Midtown Hotel Strangler Convicted, DA Says

MIDTOWN MANHATTAN, NY — A Brooklyn man was found guilty of strangling a mother of four to death in a Midtown hotel room, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr., announced this week.

Joseph Danclair, 40, was convicted on one count of second-degree murder for the 2015 killing of 43-year-old Antoinette Marin, prosecutors said. Danclair choked Marin after the two checked into a West 38th Street hotel on September 8, 2015, prosecutors said.

The two checked into the hotel at 4 a.m. after meeting a few days earlier and Danclair left the room around 2 p.m., prosecutors said. Marin's body was left face down on the hotel room's bed, and was discovered by an employee hours after Danclair had left the hotel.

"Ms. Marin suffered a brutal, agonizing death at the hands of this defendant, and because of his violent conduct, this mother of four was stolen from her children and loved ones," Vance said in a statement.

Danclair was sentenced to 25-years-to-life in November for choking a woman to death in a Williamsburg hotel, prosecutors said. The Brooklyn murder occured less than two months before Danclair killed Marin in Midtown.

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