Nicole Cadwalader, 32, is accused of killing her grandmother in Montgomery County.
NORRISTOWN, Pa. - A woman has been sentenced to 12½ to 25 years in the stabbing and beating death of her grandmother almost two years ago in Montgomery County.
Thirty-two-year-old Nicole Cadwalader offered a tearful apology Monday in a Montgomery County courtroom as she pleaded guilty but mentally ill to third-degree murder.
Prosecutors said she walked into a police department in June 2018 and said she had killed 68-year-old Sharon Burke, who was found dead on the bedroom floor of her Ambler home. Prosecutors said the victim had been stabbed in the neck with a kitchen knife and struck with a pan and baseball bat.
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Cadwalader said Monday she will always miss the victim, whom authorities said she had called a “wretched, evil woman” after the slaying.
Defense attorney Carrie Allman said the defendant has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia and is “incredibly remorseful, now that she understands what happened.”
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Ambler woman accused of killing grandmother
Police say a woman is accused of killing her grandmother in Montgomery County.
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