Man is convicted of murder for the second time, this time over a woman found dead in VB

James King, 71, has been convicted of murder again, this time in connection with a woman found dead in Virginia Beach.

On Thursday afternoon, King was found guilty of first-degree murder, first-degree murder in the commission of sexual object penetration and sexual object penetration.

The first murder occurred in Ohio in 1986 and the second murder occurred in Virginia Beach in 2020.

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Court records show King went to a police station in Ohio in 1986 and confessed to the murder of a woman.

He was convicted and served 20 years in prison.

In 2020, King went to Virginia Beach police and told them he woke up in his hotel room to find a woman dead.

According to court records, King went to the Third District in Virginia Beach back on September 17, 2020 and allegedly told investigators he wanted to turn himself in.

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King said he woke up at the Days Inn Hotel on Bonney Road and saw his girlfriend, 53-year-old Lexie Walters, dead on the couch, but couldn’t explain what happened to her.

King told detectives that he and Walters met every now and then.

Prosecutors said the two went to a bar for several hours immediately before the murder.

They said King, who ordered and purchased all the drinks, drank five Budweiser beers and Walters drank four rum and cokes and drank 12 shots of Fireball whiskey.

They said when the bartender realized King was leaving all the shots to Walters, she stopped serving them.

They said King offered her a large tip if she continued serving Walters and told the bartender, “You [Walters] is dying anyway.

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King and Walters left the bar and went to the hotel room he had rented at the Days Inn, where the murder took place.

Walters was found dead by police after a brutal and violent attack.

“It’s pretty unusual to walk into a police station and say there’s a dead woman in my hotel room,” said Sonny Stallings, a crime analyst and longtime attorney in Hampton Roads.

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The WTKR News 3 investigative team looked into King’s past criminal history. We learned that King was also convicted of murdering the bride’s mother after a wedding reception in Ohio in 1986, according to court documents.

They say he also turned himself in to police at that time, this time in Lucas County.

He spent 20 years behind bars and was released in 2007.

In 2018, he was also accused of raping another woman in Virginia Beach, but a jury found him guilty of a lesser charge: assault and battery.

When investigators asked about his criminal history in 2020, he reportedly said that he had gotten in trouble for the same thing, and that a woman was involved, and that sometimes he just “goes crazy.”

Attempts to reach King’s public defender were unsuccessful.

King is scheduled to be sentenced on February 13, 2025.