Tyler Hadley: The Creepy Story Of The Florida Teen Who Threw A “Killer” Party
Mike HadleyTyler Hadley (second from right) murdered his parents in part to throw a wild house party.
While Tyler Hadley had a variety of issues, they mirrored those of many rebellious teens, like cutting class to smoke marijuana. But his parents Blake and Mary Jo Hadley wouldn’t let him get away with this behavior, and sent him to a psychiatrist and a substance abuse counselor. And after he came home drunk one night, his parents decided to take away both his car and his phone as punishment. His retribution would be unspeakable.
Having his personal items confiscated seems to have been the last straw for the troubled 17-year-old student of Port St. Lucie High in Florida. But instead of simply acting out or yelling at his parents like other teens might do, he decided to bludgeon his mother and his father to death with a hammer. He then threw a wild party at the house that same exact night.
After he cleaned up the blood, Hadley simply went on Facebook to message his classmates about the upcoming party. They were in disbelief at his invitation as Hadley had never thrown a party before. But he claimed his parents were away in Orlando. And when he was asked if they might come home earlier than expected, he replied calmly: “They won’t. Trust me.”
Little did his friends realize that his parents were home, all along. Hadley had simply left their dead bodies in their bedroom. Some of his friends would later recall him saying he wanted to kill his parents for punishing him days earlier. But they thought nothing of it and didn’t take his threat seriously — until Hadley pulled his friend Michael Mandell aside at the party.
“He says, ‘Mike, I killed my parents,'” said Mandell. “And I said, ‘No you didn’t, Tyler. Shut up. What are you talking about?’ And, he said, ‘Mike…look at the driveway, all the cars are there. My parents aren’t in Orlando.'”
Mandell’s disbelief was shattered when he saw blood near the parents’ bedroom door. He then demanded to see more proof by going inside the bedroom — where he soon saw the parents’ bodies. While Mandell shockingly stayed at the party for at least 45 minutes longer, he called the Crimestoppers hotline upon leaving and told the police everything.
Arrested at his parents’ home, Hadley was charged with two counts of first-degree murder and was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
