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Craigslist killer: two other men answered ads, dodged death

Accused Craigslist thrill killer Miranda Barbour says two other men answered her ad offering “companionship” for cash — but dodged death when they didn’t show up.

“I tried it a few times, but it never worked out,” Barbour, 19, said in a jailhouse interview.

“I knew we were going to do this since the day we met,” she said of her husband and murder co-defendant, Elytte, 22.

“The others just didn’t show up,” Barbour said.

The newlyweds are held in separate Pennsylvania jails on charges of bludgeoning and stabbing Troy LaFerrara, 42, in their car near Harrisburg on Nov. 11, after he answered her Craigslist escort ad. They admit killing for the thrill of it, police said
Mrs. Barbour had claimed in a previous jailhouse interview that she committed at least 22 other killings over the past six years in a cross-country murder spree driven by her satanic cult beliefs.

Speaking for a second time last week, she again repeated her claims of multiple murders and said she has not been questioned by federal authorities about them even though she was prepared to locate where some of them had occurred, from Alaska to Florida and North Carolina.

“I said before I would talk to them (FBI) about all of this,” she said, “but they never came to see me.”

Barbour claimed to have killed in three specific locations: Big Lake, Alaska, Mexico Beach, Fla., and Raleigh, N.C.

Local investigators in all three places say they are taking Barbour’s claims seriously, but they have no unsolved homicides that they know about.

“They are looking for full bodies,” she said. “They won’t find any. But they will find body parts” of runaways and individuals she described as “bad people.”

“Search the waters of Big Lake,” she said. “There is some parts in there.”

“There is some there as well,” she said of Mexico Beach, near Panama City, Fla., where she said she once worked as a 15-year-old go-go dancer.
She also said she dumped a body off Interstate 95 near Raleigh, N.C., but gave no other details.

Mrs. Barbour lived in Alaska, Florida and North Carolina before moving to Selinsgrove, Pa., last fall with her husband. Police say the couple murdered LaFerrara the day of their three-week wedding anniversary and the husband’s 22nd birthday.

Alaska state troopers last week would neither confirm nor deny investigations are underway into Mrs. Barbour’s claims. Any leads they get would be followed up appropriately, a spokesperson said.

Big Lake is a 13-square-mile body of water in southern Alaska, located about 13 miles from Wasilla, where Mrs. Barbour once lived. Wasilla is a suburb of Anchorage.

Mexico Beach police Chief Glenn Norris said he was unaware of Barbour’s claim of a body there and that the beach to which she refers is extensive. He said the town doesn’t have any unsolved homicides that he’s aware of.

While there are also no unsolved homicides in Raleigh, N.C., police spokesman Jim Sughrue said authorities are actively investigating Barbour’s claims even though “her information is very vague.” He said Interstate 95, where she said a body or body part could be found, is 30 miles from the city limits and covers several miles.

Police arrested the couple the first week of December after they tracked LaFerrara’s final cellphone activity.