Prosecutors say a man in Michigan killed his wife after receiving messages from QAnon members that she was a child sex trafficker working for the CIA.
Troy Burke, 45, admitted to shooting and killing his wife, Jessica Burke, 29, on January 27, 2021. Burke was found not guilty of one charge of homicide and one felony weapons charge by reason of insanity on February 7, according to court records obtained from the Gratiot County Circuit Court.
Burke underwent two psychiatric evaluations, both of which determined he was not competent for trial, reported ABC affiliate ABC-12 News. He will be sent to the Michigan Center for Forensic Psychiatry for more testing and may spend the rest of his life in a mental institution, according to the outlet.
Burke was convinced he was getting messages from people in QAnon circle telling him to eliminate his wife, according to court records seen by NBC-25 News. Prosecutors said that Burke believed his wife was a transgender offspring of President Joe Biden and that she was a CIA-linked child sex trafficker. He also told authorities that a neuro-link had been inserted into his brain that allowed people to access his thoughts.
Gratiot County prosecutor Keith Kushion also told the court that Burke had a documented history of hospitalizations for mental health issues, per NBC-25 News.
“They may sound illogical to us,” Burke’s attorney Sarah Huyser said in court, ABC-12 News reported. “They may, when we hear them, we are thinking that’s crazy, for the lack of a better way to say that, but imagine being in the mindset where all of that is very real and very scary.”
The QAnon movement pushes a baseless conspiracy theory that former President Donald Trump is leading a fight against a deep-state cabal of pedophiles and child sex traffickers, but adherents of the movement have been embroiled in serious crimes.
In December 2020, Nashville bomber Anthony Warner injured three people and killed himself after detonating explosives inside his RV. Before the incident, Warner had espoused the QAnon-linked fringe belief that reptilian humanoids control the world.
Last June, Anthony Beckett, a QAnon believer in the UK, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for attempted murder after attacking his pregnant partner in January 2021. Beckett was convinced that he needed to kill his family ahead of the “great revelation” on January 20, 2021 — Biden’s inauguration day.
And in August 2021, California surf instructor and QAnon follower Matthew Taylor Coleman was indicted in the deaths of his children — a 2-year-old boy and 10-month-old girl — with a spearfishing gun. Coleman told authorities the children had DNA from “lizard people” and would become monsters.
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Original Article: https://www.insider.com/man-killing-wife-qanon-sex-trafficker-working-for-cia-2022-2
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I think lot of these people are great actors and get away with things playing the nut. I don’t agree with this, the person is dead no matter who kills them and that is 1oo% wrong, sane or insane they are guilty!
the old marine
I swear if we don’t get biden and the democrats out of office the whole world will go crazy and kill each other when the ones they should kill are the ones in office driving people to kill their loved ones. the democrqats are not happy with the destruction of the country no they won’t be happy till they have destroyed everyone in their way of taking over the whole country. but their time to be destroyed is around the corner only if we the sane ones can hold on long enough to see them all in hell where they came from. GOD BLESS AMERICA AND ALL THE ONES WHO BELIEVE. WE WILL GET AMERICA BACK ON TRACK
This thing reads like it was written by a conspiracy theorist nut.
Hey, black defendants play this card all the time after they’re arrested.
Nice to see someone of NO color using it too.