The wife of a prominent leftist writer murdered her own father with an ice axe on election night allegedly over an argument.

A space rocket program manager butchered her father with an ice axe on Election Night after a breakdown following President-elect Trump’s victory — and was found smiling and clapping covered in her loved one’s blood, cops said.

Corey Burke, 31, allegedly told detectives that she was trying to convince her 67-year-old father, Timothy, to shut the lights off, but could not make him budge. She also told police that she had been in a highly emotional state due to the election ...

A woman in Seattle is facing murder charges after allegedly killing her father on the night of the Presidential election. Police arrested Corey Burke at the scene where her 67-year-old father was found dead in their shared $800,

Burke tripped her father, strangled him 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 prosecutors. Burke allegedly sat next to the victim until he stopped breathing.

SEATTLE (KOMO) - Authorities in Washington state have charged a woman with murder after police say she killed her father with an ice climbing axe. It all began after an argument over turning on the lights inside the home they shared. According to court papers, the first signs of trouble in the case happened when neighbors heard smashing glass.

A 33-year-old woman has been charged with first-degree murder after allegedly killing her father with an ice ax during an argument over turning off the lights.

A 33-year-old woman has been charged with first-degree murder after allegedly killing her father with an ice ax in Rainier Valley

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