Williamsburg Hotel Murderer Convicted Of Killing SI Mom, DA Says

WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN -- A Brooklyn man who beat and fatally strangled a Staten Island mom in an East Williamsburg hotel was convicted of murder Friday, prosecutors announced Friday.

Joseph Danclair, 39, was found guilty of killing Chrissy Bevelaqua, a 34-year-old mother of four, in The Bushwick Hotel at 171 Bushwick Ave. on July 23, 2015, according to the Brooklyn District Attorney's office.

Hotel staff found a naked Bevelaqua sprawled out on a bed with bruises on her neck and head at about 4:30 p.m., prosecutors said.

Emergency responders pronounced Bevelaqua dead in the hotel room, where police collected DNA evidence and fingerprints that would later lead them to Danclair, said prosecutors.

Investigators also found video of Danclair entering the hotel with Bevelaqua and later leaving alone, said prosecutors.

Danclair was arrested on Second Avenue in Manhattan on Sept. 17, 2015, after police tracked him down through the livery driver who picked him up at the hotel, said prosecutors.

Danclair faces up to 25 years to life in prison after a jury found him guilty of second-degree murder, prosecutors said. The Brownsville man is slated to be sentenced in Brooklyn Supreme Court on Nov. 14.

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