FL FL - Miranda Corsette, 16, killed, tortured & dismembered aftr meeting man on dating app, St. Pete, late Feb '25 *arrest* *active search*

Just omg that poor girl . This is sad and scarey
Yes, indeed.
Seems to me that Miranda had a tuff life all-around, and she was only 16 y/o.
A sweet-looking teen is gone, and someone will have to take care of her baby. Just SMH for her and for those who loved her.
Just too sad. Now she will be at peace.<sigh>
 
Wow. This is right where I grew up and where my mom grew up as a kid.

Gulfport had a bad drug problem when I had friends living there, doesn’t seem to have changed.

I’m seeing a lot of immediate blame being thrown her grandmother’s way; I think it’s important people remember that expecting a grandmother to be on top of her granddaughter’s social media is a bit unrealistic IMO. My mother is 58 and struggles with very basic functions of her phone, to the point where she’ll have to ask me or my sister for help sometimes.

Miranda had substance abuse issues and was a repeat runaway, IDT it’s unreasonable to assume Grandma was overwhelmed…it’s hard to know where to start when someone you love has so much occurring at once. It’s really a game of whack-a-mole when you’re trying to help someone that’s at that level of crisis. These issues have a way of overlapping and becoming inextricable from one another as time goes on.

I have had several partners and friends die from addiction, one in St.Pete from a fatal fentanyl overdose. The party scene in St.Pete was pretty unforgiving in my 20s, aside from the clubs, bars and beaches, there is a very large undercurrent of large dirty house parties that occur frequently (against my better judgement I attended too many to count, I’ll admit). It easy to get sucked in because the locale is abundant with lowlifes like these two that killed Miranda.

I pray her body is found ASAP. Her poor 11 month old baby 💔

Congratulations on surviving all of that.

As for Grandma, my heart breaks for her. Apparently she lost a child, and now that child's daughter.

I'm not sure what people expected her to do. She says it was normal for the girl to be gone for a few days. Imagine the response if she called the police every time she ran away.

How was she supposed to control her?

And the victim, losing both parents, so young. And then her own life, in such a horrid way.


IMO
 
While the purpose of the affidavit, authored by a St. Petersburg police detective, is to get a judge’s permission to search Gress’ mother’s phone, its 25 pages paint the most detailed portrait yet of a horrifying murder case.

“This little 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 stole my ring and won’t give it back,” Gress told one neighbor who saw Miranda. “So I’ve been beating her 🤬🤬🤬.”

“Good people don’t want to know bad things,” she told him, the affidavit states.

“The case is still open and there’s a pretty good likelihood of more (charges) to come,” Pinellas-Pasco State Attorney Bruce Bartlett said. The six days of torture and “calculated killing” made the murder one of the most disturbing he’s seen.

“People like that should be eliminated from society,” Bartlett said. “They have a tool for that, and that’s called the death penalty.”
 
While the purpose of the affidavit, authored by a St. Petersburg police detective, is to get a judge’s permission to search Gress’ mother’s phone, its 25 pages paint the most detailed portrait yet of a horrifying murder case.

“This little 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 stole my ring and won’t give it back,” Gress told one neighbor who saw Miranda. “So I’ve been beating her 🤬🤬🤬.”

“Good people don’t want to know bad things,” she told him, the affidavit states.

“The case is still open and there’s a pretty good likelihood of more (charges) to come,” Pinellas-Pasco State Attorney Bruce Bartlett said. The six days of torture and “calculated killing” made the murder one of the most disturbing he’s seen.

“People like that should be eliminated from society,” Bartlett said. “They have a tool for that, and that’s called the death penalty.”
A billiard ball... That's horrible. I swear I wonder if they're are actually human. Imo
 
Wow. This is right where I grew up and where my mom grew up as a kid.

Gulfport had a bad drug problem when I had friends living there, doesn’t seem to have changed.

I’m seeing a lot of immediate blame being thrown her grandmother’s way; I think it’s important people remember that expecting a grandmother to be on top of her granddaughter’s social media is a bit unrealistic IMO. My mother is 58 and struggles with very basic functions of her phone, to the point where she’ll have to ask me or my sister for help sometimes.

Miranda had substance abuse issues and was a repeat runaway, IDT it’s unreasonable to assume Grandma was overwhelmed…it’s hard to know where to start when someone you love has so much occurring at once. It’s really a game of whack-a-mole when you’re trying to help someone that’s at that level of crisis. These issues have a way of overlapping and becoming inextricable from one another as time goes on.

I have had several partners and friends die from addiction, one in St.Pete from a fatal fentanyl overdose. The party scene in St.Pete was pretty unforgiving in my 20s, aside from the clubs, bars and beaches, there is a very large undercurrent of large dirty house parties that occur frequently (against my better judgement I attended too many to count, I’ll admit). It easy to get sucked in because the locale is abundant with lowlifes like these two that killed Miranda.

I pray her body is found ASAP. Her poor 11 month old baby 💔
Increasingly, grandparents are being asked to be carers, full or part time, for grandchildren. Folks: YOU are responsible for the care of your own children. If you leave them in the care of your parent(s), you'd better be 99.9% sure that they are 100% capable to do it. There is a reason people in their 50's aren't in childbearing years anymore: They are old. However way you slice it. Some may be more capable than others, but many are not.

This reminds me of another case discussed on this website, in which I just had to bow out of the conversation, about a woman who left her baby with her mother. The baby died after having gotten into a swimming pool. Then, the woman left another baby with her mother, and that baby died after being inadvertently left in a vehicle. Now, the grandmother of the babies is being charged with MURDER, and most folks on the thread are totally for it. Somehow, the woman who left her baby with an older person with a swimming pool, doesn't have responsibility. She doesn't even bear responsibility for leaving her with that same older woman who'd been unable to watch the first baby.

Life after 50 can change dramatically for people. Some are quite capable and cognizant for many years; others, not so. It's part of life. It's easy to say "she should have known she didn't have the capability to watch a baby/raise a teenager, etc.". Not so. One of the first things to decline as we get older is judgement, not to mention the fact that a grandparent often steps in when things are desperate. They are generally trying to help, and push themselves to stretch their abilities out of love. MOO.
 
While the purpose of the affidavit, authored by a St. Petersburg police detective, is to get a judge’s permission to search Gress’ mother’s phone, its 25 pages paint the most detailed portrait yet of a horrifying murder case.

“This little 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 stole my ring and won’t give it back,” Gress told one neighbor who saw Miranda. “So I’ve been beating her 🤬🤬🤬.”

“Good people don’t want to know bad things,” she told him, the affidavit states.

“The case is still open and there’s a pretty good likelihood of more (charges) to come,” Pinellas-Pasco State Attorney Bruce Bartlett said. The six days of torture and “calculated killing” made the murder one of the most disturbing he’s seen.

“People like that should be eliminated from society,” Bartlett said. “They have a tool for that, and that’s called the death penalty.”
“She also said Gress killed animals he got through Craigslist and disposed them near the Bob Graham Sunshine Skyway Bridge.” ugh, we all know not to sell or give away animals on Craigslist, this stuff really does happen :( SICKOS
 
“She also said Gress killed animals he got through Craigslist and disposed them near the Bob Graham Sunshine Skyway Bridge.” ugh, we all know not to sell or give away animals on Craigslist, this stuff really does happen :( SICKOS
Is this not allegedly a beginning step to becoming a serial killer? Makes you wonder if they were able to catch the guy before he started something or if there are potentially others.
 
Steve Gress, 35, and Michelle Brandes, 37, are charged with Corsette's murder. In the 25-page affidavit, it says that three people, including Gress’ mother, later admitted to police that he’d sent them photos of the girl that showed her nude, bruised and in increasingly worse physical condition.
 
Steve Gress, 35, and Michelle Brandes, 37, are charged with Corsette's murder. In the 25-page affidavit, it says that three people, including Gress’ mother, later admitted to police that he’d sent them photos of the girl that showed her nude, bruised and in increasingly worse physical condition.
She described a volatile home situation where Gress frequently beat and abused the two women.
[snip]
He brought home other women, who were homeless or addicted to drugs, she said.

The detectives asked about the claim that he’d killed animals. That was partly true, he said. He would get animals, mostly through Craigslist, and kill them, he said. But he denied throwing them off the Skyway Bridge. Rather, he would dispose of them in his apartment trash bin.

He would do this, he said, according to the affidavit, so he wouldn’t kill his girlfriends or other people.
Several people saw Gulfport teen held captive. None told police, records say.

and yet he blames Brandes for the death. I suspect both he and Brandes are sociopaths who enjoyed the torture and murder they inflicted on Miranda :(
 
Glad to see the charges for Gress and Brandes. It must have been pure h*ll for Miranda -- both knowing what would happen to her and then when it actually did happen to her.
So glad Miranda is not scared, angry, or hurting any more. Blessings for Miranda. SMH.
Hoping Gress and Brandes will be hurting soon when the charges are set and the punishment phase begins.
 
At the time of her death, Corsette had been beaten on a daily basis for a week, says the warrant. Gress allegedly told police he had sent photos of the teenager's worsening injuries to a few acquaintances and his own mother.

One of the individuals who received those alleged images from Gress shared them with members of the St. Petersburg Police Department, who described the photos in the warrant.
Man Accused of Luring Girl on Dating App Before Torturing Her and Decapitating Corpse May Face Death Penalty

Poor Miranda. I still can't get my head around the fact that multiple people were aware he was holding and torturing her and nobody intervened? Not even anonymously? Nobody? Very sad world we are living in.

Where are the charges for Gress's mother, whose home was used for the dismemberment? How about the unnamed third roommate who was present for the weeklong torturefest?
 
The estate of a Florida teenager who was allegedly tortured and then killed after meeting a man on Grindr is suing the LGBTQ dating app.

Miranda Corsette, 16, "endured relentless physical and sexual abuse at the hands of the Grindr user," according to a copy of the federal civil suit filed in Florida Middle District Court and obtained by PEOPLE.
[snip]
Grindr has not yet filed a response to the civil suit and did not respond to a request for comment.
Estate of Girl, 16, Who Was Allegedly Tortured for a Week and Dismembered After Meeting Man on Grindr Sues App
 

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