An area rocket program supervisor butchered her father with an ice axe on Election Evening after a breakdown following President-elect Trump’s victory — and was discovered smiling and clapping coated in her cherished one’s blood, cops stated.
Corey Burke thought of the bloody rampage – wherein she allegedly strangled, bit and hacked her 67-year-old father within the $800,000 Seattle dwelling they shared – to be an “act of liberation,” charging paperwork allege.
Burke, 33, is a coaching program supervisor at Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos’ spacecraft firm, in keeping with her LinkedIn, and is married to distinguished transgender author Samantha Leigh Allen, public data present.
Allen is the creator of the acclaimed ebook “Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States” and an editor at Them, a Conde Nast transgender information publication.
Burke informed cops that the killing was meant to “help people change their attachment to their parents” and “had to happen today,” she informed police, her face coated in her father’s blood, in keeping with court docket paperwork.
Burke had been upset about election day and knew Trump would handily beat Vice President Kamala Harris when she allegedly snapped — apparently as a result of when her father, Timothy Burke, refused to show off the lights.
She then went upstairs, grabbed an ice “pickaxe,” tripped her father, strangled and bit him on the ground, and struck him repeatedly with the blunt and sharp ends of the instrument, police stated.
Burke then sat down subsequent to her father and watched him die, then smashed all of the home windows in the home in what she described “‘as an act of liberation,’” officers reported.
When the cops arrived, they discovered Burke “clapping … because she was so happy.”
Burke has labored at Blue Origin for about 5 years, in keeping with her LinkedIn web page, and lived together with her father in a home in south Seattle.
Burke informed police she had a strained relationship together with her father with out sturdy “boundaries” that had left her feeling “hyperfocused and disorganized.”
Donald Trump’s election victory “overwhelmed” her and at last pushed this pressure to the breaking level, she stated.
When officers arrived on the scene, she got here out of the home together with her palms up and blood smeared on her face, however she stated she didn’t have any thought the place the blood got here from or who had smashed the home windows in the home.
She later described the dispute together with her father over the lights, ultimately whispering “I killed him” to at least one officer, charging paperwork stated.
Burke has been charged with first-degree homicide and is being held on a $2 million bail.
