# 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.
- Title: Palm Desert woman charged in flagpole killing · Valleynewslive
- Summary: 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…
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- Source: Valleynewslive — https://valleynewslive.com/2026/09/12/woman-accused-beating-her-husband-death-with-flagpole-authorities-say
- Published: 2026-09-12T19:05:35.438+00:00
- Read time: 1 min
- Topics: crime, domestic violence, california, police, courts, news, local
## 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.
## Key takeaway

Five domestic violence cases were filed against Vicky Kim in the year before her husband was found dead.