Corey Burke, a 33-year-old training program manager at Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, later told investigators that she’d been trying to convince her father, 67-year-old Timothy, to turn the lights off in their home.
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“The defendant told Detectives that she knew that she could not convince him to keep the lights off, so she went upstairs
retrieved an ice axe tripped her father, strangled him with the axe and her hands, and then bit him and hit him several times in the head and side with the blunt and sharp ends of the ice axe,” a case summary by the Seattle prosecutor’s office reads
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Afterward, she “sat down next to her father and watched him die, then smashed all the windows in the house in what she described ‘as an act of liberation,'” according to the New York Post.
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When they arrived on the scene, they found Burke “clapping … because she was so happy,” according to charging documents.