Tyler Hadley’s plan to kill his parents started with a joke. Dark banter with his friends. But the thought took root in the Florida teenager’s head and he just couldn’t shake it.
The troubled 17-year-old spent months thinking about his murderous plan. Then on July 16, 2011, he carried it out.
Hadley bludgeoned his parents Blake Hadley, 54, and Mary-Jo Hadley, 47, to death with a large claw hammer at their Port St. Lucie home. He was still covered in their blood when he began texting and calling his friends, telling them his parents were out of town, inviting them to come over for what turned into a raging house party.
While more than 60 people crammed into Hadley’s house for a night of drinking, smoking and partying, the bodies of his dead parents had been dragged into a closed-off bedroom. Three years later, Hadley was convicted of the murders and is spending the rest of his life behind bars.
Now, more than a decade after the slayings, Hadley is speaking out for the first time, revealing what it was like inside his head when he slaughtered his parents as a teenager. His interview will be featured on Court TV’s limited series, Interview with a Killer which airs on Sunday at 8 p.m.