Delusional Daughter Has No Idea She's Not Leaving After Killing Her Dad

On a November afternoon in Washington State, a 4-foot-10 woman called 911 after shooting her father three times—twice in the chest, once in the head—as he walked through the front door of the home where she had lived with him for five years. By the time police arrived, she was waiting on the front steps with the unloaded gun placed visibly on an armoire and a detailed journal beside her phone. She had planned the killing for three weeks, but she told investigators she had been trying to escape her father’s control for much longer.

The Confession and the Context

The episode is built around the raw audio of the police interrogation that followed the shooting. The suspect, a woman in her late twenties, is calm, articulate, and eerily organized. She explains that her father, a retired Marine and electrical engineer in his seventies, had been living in Hawaii for seven months. During that time, she kept up with constant phone calls because, she says, “he gets very anxious, which I like because it limits our proximity.” When he called to say he was coming home in three weeks, she felt her window for escape was closing.