DEDHAM — A Quincy man has been found guilty in the decade old murder and rape of his-then girlfriend, 33-year-old Mary Beaton.Joseph Beatty, 61, strangled his girlfriend, raped her while she was barely breathing, then killed her by smothering her with a pillow in her Wollaston apartment in 2009 prosecutors said. A jury of seven women and five men began deliberations Friday and returned a guilty verdict for one count of murder and one count of aggravated rape shortly after 2 p.m. [...]
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