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Updated: Police find little evidence to support alleged thrill-killing Satanist’s claims

PANAMA CITY — A woman arrested in Sunbury, Pa., on suspicion of killing a man she met on Craigslist claimed in an interview with a newspaper reporter to have killed 22 people, and left parts of them in Mexico Beach.

Miranda Barbour, 19, garnered national attention when she told the Daily Item during a jailhouse interview she was involved in a satanic cult and killed 22 people. In a second interview, published Saturday on the Daily Item’s website, she claimed to have worked as a 15-year-old go-go dancer in Panama City and buried human remains in Mexico Beach.

The Daily Item reports Barbour mentioned Mexico Beach as one of three cities where she said investigators would find parts of bodies.
“There is some there as well,” Barbour reportedly said.

The report leaves investigators with almost nothing to go on, but law enforcement agencies haven’t dismissed them. As Maj. Mark Aviles with the Panama City Police Department said, “This is a crazy person who’s giving out the information, so you’ve got to take it, but you’ve got to take it with a grain of salt.”
Aviles said Panama City Police have no record of any contact with Barbour, and he was not aware of any cases that might tie to Barbour.

Mexico Beach Police Chief Glenn Norris said Monday he had not heard from authorities in Pennsylvania, so he planned to reach out to them and find out what was going on.

“This is the first I’ve heard about a murder here in Mexico Beach,” Norris said.

He said there are no unsolved homicide or suspicious missing person cases that would fit with Barbour’s claims, which he pointed out, were vague.

“Unless I have more to go on…” Norris said.

The Bay County Sheriff’s Office is also working the case.

“We have assigned an investigator to look into her claims,” Spokeswoman Ruth Corley said Monday. Corley added the investigation had not substantiated any of the claims in the Daily Item as of Monday.

Panama City Beach Police are working with authorities with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and local law enforcement in Sunbury, said Chief Drew Whitman of the Panama City Beach Police.

“We do have a missing person from that time frame, so we’re taking it seriously,” Whitman said.

PCBPD investigators are trying to get video footage of the interview to figure out exactly what Barbour said.

“That would help a lot,” Whitman said.

Barbour and her husband, 22-year-old Elytte Barbour, are charged with luring 42-year-old Troy LaFerrara to meet them in a shopping center parking lot in November. When LaFerrara got in their car, Elytte Barbour allegedly strangled him while Miranda Barbour allegedly stabbed him repeatedly.

She told the Daily Item she joined a satanic cult at age 13 in Alaska and began killing people shortly thereafter. She said she lost track of the number of murders she’d participated in at 22.
 


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