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A teenage satanist who joined with her husband to kill a man they met on Craigslist has confessed to the murders of at least 22 other people.

Newlywed Miranda Barbour, 19, said she belonged to a cult and had “stopped counting” her victims in the killing spree across four US states.

Barbour and her husband Elytte, 22, could be given the death sentence for the murder of Troy LaFerrara, who had been looking for sex on the classified advertisements website in November.

She said she had killed her first victim aged 13 after joining an Alaskan satanic cult, being taken by the leader to murder someone who owed him money.

Barbour, from, Pennsylvania, said of her victims: “When I hit 22, I stopped counting.”

Barbour said she agreed to have sex with Mr Leferrara for $100 and picked him while from a mall while Elyttte hid in the back of the car. She is accused of stabbing the 42-year-old victim 20 times while her husband wrapped a cord around his neck.

Barbour said: “He said the wrong things and then things got out of control.

“I can tell you he was not supposed to be stabbed.

“My husband was just supposed to strangle him.”

Barbour, speaking to Pennsylvania’s Daily Item newspaper from jail, also recalled her first murder.

She said: “Then he said to me that it was my turn to shoot him.

“I hate guns. I don’t use guns. I couldn’t do it, so he came behind me and he took his hands and put them on top of mine and we pulled the trigger. And then from there I just continued to kill.”

The majority of the killings happened in Alaska, but she also claimed to be able to “pinpoint” where murders happened in Texas, North Carolina and California.

•Credit (except headline): Daily Mirror. Photo shows depraved satanist Miranda Barbour.

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