NORRISTOWN, Pa. (KYW Newsradio) — The Perkiomen Township man who beat his girlfriend to death with a hammer was found guilty of first-degree murder by a Montgomery County jury on Thursday.
William Carey, 47, will be automatically sentenced to life in prison. He was charged with hitting his girlfriend, 34-year-old Jessica Zipkin, in the back of her head with a hammer at least 20 times and killing her in his Perkiomen Township boarding house, located next to the Duck Inn Taproom on Gravel Pike, in November 2024.
During the trial, Carey’s lawyer conceded that his client is guilty of third-degree murder. However, he argued that Carey was too high on methamphetamine to understand what he was doing…