Corey Burke was charged with first-degree murder and is being held in jail on $2 million bail.
SEATTLE — A woman is charged with murder after allegedly killing her father with an “ice axe” at their home in Seattle’s Rainier Beach neighborhood, according to King County prosecutors.
Corey Burke, 33, got into an argument with her father on the evening of Nov. 5 over turning out the lights, charging documents state. Burke told detectives that she would not be able to convince him to keep the lights off, so she went and grabbed “an ice axe.”
Burke tripped her father, strangled him and then
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