This programme contains scenes which some viewers may find upsetting, and some strong language.
You had sex, you had drugs, you had Satanism and you had murder.
She killed at least 20 other people in different states.
Cutting each other, having sexual intercourse in their own blood.
Sunbury Police say they are in contact with the FBI and other law
enforcement agencies across the country...
We like to think that it is as simple as good versus evil,
right versus wrong, but there's also injustices that happened to Miranda.
You guys want to treat me like an animal,
then I'll show you what an animal is.
Police are calling a death in Sunbury today suspicious,
but there is not much more information being released.
The body of a man in his 40s was found
behind a house on Catawissa Avenue.
The District Attorney's Office has been notified.
We've requested the assistance of the state police.
Circumstances of the death at this point are questionable.
Generally, this is a very safe area,
so when you see things out of the ordinary like this crime,
it's extraordinary, because it's just something that doesn't happen.
It's a once-in-a-lifetime thing.
Some people who live in this part of Sunbury say they are shocked that
this could happen on their street,
because they say this is normally a quiet neighbourhood.
So, I got up there and I was like, "What's going on?"
He said, "Whoever wanted this man dead
"wanted him really, really dead."
And I said, "Oh, boy, what does that mean?"
And he told me that he was stabbed.
Oh, my gosh. There was blood everywhere, like, he was face down.
Blood all down his side, all down his arms.
And right here is where this whole murder took place.
Where that empty lot is.
The coroner says the man was stabbed to death,
and now calls it a case of homicide.
This is actually our interview room where we do the interviews.
Somebody must've been upset.
It was the case of whodunit?
And we don't... You don't see that in law enforcement, you know?
You really don't. A lot of times you kind of know because of domestic
issues or issues, rival issues with different people.
You don't really, you know...?
You kind of have an inkling of who it is,
but this was a male body laying face down,
and he basically was murdered.
Pretty soon we learned the victim,
42-year-old Troy LaFerrara of Port Trevorton,
had been stabbed numerous times and left for dead.
The deceased male was a good man.
His wife, you know, said he was a good man.
He was loved by his family, his friends.
But everybody has flaws and,
you know, as well as I have flaws, Mr LaFerrara had some flaws.
We looked through Mr LaFerrara's cellphone
and we learned that there was kind of a second life he was living.
We found companionship sites
- male seeking female.
One in particular was the Craigslist website.
And we found text messaging from the day he was killed.
We had also gotten the last cellphone calls coming in and going out,
and that brought us to our suspect,
Miranda Barbour.
The reason you're here is there's a guy who was murdered, and
his name is Troy LaFerrara.
You answered his ad on Craigslist, right?
Yes. And what did his ad say?
It implied that you would be paid
to go out with this person.
That's what the ad implied.
Did it say sexual...?
Was it sexually explicit?
Or was it going to dinner?
I mean, that would be snowed out in a Craigslist ad.
I mean, it was...
Yes, it was, but I didn't go into it intending to do that.
So, you were going to meet up with this guy and make a couple of bucks.
Yes. OK.
She was a very quiet young lady,
and seemed to be a very nice person that,
you know, you would let your children be baby-sat by this...
She was, you know, not very old, she's in her teens.
She didn't come off as any type of person that would harm anyone.
She came off as a very nice, pleasant woman.
Were you on the phone with him at all or talking to him?
Or messaging him?
Well, we were messaging back and forth, yes.
OK.
We were just supposed to meet up at Denny's,
but it never happened.
The meeting never happened?
Yes.
Being that your phone number is his last call...
Mm-hm.
..that puts you pretty close.
I know. I mean, I'm sure it does. So, we need to be able to prove,
that you did it, or that you didn't do it.
So, I'm going to ask you right now a very basic, very simple question...
OK.
..that you need to answer either yes or no to.
OK. Were you involved in or do you have any knowledge of
the death of that guy? The death of Troy?
No. We didn't just tonight decide, you know what,
I want to go talk to Miranda.
Something happened.
And some information has come...
I understand that, but...
Do you understand? My goal for right now is to get back to my daughter.
Yeah. Our goal is to find the person who killed him.
Yeah. OK?
And you're the last person on his phone.
I showed her a picture of Mr LaFerrara
and she never recalled seeing Mr LaFerrara, never seen him.
We've got to take your phone,
put it into evidence and then get a search warrant to go through it.
That's not fair to me at all.
Well, that's all we have to do. I have the right to walk away,
walk out of here with all of my belongings,
which I'm going to do. Not with your... Not with your phone.
We're going to take your phone. I'm very offended right now.
I'm sorry. I have... I have to have... You have to understand.
I need numbers, I need my phone numbers.
Do you understand we have a job to do? I did not kill that man.
I've never met that man in my life before.
I hope not. I'm a single...
I just got married.
You guys are coming in my life, questioning me.
I'm very offended.
Do you understand why we are questioning you?
You understand why I feel the way that I feel?
No, do you understand why...?
No! I don't.
I never met up with him. OK, so, your phone number being the last...
Yes, but I never met up with this man.
Understandable, but do you think that maybe
it's something we need to check into?
At that point everything turned,
and we saw a different side of Miranda Barbour.
I want to go home to my baby who's screaming her head off for me.
Well, we're taking your phone.
Don't touch me. I demand a lawyer, right now!
Don't touch me! Stop. No. Stop. No!
I want... Stop!
And she stormed out of the state police barracks,
slamming doors, and just not the same
nice girl that we'd previously met.
I didn't do anything!
Fuck all of this!
Oh, my God!
All right.
Is it E-lytte or...? It's Elytte.
Elytte. OK, Barbour, correct?
I looked at him and I saw a little man, you know?
And it just looked like that type of guy
who was going from one job to the next,
trying to supply for his family.
Well, the reason we're here...
OK. All right. Your wife,
her number is the last phone number
on our victim's cellphone before he dies.
Oh. OK.
All right? All right.
And we are trying to figure out why.
All right. And you're hoping I can help? Yes.
OK. What do you know?
All right, I guess, full honesty here,
I never heard of him and I don't know anything about that.
But the only thing I know is that
what my wife does is meet with someone who's willing to, like,
just pay you some money to have a nice conversation and sit down,
doesn't provide sex,
anything other than companionship - because that's what they want.
And if she was the last person he called
then that means, that exactly.
That he was a potential client.
What is it she does? I don't know if you've ever seen the type of movies
where, like, someone goes to a whore...
Not saying she's a whore - that's embarrassing.
A guy goes to a whore and he's totally about to have sex with her,
but he like breaks down and the whole scene is him crying, "Oh,
"I hate my life, love my wife so much, but she's just being a bitch."
And then she's just, like, filing her nails,
listening to him and she gets paid for the companionship,
for listening, for being an open ear.
That's basically what it's about.
All right. I'm going to let you in on a little something. OK.
She was meeting up with our victim.
When?
Just, period? The night of your birthday.
Really? Well, that's fucked up.
OK. Well, it looks like I'm going to have
a long discussion when I get home.
Should I suspect your wife?
No.
At that point we got a call from the front
saying that Miranda Barbour was back and she wanted her husband.
You know, we concluded, and Elytte returned home.
So...
Elytte calls me and explains that him and Miranda had gone to a
courthouse and gotten...
Just eloped, basically.
They want to come to Pennsylvania, and they want a fresh start.
Miranda and Elytte were fantastic together.
Miranda was fun to hang out with.
She had interesting stories.
Her daughter was, maybe I think a year and a half old.
Elytte was somebody to really, really trust.
They're really great people to live with.
They cleaned, made breakfast,
and just kind of took care of the house.
It was just really nice having them around.
We get a knock on our door
and it's the police, and they start questioning us about the murder in
Sunbury, so our thoughts are just, you know,
"Of course they wouldn't have done that.
"Why would they have done that?" And we vouched for them,
told them they were good people.
Later that evening we start talking about everything and
she just comes out and says it.
Miranda says,
"I killed him, I stabbed him."
So, we're sitting in this room and where all just in shock.
Because, you know, what do you do when your roommate
comes out and tells you, "Oh, I stabbed that guy."
So, my first reaction is,
"We've got to take you back."
"We can't just, like...
"You can't sleep here."
So, after she said her goodbyes to her daughter, and to us,
I drove them alone to the police barracks.
They sat in my back-seat and just kind of had a moment together.
And then I dropped her off.
Elytte moved into the front seat and he just starts crying.
Like, I felt, like I was witnessing my best friend's soul just crush.
It was early morning that I received a phone call
from the department here saying that
Miranda Barbour had returned to the state police barracks,
and wanted to talk about Troy LaFerrara.
So, obviously there's something on your mind
that you'd like to share with us. Most definitely.
OK. Would you like to tell me about that a little bit?
Everything seemed fine and as soon as I put the car in park everything
just completely flipped upside down.
I didn't know what to do.
He just attacked me.
What was he doing to you?
One hand was on my throat...
..the other hand was trying to... Well, touching me down there.
What I'm getting from what you're telling me is basically he was being
really aggressive, groping you.
Yes. And I do have three knives in my car.
I usually carry one on me and I just grabbed it.
What happened after you took the knife?
I stabbed him once and it didn't do anything, and...
I stabbed him again and it didn't do anything.
It was still being continued.
There was nothing that changed.
Her story was that she had to stab him in self-defence,
but when you look at how many stab wounds there were,
as an investigator, more than 20,
you know, this wasn't just a, "I have to get away from you."
And the way the stabs were, I mean, it was...
It was a thing of aggression.
And there was just blood, like a horror scene in my car.
When I was looking at the whole picture overall,
and I was looking at this Miranda Barbour being a teenager and her
petiteness and the size of Mr LaFerrara...
..none of it made sense in that
she's claiming this self-defence.
Sunbury police arrested 18-year-old Miranda Barbour of Selinsgrove.
Phone records led investigators to zero in on Barbour,
and eventually she admitted meeting the victim
through the website Craigslist.
This was the day she got arrested with Corporal Bremigen.
Do you remember that day?
I remember that day very well.
It was floating around that there was going to be an arrest made
in the case, and
when I spoke to them they said that, you know,
they would be surprised because it was nobody that we knew.
Somebody from out of the area, which we thought to be kind of strange.
Her new husband, Elytte, immediately went public saying she stabbed
LaFerrara in self-defence.
I do not believe that this was malicious whatsoever.
I believe that she was attacked,
and that under those circumstances she took
the necessary measures to defend herself.
That next day I spoke with Elytte Barbour on the phone and I said to
Elytte, you know, "I'd like to talk to you."
Just trying to get into the head of Miranda and understand her.
So, we go to the house.
This is the house here to the left, 101.
Basically, when we came that day Elytte
came down from the double doors,
agreed to voluntarily go with us to the police department.
Elytte was fine, he was actually laughing
and kind of joking around, you know?
And, like, he was not nervous whatsoever.
Until we get into Sunbury,
when we come across the bridge is when I start
pinpointing the cameras and what the cameras,
our cameras, are capable of.
I said, "We got these cameras not too long ago,
"and we're in the process of looking at them right now to identify
"you know, Miranda's vehicle coming and going from Sunbury."
And he was like, "I can't believe the cameras are that good."
I said, "Oh, I can pick somebody out
"you know, and actually zoom in to get a picture of the face,
"and I can actually see who the driver is,
"and see who the passenger is as well." And he's like, "Really?"
We pull in here at the station
and park, and Elytte says to the Sergeant, "Hey,
"Do you mind if I talk to Travis by himself for a minute?"
Elytte asked if he could have a cigarette.
I said, "Absolutely."
We got him a cigarette and he was smoking.
Elytte looks at me and he goes, "Well,
"I guess this'll be the last cigarette
"I ever have as a free man."
And at that point I was like...
I thought to myself, "Oh, my gosh.
"Here we go. We're going to get the full story here."
Let's start that night. That night?
November 11, 2013, it's your birthday.
Did you...? Did you have a good birthday?
Yes. I did.
Yeah. He walks me through what had happened,
where Miranda arranged to meet Mr LaFerrara at a set location.
Where did you have that cable at?
Just right around the body? Or around the throat?
OK. Good, good.
Yeah. Good.
I put my feet up against the back and pulled as hard as I could.
When he said that, I mean, I'm sitting back
and I'm thinking, "My gosh."
I mean, "This is a
"cold-blooded killer sitting in front of me."
After being done and cleaning up,
they decided they were going to go to a local eatery here
on 11 and 15 because they wanted burgers.
It was delicious? It was delicious. What did you eat?
Any remorse for the murder?
Any remorse? No. No? No.
Something you always wanted to do
and you guys decided to do, and you did it together? Yeah.
So, you've decided you're going to kill...?
OK. All right. I'm going to step out really quick, all right?
OK. As long as you're the one who comes back. Oh, I'm coming back.
I'm the only one coming back. Do you want this? Yes. Thanks. Cool.
It's just one of the most unique,
and most heinous and most...
..like, I don't even know how to say it.
It's just one of those 'makes no sense' type murders.
All right.
We're going to conclude this interview. OK. OK.
It is December 6th, 2013,
it's Friday evening, the time is 7:17.
And when I went to basically put the handcuffs on Elytte,
his response to me...
I do remember, yeah.
I'm going to place you under arrest for the murder of Troy LaFerrara.
At that moment, there was
a sigh of relief in the fact that I know now we have the two individuals
that are involved in this murder.
The thrill kill.
The young couple who recently moved to central Pennsylvania accused of
luring a man through an ad on Craigslist,
then stabbing him to death.
According to police, Elytte Barbour was hiding
under a blanket in the back-seat,
and when the signal was given,
he choked the victim with a cord
while his wife stabbed him repeatedly.
Elytte Barbour told police they killed LaFerrara
because they just wanted to murder someone together.
The alleged thrill killers could face the death penalty.
If we find that there is sufficient evidence
of aggravating circumstances,
we will file a notice for the death penalty.
The wallet from LaFerrara was taken from his personal body,
which would be the crime of robbery.
And the fact that they removed the money,
they took that money and that was
the aggravating circumstance for the death penalty.
My name is Jill Burke.
I am a journalist and I live here in Alaska where Miranda grew up.
I've investigated her story at different points
during the last five years.
I remember those headlines from 2013.
They moved quickly and fast and they were sensational and everybody was
running with it.
The question then became why Miranda and her husband, Elytte,
ambushed a man and killed him out of the blue, seemingly for no reason.
The fact that Miranda did have a history here,
and this crime was so incredibly violent,
I felt that there must be more to her and more to her past
than had been being reported on.
An important document is a secret diary
that Miranda wrote and kept in 2010.
It was first obtained and revealed publicly
by reporter Francis Scarcella.
The diary was provided by Miranda's mother, Elizabeth Dean.
She talked about how scarred her body is.
She cuts for punishment, reality, adrenaline, impulse, anger,
self control.
"I have scars so deep they are raised above my skin,
"scars from fights,
"scars from track marks, scars on my arms,
"legs, neck, back, stomach,
"almost everywhere."
And among the drugs that she's getting involved with,
alcohol, weed, meth, tar.
This was a really tortured, young individual.
We are heading to North Star Hospital,
which is an inpatient psychiatric facility for youth.
Miranda, you know, was in and out of North Star
over a period of several years.
We learned that the medications that she was on were Prozac for
depression, Adderall for ADHD,
TheraQuil for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
She was out of control -
someone just heading into their teenage years
as a manic depressive or schizophrenic.
Picture this young girl who has trauma
and mental health issues and
behavioural issues and addiction issues.
We also heard from friends of hers
that she had had numerous suicide attempts.
We found out as well that she was getting involved
with older boys and men,
who would take advantage of her.
This picture began to emerge of Miranda
as a very broken young woman.
But it wasn't sufficient to explain why she would kill Troy LaFerrara.
In 2017, I wanted to talk with the killers themselves.
So we made an effort to reach out to them in prison.
I had a hard time getting in touch with Miranda,
but I was able to connect with Elytte.
So, what made you guys decide to pick up and just go to Pennsylvania?
I was really struck by the lack of empathy
for the family that he destroyed,
and for the callous taking of another life.
One day I got a phone call from somebody inside the jail who said,
"You are now scheduled on Friday at seven o'clock for an hour visit."
And I said, "Friday?"
I was like, "It's Valentine's Day."
And I walked in, the guard sat in the room
and we talked through the glass on the phone for an hour.
OK, well, first, very nice to meet you after all this time.
This is your hour, so, whatever you want to say.
Yeah, I guess I kind of just have to trust
that you write what I say, and don't twist it.
I promise you that won't happen.
Well, since I turned 12, like...
My entire life flipped upside down when I turned 12.
Why, what happened at 12?
I got into a gang, started doing drugs.
Skipped school all the time, and the gang that I was in,
it was based around Satanism,
and that's what pulled me into it so much is...
I always felt like there was something inside of me,
and I know it's bad,
and I know that one day it will be completely out of control.
This is not the first time.
Are you saying that you have killed before? Yes.
When I was sitting there and there was two down or three down,
there was like a guy sitting over here and a girl sitting on Miranda's
side, and they were just quiet when she started talking.
How many times, Miranda?
If you had to take a guess, what would you say?
If I had to take a guess...
I know that when I hit 22 I stopped counting.
When you hit 22 you stopped counting?
When she said about killing 22,
the other girl turned around and she's like, "That's fucked up."
That's the exact words that she said.
And I looked and she goes, "Well, it is."
Miranda never turned her head and looked at those people.
She stayed focused straight on.
Where are you saying that you've done this?
Alaska - mostly in Alaska - Texas, Virginia, Florida, LA.
How have you done it - all with stabbing?
No.
I mean, all different kinds.
Like? The first, the very first time I was 13.
13, and the leader of the gang,
he had me lure this guy and I'll never forget it,
no matter how high I was, I'll never forget it.
What happened? We were going to trade sex for money,
and when I went to the alleyway, the leader,
he came out behind me and he shot him.
And he fell to the ground and he handed me the gun and said,
"Now you have to do it."
But I couldn't pull the trigger.
So, he put his hand over mine and pulled the trigger over my hand.
And that just, you know, kind of released what was inside me,
like, oh, my God.
Immediately in my mind I think,
"I could potentially be sitting in front of the world's worst
"female serial killer of all time."
I'm at a loss for words, Miranda, I really am.
It's...
It's mind-boggling.
It's mind-boggling. You're a very petite, small girl.
Looks can be very deceiving.
Looks can be very deceiving, because you look
like a very sweet, innocent girl.
When he came out of that prison
I think his mind was blown and he didn't
know who to turn to, he just knew he had some information and knew he had
to get it out and he called me,
and we met him in Sunbury here and he had told me
that Miranda had confessed to killing over 22 people.
When she came into the police station that day
she got out of the car and looked like she was,
you know, Marilyn Monroe,
strolling down the runway with all the cameras.
After the story broke,
every media in the world was there, CNN, Fox News, CBS,
everybody under the sun.
Just a few days ago Miranda Barbour confessed to
being a serial killer...
Who stopped counting her victims when she got to number 22.
Newlywed turned real-life Dexter serial killer.
And this obviously right here is the big one.
This was the one that that set the world afire.
Body count at 22?
If I were to be released, Miranda Barbour says, I would do this again.
At that point, you... You think to yourself, "Is she capable?"
And I sat and asked myself, "Would she be capable of it?"
I believe she would be capable of it.
We did a missing persons data search in some of those areas
and there were people missing, so, you don't know.
I was receiving phone calls from people all over,
wanting to know if maybe their loved one was involved in this murder,
and where would she claim these and police departments,
did she say anything here?
And at that point it was turned over to the Bureau of Investigations.
The FBI and Sunbury police are now investigating her dramatic claims.
But what does Miranda Barbour's own husband have to say?
Elytte, Miranda said she killed 22 people.
Do you believe her? I plead the fifth.
Do you think she's...? You think she's being honest?
Who's to say?
Elytte Barbour wanted to talk again,
and I wanted to speak to him as well.
We brought him back here to the station.
We're going to be speaking about the murders
that you have information on,
that Miranda Barbour, your wife, may have been involved with, correct?
Yeah. I heard that she said 22 plus bodies since she was 13.
She told me her first body was when she was 12.
Do you believe this?
Do I believe her? Do you, Elytte, to... I believe her. ..us in a room.
Yes. You believe...?
100%. I fully believe she killed these people.
No part of me doubts that.
I always told everybody that I thought Miranda was possessed,
and I don't know if y'all are religious,
but I am, and that shit exists.
And she is possessed.
We called her the Super Miranda, because we didn't have a name.
It didn't give us a name.
What do you think that is?
In your own words? The Super Miranda?
What is that?
It's a demon. It's a what? A demon.
He believed that Miranda was demon possessed.
There was a demon living inside her,
and he believed this wholeheartedly.
How many times would this happened? Often. Often? Super Miranda?
Whenever we would have sex and it would get that side of things -
you guys know what I'm talking about - she'd come out.
I believe she's capable of anything.
Elytte brought in the fact that Miranda was into this Satanism,
right down to the point of cutting each other and having sexual
intercourse in their own blood.
Elytte would do anything for her.
Elytte was a possession of Miranda Barbour, in more ways than one.
Miranda tells this grandiose story
about being involved in a kind of quasi-neo-Nazi gang in Alaska,
that was into Satanic worship,
and extreme violence.
We've had serial killers.
We've had serial killers during Miranda's lifetime.
It would not be beyond the stretch of imagination to think that
some of these events might have occurred,
but I think it is really pushing credibility
to think that a teenage girl like Miranda,
in such a short period of time could have killed 22 people
without getting caught.
There aren't enough, like, concrete,
tangible things that we can point to,
independent of her claims and her references,
that validate a lot of this.
You had a teen girl who caused a panic across the world,
who is a natural-born liar.
Once you lie continuously,
then you're just a liar and it's very hard to believe.
If the sky was blue and she said, "Hey,
"look at that blue sky,"
I would call a weatherman at this point, and ask.
Why would Miranda lie, and why kill Troy?
Was there something in Miranda's past that could give me a clue?
We discovered sexual abuse in her family.
Her Uncle Rick raped her when Miranda was just three years old.
This is Judge Mary Green from November of 1998.
"I can't remember physical findings as extreme in one of the children's
"cases. Physical manifestations were significant in MD's case," that's
Miranda Dean, now Miranda Barbour.
"That tells me there were multiple assaults.
"A doctor's examination shows beyond doubt the number of assaults.
"It also proves how much pain the children were in."
So, she writes, "I felt dirty, violated hurt and ashamed.
"How could he think he had the right to hurt
"me and my sister how he did?"
"I wanted him to hurt worse than he'd hurt me."
There is a description in the court records
of the shock and trauma that Miranda's mother had
upon learning that this had taken place,
and the remark is something to, "I can't believe it's happened again."
We learned that Miranda's grandfather,
a prominent leader in the church,
had abused members of his family,
including Miranda's mother, Elizabeth Dean,
back when they were very young.
"Here I am, 15, finding out my grandfather
"molested and abused my family.
"Lied and used them,
"then went to jail for three years and got out
"and everyone pretended like it never happened.
"How the hell am I supposed to deal with that?"
She has this horrendous intergenerational demon.
The demon of sexual abuse.
The biggest things you hear from a lot of rape victims is,
"I wasn't there. I can't tell you anything because I wasn't there,"
and that's one of the things that the mind can do, is just leave.
It's that ability to disassociate or to become somebody else.
So, they put on this other persona, this other personality,
to not be that person that was victimized.
People that have used this as a coping skill
really do not know what is real and what isn't.
To the point where 90% of their life is this fantasy,
it's this elaborated life,
and 10% of it is the truth of what's really there.
Could it possibly be that Super Miranda
is an identity she formed to cope with the Uncle Rick years?
To me, Super Miranda seems like the antihero to the Miranda story.
She is defiant, she's powerful,
she has control over men, she's a killer.
Maybe Super Miranda is the offshoot of the schizophrenia.
What's really interesting and also very tragic
is that Elytte is kind of a mirror image of Miranda.
We now know Elytte is someone who heard voices from a very young age.
This is a small road that Elytte's family lived on,
and that he used to love to walk late at night,
and the presence of something caught his attention,
and he looked over and standing in the ditch here,
directly across from the tree, but on the wooded side...
..was Issac.
Issac was a hallucination - a figment of Elytte's adult life,
and a friend to him and someone who pops in and out
and whom he speaks with.
And Issac happens to be present in the moments immediately following
the murder of Troy LaFerrara.
Just as Miranda wrestled with the two inner Mirandas,
there were two Elyttes.
When Elytte met Miranda, they connected on all fronts.
So, you have these two young killers who are facing justice.
They both suffer from mental illnesses, possibly schizophrenia,
and this was largely ignored throughout the trial process.
Instead, their lawyers just did a simple deal with the state.
The young couple charged with a thrill kill
made some surprise pleas in court today.
Elytte and Miranda Barbour agreed to plead guilty for the
murder of Troy LaFerrara.
This agreement means they will not face the death penalty.
There will never really be closure for me.
Um...
I'm glad that they are away,
that they pled guilty and that that part is done.
But nothing will ever make this right,
nothing will ever bring him back.
Elytte tried to explain himself.
He was sorry, remorseful.
I'm glad that he took responsibility.
But there's no excuse. I don't care how crappy your childhood is,
I don't care that you took drugs, I don't care.
You had no right to do what you did.
"I love my daughter so much, and enough to know what is best for her.
"And in the end it was not to be raised by me or Elf,"
which is Elytte.
Miranda's plan was to kill somebody and go to jail so that her daughter
would be raised by better people than what she was.
Because she didn't feel like she would be a good mother
with what she has been involved in,
and what she saw in the past.
Miranda all along had hoped to get herself arrested,
and that was her plan,
so that she could contain Super Miranda and not harm anyone else.
This confessional letter from Miranda
is the first that Elytte claims he's learned that that was the plan.
He really just thought they were
participating in this killing to do it together,
so that they could experience that together.
Four years later, I still have unanswered questions
about those dramatic events that unfolded in Pennsylvania.
But finally I get an opportunity to speak directly with Miranda.
Were you intending to get caught all along?
Was that your...?
And why did you want to do that?
What I'm trying to understand is, like, well,
why not just give her up for adoption?
Why was it important to you to do it criminally?
OK, Miranda. Let me ask you, did you kill 22 people?
No.
So, why did you make that up?
I think just as a society we like to think that
it is as simple as good and evil.
It's much easier to vilify a Satanic, sinister,
femme fatale, who acts callously and without remorse and takes a life,
than it is to try to rain down justice
on someone who is mentally ill, and
has been a victim of child sexual abuse.