This posting elsewhere was good
"Even if people think that it’s stupid to think he killed her over the pineapple, it’s possible. He was obviously jealous of her. I also think he's not mentally stable and the parents are also to blame, not just for the cover-up. I get that a parent wants to protect their kid, because they probably did think it was an accident. But if they had seen that he keep putting feces in her room and on her belongings, they should have sought help. So he probably did get mad at her for something that night, maybe not the pineapple but he did want to hurt her maybe even kill her. If he’d hit her in the face with a golf club before, who’s to say he wasn’t wishing she was gone. Strangers are more upset then this little girl's father." |
It's also likely he could be someone who has anger blackouts and truly does not remember doing this. That could explain his denials. |
Not true. She was walking by and got hit with a golf club he was swinging. Same thing happened to my neighbor's kid. Ask a pediatrician how many times that happens. A lot. The feces thing is a lie. |
Not true. Burke is normal. Just awkward. My own brother acts just like him. Strangers are more upset than this girl's father not true. He always cried in private. He wrote a whole book about the grief of losing two daughters and his wife. |
How on earth do you know Burke is normal? Unless you are a psychologist who has examined him, you have absolutely no way to know that. Unless you are accepting the lawyer's story, hook, line and sinker. |
Proof that this is a lie, please. |
It doesn't even need to be as extreme as an anger blackout. I remember absolutely nothing from when I was 9 years old. Add major stress/trauma to that, and I can believe he doesn't in fact remember what happened. |
The truth Then you don't have to keep your story straight, truth works every time |
Were you there when she got hit by the golf club? How would you know? |
Plus, your parents have been reprogramming you about that night you since were 9. |
My brother was murdered when I was a child. It took me 10 years cry. When anyone would ask me about it I would simply say ya it's sad but it doesn't really effect me. In all honesty I truly felt that way, it wasn't until my 20's that I started to process and grieve. Burkes demeanor was not weird to me, I handled the murder of my brother similarly . Distanced myself, shut down my emotions. |
And you have a somewhat emotionally detached disposition anyway. All makes sense. |
+1 Are the Burke family robots out tonight? Everything against him is defended and "explained" with no proof. Didn't Burke say- show me the proof? So show us the proof otherwise. |
Exactly. |
I keep going back and forth, but at this moment, I just don't think it was Burke!
The ransom note! There is just no way I can believe PR wrote that note. Think about it. You just found out your child killed your other child. It is one thing to cover for the guilty child. But to write and rewrite that crazy note?! It must have taken hours. My hands would be shaking uncontrollably. I wouldn't be able to sit still or form sentences. But she was able to dream up the story about a foreign faction? Why would she do that? You would think she would have known to make the note as short as possible, knowing that the more she wrote, the more likely she would be caught. Why would she use the amount of the bonus? I can't think of any reason why she would use that number. Maybe it wad just the first number that came to mind? The use of that number makes me wonder if it was a co-worker who thought he was entitled to that bonus. Or any jealous/resentful friend/acquaintance who wanted the amount to have a bad association. Burke has never slipped. Ever. He has kept this deep dark secret since age nine. He carried it through the rest of his childhood, teen years, college years. Nobody has come forward saying that he did/said something suspicious. He never got drunk or stoned and said something he shouldn't have Related to the case. He also does not seem to have a history of violence. If he truly was a violent child who caused this tragedy that ruined his family, he would be a disaster by now. Sure, he's private and keeps to himself. Who wouldn't be after growing up in that situation? We have never heard of him getting in a fight, being arrested, public intoxication, abuse. None of that. How would he have known how to make the garrote? Why would he? I'm sure there were many items lying around the house that would have been more convenient. I can't imagine him running around gathering the supplies and putting it together. I think it was someone who made an event of it. It was dreamed up, planned out, and they enjoyed setting the scene to make it look like an inside job while the family was at the party. |