A man who killed his girlfriend with a hammer last November, striking her at least 20 times at his home in Perkiomen Township, was sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison.
William Roy Carey Jr., 47, was convicted Thursday of first-degree murder and related offenses in Montgomery County Court in the deadly attack on 34-year-old Jessica Zipkin during a domestic dispute. Judge Wendy G. Rothstein immediately sentenced Carey to the mandatory minimum of life imprisonment.
The Nov. 1 attack happened around 2 p.m. at Carey’s apartment on the 500 block of Gravel Pike. Pennsylvania State Police found Zipkin with a fatal wound to the back of her head and a hammer beside her body when they responded around midnight, prosecutors said. An autopsy found Zipkin died of blunt force trauma…