A man convicted of killing a South Boston woman over 30 years ago was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison.
Carl Richard Vega strangled Judy Chamberlain in a building on D Street in 1988, according to prosecutors, who said she was found dead in the basement, with evidence suggesting she was sexually assaulted.
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In 2011, Vega was identified through DNA evidence as a suspect in the Boston strangling, the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office said.
Prosecutors said he was found guilty of first-degree murder on June 20, "36 years to the day that Chamberlain was found strangled in the basement of the Fargo Building."
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Chamberlain's brother, sister and friend gave victim impact statements ahead of Vega's sentencing.
"Anyone in the courtroom today could feel the anguish and desolation expressed by Judy's loved ones after so many years of questions without answers," District Attorney Kevin Hayden said in a statement. "Today they finally had the opportunity to see someone held accountable for the loss of the person they so clearly love and so clearly miss."
Vega has been in prison since 1990 for raping a woman in Revere in 1987.
