The suicidal UK lady who flew to Florida to be “sexually abused and probably murdered” by a person she met on a fetish web site recorded a video along with her alleged killer days earlier, describing how she needed to die.
Sonia Exelby’s haunting interplay with accused assassin Dwain Corridor was captured on a cellphone recording inside an Airbnb in Reddick on Oct. 11.
A raveled Exelby, 32, appeared on digicam with a number of bruises and abrasions to her face, neck and breasts, in keeping with an arrest affidavit seen by The Put up.
The video, obtained by police from Corridor’s cellphone, was recorded two days earlier than Exelby was reported lacking after not arriving for her scheduled flight dwelling to England on Oct. 13.
Corridor allegedly revealed to police that Exelby was speculated to convey $4,000 along with her, to assist him pay again the IRS.
He was solely capable of get $1,200 out of Exelby till her card was declined throughout the transaction course of.
Exelby, trying subdued and barely trying up, sat on furnishings contained in the Airbnb she rented, telling Corridor why she needed to be killed.
“As a result of I’m an terrible particular person,” she informed the 53-year-old behind the digicam. “I’ve crushed everybody who ever liked me.”
Exelby turned visibly emotional within the video earlier than she is requested how she would wish to die.
The frazzled lady hesitated earlier than saying she needed to be stabbed, police mentioned.
“That is the way you needed to die, proper? You needed to be crushed and made to endure since you’re such a chunk of s–t,” Corridor mentioned, in keeping with the doc.
All through the 4-minute and 16-second video, Corridor repeatedly asks if “this” was what she consented to, and Exelby agreed.
“I wanted to be crushed and endure trigger I’m such a chunk of s–t,” Exelby mentioned to Corridor’s settlement. “Good, good.”
Police described the lady as subdued, hesitant, by no means trying up in the direction of the digicam and Corridor whereas visibly emotional with tears in her eyes.
On the identical day the video was recorded, Exelby messaged somebody on Discord saying she was having second ideas of dying.
“He made it clear there was no approach out until I shoot him. I used to be questioning it final night time. I can’t kill anybody,” she wrote.
Exelby allegedly informed the unidentified individual that Corridor had gave her a rundown on use a gun.
“I believed he’d do it fast and never give my thoughts time to stew and understand that is the very last thing I’ll ever day [sic] to anybody if I don’t take his provide of taking pictures him,” she wrote.
“I’m so so scared I’m so damaged and in a lot ache all I can do is lay right here and doing what gee [sic] desires makes him respect me sufficient to not do the issues I actually hate,” Exelby mentioned.
She additionally informed the particular person Corridor made her file three disclaimer movies and write a letter to her household as a result of it was “humorous.”
Corridor informed investigators he met Exelby on a fetish web site the place he began “mentoring” her to make her life “higher and that he didn’t need her to kill herself,” in keeping with the affidavit.
In the course of the first interviews with police, Corridor made a number of statements that had been inconsistent earlier than revealing to officers it was a part of a canopy story Exelby needed him to make use of so her dying wasn’t a “burden to him.”
The alleged assassin by no means revealed the placement of Exelby’s physique as a part of a promise he made that she didn’t wish to be discovered.
Police positioned Exelby’s physique in a shallow grave within the woods of Marion Oaks on Oct. 17.
Her dying was dominated murder attributable to 4 sharp pressure accidents doubtless by a knife, in keeping with officers.
The final time Corridor noticed Exelby he mentioned she “was completely happy as a result of she was going to get what she needed.”
Corridor was charged with first-degree homicide and kidnapping within the disappearance of Exelby on Nov. 17.
He was already in jail for an Oct. 18 arrest for alleged felony fraudulent use of bank cards and illegal use of a two-way transmission system.
He pleaded not responsible to the homicide and kidnapping prices throughout a courtroom look on Tuesday.
He’s being held in Marion County Jail with out bond.
In case you are combating suicidal ideas or are experiencing a psychological well being disaster and dwell in New York Metropolis, you possibly can name 1-888-NYC-WELL totally free and confidential disaster counseling. Should you dwell exterior the 5 boroughs, you possibly can dial the 24/7 Nationwide Suicide Prevention hotline at 988 or go to SuicidePreventionLifeline.org.
