BOSTON — A Boston man has been convicted a second time of strangling his estranged wife.
Prosecutors say 50-year-old Agapito Lao was found guilty in Suffolk Superior Court on Tuesday of first-degree murder for beating and strangling 40-year-old Alicia Lao in her Chelsea apartment on May 2, 2000. She died about two weeks later.
Authorities say he killed her two days after she filed for divorce because she was involved in another relationship.
Agapito Lao was convicted of his wife’s murder in 2002, but the decision was overturned by the state’s high court after a U.S. Supreme Court decision that would have kept certain witness testimony from the jury at trial.
Law faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison at sentencing on Thursday.
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