DINGMAN TOWNSHIP, PA — Colin Winkler, 32, has been charged with homicide in connection with the deaths of his mother and father, Jacqueline Winkler, 67, and Jeffrey Winkler, 66. 

Police responded to the Winkler residence, 1303 Larkspur Lane North, on Tuesday, September 24. 

Colin’s brother called 911 to the Winkler home a little before 5 p.m., initially for a mental health incident.

According to the brother, their mother had called him saying Colin had “thrown her on the ground” and was choking the family dog, and asked him to come to the home and to call a family friend, who was described as a “second father” to Colin. The brother related to dispatchers that Colin was having a “psychotic break,” according to the criminal complaint. 

The brother and the family friend got to the Winklers’ home ahead of the police. According to what the brother relayed to dispatchers, he entered the home, found and picked up a bloody knife, then found the bodies of his parents. He told troopers he knew Colin owned a gun, and “his fight or flight kicked in and he ran out of the house,” dropping the knife in the driveway.

When the Pennsylvania State Police arrived at the home, they found Colin on the back deck, where he was “naked and covered in blood and was wiping blood all over his person,” according to the criminal complaint. He ignored trooper commands to get on the ground, and troopers used tasers to put him on the ground and handcuff him. 

The criminal complaint indicates that Colin told troopers several different stories about what had happened. He initially told the troopers he “believed he was in surgery, and now woke up to being covered in blood and handcuffed,” after which he told police he believed he’d been sleeping then “engaged in an altercation with his parents.”

Troopers showed Colin the bodies of his parents and asked how it had happened. He “showed no emotion and did not deny murdering his parents,” and later told police he had done so, reads the criminal complaint. 

Colin’s brother told police Colin had been living with their parents for a few years. He said Colin “believes that he was sexually abused by a therapist when he was five years old,” and that Colin was in therapy for trauma.

“He related that his brother had been manic of late and has been seeing a therapist. He related that yesterday they all went golfing together and everything was fine,” reads the criminal complaint. 

Colin claimed to police that his parents had been involved in his sexual abuse and that “I killed my abusers and it felt good,” according to the criminal complaint. 

Colin was charged with two counts of criminal homicide and two counts of aggravated assault.