A Florida mother posted lyrics from Taylor Swift’s song ‘It’s Time to Go,’ on an eerie final message before she was stabbed to death during an altercation with her teen son.
A Florida mother who police say was fatally stabbed by her 17-year-old son on Sunday posted lyrics online taken from Taylor Swift’s song ‘It’s Time to Go’ in a haunting final message just hours before she was killed. Catherine Griffith, 39, uploaded an image of a remote footbridge leading into a forest captioned with the lyrics to the song the day before she was killed in the vicious knife attack in Auburndale.
That’s when Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said at a Wednesday press conference that the 17-year-old ‘stabbed his mother in the neck so hard that the knife went all the way through.’ Judd went on to label the teen as a ‘psychopath.’ The teen told police that he and his mother had gotten into a physical fight and that she fell on the knife. The teen has been charged with first-degree murder, kidnapping, and violation of a no-contact order.
Judd said that as investigators started ‘to peel back the layer of this onion,’ they ‘ out that this is not just a singular event.’ Last year, the teen’s father also died by his hand. ‘On Feb. 14, 2023, Valentine’s Day, in Lincoln County, Oklahoma, said his dad pulled a knife on him, and he shot and killed his dad,’ Judd said. ‘He shot him once in the chest and once in the head, and he claimed self-defense.
When you look at this, you see a kid,’ Judd said. ‘When I look at him, I see a psychopath. I see totally erratic behavior to the point that he’s already, at 17 years of age, shot and killed his father and got away with it and stabbed his mother in the neck so hard that the knife went all the way through.