Who Is Brandi Worley and What Did She Do?

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“She Hid the Knife in a Toybox” is an episode of Evil Lives Here that will be aired on ID on Sunday, March 3, 2024, at 9 p.m. ET. It delves into the fatal stabbing of Tyler and Charlee Worley by their mother Brandi Worley on November 17, 2016, after which Brandi called 911 and confessed to the stabbing of her children and herself. The murder trial was reportedly the first one in Montgomery County in nearly 6 years.

Brandi Worley was a 30-year-old Central Indiana woman and a mother of two when she stabbed and killed her 7-year-old son Tyler and her 3-year-old daughter Charlee in November 2016. She then stabbed herself and called 911 to inform them that she had stabbed her children in their Darlington home. She claimed that her husband Jason Worley was asleep in the basement then and that her mother was already on the way to the house, according to CBS News.

Her husband Jason Worley reportedly filed for divorce a few hours before the murders. Brandi Worley claimed she killed her children to make sure her husband wouldn’t take them away from her. She also stabbed herself in the neck. The children’s autopsies revealed that the cause of death for both of them was stab wounds in the neck, according to AP News. Worley used a combat knife which was found at the crime scene when authorities arrived.

Jason Worley reportedly woke up to the sound of Brandi’s mother screaming. He entered the crime scene to find his children dead. After authorities arrived, Brandi Worley was taken to the IU Health Methodist Hospital where she received treatment for the stab wounds on her neck.

What was Brandi Worley convicted of?

Brandi Worley remained hospitalized for days before she was taken to the Montgomery County Jail to await her trial. She then pleaded guilty to two counts of murder and was sentenced to 120 years in prison. 65 years for one murder and 55 years for another. She confessed to fatally stabbing both her children to keep her husband from taking them away after the separation. She had already been in jail for 476 days after the crime until her sentencing. This caused the court to subtract that from her total sentence, Fox 59 reported.

Initially, in November 2016, Brandi Worley entered a not-guilty plea and was expected to raise it because of insanity. However, in January 2018, she confessed to the crime in court and pleaded guilty while her attorney claimed there was no real explanation for what Brandi had done. The crime occurred around 4 a.m. on November 17, 2016. She was jailed at the Montgomery County Jail in Crawfordsville, Casteel until her sentencing.

Meanwhile, Jason Worley reportedly took to social media to express his resentment over not being able to protect his children. He claimed he had found out that Brandi Worley cheated on him multiple times. He reportedly remained in the marriage only for the children, according to the Mirror. Jason was a software engineer and the couple had been married for 8 years before he asked for a divorce only hours before Brandi fatally stabbed their children.

“She Hid the Knife in a Toybox” will be aired on ID on Sunday, March 3, 2024, at 9 p.m. ET.