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just like all of our other episodes. But first, have you ever
been to Port Saint Port Saint Lucy, Florida? Maybe maybe? Well,
it's not really a town that was initially geared towards like young people are teenagers,
Florida. It's like between well I believe it's on the Gulf Coast and
it's between Orlando and Miami, which I know is a long stretch, but
it's along that side, so the easter place for yeah, I don't know.
So it was mostly, you know, geared toward retirees. You know,
a lot of people in Michigan were from Michigan. A lot of people
in Michigan go to Florida to spend the winters, to call them snowbirds.
But it is the biggest city between Orlando and Miami, so you know,
there's there's not a whole lot to do though. It's kind of like just
it's not on the water. No, I don't believe it's on the water.
Yeah, so there's not a whole lot to do. I mean,
it's not geared toward like tourists and things like that. The New York Mets
hold their spring training camps there, okay, and they are also known for
growing marijuana. Oh okay. So over the years, pot dealers from Miami
would buy vacant houses in Port Saint Luci and use them as grow facilities.
Due to this, more than a third of the population is younger than twenty
four years old. I thought it was a older part. Yeah, that's
what it was meant to be. You know, so teenagers are literally literally
just running around and in twenty eleven, I'm going to tell you a story
about the Hadley family and Tyler Hadley. Tyler had Hadley was seventeen years old
in twenty eleven. His parents were Blake and Mary Joe Hadley, and he
was the younger of two boys. Mary Joe was an elementary school teacher at
the local school, where she'd been teaching for about twenty years. His father,
Blake, worked in a plant as an operator for Florida Power and Light.
And the Hadleys were very family oriented and they actually originated originally were from
Pennsylvania, and they moved to Florida to be closer to Blake's parents as they
got older, and his parents lived in Fort Lauderdale. Tyler was described by
family members as loving, but he was a bit withdrawn. He kept to
himself, he was depressed, He suffered from anxiety, He had low self
esteem, and he did struggle with an eating disorder blimia. Oh that's strange.
Yeah, it's unusual for a boy. Right. As a younger boy,
he was quick to quit sports and projects and hobbies because he just felt
like he wasn't good enough. At them, so he would just give up
instead of trying to really work at it and get better. By the time
he was ten, he was being treated by doctors for a slew of things,
including acne and depression. At ten a ten, as he's moving into
his teen years, Tyler was going down the path of just being a troublemaker.
He was doing stuff like vandalizing public bathrooms, painting cars something he's by
painting cars in. Yeah, he would steal yard decorations, he set small
fires, he would break windows. So a lot of vandalizing going on.
Despite the medications that he was prescribed by doctors, and I'm not sure exactly
what he was taking, but by the age of twelve, Tyler was self
medicating at twelve. At twelve, he started drinking and getting drunk. Yeah,
he started smoking weed by the time he was fifteen and taking pills and
other who's hallucinogenics to dedicate himself. By the time he was sixteen, he
was moving into a little bit of the harder things. Oh wow. To
kids that he went to high school with, Tyler was known as like a
druggy pillhead who had a history of mental illness and violence. Over the years.
So you can imagine his parents. He's quite a handful for them.
Yea. Over the years, I know you thought your kids were bad,
Tyler's relationship with his parents was deteriorating. Oh yeah. As a child,
he was a respectful and happy kid. And to neighbors, friends, and
other family members, they all seemed close, like a close knit family.
But Tyler would often wait up for his dad to return home from the night
shift that he worked at the plant, and they would play basketball in the
driveway until midnight sometimes, and this is when he was younger. In their
backyard they had Lee's had a pool. So during the summer and warmer,
I mean it's warm in Florida, so I imagine they're using this pool all
the time. They were always back there spending time, you know, all
day long in the summer. That's what I'd be doing. Hell yeah,
that's what i'd be doing too. If I had the wind, I'd be
in the blind shut if I was in Florida. And I know you were
like like a vampire. Well that's because sunheard. It's because Michigan sucks,
and I don't have a pool. Michigan doesn't suck. I actually love Michigan.
But I love Michigan, but it's hot outside in the summer, and
I don't like to sweat. If I had a pool, i'd be in
it. Okay, okay, just trust me, trust me. When Tyler
reached high school, things took a dramatic turn, and the family soared to
be more attacked, detached. So, you know, he's getting into drinking
more and doing drugs, and he's probably you know, he's doing all this
vandalizing so's plus he's a teen. Yeah, and that's normal to detach,
right. Tyler appeared to be troubled, and he seemed to be somebody who
just acted out for attention. Maybe not only did he do these things like
this acting out, but he was really disrespectful to adults and other people in
general. And one day Tyler and a few other boys dragged a love seat
out into the woods. Okay, I don't know whose love seat this was,
but they took it out there, they set it on fire. Yeah,
they pretty all over it and lit it on fire boys team boys.
Yeah, but the couch wasn't the only thing that burned. It caused a
forest fire. Oh shit. Yeah. At the River Park Wildlife Reserve,
so the police recalled. That's no good, No be pissed if I was
his parents, I know, right, But the boys got off with just
a warning of that one. So I'm surprised because something the forest on fire
is pretty but they were mean too. They were just burning a couch in
the forest. That's true, that's true, yeah, yes, but I
guess reckless, reckless. Not soon after that, Tyler got into a fight
at a friend's house and he was arrested for aggravated battery. Oh, it
was pretty serious. That's a big that's a real fight. And he spent
a week in jail, and I don't know if he was probably in the
juvenile home, right, that's serious. Yeah, And he ended up not
like a punch, that's no. This is a full out brawl probably,
and he's probably beating the ship out of some sead right. He ended up
on house arrest for a couple of weeks after that, Tyler told a friend
over Facebook messenger that he knew his mom was disappointed in him and that really
bothered him, but it didn't stop his aggressive behavior behavior. I know you're
disappointing, right. In June of twenty eleven, Tyler came home from a
party and he was wasted. So his mom had him admitted to a mental
health clinic called New Horizons. Really shit, Yeah, he was wasted.
Mary Joe, his mom had suffered from depression her entire life, and she
was really scared that Tyler was going through the same thing. You know,
he's obviously going through something and she, you know, beyond her ability to
help him, so she wanted to get him some serious help. Mary Joe
told friends and the doctors at the clinic that she was afraid that Tyler would
hurt himself, but she was also afraid that he might hurt someone else,
and since he was under the age of eighteen, she was able to admit
yeah, without his consent, and at the at New Horizons, he did
receive mandatory therapy. But this wasn't the first time that Tyler had received mental
health mental health help. He had previously gone to therapy for his eating disorder
and his poor self esteem. And he also one thing that was kind of
odd was when he was younger, he took that human growth hormone HGHGH and
I think he was prescribed as a way to boost his confidence, and I
don't know how that helps confidence. I don't know, but his parents allowed
him to take it. That's strange. So it's obvious here Tyler is fighting
demons in his own mind, and as a result, he's sort of an
outcast. School he was there's always a group of outcasts that go, oh
yeah, he did, and he was hanging with the wrong kids. He
was getting pulled deeper and deeper into the drug scene and drinking even at the
young age of fifteen. Mary Joe was a devout Catholic who served as elector
at the Saint Lucie Catholic Church. So Tyler and heard they didn't really see
eye to eye on their way to live, because, I mean, you
know, he's he's all shades of messed up. Tyler often felt that his
parents put a lot of pressure on him to be something that he wasn't.
I mean, I'm thinking that they were just normal parents. I just want
you to fly what is it, fly straight or whatever it is, And
I have no idea what you're but just go to school, do your homework,
and take drugs. I mean, I doubt that. Who knows what
my kids would say about me. I doubt it was any kind of unrealistic
pressure. But then again, I wasn't there. I don't know, but
Tyler felt that anything he would do was wrong in their eyes, and he
would talk a suicide often to his friends and family, and it seemed that
close family and friends kind of lost Tyler to his demons for a while.
But once in a while he would show like his true caring self, you
know, it would come through. But it was getting less and less common.
Tyler's really struggling, and his mom's trying to get him this professional help,
but they were also punishing him. You know, he was doing things
that were wrong, and he was serving punishment at home. After a drunk
driving incident, Mary Joe took away Tyler's phone and his car. He often
got his phone taken away, but worse punishment for yes, for a teenager,
but it didn't mean even though he didn't have his phone, that didn't
mean that he wasn't still communicating with friends on Facebook and sneaking out of his
house. On July sixteenth, twenty eleven, everything changed for this family.
That morning, Tyler had made a plan seventeen year old Tyler. He wanted
to throw a house party with Tyler kind of being an outcast and with all
the trouble he'd been getting into recently, there was no way that his parents
were going to allow him to a party, well now to the know.
About one fifteen that afternoon, Tyler made a post on Facebook saying that he
was going to be having a party at his crib quote unquote at eight pm,
and then that that maybe what's that mean? No? Maybe maybe Some
of Tyler's childhood friends knew that he had been getting into a lot of trouble
with his parents, so they were skeptical when Tyler posted this on Facebook.
I got to have a party, dude, right with the parents. And
one of them even said, like in the Facebook post, said something like
you know, they didn't say how, like how are you gonna have this
party? Because you're being punished all the time. But Tyler's response to whatever
was posted was I'm working on it. That doesn't sound no. By eight
fifteen, this party was on and Tyler posted again on Facebook, this time
saying to hit him up and to come. Multiple friends would message Tyler just
in shock because they were worried, like what if your parents come home?
Because he's like saying, you know, my parents aren't home, and he's
like don't worry. They're not going to come home. It's all good.
So by eleven thirty that night, on July sixteenth, they were over sixty
teenagers wow at the Hadley house, and most of them didn't even know Tyler
personally. Like, kids just started showing up. I mean, you hear
the party, let's go. The party was starting to just get out of
control too, bye. There's a lot of people, you see, is
a lot sixty people. Kids were going through cabinets looking for food, and
they were forming groups on the front lawn, smoking, throwing cans into the
street, and it was just chaos. And at this point Tyler was getting
worried about the noise level because he didn't want the neighbors to call the police
and have the police showed up. So he asked all the partygoers to just
stay inside. And he's like, I don't care if you smoke inside the
house. You know, it's cool. But the house became trashed. Bottles
were shattered on the floor, drinks were spilled, cigarettes were put out just
on all surfaces. Kids were playing beer pong on the kitchen table. They're
making out on the family couch. They were using the family's computer which was
near the dining table, to blast music throughout the house. I mean they
were smoking weed like it was just like can you imagine like an invented those
parts? That show was just teenagers having a crazy party. Throughout the evening,
various kids would ask Tyler, you know, where are your parents?
And his answers were always different. Tyler told some of them that his parents
were in Orlando. He told some of them they were in Georgia. He
told a few of them that his parents didn't even live there anymore, and
that the house was his what. Yeah. As the night progressed, Tyler
just appeared more and more removed and just seemed strange. Although the most Tyler
was always that way, so you know, like, Okay, he's not
acting any differently. Around twelve thirty am, the party was running out of
beer and I don't know who brought the beer. Tyler can't borrow it.
I don't know how much his dad had in the house. But Tyler asked
a twenty where there will somebody probably will. She brought a few, trust
me. So they're running out, and Tyler asks a twenty one year old
partygoer named Mark Andrews and his girlfriend Ashley if they would run up to the
local gas station and get four more cases of bush light. Yeah, it's
garbage. I don't like beer anyway. When I was seventeen, I drink
anything. Yeah, you probably had like PAP's Blue Ribbon and mad Wild Turkey
or whatever, I know yet anything. While they were exchanging the money and
making the plan for them to go up to the gas station, Tyler told
Ashley, who didn't know him very well, that his dad was dead,
and she thought he meant that he had passed away a long time ago.
So the night continues into chaos. More and where people were coming to the
house. This house is being trashed. More and more. Kids were selling
weed and pills to each other. Others had vandalized some neighbor's property, like
the neighboring properties, and by one fifty teen, Tyler had just lost all
control of this party. I'm surprised the police weren't called earlier. I know
they do, they get called, but by I mean, let me just
tell you. Pictures were knocked off the wall, furniture was overturned, the
house had just some kind of stench to it. It's probably beer, spilled
beer, Yeah, puke, there's probably all kinds of stuff going on,
and Tyler, who probably now is on the verge of like just completely having
a meltdown because he's lost control of this party. He asked his childhood best
friend named Michael to step outside and get some air with him, Like,
can you can you come with me on a walk? I need some fresh
air. So Michael stimulated, oh, yeah, for sure. Michael would
recall that for most of the parties, Tyler sat alone and was just staring
out into space. So they go outside and on their walk, Tyler tells
Michael that he had killed his parents earlier that day. Michael's like, hmm,
come on now, you know he doesn't believe it. But then his
parents aren't at the house, so Michael quickly shuts it down and they just
continue walking, and Tyler said, no, really, I did take a
look their car. Their cars are still in the driveway, and if they're
not home, then why are their cars gone? Damn. So Michael still
didn't believe him, and so Tyler took Michael back to the house and into
the garage. Michael immediately saw a bloody shoeprint and he was He backed out
of the garage and he shut the door back into the garage and he shut
the door. Tyler then took Michael to the master bedroom. Oh no,
right away, Michael noticed traces of blood on the door handle and the doorframe.
And once Tyler unlocked and opened the door because apparently the door was locked,
both boys entered the room. The master bedroom was in complete disarray.
There was a huge pile of random items piled high on the bed, things
like dining room chairs and blood soaked towels, dining room chairs. There's dining
room chairs. There was other furniture. There was like a mop that was
used to clean up like used liesole wipes, like just filled with blood.
Like it's all thrown into this room. Yeah, all the cleaning stuff and
so underneath underneath everything if as the bed, like on the floor, I
mean there's like on the bed is just furniture and stuff. And so Michael
looks on the floor and he's looking and he sees Tyler's dad's leg, Blake's
leg. For some reason, though, Michael didn't leave the party, like
he's like, oh shit, and they leave the bedroom. And Michael didn't
leave the party right away. He stayed another forty five and it's drinking and
smoking and even taking selfies with Tyler, and he said, you know,
I took self He said, I took the selfies because I knew I was
never going to see my friend again after this. So afterward, when Michael
goes home, he does make a call to crime stoppers to report what happened,
but it's like an hour later they all shades of fuck, oh my
gosh, seriously, so you're probably wondering what happened exactly. I would like
to know, Okay, So around a nine point forty that day, the
day before he killed his parents, Tyler got a Facebook message from a friend
saying, hey, did you do it yet? Tyler had been threatening,
saying like I'm going to kill my parents, although nobody really believed him,
but he gets this message, did you do it yet? Tyler writes back
that he didn't do it yet. He called his mom you know some names,
saying that she deserved to die. He did, Tyler did. And
Tyler told that friend that after he was going to kill his parents, he
planned to throw a huge party, like this is his plan. So just
before five pm, Tyler took his parents' phones and he hid them. Then
this is the day of the murder. Yeah, this is the day of
the murder. Then he took three hits of ecstasy. Oh shit, he
felt shit. Yeah, he felt like I wouldn't be able to go through
with it if I wasn't high. He listened to a song by a Little
Boosy called Feel Lucky to hype himself up before he went into the garage to
look for a weapon. Tyler found a clawhammer. No no, and then
he went back into the house a clawhammer, a clawhammer. Upon returning inside,
his mom is in one of the bedrooms. She's sitting at a computer.
She's not in the master bedroom. She's at a computer. He goes
inside the house. He's got the hammer in his hand. I'm not sure
where his dad was at the time, but he stares at his mom for
like five minutes, just staring at her, and he's deciding what to do
next. He is so then he goes up behind her. He raises the
claw hammer above his head and he hits his mom in the back of the
head. Mary Joe screamed out, and she said. She turns around,
She's like why why, and she's screaming, still live and she's still alive.
And Blake, Tyler's dad. He hears Mary Joe screaming and he comes
running into the room. He blacks eyes with Tyler, who's because Mary Joe's
now on the floor and he's hitting her. He's still hitting He's still hitting
her, and he's like, why why are you doing this? You know
what's going on? And Tyler responded, quote, why the fuck not?
And then he attacks his dad with the hammer. I'm surprised his dad couldn't
take him down, you know, I'm surprised too. He must have really
caught him. But he was on three hit day. Yeah, he's got
some super human strength. I mean he was. He was. He was
maybe like six foot and one hundred and sixty pounds like Tyler was, So
he was thin. And his dad wasn't like a thin guy. He's not
like a huge guy. But I mean, I would think, but I
don't know. I wasn't there. So all, when all was said and
done, Mary Joe suffered thirty six blows thirty six blows mostly to her head
and six blows six yeah, I know. And Blake suffered at least thirty
nine blows. That's rage coming out, oh yeah, And it was estimated
that Tyler they were mutilating. Oh yeah, because he only hit them like
in they're up body like had had in probably their upper back. It was
estimated that Tyler spent a full minute beating each of his parents. And a
minute might not sound like a lot, but when you're hitting someone, I
mean, I have a claw hammer. If you think about it, I
mean, that's a long time. Yeah, it's a lot of effort.
That's overkill. Yeah, that's way beyond what it's necessary to get the deed.
Yeah. Right. And the most disturbing fact though, is that Mary,
Joe and Blake were still alive. What and they were still conscious during
this attack. None of the hits they suffered killed them immediately, but they
would die shortly thereafter due to their injuries. Wow, probably to blunt due
to blunt force trauma, bleeding. Yeah, they were conscious enough, I
mean to know that their son was murdering them. After they were done dead,
I know, and Tyler was done, he quickly covered their heads with
towels as he just couldn't stand to look at that. He dragged his parents'
bodies into the master bedroom and he laid them side by side, face down.
Tyler put the claw hammer between his parents' bodies. And at this point,
now the living room, which is where Mary Joe was initially where he
the where the attack started. The living room was just a bloody mess.
Tyler himself was covered head to toe and blood splatter. So he's like,
if I'm going to have this party, because he still got his mind on
the party, he was going to have to get cleaning. It took him
over three hours to clean up this gory mass, which was longer than he
had anticipated. He took every single piece of potentially incriminating evidence and piled it
onto the bed and on his parents' bodies. So, like I told you,
this included the coffee table, dining chairs, there were pillows probably from
the sofa, broken dishes, shattered glasses, a sponge mop, used chlorox
wipes, and bloody towels. Essentially, everything he used to clean was thrown
into the pile, and anything that had evidence on it meaning blood splatter that
could be moved ended up in their bedroom. And I have a picture of
it. I mean, their bedroom is trashed. There's also another photo that
will show during the video, and it's pretty graphics, so it's not of
Blake. And Mary Joe. But it's graphics, so I just want to
warn everyone. So now it's time. Okay, cleans up. Now it's
time. He needs to get clean. So he takes a shower. He
looks himself in the mirror and he said like he couldn't help but laugh at
his reflection. What I don't know what he happened in the shower, and
then he's just lost it. Yea, three hits, three hits. Yeah,
and that's when he saw the shower. He posts on Facebook and says,
oh the part. So that's now, you know, kids start to
show up, and the evening goes into case. I have no idea.
There's two dead bodies up stairs. Now, so let's go back a little
bit to Tyler's confession to his friend Michael. So, as I told you,
Michael stayed at the party for forty five minutes after Tyler had just proved
to him that he had murdered his parents. Between Tyler's confession to Michael and
Michael leaving the party, other party goers heard that there was another party at
a different house, so everyone quickly started to clear out, causing commotion in
the front yard. Over fourteen cars peeled off loudly from the Hadley residence.
A neighbor to the Hadley residence named ray Anne Wallace just had enough of the
noise in the bauchery and she finally called nine on once when the kids started
drifting into her yard during their departure. Within two minutes of Rayan's called,
police arrived at the Hadley residence and due to the fact that most of the
kids now had gone had left and gone to the other party, there's only
about twenty people left, and so the police go to Tyler, you know,
and he promises the police, yes, we'll keep it down for the
rest of the night. So police let him off without a warning and they
head back to their cruiser and they left. By two thirty am. All
of the kids now have learned that the other party that was supposed to be
happening was just a rumor, so they all headed back to the Hadley residence
and party was back on despite the police having just left. At this point,
it's clear that something it was really wrong with Tyler, and other conversations
with Michael and other partygoers at the time, Tyler mentioned suicide multiple times and
even told Michael how he was going to do it. Michael left the party
about three am, so maybe he stayed. I don't know. Due to
this, I don't know. I'm trying to give Michael the benefit of the
doubt. But he left about just before three am. And when he left,
he found some percocet pills that Tyler planned to use to kill himself and
he hid them in a hall closet to prevent that. At four forty six
am, police were again dispatched. The party's still going on. The party
is still going on. Hell, And so they go back to the Hadley
home. But now this is due to the call that Michael made OH crime
stoppers. He informed them of what Michael, excuse me, what Tyler had
done, and he told them everything. So when police arrived, they could
see the shadow of someone pacing back and forth in the front living room.
One of the officers his name was Officer Green. He peered through the window
and he saw Tyler pacing across the living room talking to himself. Then he
started. Tyler started grabbing books, like stacks of books from a book shelf
by the front door and taking them back into the master bedroom. Why,
I don't know. After the third trip, I'm thinking maybe there was some
blood splatter on them. After Tyler's third trip, Officer Green finally knocked on
the front door, but Tyler didn't answer it right away. Instead, he
went and turned all the lights off in the house before he answered the door.
Tyler looked very disturbed to Officer Green. His eyes were wide, he
wasn't blinking when he answered. He left his left hand behind his back,
which caused the other officer that was with Officer Green, his name was Officer
Zamowski to draw his gun. After being ordered to get on the ground,
Officer searched Tyler his person to ensure that he didn't have any weapons on him
before they handcuffed him, Seemingly frantic and incoherent. When police asked if any
adults were home, Tyler responded no, before saying to Officer Green that he
knew he was going to Rock Road, which is where the county jail was.
Upon entering the house, the police were met with just disorder and it
was just disgusting. There were empty beer bottles, cans everywhere. Yeah,
pots and pans were all over the counter, said those parties. Yeah.
Tyler's bedroom floor was covered in unrolled cigars. Oh, I don't know it's
yeah. I think it was tobacco. The furniture was overturned in Tyler's brother's
bedroom. I'm not sure where the brother was. I'm thinking he's college aged,
so he might have been somewhere else. They found the family dog locked
in closet. But this wasn't the worst. The police finally reached the master
bedroom and they immediately noticed the dried blood on the door frame, and because
the door was locked, they had to force it open and they just entered
this room of horrors. Right. Nearly two thousand people attended Mary, Joe
and Blake's funeral. Michael became the state's star witness for the trial, and
in twenty fourteen, Tyler entered a plea of no contest to two counts a
first degree murder with a weapon. He was convicted on those two counts a
first degree murder, and sentenced to two consecutive life terms, so they weren't
concurrent. They were to be served one after the other, and he didn't
get death. Yeah, Florida, it's Florida. Because he was a minor
at the time of the crime. The state did eventually have to reverse his
sentence on new sentencing qualms. That can't sentence them to life life, right,
right, they have to have a chance for parole. Mm hmm.
So seven years after the murder of his parents in twenty eighteen, the now
twenty five year old Tyler, he had a resentencing trial. Tyler was chained
at the ankles and wrists, and he showed no emotion as the judge read
his new sentence, and Tyler was again sentenced to life in prison. However,
they were to be served at the same time, and by law,
he'd be automatically allowed like his case would be automatically reviewed for parole after twenty
five years. Yep. Lord has gone back and forth with that law.
Yeah, in Alabama too, because we have the cases on that, Yeah,
we have, and that federal Cruel and Unusual punishment federal law. Oh
yeah, the cruel and unusual punishment. Yet because they're minors, to this
day, friends and family really struggle to understand the motivation behind Tyler's actions,
you know what for a party like what? Yeah, Like they just don't
they don't understand. And yvery upsetting. Although he said some kind of messed
up things, I mean, he said he said he was going to kill
his parents. People never really he thought he was capable of doing it,
obviously. I mean I would never think that about any of my friends.
Yeah, but I would also never say that. Yeah, that's true.
That's true. Yeah, it's not the most common theory though, revolves around
two things, Tyler's drug and alcohol abuse and his mental health issues. Although
I was I thought he was getting treated for his mental health issues, doesn't
mean he was getting treated properly. That's true. It was widely known by
a circle of friends that that Tyler held some resentment against his parents still all
teenagers, I know, for you know, punishing him and forcing him to
go to the drug abuse program that you know, I help him, trying
to help him. Yeah, even when he did receive the mental health though,
he'd often lie and manipulate the doctors. So, like you said,
he might not even have been getting like proper treatment. He was prescribed antidepression
medication. He would mix that with various other pills, you know, to
get messed up. And when the police originally searched the house, they didn't
find any pills other than two prescriptions for Tyler. So yeah, so I'm
not sure he could have been buying them though, right, he could have
been buying anything. In a letter from jail, Tyler wrote to his grandparents,
and he told them that he wished his doctors never put him on that
one pill, he said, but he never specified what that one pill was.
Antidepressant. Sorry. During his first trial in twenty fourteen, Kathleen Hyde,
who was the mental health specialist who Tyler's team called to the defense as
a defense witness. She stated that when he killed his parents, Tyler was
in a major depressive episode. She said that this episode fueled intrusive thoughts about
suicide and killing his parents. She told the court that there were various reasons
leading to Tyler's homicide thoughts, including obsessive thoughts, severe depression, and the
inability to care for others. None of this, yeah, and this was
premanitating, Yeah, right exactly. Wasn't spontaneous, you know? None of
this, though, I think, is able to justify what he did.
But during his resentencing, Tyler's team pushed hard that Tyler was capable of rehabilitation.
Even family members testified that Tyler understood his actions and should stay in prison.
Despite listening to various testimonies, the judge ruled that whether or not Tyler
was capable of rehabilitation, was anyone's best guess, and he upheld, like
I told you, those life sentences. The judge noticed, or the judge
noted that Tyler had casually spoken about killing his parents for weeks leading up to
that and the party. Yeah, and there a party, right, I
mean, and he even told people that he was waiting for his brother to
move out before he did. So, yeah, you're right. The brother
was Yeah, so he wasn't there, even though he still hit a bedroom
there. He maintained that the crime the judge maintained that the crime was premeditated,
like you said, and the fact that these were his parents and he
killed them so personally, like you said, it was a race. He
was just in a race, and it was just overkill. Yeah, overkill.
It wasn't done on impulse, and it was just done through hatred that
was brewing against the two people that tried to help him the most. Since
being in prison, Tyler has completed his ged and he scored a twenty one
hundred on the SAT. Oh he's smart. Yeah. Most of his days
reading books like Harry Potter and anything by James Patterson. I do like James
Patterson. Yeah, his books are really good. Tyler started meetings meeting with
a priest named Father Michael, who had encouraged Tyler to confess his sins to
God and repent to be able to be forgiven. In letters to his grandparent
parents, Tyler was torn up with guilt. He said he was depressed,
angry, confused, and delusional like when at the time of the crimes.
And he told him that he was planning to be ordained when he's released from
prison one day. I think that's gonna happen. That's going to happen either.
As for Michael, his friend that called crime Steppers, he said that
Tyler murdering his parents was the worst thing that he ever happened to him.
Oh yeah, I bet. I mean he was. He was really traumatized.
I mean yeah, you know, Plus he was like the star witness,
so he's like yeah, so he just you know, he relives it.
He says this caused him problems socially. He couldn't go to school without
people coming to him and asking him about it. You know, they all
wanted like the gory details from him. So Ryan Hatley, who was Tyler's
other brother, I even really talked about him. He was the older brother
that had moved out. He wrote a book about life after his parents were
murdered. He dove deep into the grief and how he survived. Ryan struggled
to forgive his brother. That be hard, yeah, and he's struggled to
maintain a relationship with him. And he has no family like his I mean,
he just has his brother and his parents are gone, right, Like
it's it's got to be hard. Since Tyler's resentencing in twenty fourteen, or
since his sentencing in twenty fourteen and his resentencing in twenty eighteen, Ryan occasionally
visits Tyler in prison. He's learned to live with the idea that two things
can be true at the same time, that he can be angry at his
brother for what he did while still loving my you know, and caring about
him. So I'm sure it's a real struggle. Like you said, I
it's a it's going to be some resentment. But yeah, you learn to
forgive, right, like I guess you have to. He's your brother.
I don't know that the only family, like you said of you, yea
to live with that hate and anger doesn't do any any good for me.
That's yeah, you have a point there, right, He's because he's got
to move on with his life, you know. And yeah, so that
is the really sad story about that is very sad the Hadley family. So
that makes me very very just happened for nothing. I hate these crimes that
are just like seemed to be for no reason. Not that anybody should be
murdered for a reason, and I just want to clarify that, but senseless,
like just like, yeah, Hitler, Hitler. Maybe yeah, you're
right, but you know, some of these I'm just like, why,
Like, was throwing the party that important apparently to seven times seventeen? Yeah,
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