She then went upstairs, grabbed an ice “pickaxe,” tripped her father, strangled and bit him on the floor, and struck him ...

That meant Mercader would have to kill Trotsky quietly and instantaneously with the ice axe's jagged pick, so that he could walk out, the guards unsuspecting. "I had a rare ability to handle the ...

A Seattle woman was arrested for killing her father with an ice axe over an argument about shutting off the lights. Corey Burke, 31, was charged with first-degree murder. Police said on the ...

She’s very badly injured.” He had struck her three times in the head with an ice axe, a mountaineering-style implement with a pick at on end and a blade at the other. This left her bleeding heavily ...