A man is going to prison after he was convicted of strangling and fatally beating his girlfriend in Washington D.C., federal officials said.
In February, William Barrett, 69, went to a hotel with his girlfriend, Romaine Maddox, 36, to celebrate her birthday, according to a news release by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the District of Columbia.
Hotel security footage showed Maddox “ecstatic to celebrate her birthday at the hotel, entering their room, where they spent the next several hours,” officials said…