From Valleynewslive · · 1m 20s
Palm Desert woman charged in flagpole killing
A 65-year-old is accused of beating her husband to death, after a year of domestic violence cases stacked up against her.
In brief
A 65-year-old is accused of beating her husband to death, after a year of domestic violence cases stacked up against her. Five domestic violence cases were filed against Vicky Kim in the year before her husband was found dead. Originally reported by Valleynewslive.
A call with no name
On September 4, deputies were sent to The Enclave in Palm Desert just before 10 a.m. The dispatch said only "unknown trouble call."
“unknown trouble call”
Dead at the scene
Deputies found a person with injuries they described as consistent with a physical assault. He was pronounced dead there, according to a sheriff's press release.
“traumatic injuries consistent with a physical assault”
The victim was her husband
Court records identified the dead man as the husband of Vicky Kim, 65. She was arrested, booked into jail, and charged with murder.
The weapon was a flagpole
Records say Kim inflicted great bodily harm on her husband using a flagpole, SFGate reported. It is the detail that turned a domestic call into a murder charge.
A year of warnings
Between September 2025 and January 2026, prosecutors filed five separate domestic violence cases against Kim. All of them came before her husband died.
A 2007 bomb threat
Police records from 2007 show Kim was charged with first-degree terroristic threatening over an alleged bomb threat at Keahole International Airport on Hawaii's Big Island.
The bottom line
Five domestic violence cases were filed against Vicky Kim in the year before her husband was found dead.
