Tyler Hadley, Florida Teen, Killed Parents, Then Had A Party: Police

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A 17-year-old boy is accused of bludgeoning his parents with a hammer, then hosting dozens of friends for a party while their bodies lay in the bedroom, police said Monday.

Tyler Hadley of Port St. Lucie is charged with twin counts of first-degree murder in the deaths, which authorities say happened Saturday. He is being held without bond at a juvenile detention center in Fort Pierce and it's not immediately known whether he has an attorney.

The parents – Blake and Mary-Jo Hadley – were believed to have been struck with the hammer in their heads and torsos sometime after their son posted on Facebook around 1:15 p.m. Saturday alerting friends to an evening party at his house, about 50 miles north of West Palm Beach.

Investigators believe the parents were attacked outside their master bedroom and the bodies were moved into the bedroom and the door locked.

As many as 60 people attended the party that night, according to Port St. Lucie Police spokesman Tom Nichols. They were loud enough to prompt a noise complaint and a visit by police officers. When they arrived at 1:30 a.m. Sunday to warn about the noise, the party was already breaking up, Nichols said.

Then, police said, they received a tip that murder may have taken place. They returned to the home at 4:20 a.m., finding the bodies covered with towels, files, books and other household items, and the hammer between them.

The mother, 47, was an elementary school teacher. The father, 54, worked for Florida Power and Light.

Autopsies were underway, but police said they believed they died of blunt-force trauma.

Hadley had attended St. Lucie West Centennial High School, according to police, but had not graduated. They said they did not know what the motive was.

Comments

[Zach Fox]

11:58 PM on 08/01/2011

Im telling you , this kid figures he would do this while hes a minor and see if he can get a book deal . .

[sueram002]

11:26 AM on 07/25/2011

EVIL IS HAVING A FIELD DAY, ISN'T IT??!!!!!

[jesushammer]

04:31 PM on 07/24/2011

He was seeking Belle Vita.

[judyneu99]

02:36 PM on 07/22/2011

It sounds as though this young man may be mentally ill. Such as Schizophrenia. I have had personal experience with the condition. If it is, I hope he can be treated and not just be punished.

[nikie883]

02:54 AM on 07/22/2011

I agree try him as an adult. In Arkansas there were two boys that shot up a school and killed 5 or 6 ppl and the boys were 12 and 14 and both were tried as adults. He should as well.

[Rosemary Cividanes]

01:35 AM on 07/22/2011

this is very sad that two parents were murdered that a seventeen year old boy is in jail for the killing of his parents and that he has to live with this the rest of his life and a brother that has lost his whole family this is a horrible tragedy and hard to stop thinking about i live in port saint lucie where this happened it makes me very sad to think about this

[Rick Phalen]

01:12 AM on 07/22/2011

We need tougher gun laws ;)

[DianaLynn1967]

11:58 PM on 07/23/2011

Subtle. And your point is taken--tougher gun laws would not have prevented this particular killing.

Still, this does not mean that there aren't good reasons to have tougher gun laws.

[DarkZephyr]

12:51 AM on 07/22/2011

"Jump to conclusions". Ugh I hate when people blame the victims.

[M Zahran Sallay]

12:32 AM on 07/22/2011

florida....

there must be something in the water......

[Labrat33]

11:11 AM on 07/22/2011

Sulfur. (Mephistopheles?)

[Folk Hero]

10:56 PM on 07/21/2011

This reminds me of why I've pretty much decided to not have kids. You never know how they are going to turn out.

[Mark Okun]

10:55 PM on 07/21/2011

If he has a long enough wait before his trial, the Casey Anthony jurors might be available for his trial as well. With them, if there is no crime on videotape, then there's no crime. I feel bad even thinking like that, but the Casey Anthony trial is still fresh on alot more minds than my own. I feel very bad for way that those victims died as well. Today's judicial system is far too kind to people on the wrong side of crime, and I hope they get it right this time.

[Don Harry Santiago]

10:43 PM on 07/21/2011

Death Penalty, no rehab for this kid sorry. No use for this poor soul, he needs to be sent back to where he came from.

[jockmama]

10:34 PM on 07/21/2011

And on the advice of his attorney, he will plead for clemency on the grounds that he's an orphan...

[mark57fahey]

10:33 PM on 07/21/2011

He was demonically possessed. He fell for a satanic trick. He isn't mentally ill. He's spiritually ill. Its still his fault. This has been happeneing a lot lately. A 5 year old drown her little brother deliberately. A mother drown her 3 kids. A father murdered his entire family for no reason. They often can't even remember the act, or say it was like a dream, and can offer no cogent reason, People think its like a horror movie, where you spit up pea soup. It isn't. Otherwise normal people doing the most debauched things. The reason the authorities can never figure it out is because they don't think its possible, like its a fairy tale or something. It isn't. Its very real, and has been documented for millennia in many cultures. I can hear the usual atheist suspects crawling out of the woodwork to scoff, or worse. I put them as exhibit "A"

[themodernleader]

10:31 PM on 07/21/2011

Information, much of it graphic, that is poison to human growth and development is available to every child and adosescent on the internet. Parents are at a loss of what to do about it. Never in human history has there been such availability of fulsome, dangerous knowledge to warp young minds with parents helpless to prevent or control it..