Corey Burke, 33, allegedly killed her father, Timothy, after stabbing him multiple times in the head with an ice pickax on Election Day.

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.

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.

A woman in Seattle has been charged with first-degree murder after she killed her father with an ice axe for refusing to shut off the lights in her house, police say. Corey Burke, 31, allegedly told detectives that she was trying to convince her 67-year ...

Authorities say the woman grabbed an ice climbing axe, tripped and strangled her father with the tool, before attacking him with it.

King County Prosecutors said an argument over lighting in a living room led a Seattle woman to kill her father with an ice axe.

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,