A Florida political candidate ruthlessly stabbed her daughter and husband — in an attack she thought was fatal — after accusing them both of being “the devil,” police said.
Julie Mitchell, 54, was covered in blood and armed with a large kitchen knife when police arrived at her Fort Lauderdale suburban home, according to a Tequesta Police arrest affidavit.
Mitchell, who is running for a village council seat, was “actively resisting” arrest and intentionally whacked two police officers who were trying to control her, the document states.
Her teenage daughter, who was hysterically crying, was found outside the home with a laceration to her head.
“My mom just stabbed me and my dad,” she reportedly told responding officers.
Mitchell’s husband was found inside suffering from a stab wound to his upper left arm, according to the record.
All three were rushed to the hospital, where Mitchell allegedly continued her verbal — and apparently religious — rampage: “God still loves the world and he gave us his only son.”
When asked why she was at the hospital and covered in blood, the candidate said it was because she renounced Satan, police said.
“She told me that Satan lived in her home. When I asked her regarding stabbing, she told me that her husband, daughter and their dog are the devil so she sodomized her husband and stabbed her daughter in the heart,” a Tequesta sergeant wrote in his report.
“When I asked her if she thinks her daughter and husband are dead or alive, she said she thinks they’re both dead.”
At the time of the incident, Mitchell was one of two candidates running for a seat on the five-member Tequesta Village Council in the March 19 election.
On her campaign website, which has since been taken down, she listed “sustaining high public safety standards” as one of her priorities.
The status of her campaign is unclear, but a village spokesperson told The Palm Beach Post Friday that no one from Mitchell’s camp had reported any change about her candidacy.
Media reports said Mitchell has been a neighborhood services coordinator for the town of Jupiter for nearly 20 years.
She was booked without bail into the Palm Beach County Jail on four counts of aggravated battery and two of resisting an officer with violence, online records show.
Her family did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.