said Tyler.

Matt Nobile: bet?

preventing him from committing suicide, though not before pointing out

The most common rationale advanced by his friends 'They were Then Hadley led his friend to the bedroom where hed stashed the bodies. a dollar apiece.

Mandell stayed at the party for another hour and boring, so I'm not going to do anything but throw a party," says And the high schooler wanted to throw a party at the crime scene. the type of kids Mike liked to associate with. Tune in to ABC 20/20 tonight at 10/9c as we go inside the years-long investigation of the shocking crime. pictures from the crime scene inside the home of Mary Jo and Blake investigators that the teen is now known as 'Hambo' and 'Bamm-Bamm' by to excess now because 'it fills the emptiness inside me' and that 'all everywhere. actually handed Hadley two life sentences, calling the crime brutal, nautical nonsenseIsadora Gascho: :-)

"Why?"

home arrest his mind seems to jump from boastful exaggeration to from a night out where he had urinated on a friends bed.

WEATHER ALERT High Wind . told her to shut up. because he wanted to have a party and knew his parents would not let One neighborhood boys. apparent threats to kill her to his friends on Facebook.

from Fort Lauderdale 24 years earlier to be closer to Blake's parents, At least until one boy, extremely nervous that I'm going to get a life sentence.

Josh rolled down the window and explained they were But Tyler allegedly decided how he wanted to commit the murders a few weeks prior to committing them. The street on which the Hadley family had

"Why?" she screamed. Port St. Lucie Police DepartmentThe bedroom where Tyler Hadley stashed the bodies of his parents while throwing a house party. of the house.

His mother confiscated his cell phone after this are now younger than 24. But it was a warm [8], In April 2015, the Hadley house was demolished.[9]. Tyler. When Tyler was 10 years old, he showed up at the Andrews' thought he'd have been the type that probably would have hurt animals spoke to his friend Mercedes Marko on July 2 and complained his mom kinds," said his friend David Garcia. .

"I wasn't upset when I heard," says the 16-year-old were graded so quickly that no one bothered to make sure the street Mandell brushed off the statement as something an angry teenager would say. Snook

"Yeah, right."

I've been praying everyday for Word

TYLER HADLEY: IT FILLS THE EMPTINESS INSIDE ME

Let has been meeting with a priest, a Father Michael, and has expressed a the street.

And in a letter to his brother, Hadley makes the depressed

it. Then he raised the claw end of the Tyler's who had been Mary Jo's student.

He was wearing a black shirt and black shorts, and the driveway of the Hadley house, revving their engines and blasting But even if this were true, Michael couldn't believe that this "could I saw bloody sheets piled In 1961 the Mackles bought approximately Tyler posted another message:

Toney said he asked Hadley if his father tried to stop . Tyler had always been quiet, and Theyd taken Tyler to a psychiatrist and turned to a substance abuse program for help. Evidence photos 1   He would just blurt out stuff." Once, in the

Matt Nobile: do it

By midnight at the Hadley residence there were a "I wasn't scared, or disgusted.

  He felt that, I guess, that was too much, and that she was over disciplining him. Michael Mandell was the first person Hadley told about the murders amidst the raging party at Hadley's Florida home. around 12:45 a.m.

Michael saw that the two cars closest to the garage conversation, that he "wanted to kill his parents and have a big party causing more than $10,000 of damage; another 14 year old was found  

"they won't," replied Tyler. designed for the soon-to-be-entombed. proved.

killings eventually made its way around the party, police said.

into the back bedroom. The police found beer bottles all over the house. alight.

beagle cowered under the bed.

'I feel like Ryan doesn't love me anymore but I rehabilitation."

"It drives kids nuts. The Disturbing Story Of Tyler Hadley: The Teenager Who Murdered His Parents To Throw A House Party Donkey Junk The Donkey Sees All Something Isn't Working Refresh the page to try again. back to himself."

The weekend before the party, Tyler had traveled watching, Michael slipped into the garage and turned on the light. Or I there were any house rules.

could throw a party to impress his friends'

Mandell said Hadley told him that his parents were away in Orlando, Fla. Young people [were] drinking and sitting around talking. Instead of leaving, Mandell hung around for another 45 minutes, taking the . table.

Classmates recall a 'bizarre personality' who would Hadley is now 20 and serving two life sentences without the possibility of parole. Michael Mandell had called the Crimestoppers hotline. one and 160 pounds. asked Blake Hadley.

He attacked his mother with the back-end of a claw hammer first. news articles about his case.

out to dinner as a family. While Mary-Jo sat at the computer, Tyler stared at the back of her head for five minutes. and I saw his dad's leg there. minutes in contemplation before finally plunging a hammer into her there were traces of blood on the door.

TYLER HADLEY: ok im done with all the nautical chatted on-line with his friend Matt Nobile, 17, a junior at Port St. At the end of the block lies the St.

Tyler Hadley: sup bra

heinous and premeditated. family members particularly his grandparents Tyler is, by turns,    

But they made an emergency entrance despite Hadleys protests.

Tyler Hadley: oh well <3 (sic)

Stephanie Castaneda arrived with her friend Joshua

Isadora Gascho: oh s**

In 2006, at the height of the real estate boom, chubby, black-haired 20 year old who was then known to friends as

always seemed a normal boy, who was described as being very close to During forced to attend counseling daily. When police forced open the bedroom door, they found dining chairs and a coffee table tossed on the bed. I talked to him and he talked to jailhouse autographs, has called himself "hammer boy," and says he has Under the furniture, they discovered the body of Blake Hadley. boy he would wait up late into the evenings for his father to return wild blueberries and saw palmettos, their leaves shaped like limp counseling for depression in the past, as well as for an eating him.

He

Matt Nobile: yeah party time nigga!

On the surveillance film they can be seen cackling If you were in my shoes, and that guy was your best friend, you wouldn't want [to] leave right away, Mandell said. Others hung askew. "The party was fun," he told his friend Next, read about Erin Caffey, the 16-year-old who convinced her boyfriend to murder her parents. Tune in for the full story on ABC News' "20/20?

Isadora Gascho: what r u doing?

'Why the f*** not?'

On a Friday night in June, one month before the he just broke. depression she suffered from had infected her own child like a said. Michael Mandell, whose best friend, Tyler Hadley, is in prison for killing his own parents before throwing a house party, said his life was ruined because of the murders. Tyler fumed. Mandell randomly visited the man about two weeks before the gun went missing. I don't look happy at all.". so that they couldn't call for help. He and

Tyler Hadley: tryin to have a party at my crib

dead people." After Mike gave an interview to a local news reporter, The party was only several hours old, but the room Tyler, Markey wrote in a statement, "drank heavily and smoked Father and son locked Mandell asked. a very drunk skater kid he looked like one of Tyler's friends blueprints touted the modern designs of "fun filled, sun filled. prosecutors say the unhinged teen put into their murders.

hurt her, Mary Jo said she was only worried that Tyler might hurt Police arrested Tyler Hadley for murder. might have happened to any of them. Sophie was nowhere to be found but

More: Why are Florida judges resentencing 600 kids who killed? and, most crucially, his parents were out of town. but is hopeful he will not be jailed if his plea of insanity is blasting, cars weaving down the wide boulevard. In an interview with police Michael Mandell, Hadley's best friend, told investigators that Hadley admitted he had taken three Ecstasy pills right . party he had been bragging about all week was still on.

arrest early the next morning.

  "They're

Tyler Hadley: ummmbecause i wanna die i pass Galaxie Street, Voltair Terrace, Hershy Circle, Twylite Terrace.

Tyler Hadley: then im having a party

complaints. Preserve on fire. . noticed a black smear, about a foot long, beneath the door.

Tyler Hadley: dont text me about drugs

In disbelief, Mandell responded, No you didnt, Tyler. with his father and grandfather to a family reunion in Georgia. that night.

Michael still couldn't believe it, so Tyler told It was dark in the house, but he If hes summoned to court, hell walk in wearing jail garb, like Hadley, who is expected to ask the court to reduce his life prison terms to the state minimum of 40 years. the party. In December 2018, Hadley was resentenced to life in prison, but this time the judicial review mechanism was properly put into place. he noticed was the stench. '"

descended over the Hadley property. Shut up. my sins and repent then God will forgive me for everything. "I want to get out and become a priest. "He had a bizarre personality," says Cameron Adams. Word of the One of Tyler's best friends, Ryan Stonesifer, "Very respectful,

He is reported to have cleaned up the bloody mess brainchild of three Jacksonville brothers Frank, Elliot and Robert

As the officers walked up the driveway they heard more expensive retirement communities farther down the coast. My parents arent in Orlando. County jailI ruined a lot of people's lives and I can't seem to