Isabelle Valdez, 15, and Lois Lippert, 14, have been charged as adults with attempted first-degree premeditated murder, court records filed Tuesday show. The girls, whom a police report described as best friends, were arrested Jan. 23. Police offered few details at the time except that a knife had been found at the Altamonte Springs school.

Valdez told Lake Brantley High School and law enforcement officials she sometimes heard voices telling her to hurt others. In the past, one of these supposed voices was Adam Lanza, the mass shooter who in 2012 killed over two dozen people at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, according to her arrest report.

She said she no longer heard Lanza’s voice, but other voices told her she could hear his voice again if she killed another student that reminded her of Lanza. Valdez planned to kill him since September and for three months would “stalk” him around campus, taking photos of him without his knowledge, the report said.

“They told me that Adam would come back to speak to me if I did it for him. Adam Lanza wanted it,” Valdez wrote in a note to her parents included in the report. “I think it’s a fair and beautiful scene of devotion on my behalf. I love Adam Lanza. We’re soulmates, just waiting to be reunited once more.”

On the day prior to Valdez’s arrest, Altamonte Springs police received an anonymous tip that someone later identified as Valdez intended to kill a classmate on the following day. Law enforcement, including the FBI, had already been looking into Valdez as part of an investigation into multiple “swatting calls” recently made to the school and had confiscated her phone, the report said.

An assistant principal called Valdez into her office Jan. 23, where the girl talked about her plan. She then spoke with law enforcement and explained she had planned to kill the classmate after the school’s second period by pulling him into a bathroom and stabbing him. She also said she planned to lay photos of him on his body as part of a “blood ritual” that would show her devotion to Lanza, according to the report.

The girl said she had intended to write a manifesto but was then called into the office.

Valdez told police she had shared her plan with Lippert, who helped test the sharpness of the knife she was planning to use and brought her several items she requested. The report found Lippert “took measures to assist Valdez with gathering items she would need to carry out her plan to kill [the classmate],” including gloves, cigarettes and flowers.

Valdez said the flowers were for the classmate and that she’d leave them for his funeral. She planned to smoke the cigarettes after killing him, the report said.

Police found the knife in Valdez’s backpack, along with cigarettes, a lighter, a black camera, a pair of what appeared to be used work gloves and a yellow cloth. Valdez had previously told police she had a yellow towel she would use to muffle the classmate.

Also found were drawings of Valdez, Lanza and the classmate, including one of Valdez cutting him. She told police she had asked Lippert to draw them for her.

A spokesperson for the 18th Circuit State Attorney’s Office said Wednesday that the State Attorney chose to charge the girls as adults after “significant discussion” with other top prosecutors over the course of a week.

“Protecting public safety in this case calls for more aggressive, longer-term sentencing options than what the juvenile justice system offers, especially considering the serious nature of the crime and prosecutors’ assessment of the defendants.”

Both girls are currently in custody at the Seminole County Jail and had their first court appearances Wednesday afternoon, records show.

Deputies responded around 9 p.m. to the office of mental health counselor Rebecca White, 44, on the 900 block of Lee Road, just west of Winter Park, where they found White and another man suffering from stab wounds.

White and the man were taken to a hospital, where White died of her injuries. The man, whose name was not released, underwent surgery and is expected to recover, deputies said.

Deputies identified the suspect as 39-year-old Michael Smith, a former client of White’s.

The man said he was a patient of White’s and had been attending a therapy session with her that ended at 9 p.m. Following the session, Smith entered White’s office and demanded to speak with her, but she told him to leave. When the other man told Smith he was calling 911, the suspect drew a knife and attacked them both, according to the release.

Smith was found dead from apparent suicide around 7:45 a.m. Tuesday at the 9000 block of Windy Ridge Road by deputies responding to a call of a man down.

No other information was included in the release.

Kimberley Leonie Mills, 38, of Tavares, was found guilty on first-degree felony murder and aggravated child abuse charges in the death of her son Xavier Williams, 10, and the abuse of her younger son as part of a deal with prosecutors. The deal allowed her to avoid the death penalty, which prosecutors had been seeking.

The harrowing case that shocked Central Florida began last February when Mills and her boyfriend, Andre Dwayne Walker, 37, brought Xavier to a Tavares hospital in cardiac arrest, with Mills performing CPR on him in the car. They fled when they learned medical staff had called police, but both were later arrested.

Xavier languished in a hospital for nearly a month before dying of his injuries. Court records show medical staff found bruising — including “severe” bruising on his face — as well as burns and signs of sexual abuse on his body. The child was also bleeding internally.

His younger brother, who was 8 at the time, told police that Mills and Walker punished the boys by hitting them with a copper rod, punching them with boxing gloves, tying them by their wrists and ankles to a ladder with duct table, and dropping a 10-pound weight on their stomachs.

Keniel Williams, the boys’ father, spoke through tears at the hearing while wearing a shirt emblazoned with a photo of his children. He described how difficult life has been since Xavier’s death.

“I have sleepless nights. I have pictures of the family I can’t delete off of my phone, I just can’t,” he said. “It’s very hard to cope with, its very hard to even function at work. It’s hard to live sometimes without him.”

Williams began sobbing and had to briefly leave the courtroom.

Morris Carranza, Mills’ attorney, told the court on her behalf that she loves her children and accepted the plea deal to prevent her younger son from being re-traumatized in case he had been called to testify against her at her trial.

The boys’ aunt, Cameil Williams, would have preferred that Mills face the death penalty, but agreed that the plea deal was the best option for the sake of Xavier’s younger brother. However, she was outraged by Carranza’s statement about Mills and her children.

“How dare you. Out of all the things you could say. You’re going to say you love your son? You’re alive and he’s dead,” she said following the hearing.

Williams said the moment is bittersweet for her family, given that the legal proceedings against Mills and Walker are only halfway over. She said she was concerned about Walker’s pending trial and the pain it would bring up.

Walker faces the same first-degree felony murder and aggravated child abuse charges that Mills had, with the child abuse charges covering the injuries inflicted upon both children.

Mills must testify against Walker if called to do so as part of her plea deal.

Prosecutors are also seeking the death penalty in his case. No trial date has been set.

Courtney Sullivan, a detective with the Tavares Police Department, had said the abuse case was the worst in the department’s history. It seemed to have escalated around Christmas 2024, she said, when Mills and Walker began dating.

Sullivan said Mills was “methodical” and “meticulous” in hiding the abuse by controlling what the boys would say at or wear to school,  including having Xavier wear long-sleeved shirts to hide marks or bruises. Court records show the injuries included burn marks that were “long in shape as if something hot was placed on … skin.”

Neither neighbors nor staff at Xavier Williams’ school suspected the 10-year-old was being abused. No one knew what was happening until Xavier arrived at Advent Health Waterman in February.

“She frightened those kids to not speak to anyone about the abuse,” Sullivan said.

Mills also “isolated” the boys from Keniel Williams, who lives in Connecticut, taking away phones and keeping them from speaking with their father.

Williams came to Florida after authorities told him Xavier was hospitalized and stayed at his bedside the entire time the child was in the hospital, police said. The younger brother is now in his care.

Michael Scheuer, of Winter Garden, pleaded guilty to one count of computer fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft as part of a plea deal with prosecutors. He was previously a menu production manager for Disney before he was terminated for misconduct in June, according to a criminal complaint filed in federal court.

False information on food allergies could have deadly consequences, but it is believed all of the altered menus were isolated before being shipped to restaurants.

Scheuer was arrested in October following an FBI investigation. While court records don’t mention Disney World by name, Scheuer’s lawyer, David Haas, said in a statement to the Orlando Sentinel at the time of the arrest that Scheuer had been employed there. In his signed plea agreement, Scheuer admitted to breaching the company’s software several times from around July to September.

Most notably, Scheuer added notations to certain menu items falsely indicating they were safe for people with specific allergies such as to peanut, tree nut, shellfish and milk, according to the plea deal.

He changed wine regions on wine menus to areas that had recently suffered mass shootings, imbedded or added a swastika to at least one menu and changed menu QR codes to direct patrons to a website that urged boycotting Israeli companies and those with significant activities there, the plea agreement shows.

Scheuer also blocked 14 Disney employees — including some former coworkers — from their accounts through denial-of-service attacks, records show. The accounts were set to lock after too many failed login attempts and he used a script to make automated attempts totaling over 100,000. The criminal complaint against Scheuer said some of the targeted employees were involved in his firing.

After an internal investigation, Disney flagged him to the FBI as a potential suspect. The agency executed a search warrant at Scheuer’s residence in September and seized several of his electronic devices, records show. He initially denied involvement in the cyberattacks and said the company was trying to frame him, according to the complaint.

The FBI discovered he’d collected personal information about four employees targeted in the cyberattack, including phone numbers, email addresses, physical addresses, and names of family members and relatives, the complaint says.

The night before his arrest, Scheuer drove to the home of one of the targeted employees shortly before 11 p.m., walked to the front door and gave a thumbs up to the Ring doorbell camera before leaving, according to the plea deal. As a result of his actions, the employee left his residence and was placed in a hotel by Disney.

Disney no longer uses the Menu Creator software hacked by Scheuer, and has moved to a manual menu approval and distribution process while a new system is developed.

No sentencing date has been set, according to court records.

Michael Scheuer, of Winter Garden, pleaded guilty to one count of computer fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft as part of a plea deal with prosecutors. He was previously a menu production manager for Disney before he was terminated for misconduct in June, according to a criminal complaint filed in federal court.

False information on food allergies could have deadly consequences, but it is believed all of the altered menus were isolated before being shipped to restaurants.

Scheuer was arrested in October following an FBI investigation. While court records don’t mention Disney World by name, Scheuer’s lawyer, David Haas, said in a statement to the Orlando Sentinel at the time of the arrest that Scheuer had been employed there. In his signed plea agreement, Scheuer admitted to breaching the company’s software several times from around July to September.

Most notably, Scheuer added notations to certain menu items falsely indicating they were safe for people with specific allergies such as to peanut, tree nut, shellfish and milk, according to the plea deal.

He changed wine regions on wine menus to areas that had recently suffered mass shootings, imbedded or added a swastika to at least one menu and changed menu QR codes to direct patrons to a website that urged boycotting Israeli companies and those with significant activities there, the plea agreement shows.

Scheuer also blocked 14 Disney employees — including some former coworkers — from their accounts through denial-of-service attacks, records show. The accounts were set to lock after too many failed login attempts and he used a script to make automated attempts totaling over 100,000. The criminal complaint against Scheuer said some of the targeted employees were involved in his firing.

After an internal investigation, Disney flagged him to the FBI as a potential suspect. The agency executed a search warrant at Scheuer’s residence in September and seized several of his electronic devices, records show. He initially denied involvement in the cyberattacks and said the company was trying to frame him, according to the complaint.

The FBI discovered he’d collected personal information about four employees targeted in the cyberattack, including phone numbers, email addresses, physical addresses, and names of family members and relatives, the complaint says.

The night before his arrest, Scheuer drove to the home of one of the targeted employees shortly before 11 p.m., walked to the front door and gave a thumbs up to the Ring doorbell camera before leaving, according to the plea deal. As a result of his actions, the employee left his residence and was placed in a hotel by Disney.

Disney no longer uses the Menu Creator software hacked by Scheuer, and has moved to a manual menu approval and distribution process while a new system is developed.

No sentencing date has been set, according to court records.