text: Tyler Hadley, Florida teen accused of killing parents with hammer, tells friend he was on ecstasy 
   
   Port St. Lucie Police Tyler Hadley, 17, of Port St. Lucie, Fla. is accused of killing his parents with a hammer. 
   
   The Florida teen accused of brutally beating his parents to death with a hammer before throwing a house party confessed the grisly secret to his best friend, insisting he was possessed by the devil and had taken three ecstasy pills before the murders. 
   
   Tyler Hadley, 17, allegedly told Michael Mandell to stay at the party until everyone left to see his parents' bodies, which police say he stashed in a bedroom. 
   
   "I didn't want to," recounted Mandell to WPTV. "I opened the door. I saw bloody sheets piled everywhere. I saw broken pictures with blood on them, and I looked down and I saw his dad's leg there." 
   
   Hadley, of Port St. Lucie, is accused of bashing his parents' heads in Saturday afternoon before sending out a massive Facebook invite to his house. About 40 to 60 people showed up later that night, partying until early Sunday morning. 
   
   "It was a normal party," Mandell said. "Everyone was just having a fun time. Laughing around. Tyler was having a fun time himself, he was acting like nothing had happened." 
   
   The teen's parents, Blake and Mary Jo Hadley. (WPFB-TV) 
   
   Mandell, also 17, said Hadley admitted that he had taken the ecstasy pills, thought "the devil possessed him" and planned on committing suicide. 
   
   He also said the Hadleys were having financial problems and that the teen frequently fought with his parents. 
   
   Hours after the revelers left, police received an anonymous tip and found the bodies of Mary Jo Hadley, 47, and Blake Hadley, 54. A 22-inch framing hammer was found between them. Authorities said the teen attempted to cover the cadavers in books and towels. 
   
   Hadley, who is on suicide watch, made his first appearance in court Tuesday. He was charged with second-degree murder and denied bail. 
   
   Assistant State Attorney Tom Bakkehdal said the prosecution would argue for life in prison. Hadley, who is six months short of his 18th birthday, is not eligible for the death penalty. 
   
   With News Wire Services ||||| The teenager who allegedly used a claw hammer to bludgeon his parents to death twice confided in his best friend that he intended to kill them, but the friend dismissed the comments because the teen had made such threats before, according a police affidavit released today. 
   
   The suspect also told a friend that he attacked his parents, Mary Jo and Blake Hadley, after taking a large dose of the drug ecstasy. 
   
   Details of the double murder emerged as Tyler Hadley's attorney Mark Harllee filed a not guilty plea. Hadley is currently being held at the Port Lucie County jail in Florida. 
   
   Hadley has confessed to killing his parents, police said. He then threw a boozy party for about 60 friends while the bodies of his parents laid in a locked bedroom. 
   
   During the party, Hadley pulled his best friend Michael Mandell aside and told him that he killed his mother and father. 
   
   The Police Affidavit on the Arrest of Tyler Hadley for the Hammer Murder of His Parents 
   
   When Mandell didn't believe Hadley, "Tyler pointed out both his parent's vehicles were still in the driveway," according to the affidavit. 
   
   He wasn't convinced until Hadley took Mandell to the master bedroom where Mandell saw a man's leg and recognized Blake Hadley's shorts. 
   
   Hadley told his friend, who he has known since they were 8, that "he stood behind his mother while she was at the computer and thought about killing her for about five minutes. Then he decided to strike his mother in the back of the head with a hammer." 
   
   After the initial blows, Hadley said that his mother turned to him and asked, "Why?" 
   
   Hadley's father came out of the bedroom when he heard his wife scream. 
   
   "Tyler told MM [Mandell] that he and his father stared into each other's eyes for a minute. Tyler said he then went after his father and murdered him," the affidavit states. 
   
   Mandell said Hadley took his parents' cell phones and put them in his bedroom so that they couldn't get to them and took one of their credit cards, so he would have access to their money. 
   
   It took the teenager about three hours to mop up the blood, he allegedly told Mandell, before his friends arrived for the party. 
   
   According to the affidavit Mandell told police Hadley was going to take 10 Percocet pills and kill himself, but the police showed up instead. 
   
   It was Mandell who called police to alert them to the murders. When they arrived at the home they found Hadley glassy eyed and talkative. When the boy said they couldn't come in, the police entered anyway on the possibility that someone inside could be in danger. 
   
   The officers found the parents' bodies in a locked bedroom beneath furniture that had been piled into there from other rooms in the house, the affidavit said. 
   
   Mandell told television station WPTV that Hadley had taken three ecstasy pills and didn't believe his friend's confession until he saw the father's body. 
   
   "After he told me I didn't believe him, because he's been my best friend forever I would never suspect anything like this," he told the station. 
   
   Mandell's mother, Michele Mandell, told ABCNews.com that she had known Hadley for nearly a decade. Tyler Hadley, she said, was a "great kid." 
   
   Dr. Julie Holland, an assistant professor of psychiatry at New York University who has studied ecstasy, said, "It is absolutely not known to cause violent reactions." 
   
   The tablets Hadley allegedly took may have been sold as ecstasy, Holland said, but could have been anything.
target: – The Florida teen accused of killing his parents with a hammer before throwing a party told his best friend that he was possessed by the devil and had taken three ecstasy pills before the murder. The friend says Tyler Hadley, 17, confessed to the killings and showed him the bodies after the last guests had left, the New York Daily News reports. "I opened the door," says the friend. "I saw bloody sheets piled everywhere. I looked down and I saw his dad's leg there." The friend tipped off police, who found the bodies in the home's master bedroom under a pile of furniture. Ecstasy doesn't usually cause violent reactions, but the teen "could have been having a first episode psychotic break that was made worse or triggered" by a large dose of the drug, a neuropharmacologist tells ABC. The friend also told police that Hadley's plan was to commit suicide by taking 10 Percocet pills "once he got caught, but that failed." Hadley, who is on suicide watch in jail, has been charged with second-degree murder. His attorney entered a not guilty plea on his behalf yesterday.