Central Minnesota Woman Charged With Father’s Murder

ST. CLOUD, Minn. (AP) — A central Minnesota woman who's behind bars in Kentucky is charged with fatally bludgeoning her father with an axe-like tool.

Thirty-eight-year-old Lisa May Kearney was charged Wednesday in Stearns County District Court with second-degree murder. Kearney was arrested in Louisville, Kentucky Jan. 6, two days after police found the body of Jeffrey Schilling in the St. Cloud home he shared with Kearney.

A criminal complaint says the 66-year-old father died of head injuries, apparently inflicted with a short-handled maul found nearby. Prosecutors say Kearney is being held on $250,000 bail in Kentucky and has refused to waive extradition to Minnesota.

The complaint says a neighbor and law enforcement confirmed a strained relationship existed between Kearney and her father. Kearney's attorney at the Jefferson County public defender's office in Louisville did not immediately return a call for comment.