Craigslist killer Miranda Barbour: 'I've killed 22 more as part of Satanic cult'

[malaise]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/craigslist-killer-miranda-barbour-ive-killed-22-more-as-part-of-satanic-cult-9131877.html
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A woman charged with the murder of a man she and her husband lured to a meeting point after meeting him on Craigslist, has admitted to the murder and claimed she has killed over 20 other people.

Miranda Barbour, 19, of Pennsylvania said she killed at least 22 others across the US as part of her involvement in a Satanic cult.

Speaking to Pennsylvania’s Daily Item newspaper from jail, Barbour said: “When I hit 22, I stopped counting,” adding that she was coming clean now as she wanted to be honest.

The majority of the killings happened in Alaska, but there were also murders in Texas, North Carolina and California, which she can “pinpoint on a map where you can find them”, she said.

Barbour told the newspaper she has no regrets for what she has done, adding that if she is released she “would do this again”.

Barbour's mother confirmed to the Daily Item that she had been sexually abused by her uncle at the age of four. He served a 14 year sentence.

[shenmue]

1. Good grief

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-26219461

Another story here. Absolutely frightening.

[malaise]

2. She was destroyed by her own uncle when she was four years old

Sad all around

[YarnAddict]

3. I wonder when the mother found out

and what she did about it, once she learned. The girl needed therapy, and obviously didn't get it.

[Schema Thing]

4. Well, the uncle went to jail for 14 years, so something went right.

To draw a connection between being a victim of sexual abuse at 4 and serial murder at 18 is tenuous at best.

[YarnAddict]

5. I agree with that,

but if she had been in therapy, shouldn't the therapist have noticed some, um, warning signs?

[Schema Thing]

7. at 4,5 or 6? Seems doubtful to me, but I suppose possibly

[YarnAddict]

8. I may be watching too much Criminal Minds!

Serial killer trilogy--fascination with fire, bedwetting, animal cruelty. All the signs are there, right??

[Schema Thing]

11. That info must have come from another article on this person?

I don't see those things mentioned in the link?


It will be interesting to see if her claims pan out. My guess is that she's lying.

[YarnAddict]

12. Mostly, I was just kind of being ironic

I haven't read anything that indicates she did any of those things.

[Blue_In_AK]

16. That's what I think, too.

I think she's making up the part about the Satanic cult and the 22 other victims.

[malaise]

6. Why? n/t

[Schema Thing]

9. because the trauma from sexual assault

does not turn people into killers or, for that matter, followers of bizarre versions of Satanic ritual.

[DiverDave]

25. I was abused and I didnt kill anyone

Wishing I killed the bastard but, let it go, sorta.
If I had the opportunity? I'd be sorely tempted.

[AnalystInParadise]

10. WTF?

Are you serious? I don't doubt her morality was damaged, but if molestation leads you to become a serial killer or join a murderous satanic cult, I think you might have had larger problems to begin with?

[malaise]

13. Huh?

I posted from the article. I did not say it did or it didn't and I asked another poster why she/he thought there could be no link between sexual abuse and her killing sprees. I know nothing on the subject.

[Blue_In_AK]

14. I'm finding this story hard to believe.

Not saying she didn't participate in killing this guy, but I haven't heard any tales of Satanic cults in Alaska, nor have there been that many unsolved murders in the past few years.

It could be true, but she sounds to me like she's just screaming for attention. Psych evaluations definitely in order.

[malaise]

17. One more mental health victim

Something's wrong here - I agree.

[cinnabonbon]

15. That is really scary.

I wonder why she stopped counting at 22. Does it say?

[cali]

18. why in the name of logic is everyone in this thread assuming that she's telling the truth?

[Blue_In_AK]

19. I'm not assuming that at all,

(see my post above), so maybe you should say "almost everyone."

[JHB]

20. If she can direct investigators to bodies, then let her do so

Previous investigations of claims of satanic-cult murders have not turned up anything. If she can turn up something solid, that would be a real breakthrough. More likely, the claim simply isn't true and is just one more manifestation of how she has been abused.

[malaise]

21. She's really young to have killed so many people

I think she needs mental health care

[Loaded Liberal Dem]

22. Sounds kinda urban legend-y

[Kurska]

23. Sounds like she might have Borderline Personality Disorder

I'd bet dollars to donuts she is just lying about murders for attention.

[msanthrope]

24. "Miranda Remembers." nt

[Tom Ripley]

30. For the win!

[dorkzilla]

26. Yeah, I'm calling BS on this

Clearly there is something terribly wrong with this young woman, it seems to me its a cry for attention, or a way for her to remain "relevant".

….and for the record I was also sexually abused at the age of 4 by a neighbor. I literally won't even kill a bug. I know a few others who were abused as well. All ended up becoming fine upstanding citizens, excellent parents and all around good people. I don't know why the mother even brought up the sex abuse. Its awful, but not relevant, except to suggest that perhaps deviant behavior is in her DNA IMHO.

[malaise]

27. It's on ABC News now

She and her husband of three weeks

[dorkzilla]

28. She "confessed" to a newspaper but not the police?

Yeah, it seems a little dubious. I'm staying in the BS camp on this one until there is some evidence.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

29. Interested and skeptical. Bkmrkd for future reference. Thanks for posting it.