A Blue Origin employee married to a prominent trans author and journalist has been accused of killing her elderly father with an ice axe on Election Night.
Corey Burke, 33, allegedly struck, stabbed and strangled her father, 67-year-old Timothy Burke, in a fatal attack at her $800,000 Seattle home on November 5.
Burke, a training manager at Jeff Bezos’ rockets and spacecraft company, confessed to killing her father after he refused to turn off the lights, according to charging documents seen by DailyMail.com.
After emerging from the house with blood ‘dripping’ down her face, she confessed to police that she ‘freaked out,’ claiming there was ‘something important about Election Day.’
Burke reportedly told detectives that ‘she knew that she could not convince her father to keep the lights off’, so went upstairs and retrieved the murder weapon.
She then tripped her father and strangled him before attacking him with the ice axe.
Burke then bit him and hit him several times in the head and side with the blunt and sharp ends of the ice axe, cops say. His body was found in the basement.
Burke claimed she knew the killing ‘needed to happen today,’ according to a police report.
She allegedly told police she had to bite her father while choking him because ‘he was too strong.’ Burke added that she felt better once her father ‘went limp.’
Burke also told police that as her father labored to breathe after the attack, ‘the defendant sat next to him until he stopped breathing.’
Investigators say Burke came out of the Rainier Valley home with a bloody face and appeared to be having a mental health crisis.
Burke had apparently smashed several windows and later told police she did so in an ‘act of liberation’ after she killed her father. She had reportedly been ‘clapping inside her home’ when cops arrived.
The police report also includes her claims that she’d been ‘reborn’ on her 33rd birthday last month.
She initially did not let police enter the home, and detectives only went in after neighbors expressed concern for her father.
A neighbor first dialed 911 after spotting her smashing picture windows. The officer who responded to that call discovered the horror she’d unleashed inside.
Police say they recovered a bloody silver-and-blue ice climbing pick at the crime scene.
Burke was initially taken to a hospital for a mental health evaluation.
The day after the murder she reportedly whispered to one police officer, ‘I killed him.’
Burke added that she had a strained relationship with her father and said she had been ‘overwhelmed’ on election day.
She added that she wanted to help people ‘change their attachment to their parents.’
According to police documents, Burke allegedly described how she killed her father, saying ‘it was really hard, really fu****g hard’ and ‘there were points where she felt she wasn’t going to be able to.’
Burke was charged with first-degree murder on Friday and is being held on $2million bail.
She is due in court on November 21.
Neighbors told police the father and daughter lived in the home together, and that Timothy was mostly home-bound because of health issues.
She purchased the home she shared with her father in 2023.
Her wife, Samantha Leigh Allen is an editor at Conde Nast’s transgender news website Them.
Allen previously worked as a writer covering LGTBQ issues for The Daily Beast and Fusion media.
Wow. So much to say that I’m rendered speechless. Just wow.