Atlantic City mother found dead in apartment, cause of death ‘unknown’

ATLANTIC CITY (WPHL) — A 34-year-old mother was found dead in her Atlantic City apartment home on Saturday, as investigators ask for the public’s help in her circumstances leading up to her death.

Police responded to the home on Sheridan Avenue just after 10 a.m. and found Christina Burdette unresponsive. The family of the victim said that her body looked as if she had been in a fight. She had bruises all over her body and her head was wrapped in gauze. Medical personnel pronounced her dead on the scene. The coroner ruled her death as a homicide, however the cause of death is still unknown.

The victim’s family is confused as to why anyone would want to hurt her.

“She was beautiful,” Stephanie Abeulkabiir said on Action News at 10 on PHL17. “My daughter was a lovely girl and everybody loved her.”

Burdette was a mother of two, ages 6 and 3. The family said that the children are now without parents as their father died a few years ago.

Nicole Burdette, the victim’s sister, said that the home the young family was living in belonged to a relative of the father.

“She was mainly all about her children,” Nicole Burdette said. “You would’ve thought that because she was so ‘to-herself’ and so angelic and just her own little person that she would’ve died from old age.”

Detectives are requesting the assistance of the public with this investigation. If you
know the victim and knew of her whereabouts in the days and weeks leading up to her
death, they ask that you call Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office’s Major Crime Unit at
609-909-7666 or go to the Prosecutor’s Office Website at ACPO.tips, and provide
information by filling out the form anonymously on the ‘Submit a Tip’ page.