Crime Fix with Angenette Levy - ‘I’m a Sociopath’: Florida Woman Admits To Stabbing Parents

Episode Date: June 26, 2025

Christina Adams is serving to life sentences after she stabbed her father, Richard "Smiley" Langer, to death and tried to kill her mother in 2023. Deputies in Marion County, Florida searched for Adams and found her in a car with her wife. Detectives questioned Adams and she eventually confessed. Law&Crime's Angenette Levy goes through the body camera and interrogation footage in this episode of Crime Fix — a daily show covering the biggest stories in crime.PLEASE SUPPORT THE SHOW: If you received Depo-Provera birth control shots and were later diagnosed with a brain or spinal tumor called meningioma, you may be eligible for a lawsuit. Visit https://forthepeople.com/lcdepo to start a claim now!Host:Angenette Levy  https://twitter.com/Angenette5Producer:Jordan ChaconCRIME FIX PRODUCTION:Head of Social Media, YouTube - Bobby SzokeSocial Media Management - Vanessa BeinVideo Editing - Daniel CamachoGuest Booking - Alyssa Fisher & Diane KayeSTAY UP-TO-DATE WITH THE LAW&CRIME NETWORK:Watch Law&Crime Network on YouTubeTV: https://bit.ly/3td2e3yWhere To Watch Law&Crime Network: https://bit.ly/3akxLK5Sign Up For Law&Crime's Daily Newsletter: https://bit.ly/LawandCrimeNewsletterRead Fascinating Articles From Law&Crime Network: https://bit.ly/3td2IqoLAW&CRIME NETWORK SOCIAL MEDIA:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lawandcrime/Twitter: https://twitter.com/LawCrimeNetworkFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/lawandcrimeTwitch: https://www.twitch.tv/lawandcrimenetworkTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lawandcrimeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Wondery Plus subscribers can binge all episodes of this law and crimes series ad free right now. Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app, Apple podcasts or Spotify. I'm a sociopath and I have a wild case of DID. That's Christina Adams talking about herself after deputies find her parents stabbed in their home in Florida and detectives confront her about her lies. camera footage and the interrogation. Welcome to Crime Fix. I'm Anjaneet Levy.

Christina Adams is going to be in prison for the rest of her life. She tried to kill both of her parents and she succeeded in killing her 74-year-old father, Richard Smiley Langer. But Smiley Langer, he lived long enough to tell deputies in Ocala, Florida, that his daughter, his own flesh and blood, attacked him with a knife and his wife. Christina tried to kill her mother, Sally, but thankfully she survived.

This all started on September 16th, 2022, when Marion County deputies hold over Christina Adams and her wife after receiving a 911 call from Christina's parents. Detectives scoured the property looking for Christina. 26. I know it's a long shot, but make sure that unit knows if they can get us any more information from the dad. He was still kind of alert when he left.

Eventually, they tracked down a car with two women inside. Shut the car off! Mary and SO2. Toss the keys out of the vehicle! There's two occupants in the vehicle. With your right hand open the door from the outside and keep your hands visible! With your right hand, open the door from the outside and keep your hands visible. With your right hand. Come out of the car and face away from me.

Back up. Back up. We have to see. Face away from me. Face away. Hands above your head. Step to your left. Step to your left.

Keep going. Keep going. Walk backwards. Walk back. Keep going. Keep going. Walk backwards. Walk back. Keep coming. Back. Back.

You got anything that's going to poke me, stick me, stab me, hurt me? There's two packs of cigarettes, or a pack of cigarettes, unopened in my lower cargo pocket. Okay. Nothing that's going to poke me, stick me, harm me? I don't think so, that's my wallet that you got. This is a law and crime legal alert. If you've received DepoProvera birth control shots

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Deputies loaded Christina Adams into the back of the cruiser and it doesn't take long for her to say something. I love you. I'm so sorry. I'm sorry. I don't know what the f*** is happening. Christina Adams is actually in the back of that cruiser for two hours. My left hand's going numb. Do you dip all day? I'm sorry? Do you dip all day? Ah, no, it's caffeine. It's uh, coffee. Doesn't look

like coffee. Coffee grounds. Nah. Yeah. You can't fool me, man. You can't fool me. I'm dying for a cigarette. Detectives take Christina Adams to the sheriff's office to question her. The deputy walks Christina into the building and they don't stop. She goes straight into the interrogation room. Your bra? Yes. Bring your feet forward, okay? Anything in your bra? No. Just boobs. Just boobs? Okay. Anything in your pockets?

I think they got everything. Okay. Oh, sorry. Okay. She, sorry. Hey, can I have a seat? She's good. Good. Hey, can I have a seat? Do I get these off or no?

No, not yet. Not yet, David. It's their show. Okay. At least put them in the front. I'll ask, but I'm gonna be honest with you, chances are probably not, but we'll see what we can do, okay?

Okay. Go ahead and have a seat. Like you mentioned, 10 inches forward. Okay, all right. Go ahead and have me. Okay. All right. Christina Adams is clearly uncomfortable. She's sitting handcuffed with her hands behind her back in one of those hard plastic chairs. She's there for a couple of minutes and then detectives come in and offer her some release.

Hi, you Christina? Yes. Christina, I'm Detective Pender with the Sheriff's Office. We're going to get your handcuffs moved up to the front real quick here. Alright, let's do that. And just to let you know, we're waiting on Detective Stith, okay? He's going to be the primary detective. He's coming down here now, so that's what we're going to hold in pattern until he gets here. And then, you know, we can talk some. So we'll try to get you a little bit more comfortable here.

Thank you so much. That's why I was trying to... This way. This feels so good. It's very cool. Okay. Christina, here's the water for you. And if you need anything, you know, like the bathroom, knock on the door. Okay, there's a deputy right outside

We'll be in as soon as we can. Thank you And so Christina Adams sits for more than an hour Her head is down for much of that time and then the detectives enter the room I'm detective sped I'm detective Ender. Yeah, I brought you that water earlier. You got your handcuffs sorted out. Thank you. Sorry to keep you in here. It's a little chilly in here. Yeah.

All right. Well, I'm trying to get some information about what happened this morning. So I'd like to talk to you. We've talked to a bunch of people. You know, we've been here for a while. So in the meantime, we haven't just been sitting around. We've been trying to put pieces together and get an idea of what happened this morning. Okay.

So I'd like to ask you some questions and get some information from you. The detectives get Christina's name and phone number, standard stuff, and they talk to her about how she lives in a studio apartment behind her parents' home with her wife and her wife's daughter. Then get this, Christina Adams says she was getting her degree a double major in equine physiology and business management. She has a prior criminal record, so she has trouble holding down a job. Her last one was at Dollar Tree. Then Detectives Spoon and Ender move into the important details about what happened that morning. I guess I'm trying to gather some information and obviously something happened today and I'm going to talk about that and I need your complete honesty, okay, because there's always two

sides to every story and a lot of times there's when we get one side we're like, oh yeah, that kind of makes sense, but then we go talk to the other parties involved and there's usually more to it than meets the eye with one party statement, right? And I'm sure you've been around long enough to know how that works as far as, you know, what person's going to say something that benefits them, but that's not always the truth. So, you know, your complete cooperation and your honesty is going to be very important in this, because we've done a lot of fact finding already and we know a lot of stuff. And I'll be honest with you is I'm gonna ask you some questions

I already know the answer to because I just met you I don't know you from anybody else right then the detectives get into what Christina did that morning or at least what she says she did I usually have an alarm either 5 or 545 okay and what did you do I got up fed my cats, and I watched some movies, played some games on my phone. I'm in the middle of learning a new language, a dual-lingual, I don't know if you've ever heard of it. Yeah, me and my wife are trying to learn to speak Valyrian from Game of Thrones. That's cool.

Yeah. So I did that. I fed the cats. I put in a loan of laundry and then I came back and sat at the house and we put out a movie. And then Brenda was dropping off Annabelle to school and she said that she had to get ICE and go to Publix. And so I wanted to see her and we usually, you know, she usually stays like Monday through Friday and then goes back to her mom's house for the weekend. And we haven't had that in a long time.

It's been like only like we can only see each other like for little bits and pieces during the day. Why so? day. Why is that? Because like one week, one of the weeks, it was very shortly ago, her mom really wanted her to come home earlier in the week and so she, and then she got stuck there and we had this whole thing. And so her mom wanted to stay there and you know And so everyone wanted to stay there and you know, just things kept getting, you know, put off, put off. So the next time that we were going to be achieving at my place was this coming Monday. Okay. And so this morning were you communicating with Brenda, like through text or Facebook

or Twitter or something? Yeah, messenger. Okay. And you made arrangements to go to Publix? Mm-hmm. That's where Yes, yes, much of it. Okay. And you made arrangements to go to Publix? Uh huh, that's where we met at Publix. Okay. And did she come over to the house and you guys went there together or how did you meet up? Everything's very blurry.

Why is that? Just because of everything that's happening. I'm on my way back to my place and I get pulled over and handcuffed and brought here. Yeah, that's a lot. It's pretty stressful. Okay, so she says she's going to go to Publix, or I racetrack to get ice in Publix. And then after she left and dropped the kid off, she was like, why not? I just come over there. And so she came over and I was in one of my depressions because, you know, my record plate

makes it very hard to get employed and all I really want to be is a productive member of society and have a job, you know, work Monday through Friday, 8 to 5, and come home to my wife and kid and it gets me down a lot like that I can't do that. So Brenda came over before Publix? Yes, before Publix? Yes, before Publix. Okay. And do you remember about what time that would have been? A little before eight. A little before eight?

Now, did she come inside? Yeah. Okay. Christina Adams describes how she met her wife Brenda at Publix and how they ended up in the same car together when they were stopped by deputies. Okay. Where's her car now? Publix. Okay.

So after you left Publix, what happened? You jumped in your car? Yeah, because I- You just left a melting bag of ice in there? I know, because we weren't planning to be gone long. I had to go to the airport. in your car together? Yeah, because... You just left a melting bag of ice in there? That's confusing. I know, like, because we weren't planning to be gone long. My house is not far from Publitz, and

I told her that I really wanted to switch my laundry before, you know, going over for a few hours and not have wet laundry sitting in the washer, because it starts to stink. So you got some laundry today? Yeah. Okay. Alright. And, um, in the washer and it starts to stink. So you got some laundry today? Yeah. Alright, and so you jumped in your car and then you were going to go where? Jumped in my car from where? From Publix. Yeah, I told you, I went, I told her I really wanted to go back to my place to switch homes and

said it wasn't sitting in the washer. Okay. And that's when the deputies pulled you over? Yes. And did they explain what happened? No. I don't know about you, but Christina Adams being so concerned about her laundry being in the washer at a house where her parents were brutally stabbed really gets my ears perked up. When did you do your laundry? Between five and six. Okay, you just threw it in the washer and you just you left it around eight but then you wanted to hurry to get back to it

to change it out, but between five and six you threw it in the washer and didn't throw it in the dryer before you left. I'm just trying to understand the time frame because the little details matter as far as the time frames to be able to tie everything together. Okay, oh yeah, I remember at this time I did that or this. So talking about the little things that you do

in the morning kind of helps jog your memory or remember better details of time. So is it one of the first things you did in the morning to do laundry? Yes, usually I get up and I do my valerian lesson, there's a chest that you can open like if you do a lesson between 6 p.m and noon or 6 p.m. And midnight and then that will open up between 6 a.m. And Okay, and so if you know you get to do it twice a day and you get twice as many experience points So that's usually when I do my Valerian is

After I you I wake up, eat something, feed my cats. So what were your plans when you came back from Publix when you were going head to head at home? What were you going to do then? Just switch to the laundry. Switch to the laundry? Go to her place. Well, go back to the car and then... Okay. All right. So when was the last time you saw your parents? We'll go back to the car. So when was the last time you saw your parents? I mean, we were supposed to...

It's been a few days. It's been a few days. So I might have misheard when he asked you about specifically how the washer and dryer setup was. Is it actually in the main house or is it a...? It's in the main house. Okay, so you'd have to go to the main house where your parents live. You didn't see them then or anything?

No. Christina Adams said she didn't see her parents that morning, but she said she spoke to her mom on the phone. And about what time was that? I really don't know. Okay. Was the sun up or down? I believe it was like the beginning of daylight. Sure. Okay. Was it a long conversation, short conversation?

Very short, like maybe a minute to. Describe to us what your mom said. I said good morning and she said hey good morning and yesterday there was a little bit of you know miscommunication. I was headed out and they were trying to get a hold of me. And I had groceries to get at Publix and Walmart. So I was on a little frazzle trying to leave the house. And they were saying, please call me, please call me. Well, my mom was. And so then she said, oh, good morning, finally. And I said, yeah, good morning, how are you?

And she said, good, how are you? I said, could you open the door so I can do some laundry? And she said, yeah, sure, go on over. And so I went over there and put my laundry in and I heard gun smoke on the TV. That's what she usually watches. And that was it. When she's watching gun smoke on TV, which is normal, what room is that that she's in? A living room.

Okay. Center of place. Okay. So you can hear that through the door. And when you did this load of wash it sounds like it might have been in there for a little bit I'm not sure what setting to use was it like a big load of wash what were you washing? Just some clothes, shorts, towels, I don't really sort laundry I just throw it all in.

So it's going to be shorts and towels that are in the washing machine? Did your mom cover and talk to you while you're washing the clothes? Did your dad call you or text you this morning? Did you hear him in the background whenever you were talking to your mom? No, but he usually goes on a morning walk. I assume so, no. More shortly before. Um, what else was in that laundry basket? Uh, bras, shirts, shorts, towels. Um, there was a pair of work clothes and, um, uh, some, uh, shoe covers. You said work gloves and shoe covers? Mm-hmm. Okay.

If I remember correctly though, you're not working right now though? No. Okay. When was all that? When were the work gloves? I was doing some cleaning over at Brenda's house and we were using bleach and I'm clumsy when it comes to bleach and so I always... Okay.

Maybe I missed that. When were you guys doing some cleaning? Yesterday. Okay. No. The detectives are not buying what Christina Adams is saying, and it's still very early on in the interview, but they are ready to confront her. Christina.

So many days going together, what? I don't want you to dig yourself into a deeper hole. When I came in here and asked you to get your side of the story, it's because I think there's more to this story than what I have so far. But I'll be honest with you, I've talked to your parents okay I've talked to other people we're in the process of getting a search warrant for the house for your vehicle for phones and there's things that we're going to find that are going to contradict what you're telling me because I don't believe what you're

telling me okay and I want you to give yourself the opportunity to be honest because there has to be more side of the story. And what I want you to do is to give me some understanding that you're not this cold-blooded person that would do things to their parents without a good reason. There has to be more to it. Now you've told me you've been in a depression. I've talked to your wife. She said you've been going through some things as well, frustrated with school and with work and the way things are. you want to be independent? But unfortunately sometimes we have to rely on our parents and that can cause stress between you know kids and their parents and for them as well

So something happened this morning, which you have been not even interested in knowing about you Haven't asked me once about what happened your wife has been more interested about what happened and that tells me you already know What happened? I've been listening to all these stories happened. Your wife has been more interested about what happened. And that tells me you already know what happened. No, wife. I think that's what it was. Let's stop now. Hold on. Hold on. Let's just skip the part where you do that, okay? Because I wouldn't come in here and give you this opportunity if I didn't think there was more to the story, okay? I don't think you're that person that's cold-blooded that's gonna do this and that you would just harm somebody of your family if there wasn't more going on.

I don't know if there's issues where you're going through more severe depression than what you're letting on and you're not letting your family members in on this and something triggered you, but you've gotta be honest with yourself right now. You've got to be honest with us because at the end of the day, when all our investigation is complete, you're either going to be the person who was honest

and took responsibility and told us what's going on that would cause somebody to do something out of their character like this, or you're going to be the person that's going to be looked at as a liar and a cold-blooded person that would harm their parents. Now, earlier in the conversation, Christina had told the detectives that she had trouble getting a job. She's 33 and she's living in an apartment on her parents' property. She's the youngest of nine children. There's a lot going on here.

So you think I hurt my parents? Christina, I've gathered from the people I've talked to, I've gathered that you and your parents have been coming almost like two and a half as far as them wanting you to move on with your life and take some responsibility. Responsibility. As far as, you know, they've helped you out in the past, right? That's what they want to call it. But that's what I'm saying.

There's two sides to every story, right? You're either a person who got into a situation with family, and we all know how families can get, and you did something out of emotion, raw emotion, or you're a cold-blooded person who harmed your parents and planned this. And I don't think that's the type of person you are. What is going to happen? Like, path A or path B? I need to know your side of the story.

I can't answer that without knowing if there's more to it than what I've been told so far, right? Exactly. Detectives then try to see whether Christina Adams had help in trying to kill her parents specifically from her wife. So, did Brenda have anything to do with this? No. Did she in any way try to cover this up? No. parents specifically from her wife. something was off and that's why she's, you know, trying to just like her best efforts cover my ass. Yeah. But she had no idea. No, no. Later in the conversation, detectives tell Christina they need to know what happened that morning. That's what they want to know. I know it's really difficult to talk about some of the stuff that we need to talk about

but I just want you to do the best you can don't leave anything out and just tell us how this happened today I'm a sociopath and I have a wild case of DID and under extreme stress and emotion. forces control the actions. Your emotions got the best of you today? Like, I... I tried to escape my dad, you know, my take responsibility for the mistakes that I've made. You know, the criminal and whatever. And, you know, for some reason, somebody out there a long time ago said that seven years was the statute

of limitations of how long it has to be from the time you get released from jail or prison until it doesn't matter anymore. I said, why seven years? That's ridiculous! ridiculous. And you know, he wanted me to move so that another one of my brothers who has a job, who has income, can stay there. And I just, what, can't go the fuck out. So they didn't even care where you were at this point? They just wanted you to go home? They just wanted me to go home. Did you tell them you'd be home once? Yeah. I told them I have no money. I have no way to get a job to support myself.

And I asked him to help me and he said it's not my problem. I told him about all this stuff that I just told you about everything that went through my life. Almost being raped, almost being sold for crack I was being jumped by six black people for over a dime of crack because David just locked the doors, didn't help me at all, just watched me get my ass kicked. What did he say to that when you told him about all those things? He said it's not my problem. Was your mom there? Were you able to tell her those things? What did he say to that when you told him about all those things? He said it's not my problem.

Was your mom there? Were you able to tell her those things? What did she say? I mean, she had this look of, you know, that she was sad for me, but it wasn't like, you know, I think that they understood or that they were going to help or anything. When did this conversation happen? The beginning of August. The beginning of August. So did they give you like a deadline of when they wanted you to move out? Or it was just kind of days like that? At first it was like when they first dropped the bomb at me

you know, my dad he just walked up, he didn't say hey are you busy? can we talk? or you know, how you doing? nothing like that it's always, you know, just oh, I need to be out of the house in six weeks just so

life ain't fair was this morning that six weeks? What, what? Oh, this, that was, that was, June or July. Okay. Because I've been trying to have a dialogue with them. Christina Adams then opened up about what happened. I called her and asked her about the laundry.

Okay. You know, and she's like, I think Dad wanted to talk to you, you know, yesterday or something. And I said, okay, well, come over and do an injury. And she opened the door. We hugged up and she opened the door. And she was, in front of the door. And she opened the door. And she was on the couch, watching the unspoken question. And my dad was out on his walk, so... And... And... Last night...

Um... When I got home from my grocery shopping... Um... I noticed that the lock on my front door, which is the back door, really, the lock was not in the right spot. And I noticed that the thermostat has changed and that there's a note under my door telling my dad, saying, thanks for being an adult and talking to me, not... and it was just a miscommunication.

Because I don't really, I'm not attached to my phone with all these millennials. I use it for what I need to use it, but I'm not like glued to it. And then he said, you need to be out by the door. So he let you know in a note? Or that was during the conversation? No, no. Okay. Yeah. So you were talking to your mom,

but you said your dad was still on his walk? Yeah. Okay. And he came home, you know, I told him what happened, that I was really busy yesterday, and I didn't, you know, be, you know, ignore him, it wasn't on purpose, it was just I was trying to get stuff done, and it just went the way it did, and then I'm sorry. And then, you know, and then I don't really remember what happened after that. It's like a blackish, reddish mixture.

Now remember, earlier Christina Adams told detectives that she's a sociopath and has DID, that's dissociative identity disorder, which has also been called multiple personality disorder. So the detective asked her to describe basically what her other personality saw her do that morning. What do you see? I know I was like still in my, my, my, my, um, basketball shorts and t-shirt, like what I would over there to do laundry but then

i don't know like it's like i was covered from you know the deck down i don't want to guess, what were you covered in? Um, clothes. Okay. Wait, gloves? There are gloves. Okay. Where did the gloves come from? My house. Did you have them before you had the conversation?

I don't think so. I was like... I was... When I put the laundry in, before my dad came home from his walk, before we talked, I was in like a t-shirt shorts. Yeah.

And then... And then, like, there was... I don't know if I went back and changed. I guess I did. I put on long dark pants, jacket, the gloves. Are those items there in the washer? It's long dark pants, a jacket and gloves. You put those on. And then what happened after you put on those clothes? I went over and my dad was on the computer.

Like in the computer room with his computer chair. I just came up on my own. I heard him. Describe this how you hurt him. I stabbed him. A knife. I had one for self defense. In the apartment. In the apartment? You got it from your apartment? When we go and look for the knife, describe to us what color it is and how big it is.

It's like, like it's just like total. Does it have a color handle? Um, I believe it's black. Okay. And when you heard him and you stabbed him, where do you think the first place it was that he got hurt and stabbed at? Left arm. His left arm? Okay.

I know it's hard. Tell us what happened after that. He's sitting at his computer, right? Was it back to you? Yes. Okay. I feel like I think I'm shocked with my strength. I feel like I I think I like... Shocked him with my... It's another self-defense thing that I carry. A taser.

A little hand-held taser. A hand-held taser. And it's like wood. And then he gets all shocked and turns around and then I tap him. Did you shock him first before the left arm? Yeah. Before. Okay.

Okay. And then what happened? Take a deep breath. I can't remember where the next one landed at. You say it turned towards you at that point? Yeah, after the shock. I don't know where it happened next. But I think it was like two of my dad's. One of my brothers was at the last one of my dad's, one of my dad's.

I'm sorry, what? Two stabs. Two stabs to your dad, and then you said one to your mom? Yeah. Describe to us the transition from your dad to your mom. Your dad's over by the computer, we already talked about that. How did you get over to your mom? She heard the commotion she came over and she said

what are you doing? I don't know what... What part of her body did you stab? You're pointing at the middle of the chisel? Did you use the tazer on her at all? That was just more out of reaction and you were scared of what had just happened? I'm sorry? Was that more about a reaction, what happened with your mom? Just she coming in and realizing what had happened and you got scared? Yeah. Tell us how you went back to your dad for another stab.

He got mad. I had my mom. He started calling. And he was... Then he got up. And I got him as well here. I... I... I... I got up and I got this as well here. In the chest?

Yeah. And you're pointing to the middle of the chest? Yeah. When you last saw your dad on the couch, did you think he was still alive? No. When you last saw your mom, did you think she was going to die? So you thought they were both dead? I didn't realize what happened.

That's what I did. What happened after you realized what you did? I still don't know. Jurors in Marion County, Florida, found Christina Adams guilty of the premeditated murder of her father this past April and the attempted murder of her mother. She was sentenced to life in prison and she's serving her time in a Florida prison right now. And that's it for this episode of Crime Fix.

I'm Ann Jeanette Levy. Thanks so much for being with me. I'll see you back here next time.