On this date, November
11, 2013, Troy
LaFerrara,
a Port Trevorton, Pennsylvania man, was murdered. Miranda Barbour and her
husband, Elytte Barbour, were found guilty and sentenced to life in prison in
September 2014.
We will post several news sources to
show that the father of Miranda Barbour supported his own daughter execution if
it were to be carried out. She pleaded guilty in a plea bargain to avoid getting
the death penalty.
Mrs
Dean refused to elaborate on what her daughter meant by her shocking
confession.
But with an
off camera interview with local TV station WRAL she expressed serious doubts
about her daughter's claim pointing out that she was arrested within hours of
the murder of Troy LaFerrara in Pennsylvania last December.
Dean said
after Barbour got pregnant two years ago and did not know who the father was the
family moved to North Carolina for a new start.
Her
daughter met Elytte Barbour and after a short romance were married last October
and moved out of state.
The couple
had lived in a rented home in Coats, and Miranda worked as a supermarket
cashier while her 22 year old husband was a short order cook at the local
diner.
The alleged
killer's father said he has nothing but sympathy for the family of his
daughter's only known victim.
'Each morning, I pray for peace and comfort for you and your family. If I could trade my life for his, I can honestly say that I would do that for you.'Twenty years in the military has taught me to be prepared to sacrifice. As a Christian, I have often struggled with the issue of capital punishment.'However, as the reality of it settled in over the past few weeks, I believe God has brought me peace with the fact that capital punishment, if chosen by the jury, is an appropriate end in this situation.'In that case, I would stand side by side with you, take your hand, and silently pray that some good may come of this.'
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'Craigslist
murder' suspect Miranda Barbour's father backs death penalty
John Bacon
Published: February 21, 2014 - 12:53PM
The father of a Pennsylvania teenager
who claims she killed dozens of people says if she is sentenced to die, that
would be "an appropriate end".
Sonny Dean said his daughter Miranda
Barbour, who is charged with one murder in Pennsylvania, was a heroin addict
and a liar. He said she might have been involved with more than one murder but
did not believe she was a serial killer.
"I don't believe
her," Mr
Dean told The Daily Item in Sunbury, Pennsylvania. "There is no way."
Ms Barbour, 19, and her husband,
Elytte Barbour, 22, are charged with killing Troy LaFerrara, 42, in the
Sunbury area in November after she agreed to have sex with him for $100. He was
allegedly lured to a rendezvous through the website Craigslist.
In a jailhouse interview last week,
she claims to have killed dozens of other people – since the age of 13
– in Alaska, California, North Carolina and Texas. Law enforcement
officials have so far been unable to connect her to any other murders.
Ms Barbour lived in Alaska for several
years, attending high school there before she and her mother moved to
North Carolina in 2012. She claims most of her murders were in Alaska.
It was possible she participated in a
killing in Alaska, Mr Dean told the newspaper.
"But I can promise you
that she has only been to California once and Texas a few times and both times
she wasn't out of my sight," said Mr Dean, who lives in Texas.
If his daughter is convicted and
sentenced to die for Mr LaFerrara's death, Mr Dean said he would be willing to
hold the hand of the victim's widow during his daughter's execution.
"If I could trade my
life for his, I can honestly say that I would do that for you," he wrote
in a prepared statement to the LaFerrara family, adding that "I believe God has brought me peace with the fact that capital
punishment, if chosen by the jury, is an appropriate end in this situation. In
that case, I would stand side by side with you, take your hand, and silently
pray that some good may come of this."
Ms Barbour told The Daily Item
she killed dozens of people but stopped counting at 22. She said the killings
began when she helped lure a man into an alley in Alaska and watched as the
leader of the satanic cult she was a member of shot the man once, then
helped her pull the trigger again.
"Believe very little of
what Miranda says,"
Mr Dean said. "She has a long history of extreme
manipulation and dishonesty."
Ms Barbour's mother, Elizabeth Dean,
said she also doubted her daughter's story. Ms Dean, of Cary, North Carolina,
told local television in Raleigh that her daughter became involved in a
cult while they were living in Alaska.
She and her daughter had moved from
Alaska to North Carolina in 2012 to start a new life, she said.
Sam Wood, PHILLY.COM
Last updated: Wednesday, February 19, 2014, 4:48 PM
If a jury finds confessed thrill-killer Miranda Barbour guilty of
murder, her father says he would support her execution.
Miranda Barbour, 19, and her husband have been charged in the
premeditated slaying of a 42-year-old central Pennsylvania man. In a jailhouse
interview with a reporter from a local newspaper, the Sunbury Daily Item,
Barbour also claimed to have killed at least 22 other people as a member of a
satanic cult.
Her father, who was given anonymity by
the Daily Item, wasn’t buying that.
“I don’t believe her,” he said, calling her the “most
manipulative person I have ever known.”
He did allow that Miranda could have been involved with one other
slaying, a killing in Alaska.
Alaska State Troopers, however, told
the Anchorage Daily News there was no evidence to link her with any
unsolved crimes.
But for her father, even one cold-blooded killing would warrant
the death penalty.
“I believe God has brought me peace with the fact that capital punishment,
if chosen by the jury, is an appropriate end in this situation,” he
told the Daily Item.
He said his daughter, who later developed a heroin addiction, had
run away from home twice as a young teenager. He said she could have had the
opportunity to kill then.
Police said that Miranda Barbour and her husband, Elytte Barbour,
22, lured Troy LaFerrara to his death on Nov. 11 by placing an ad on Craigslist
offering sex with Miranda. With LaFerrara in her parked car, Miranda Barbour
allegedly stabbed him 20 times as Elytte Barbour strangled LaFerrara from the
backseat.
The Northumberland County District Attorney would not comment
beyond a statement issued by his office yesterday:
“We note that any information regarding crimes committed in other
jurisdictions has been or will be forwarded to the appropriate law enforcement
agencies and the FBI for further investigation,” wrote D.A. Anthony J. Rosini.
“As of this date, there has been no verification of any of the
information that has been the subject of media coverage regarding prior acts of
the defendant, Miranda Barbour.”
A spokeswoman for the FBI, Carrie Adamowski, confirmed agents were
assisting local police with the investigation.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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