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.