What happened to Troy LaFerrara? Details explored ahead of People Magazine Presents: Crimes Of The 2010s

Troy LaFerrara, a victim of the Craigslist killer was killed on November 11, 2013. His body was discovered behind a house on a street in Sunbury on November 12, 2013.

To date, this mysterious and satanic homicide sends chills down the Sunbury residents.

Season one episode four of People Magazine Presents: Crimes Of The 2010s titled 2013: Match Made in Hell is all set to showcase the case of Troy LaFerrara. The episode is set to air on August 22, 2024, on Investigation Discovery The official synopsis of the same reads as:

"In 2013, a 42-year-old electrical engineer responds to a Craigslist advertisement promising companionship in exchange for only $100; unfortunately for Laferrara, this decision will have deadly consequences."

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Troy LaFerrara was murdered brutally by Miranda Barbour and Elytte Barbour

As per reports, the Sunbury police chief Steve Mazzeo was the first one to reach the scene and discover Troy’s deceased body. Troy's body was bound with a cord and there was blood everywhere. He had been stabbed multiple times before his body was dumped by the assassins.

As investigations started to unfold, the Sunbury detectives found out that Troy LaFerrara although being married, was particularly interested in dating sites and Craigslist. The police checked Troy’s cell phone and found out that Miranda Barbar was the last person Troy had contacted before he was killed.

As per reports and also shown in the official interrogation footage, we get to know that Troy LaFerrara, the victim was in contact with a girl named Miranda Barbour, who had just moved to Pennsylvania.

Miranda was brought into interrogation, three weeks after Troy was killed. However, at first, she refused to be involved and also didn’t cooperate with the authorities who asked her to turn her phone in for investigation. She said that she had plans to meet Troy after they had mingled via Craigslist however they never met.

Miranda’s husband Elytte was also interrogated. As per reports, Elytte Barbour revealed to the authorities that he did not know anything about Troy however he knew that Miranda would charge men to meet them and have conversations with them. She was a listener, and she never engaged in anything carnal.

7 hours after the first time Miranda was interrogated, she again came back to the Sunbury police and turned herself in saying that she killed Troy, however, it was an act of self-defense. According to Miranda, she met Troy and while they were in Miranda’s car, Troy attacked her and touched her inappropriately.

In the interrogation footage, Miranda said,

“His (Troy's) one hand was on my throat …. other hand was touching me down there ….”

As per the reports, she attacked Troy more than 20 times and stabbed him in his groin, chest, and neck. Miranda’s husband also changed his prior statement and said that he was in the backseat of the car, covered in a blanket for perfect camouflage. He confessed to killing Troy together with his wife. Elytte Barbour claims to have wrapped a cord around Troy’s neck to hurt him and leave him dead.

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Arrests and sentences

Miranda and Elytte were both found guilty of second-degree murder, robbery, and aggravated assault and were sentenced to life in prison without the chance of parole in 2014. Miranda revealed that she was part of a satanic cult and she had killed more than twenty-two individuals. However, when the FBI took over the case, Miranda’s claims turned out to be fake and it was proven that she was a pathological liar.

Her husband claimed that she was possessed by a demon. Miranda and Elytte were both drug addicts and Miranda was even diagnosed with depression, ADHD, and schizophrenia and was on medications for the same.

According to Miranda, she killed Troy LaFerrara because she just wanted to kill someone along with her new husband. However, she later changed her statement and said that she wanted to be arrested as she was tired of killing and she also wanted her daughter to be raised and adopted by someone responsible. therefore she killed Troy. However, Elytte was not aware of her plans to get arrested.

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To know more about the death of Troy LaFerrara, watch season one episode four of People Magazine Presents: Crimes Of The 2010s.