Mom sent pictures of tortured girl, 16, before death. Mom did nothing.

A Florida man, as police said, admitted that he is holding a teenage girl caught in his home for a week and beat her regularly sent three people pictures of the victim’s aggravated injuries.

The victim, 16-year-old Miranda Corstte, was eventually killed, subdued and threw in a dumpster, according to a keyword obtained by people.

Murder suspected Steven Gress told us to have a detective with St. Petersburg Police Department that he sent pictures of Corstte on the days before her death to two men and his mother.

In the same interview with the police, Gress said that he told his mother that he and his girlfriend Michelle Brandes “had killed Corsette and removed the body.”

One of the men who got the pictures of Corstte shared them with the police, who wrote in the warrant: “There were a total of five photographs and in each photograph the corset looked to be in increasingly physical condition. The corset was naked in each photograph and were bruises and marks on most of her body. In the last photograph, she was almost so swollen.

These photos were sent on February 18, five or six days before Gress told the detective that he and Brandes killed the teenager, according to the warrants.

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Not one of the three individuals named Police, neither before Corstte’s death nor during the two weeks after she was reported missing, says the warrant.

All three admitted that they received the pictures on or before February 18, including Gress’ mother, Jacquelyn Kristich, according to the commander.

Detectives contacted her when she went to Gress home to retrieve her parrot after his arrest, and the warrant describes their short conversation.

Kristich told Detective “that she was aware that her son had a history of killing animals and that she had received some text messages and photographs from (Corsese),” but ever denied to look at them, according to the commander.

She also said that her son called “Two weeks after the Super Bowl Sunday” and “told her he had a girl in his house who had stolen a ring from him.” Kristich said that Gress called him again “a week later possibly on February 18, 2025 and told her that the girl was still in her house,” says the commander.

She told us his son at that point “good people do not want to know bad things” and informed him that she could no longer talk to him.

She claimed she told her son to release the girl, but never contacted the police.

The master says that Gress hit the corset on grinders On Valentine’s Day, and she came to her home, where he lived with his girlfriend Brandes.

Gress told me that he began to beat the teenager because she stole his ring, a claim that a friend of the couple said was untrue in her interview with the police.

That individual claimed that Brandes stole the ring because she was jealous and claimed that Brandes discovered the ring after the death of Corstet.

It is also the individual who first warned the police about the alleged murder, after telling the police that she was with Gress and Brandes when they dismantled the body, according to reality.

Gress also confirmed this, but alleged Brandes killed the girl according to reality.

“Brandes took a ball from a pool table in the garden, put it in a sock and shot it down the corset’s neck and then wrapped the face in plastic wrap,” reads the issuance. “Gress stated that he told Brandes not to cover his nose, but Brandes did it and he could not get to the corset fast enough to punch holes in the plastic before she died.”

According to the commitment, Gress said that they then put the body in the trunk on the car and went to play mini golf and get Popeye’s to celebrate Brande’s birthday. They have since claimed the body in the yard in a family member’s home.

Brandes and Gress are both in custody and accused of murder and kidnapping. No other individuals have been accused right now.