Two newlyweds were each handed a life sentence Thursday for luring a stranger to his death via a Craigslist advertisement.

The Pennsylvania federal judge who sentenced Miranda Barbour, 19, and Elytte Barbour, 22, said the sentence, which prohibits parole, was necessary for their "permanent removal" from society.

The pair killed Troy LaFerrara, 42, of Central Pennsylvania in a scene local media described as right out of a horror movie.

As The Daily Item explained it, "To avoid a death-penalty trial, the Barbours last month pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the stabbing of LaFerrara, who was strangled with a cord, suffered at least 20 knife wounds and whose body was dumped in a city alley as part of a thrill kill."

The victim, a stranger to the Barbours, responded to a female companionship offering on Craigslist. The woman picked up the man at a shopping mall while her husband hid in the back seat under a blanket. Once the car stopped, the husband jumped from the back seat and began strangling LaFerrara while the woman repeatedly stabbed him.

Police said Elytte Barbour claimed they killed LaFerrara because they wanted to commit a murder together. Miranda Barbour claimed she has killed nearly two dozen others in three states as a member of a satanic cult, a claim police have not substantiated.

"Poor Mr. LaFerrara had no idea what was about to happen simply by a Craigslist posting," Northumberland County Judge Charles Saylor said during sentencing.