DOTHAN, Ala (WDHN) -- A man who investigators claim tied up and killed his neighbor in her home has decided to skip a trial.

Court records show James A. Johnson Jr. pleaded guilty to one count of capital murder on Tuesday, October 7.

Johnson Jr. was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole.

Johnson Jr. was arrested in late 2024 and charged with murder in the death of 57-year-old Sherry Clark.

Dale County Sheriff Mason Bynum says Clark was found naked, bound, gagged, and dead inside her bedroom at her home on Dale County Road 79 in Midland City in early November 2024, after her father called for a welfare check. Clark had not shown up for work at Avis Car Rental in the Dothan Regional Airport.

Chief Investigator Caroline Jackson with the Dale County Sheriff’s Office said a p

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