A man who in 2013 was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
was given a life sentence plus 334 years in prison for the murder of Claudia Miller, according to a news release from the First Judicial District Attorney’s office.
When Lakewood police were called to Miller’s law office at 445 Union St. on March 5, 2013, they found Miller’s body in a storage room, the release said. She had been beaten, bruised, cut and sexually assaulted. She was strangled.
The 12-day trial showed that Watson planned to seek out a female attorney in the practice of family law to fulfil a sexual fantasy and then commit a robbery.
Miller’s credit cards, cellphone, car, purse, phone cord and underwear had been stolen.
Watson was later observed on surveillance cameras using Miller’s credit cards and dumping a bag into the garbage that contained the missing objects.
Watson was found guilty of first-degree murder and sexual assault in addition to several other counts.
