Seattle woman kills father with ice ax after arguing over keeping lights off on Election Day: court docs

NY Post ^ | 11/11/2024 | David Propper

[BenLurkin]

A 33-year-old Seattle woman killed her father with an ice ax after the pair got into an argument over keeping the lights off on Election Day, prosecutors alleged last week.

Corey Burke, who “appeared to be having a mental health crisis,” is accused of murdering Timothy Burke, 67, inside their Seattle home around 8 p.m. last Tuesday...

“Corey stated … when her father started arguing with her, about the lights being shut off, that she ‘just freaked out,’” according to the documents.

“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 and 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,” according to a case summary by the prosecutor’s office.

[Recompennation]

Good one! Ha ha ha

[shotgun]

She was trying to pick his brain?

[BBQToadRibs2]

Same here. I have several ice axes and sets of crampons. I used to live outside Seattle (Duval) and climbed up in the Cascades. Loved that backcountry.

[maddog55]

Liberal POS still living with a parent...not surprised.

[cnsmom]

10+ years ago big Pharma was constantly advertising antipsychotic drugs, you had to see the reg flag that this was going to be the new normal.

[xp38]

I can report election night here in the great white north seemed quite normal for a Tuesday night. Lights were on and nothing suggested anything unusual.

[Mathews]

Dang. That is a rabid animal.

[wally_bert]

Regarding Lizie Borden.

https://youtu.be/qjv99Bau5y8?si=Oh1t685ERsG-WmoT

[arthurus]

Mental health issues seems to be the common characteristic among partisans of the Left.

[Ancesthntr]

“crampons”
—————-
For just a moment I thought that these were what Tim Walz used at that time of the month. 😳

I think that I really need a coffee.

[Hiddigeigei]

"Lizzie Borden wannabe."
I remember it from childhood and I'm 92.

"Lizzie Borden took an ax
And gave her mother forty whacks,
And when she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one."

[Tacrolimus1mg]

There’s a series called, “Evil” (about a sceptic psychiatrist and a priest fighting against evil and demonic forces), and one of the characters murders someone with an ice axe.

So... Not so uncommon. Mountain climbers know what they’re for.

[Forward the Light Brigade]

Mountain climbers know why you need an ice ax—to fight off attacking abominable snowmen.

[dfwgator]

Liberalism is mental disorder.

[DouglasKC]

they show “her” picture, I’d suspect “she” is a he.

I suspect you're right. Real women are seldom that aggressive toward their fathers .

[left that other site]

Yikes...and I just happen to be reading a spy thriller (Shadow of Doubt by Brad Thor) in which the opening scene has someone murdered with an Ice Axe.

What are the odds?

[1Old Pro]

the opening scene has someone murdered with an Ice Axe. What are the odds?

How many people even have an ice ax?

[left that other site]

Mountaineers...that’s about it.

[hal ogen]

“appeared to be having a mental health issue.” Oh, really??? She’s a freakin’ whack-job!!!

[Albion Wilde]

Ice axe: