The exits of a teenager accused of having stabbed to death her handicapped sister have challenged more than one this week in Pennsylvania.
Claire Miller, 16, has been appearing in Lancaster County court all week for the February 2021 murder of her older sister, Helen.
The Crown and the defense are trying to decide whether the teenager, who was only 14 at the time, should be charged as an adult.
Among the witnesses who marched in court, Mannheim Township Police Constable John Martin said the girl was emotionless after the murder.
However, she made several outings that marked the police officer.
“Oh, from McDondals. I would have killed someone faster if I had known that I would have McDo”, she would have launched after being served a lunch from the fast food chain.
She would also have started to indulge after hearing the music from the movie “Halloween”, ringing the investigator’s phone, according to the Patriot-News.
“I have Michael Myeré my sister,” she would have said to the agent, referring to the hero of the film who notably kills his older sister on Halloween night with a kitchen knife.
Two psychiatrists quoted by the defense assure that Claire would have had auditory hallucinations which would have caused her to slit her throat the night of the crime.
She would have been looking for a knife in the family kitchen and would have tried to hurt herself, according to a doctor
She would then have turned her violence against her sister.
On the side of the Crown, expert reports say that it is difficult to comment on his mental state at the time of the crime.
According to the police present on the evening of the murder, the teenager was crying and did not seem paranoid or distraught. She even answered questions from investigators.
The girl’s parents do not want her to be condemned for her gesture.
“We love them both. I know Claire didn’t mean to do that. We lost Helen, we don’t want to lose Claire too,” her mother, Marie Miller, told the court.
“We don’t want her to be punished, not to receive help and to be sent to the shadows for a long time for something she had no control over. We can’t lose her.”