A California doctor was beaten with a frying pan before being set alight in her $2.6 million mansion after asking her husband to void their prenup, prosecutors say.
Irene Gaw-Lai, 56, was found in the torched den of the San Marino home where she and her estranged husband Yoon 'Kevin' Lai, 63, shared 16-year-old twin boys.
Six months after the horror unfolded on January 6, Lai was charged with his wife's murder after investigators found she had been brutally beaten and suffered injuries including a broken nose, fractured eye socket and a lost tooth.
A frying pan believed to have been used was found next to a metal baseball bat, both of which had traces of blood on them, according to a death investigation summary filed in court.
The room where she was found had then been set on fire, and Gaw-Lai was found to have burns across 60 percent of her body.
