A space rocket program manager killed her father with an ice ax on election night after President-elect Trump’s victory, police said — and she was found smiling and clapping, covered in her loved one’s blood.
Cory Burke reflects on the bloody violence he allegedly took part in strangled, cut and slashed The $800,000 Seattle home they shared with their 67-year-old father was a “deed of redemption,” the documents allege.
Burke, 33, is a training program manager at Jeff Bezos’ spacecraft company, Blue Origin, according to LinkedIn, and public records show he is married to prominent transgender author Samantha Leigh Allen.
Alan is the author of the acclaimed book “”Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red Statesand an editor at the Condé Nast transgender news publication, Them.
According to court documents, Burke told police that the purpose of the murder was to “help people change their attachment to their parents” and that “it had to happen today,” she told police, her face close to her father. Was stained with blood.
Burke was nervous about Election Day and knew Trump would easily defeat him when Vice President Kamala Harris reportedly took the photo — apparently because her father, Timothy Burke, refused to turn off the lights.
She then went upstairs, picked up an ice “spade,” stabbed her father, strangled him and bit him on the floor, and struck him repeatedly with the blunt and sharp ends of the tool, police said.
Burke then sat down beside her father and watched him die, then broke all the windows in the house in what she described as an “‘act of liberation,'” authorities said.
When police arrived, they found Burke “clapping… because she was so happy.”
According to her LinkedIn page, Burke has worked at Blue Origin for about five years, and lived in a house in South Seattle with her father.
Burke told police that she had a strained relationship with her father without strong “boundaries”, leaving her feeling “hyperfocused and disorganized”.
Donald Trump’s election victory overwhelmed him, he said, and ultimately brought this tension to breaking point.
When officers arrived at the scene, she came out of the house with her hands up and blood on her face, but said she had no idea where the blood came from or who broke the windows in the house.
He later described an altercation with his father over the lights, ultimately whispering to an officer, “I killed him,” charging documents state.
Burke has been charged with first-degree murder and is being held on $2 million bail.
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