OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — An Oakland man convicted in the rape and killing of a prostitute more than 20 years ago has been sentenced to life in prison.
The Oakland Tribune reports that 51-year-old George Willoughby was sentenced by an Alameda County judge this week after pleading guilty to murdering 23-year-old Sharon Frazier in 1989. Prosecutors agreed not to seek the death penalty in exchange for the plea.
Willoughby was already serving a 33-year sentence on a 1990 rape and torture conviction. Authorities say a DNA sample he provided at the time connected him to Frazier’s death.
Frazier’s body was found badly burned, hanging by a rope from a tree limb in Burckhalter Park.
Authorities say Willoughby told investigators he killed Frazier because he wanted to watch somebody die and disliked prostitutes because they broke up families.
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