Ep 19: Tyler Hadley, Part 1 — He Killed His Parents With a Hammer, Then Threw a Party | Port St. Lucie 2011 | Florida True Crime

It's mid-July 2011 in Port St. Lucie, Florida. Sixty teenagers are packed into a house on Grandeur Avenue — red solo cups, warm beer, music thumping through the walls. The host is 17-year-old Tyler Hadley, and the party is everything he always wanted.His parents, Blake and Mary Jo Hadley, are in the master bedroom down the hall. Behind the locked door, underneath a pile of blood-soaked towels, is why they aren't coming out.Tyler had killed them both with a framing hammer hours earlier. Then he cleaned up, hid the bodies, and sent out the invites.Shawnee traces the story from the beginning: the suburb that promised more than it delivered, Tyler's diagnosis with Major Depressive Disorder, a cocktail of benzos, opioids and MDMA, a family trying to hold itself together, and the psychology of a teenager who felt, as he once put it, a step below everyone else.This is not a story about a monster. It's about how someone gets there — and what everyone around him missed.⚠️ Content warning: murder of parents, drug use, teen violence, graphic crime scene detail.Tyler Hadley | Port St. Lucie | Florida true crime | parricide | house party murder | Blake Hadley | Mary Jo Hadley | teen killer | hammer murder | 2011 murder | MDD | true crime podcast | You're Killing Me