Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast - He Killed His Parents (and then threw a party) // The Tyler Hadley Story

Episode Date: September 12, 2026

In 2011, Tyler Hadley murdered his parents, Blake and Mary Jo Hadley, inside their Port St. Lucie, Florida home. After spending hours cleaning up the crime scene and locking their bodies in the master bedroom, Hadley posted an invitation on FB hosting a massive, house party that same night.

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While others follow the noise, we follow the money. Learn more at Bloomberg.com. This entitled teenager wants to throw a house party real bad, even if he has to murder someone to do it. Now the kid's name is Tyler and Tyler is 17 living in Port Lucy, Florida, and Tyler is kind of terrible. He's got a lot of behavioral issues and one night in 2011 he's at a friend's house and he and this friend get into an argument over something and boom, Tyler attacks the friend and a fight breaks out and Tyler beat. And Tyler beats this kid up real bad, so bad that someone calls the police, and so, bam, Tyler gets arrested and he gets sentenced to a week in county jail. After he gets out, he's on house arrest, but he doesn't seem to care.

He keeps going out and he keeps getting high all the time. And one night, he goes out and he gets drunk. And when he returns home, his parents are really upset with him. And they've had enough of his shenanigans. So they take his cell phone away and his car keys. And they want Tyler to get into a treatment program. And this pisses him off real bad. Tyler doesn't want to get into a treatment program.

No, no, no, nothing like that. Instead, his focus is on throwing a big house party. He thinks that if he throws this big house party and he invites everyone from his high school and anyone he knows, all the kids will show up and suddenly he'll, be seen as cool and popular. Now obviously his parents aren't going to let him throw a party. That's crazy. So Tyler decides that he's going to murder his parents so that he can throw this party. In fact, he wants to kill them and then throw the party while their bodies are still in the house. And he thinks

this is an amazing idea because it's never been done before. And the thing is, he doesn't keep this idea to himself. For weeks, he pitches it to several different friends, one after another, like, nobody has ever murdered their parents and then thrown a party with the bodies in the house before. Anyway, then the day finally comes, the day he's ready to put his plan into motion. So he gets on Facebook, and he makes a post letting everyone know, party at my crib tonight, maybe. And his mom is home, and his dad is home, and they're both a lot. doing normal Saturday stuff, while Tyler is over here posting the invitation to a party that he can only throw if they're dead. Anyway, after he makes the post, he gets his parents' phones, and he hides

them so that when he attacks them, they won't be able to call anyone for help. Then he blasts some little boosy music to psych himself up. Now, he realizes he can't pull off this murder, sober. He's going to need to take some substances to give himself the courage. So he takes three pills of Molly. And once that starts kicking in, I guess he feels better and he walks into the garage to look for the murder weapon that he's going to use. And there he finds a claw hammer. Then he goes back in the house and he goes to where his mom is sitting at the family computer. And here he kind of just stands behind her holding the claw hammer.

And mom is just typing away at her keyboard completely unaware that he's there. and five whole minutes go by. And he's still standing there like a creep. Then he raises the claw end of the hammer, and pow! He hits her with it. Now his dad is in the other room, and he hears the commotion, and he comes running into the room, and pow! Tyler hits him with the hammer too.

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Afterwards, Tyler drags both of their bodies into the master bedroom, and he leaves them there, and he closes the door. Now, here's where it gets even more morbid. Tyler is still determined to have this party. But he can't with his house in this condition. I mean, there's blood everywhere. So he goes to the bathroom to clean himself up. Once he's in there, he passes by the mirror, and he sees his own reflection. And he looks at himself, and he just laughs like, ha ha ha ha ha, all maniacal.

Then, after he cleans himself up, he gets some cleaning supplies and a mop, and he starts scrubbing the area down. and he scrubs the floors and the walls and all of it. And he cleans for three hours. And at this point, the place is mostly clean. I mean, there are still some stains, but he needs to move on because, you know, he's ready to start this party. So he goes and he gets back on Facebook

and he posts, party at my house, hit me up. And he still doesn't have his cell phone because, you know, his parents took it away from him and they hit it. But he has his dad's phone. So he starts texting people from his dad's phone. giving them information about the party, giving them directions to the house and whatnot. Then he steals his dad's credit card and debit cards and he goes out shopping and he hits up an ATM and he takes out a bunch of cash and he uses it to hit up a few stores and buy party supplies.

You know like alcohol and cigars and other stuff. Anyway, a few hours later, the first group of people show up to his house. Then more people show up, then even more people show up. until there's around 60 to 70 people at his house. And his house isn't that big, so this place is packed now. And Tyler, he's not a popular or even well-liked guy, so most of these kids don't even know him personally. They just heard about an open invite party and they wanted to come.

So now he's got a bunch of strangers all over his house, people sprawled across the couches and playing beer pong on the dining room table, hanging around outside, throwing empty cans onto the lawn. While just down the hall, Tyler's parents are lying dead in the master bedroom with the door locked. And people notice, like they notice he's throwing this big house party in his parents' house, and they ask him, hey, where are your parents at? And everyone who asks him, he gives each of them a different answer. Like he tells one kid they went to Georgia, he tells another kid that they're in Orlando,

and he even tells another person, they don't even live here. This is my house. And so by midnight, people are still there partying and the house is completely trashed. And Tyler, he's just chilling. Sometimes he's calm.

Sometimes he's acting really nervous. Sometimes he's standing awkwardly by the wall next to his mom's computer, where she died, not really talking to anyone. And people notice, but they just assume that he's really high. Now, at one point,

he pulls a friend aside and he starts venting. And he admits like, hey man, I killed my parents. And the guy kind of goes, uh, that ain't none of my business, bro. Then a little later, he and a different friend are outside talking. That friend is this guy, Mandel. And so Tyler and Mendel are outside talking. And again, Tyler confesses that he killed his parents. And Mandel thinks that he's completely bullshitting.

He's like, no, bro, you didn't do that. So Tyler points at his parents' cars that are still parked in the driveway. And if his parents are supposedly gone, why are both their cars still at the house? Then he takes him and shows him a bloody shoe print in the garage. And finally, Tyler brings him into the master bedroom and he shows him his parents' bodies. And I'm sure Mandel's like, oh my God! However, he doesn't leave the party. Instead, he kind of just sticks around for like 45 more minutes.

and he plays it cool. He even takes a few selfies with Tyler. Here's actually one of them. But at some point in the night, Mandel has left and he's at home. And he calls the anonymous crime stoppers hotline and he reports Tyler. Then around 4 a.m., most people have left, but, you know, there's still some people there having a good time. But by this point, police have shown up. And they knock on Tyler's door. And when he goes to answer, bam, he gets a arrested. Here's his mugshot. And so ultimately, he's charged with his parents' murder, and he pleads no contest, and he gets sentenced to life. Where some see heroes and others see egos. Bloomberg sees the era of billionaire athletes.

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