(PatriotNews.net) – Corey Burke, 33, has been charged with murdering her father, Timothy Burke, 67, in a shocking and violent incident that occurred on the night of Donald Trump’s presidential election victory. According to court documents, Corey, who lived with her father in their Rainier Valley, Washington, home, allegedly killed him with an ice axe and later claimed the act was meant as a form of “liberation.”
Timothy Burke, who had health issues and rarely left the house, reportedly argued with Corey about the lights being left on. This disagreement escalated, and Corey “freaked out,” according to statements she made to police. She went upstairs, retrieved an ice climbing axe, returned to confront her father, tripped him, and then allegedly strangled him. Court documents state that Corey also bit her father while choking him before using the axe to kill him.
After the attack, Corey reportedly sat beside her father, watched him die, and then shattered the windows of their $800,000 home. She later described this act as a symbolic “liberation.” When police arrived, they found Corey smiling, clapping, and covered in her father’s blood. According to officers, she appeared “overjoyed” by what had happened and whispered to one officer, “I killed him.”
Corey is married to Samantha Leigh Allen, a transgender writer and author of Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States. According to reports, Corey told investigators that her father’s murder was meant to “help people change their attachment to their parents” and that it “had to happen today.”
The timing of the incident coincided with Trump’s election victory, which Corey reportedly found deeply upsetting. She told police that Trump’s win “overwhelmed” her, pushing her over the edge. The argument about the lights appears to have been the breaking point in what investigators suspect was long-standing tension between father and daughter.
Charging documents reveal a deeply disturbing scene and suggest that Corey saw the murder as part of a larger, though warped, vision of change. The case has left many grappling with its violent nature and bizarre motivations as investigators work to piece together what led to this tragic event.
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