In a message dated 98-05-06 13:59:10 EDT, you write:
<< 3. A psychology student rented out her spare room to a carpenter in
order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After weeks of
needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe leaving her
mentally retarded. >>
In timber conversion we call that scoring. He probably should have used used a
broadaxe to finish her.