Barbour was to carry out the execution of Troy LaFerrara
Barbour was to carry out the execution of Troy LaFerrara, LaFerrara was supposed to have died from strangulation at the hands of Mr. Barbour, she said.
Finally, after she nudged her husband’s knee, Mr. Barbour sprang up and wrapped a cord around LaFerrara’s neck and
SUNBURY — Elytte Barbour was supposed to carry out the execution of Troy LaFerrara, but botched his chance, Mr. Barbour’s wife said Monday.
The newlyweds had twice failed to realize their dream — to kill someone, anyone, together, just for the thrill — until they successfully lured the 42-year-old Port Trevorton resident responding to an Internet companionship ad into a red Honda CRV on the night of Nov. 11.
Mr. Barbour, Miranda Barbour said, wanted to “be like her,” a woman who in February said she had killed at least 22 people nationwide.
They had a signal ready: Mrs. Barbour would ask LaFerrara: “Did you see the stars tonight?”
That’s when her husband would leap from the backseat of her sport-utility vehicle and wrap a cord around the unsuspecting passenger’s neck.
LaFerrara was supposed to have died from strangulation at the hands of Mr. Barbour, she said.
“He was supposed to do this and he messed it up,” she said Monday from the State Correctional Institution at Muncy.
Mrs. Barbour commented on the stars. Nothing happened.
Again she commented on the stars.
No Mr. Barbour leaping from the backseat.
Finally, after she nudged her husband’s knee, Mr. Barbour sprang up and wrapped a cord around LaFerrara’s neck.
The Port Trevorton resident fought back, and Mr. Barbour released the cord.
As LaFerrara opened the passenger-side door of the vehicle as it traveled through Sunbury, Mrs. Barbour reached for the knife she kept in the center console and began to stab LaFerrara up to 20 times.
“He may say it was all me, but the truth is he kept talking about it and it was supposed to be him that completed this,” she said Monday. “He needs to own what he did as well.”
The Barbours on Thursday were sentenced to life in prison without parole by Northumberland County Judge Charles Saylor. They had pleaded guilty Aug. 26 to second-degree murder to avoid a death-penalty trial.
Four days before she officially learned she would be spending the rest of her life behind bars, Mrs. Barbour said she didn’t kill for notoriety, and reiterated her claims of having murdered at least 22 people and up to nearly 100.
“Everyone thinks I did this for attention or I admitted to things to get attention on myself, but that is not true,” she said.
“I admitted because it was time to get it off my chest. You people (the media) are the ones that took it and made it such big news. You guys (the media) did that.”
During her sentencing Thursday, Mrs. Barbour had nothing to say to the court or to the family of LaFerrara.
The newlyweds moved to Selinsgrove from Coats, N.C., to live with friends last October. Mr. Barbour landed a job at a Valley restaurant and Mrs. Barbour was set to also work at a coffee shop while continuing to operate her companionship business.
Mr. Barbour was working with authorities and was prepared to testify against his wife had the case gone to trial, Northumberland County District Attorney Ann Targonski said.
Mrs. Barbour said she wanted to admit to being the youngest female serial killer in American history because, “It was time.”
“I have a child and I didn’t want to raise my child as a murderer,” she said. “This is the best place for me. I need to be in jail. I can’t say that if I didn’t get caught I wouldn’t want to do this again.
“I was part of a gang. I did many horrible things and this man, (LaFerrara) was just the man it worked out with.
The plan was set way before him and a few people we met either didn’t show up or decided not to get in the car.”
Mrs. Barbour said she has no regrets about getting caught or spending the rest of her life in prison.
“I was ready for whatever would have happened,” she said.
“I do not want to get out of here and I also do not care who believes me in what I admitted to.
I was able to get this off my chest and I want other young girls to know that even though I have no regrets for what I have done in the past, this really isn’t the way to go. I just didn’t have the help I needed I guess.
I want to be able to be someone other young girls can look at and say they don’t want to end up like me.”
Mrs. Barbour said she had nothing to say about LaFerrara and although she said she wouldn’t apologize for the night of Nov. 11, she wanted to people to know one thing.
“I didn’t lie about anything I have said,” Mrs. Barbour said. “People can believe what they want.
It doesn’t really matter. The media made me news. I never intended to be news. I never once lied about anything.
I wanted to tell my story and help other teenagers who feel like I did, if some of the things are say aren’t what people are used to hearing then there is nothing I can do about that but I will say it is good to get it off my
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