04-04-2025
Convicted killer Miranda Barbour claims ex-state parole officer sexually abused her inside prison
WILLIAMSPORT — Convicted killer Miranda Barbour is asking for an undisclosed amount of money after claiming in a federal lawsuit she was sexually abused by a parole agent inside the State Correctional Institution at Muncy.
Barbour, 30, received a life sentence in 2015 for the brutal stabbing death of 42-year-old Troy LaFerrara, of Port Trevorton, in 2013.
LaFerrara's body was found in an alley behind Catawissa Avenue, on Nov. 11, 2013. Miranda and Elytte Barbour, both of Selinsgrove, met LaFerrara at the Susquehanna Valley Mall after connecting through a Craigslist ad, according to police.
Miranda Barbour asked LaFerrara to get into her red Honda CRV and the two drove to LaFerrara's home in Sunbury. When the two pulled up to LaFerrara's 8th Street home, Elytte Barbour popped out of the back seat from under a blanket and began to choke LaFerrara with a cord while Miranda Barbour stabbed LaFerrara more than 20 times.
The newlywed couple then dumped LaFerrara in the alley. The Barbours were arrested by now Sunbury Police Chief Travis Bremigen on Dec. 3 and Dec. 6, 2013.
The Barbours claimed to kill LaFerrara because they just wanted to kill someone.
Elytte Barbour was also sentenced in 2015 to life in prison without parole for the murder.
After her arrest on Feb. 14, 2014, Miranda Barbour gave an exclusive interview to The Daily Item in which she claimed to kill at least 22 people. None of Barbour's claims were substantiated, according to law enforcement officials. Miranda Barbour's story went global and last month in the federal lawsuit filed in the U.S. Middle District, in Williamsport, claims the parole agent, Kenneth Jones, sexually abused her inside the prison on several occasions.
Jones has been charged for the alleged crimes, according to court documents.
Miranda Barbour claims Jones began to groom her and that he would tell her if anyone found out they were having sex they would believe him because she was incarcerated, according to the suit.
In the summer of 2023 Miranda Barbour claims Jones began asking for sex every day and sometimes multiple times a day, and she felt she could not say no, according to the suit.
At one point, Miranda Barbour claims she thought she might have been pregnant, and she told Jones, who allegedly told her to fall down the steps or get in a fight with another inmate in an attempt to misscary, the lawsuit claimed.
In another alleged encounter Miranda Barbour had with a prison official she asked why she wasn't being protected, and Miranda Barbour claims she was told, "we were waiting for you to hang yourself," according to the filing.
Miranda Barbour is seeking a jury trial.
