VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — A 71-year-old man was sentenced Thursday to two life terms in connection with sexual assault and brutal murder of a woman in 2020.

According to court documents, on Sept. 16, 2020, James Richard King, 71, and his on- and off-again partner went to a bar, where King ordered and purchased all of the drinks. During the night, King drank five Budweiser beers, while the victim drank four rum and cokes and 12 shots of Fireball Whisky.

Eventually, the bartender, who noticed that King was giving all of the shots to the victim, stopped serving the pair. However, King offered the bartender a large tip and told her, “She [the victim] is dying anyway.”

The pair then left the bar, and surveillance video shows them entering the Days Inn on Bonney Road together. After about an hour, King could then be seen without a shirt and shoes walking from the hotel room to his vehicle multiple times, all the way into the morning. The victim was never once seen during this time.

The next day, King told police there was a body in his hotel room and told them to “find the body before housekeeping does.” King also admitted to committing a “murder gig” in Ohio — which he was convicted of in 1986 in Lucas County — and said that he had just committed a similar crime.

Once police arrived to the scene, they saw the victim on the couch — she had suffered asphyxiation by strangling and smothering; blunt force trauma to her face, shoulders, right breast, right hip and abdomen; petechiae of her face, eyes and mouth; and blunt force trauma to her genitalia.

King was found guilty Oct. 17 of first-degree murder and object sexual penetration, and Thursday, Circuit Court Judge James C. Lewis sentenced King to a total of two life terms in prison.