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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 considered the bloody rampage – in which she allegedly strangled, bit and hacked her 67-year-old father in the $800,000 Seattle home they shared – to be an “act of liberation,” charging documents allege.Burke, 33, is a training program manager at Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos’ spacecraft company, according to her LinkedIn, and is married to prominent transgender writer Samantha Leigh Allen, public records show.Allen is the author of the acclaimed book “Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States” and an editor at Them, a Conde Nast transgender news publication.Burke told cops that the killing was meant to “help people change their attachment to their parents” and “had to happen today,” she told police, her face covered in her father’s blood, according to court documents.Burke had been upset about election day and knew Trump would handily beat Vice President Kamala Harris when she allegedly snapped — apparently because when her father, Timothy Burke, refused to turn off the lights. ...
... The entire incident happened on election night as the presidential race results progressed. Neighbors told KOMO News they initially thought the sound of smashing glass was the result of people being upset about the election results."My first thought was, ‘are people getting upset over this election? Or is somebody trying to break and enter?'" a neighbor said.Neighbors called police to the home on Spear Place South after they heard smashing glass.When officers arrived, they said heard a "clapping noise" coming from inside the residence. Police said Corey Burke then approached them and was observed to be visibly disoriented with blood on her arms and face.When officers asked Corey Burke about the clapping noise they heard moments earlier, she told them "she had been clapping inside her home, because she was happy, so she started clapping." ...
