just wanted to murder someone together.
According to police, the Barbours initially denied even knowing LaFerrara, but police traced the last call from LaFerrara's phone to Miranda's phone. As the investigation developed, the couple's stories allegedly changed from Miranda's story of self-defense to a mutual confession to premeditated murder. The killing allegedly was a thrill killing, timed for three weeks after the couple's wedding, police have said.
Miranda Barbour, 19, and Elytte Barbour, 22, pled not guilty to first-degree murder charges that carried a possible death penalty upon conviction. Both plead out to second-degree murder in 2015 and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.1
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1 Murder of Troy LaFerrara - Wikipedia (2023). Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Troy_LaFerrara#Elytte_Barbour (Accessed: 15 February 2023).