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.

Police continued to search the home and found her father’s body in the basement, with wounds to his head and torso, according to the King County medical examiner’s report. A bloody silver-and-blue ice climbing axe was also recovered. The day after the ...

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

Prosecutors believe a woman killed her 67-year-old father with an ice climbing ax after an argument. She "appeared to be having a mental health crisis."

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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,