Shortly before 5:00 p.m. on the evening of July 16, 2011, Tyler took three pills of ecstasy and then stood behind his mother, Mary-Jo, as she worked on her computer in the family room.
He funded the party with his dead parents' credit cards (he was spotted by an ATM when his photo was taken as he pulled cash out of the accounts) and then picked up some friends.
Four hours later, Mandell left the party and called a local crime hotline to report the murders.
Tyler had participated in drug use, sales, and purchases and had been criminally detained for arson, vandalism, thefts, aggravated battery, and then murder (there was also a $15,000 civil suit pending after Tyler had hit and injured a child while driving his father's car in June 2010).
Knowing he would soon turn 18, and desperate to get him help, his parents had recently found an inpatient treatment program for him.
[5] While in jail awaiting sentencing, Tyler had spent his time signing autographs for fellow inmates.
[6] Miller v. Alabama had just recently been handed down by the Supreme Court which changed how juvenile murderers were to be treated within the judicial system.
In December 2018, Hadley was resentenced to life in prison, but this time the judicial review mechanism was properly put into place.