Ambler Woman Sentenced For Killing Grandmother With Kitchen Knife

AMBLER, PA — An Ambler woman has been sentenced to prison for killing her grandmother with a kitchen knife in 2018, authorities said.

Nicole Cadwalader, 32, will spend 12.5 to 25 years behind bars on a conviction of third degree murder, after pleading guilty with an insanity defense.

The incident occurred back on June 4, 2018, inside her grandmother's home on the 100 block of South Chestnut Street.

Cadwalader believed her grandmother, 68-year-old Sharon Burke, was a "wretched, evil, woman," according to the affidavit of probable cause.

Sometime in the early morning hours, Cadwalader used the kitchen knife to slit her grandmother's throat, police said. She then repeatedly beat her over the head with a baseball bat and a kitchen pan, authorities said.

Cadwalader, thinking her grandmother dead, left the scene and walked to a friend's house, authorities said. When she returned, she found her grandmother had moved from the kitchen to her bedroom, indicating she had survived a short while longer. Cadwalader then walked to the Ambler Police Station where she told officers what she had done, according to the affidavit of probable cause.

Cadwalader remains incarcerated at Montgomery County Correctional Facility, where she's been held without bail since her arrest.