Newly married couple found murder victim in Craigslist, says police

Mike Staugaitis / APMiranda K. Barbour is taken to the office of a district judge on Tuesday.SUNBURY, Pennsylvania - a couple married for only three weeks attracted a man to death with an ad on Craigslist because they wanted to kill someone together, police said.Elytte Barbour told officers before his arrest, on Friday night that he and his wife, Miranda, had planned to kill before, but his plans never worked until last month when Troy LaFerrara responded to an on-line publication that promised company in Exchange for money, authorities said.Elytte Barbour told investigators "they committed the murder because they just wanted to kill someone together", police said in the affidavit.Elytte Barbour, 22 and Miranda Barbour, 18, face charges of criminal homicide in the death of LaFerrara. His body was found November 12 in an alley in Sunbury, Pennsylvania, a small town about 100 miles northwest of Philadelphia. The couple had recently moved to Selinsgrove near Dunn, North CarolinaSunbury, Steve Mazzeo, police chief said on Saturday that did not want to comment on the case or the reasons for the couple since it was an active investigation.Larry Deklinski / APElyett Barbour is escorted by police on Friday in Sunbury, PA.Sunbury police said Elytte Barbour told investigators that she hid under a blanket in the back seat truck the couple as his wife collected LaFerrara at a mall on 11 November. He told police that, as a sign of his wife, wrapped a rope around the neck of LaFerrara, restriction you while Miranda Barbour stabbed him.The 42-year-old Port Trevorton man was stabbed about 20 times, police said.Miranda Barbour was charged Tuesday, a day when first contacted by the police. She initially denied knowing LaFerrara, but its history was developed as investigators gathered evidence, including the discovery that the last call received by cell phone from the victim became their number, according to an affidavit in his case.The affidavit said that Miranda Barbour acknowledged knowing the victim in Selinsgrove and driving with him to Sunbury, where they parked. He said LaFerrara sought him fumbling and took a knife between the front seats and stabbed him then put his hand around the throat, according to the affidavit.The police said that Miranda Barbour had told them that he bought cleaning products in a store Department after stabbing LaFerrara, then picked up her husband and did a striptease for her birthday club. On Friday, police said, Elytte Barbour told them that he was that he had bought cleaning products, an account the researchers said that it was supported by surveillance videos.Following the arrest of his wife, Elytte Barbour said that daily item of Sunbury to Miranda Barbour, who he married on 22 October, regularly hired out as a "Companion" to men who met at various web sites, a business venture that he supported because it does not involve sexual contact.Barbour said that his wife did anywhere from $50 to $850 for meeting with the men for activities such as dining together or strolling through a shopping mall. She placed on sites such as Craigslist all ads in advance that sex was not part of the deal, said."It is not a prostitute," he said. "What it does is to meet the men who have broken marriages, or do not have nobody in their lives, and she meets with them and have a nice conversation."Elytte Barbour does not have a lawyer at his appearance, on Friday night. Phone messages left by his wife public defenders Saturday not were returned immediately.The researchers also plan to investigate the death of a man with whom Miranda Barbour had a 1 year old son, Mazzeo said, but did not say if there is a suspicion of foul play.-The Associated Press