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A homeless man pleaded guilty but mentally ill on Thursday to strangling a woman in an abandoned Homewood house in March.
James Wilson, 35, pleaded to both third-degree murder and third-degree murder of an unborn child in the death of Brittany Alker, 30, whose body was found in a closet in an home on Forest Way on March 12.
Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge Kevin G. Sasinoski set sentencing for Jan. 14. At that time, the judge is expected to make a formal finding as to Wilson’s mental health diagnoses. The plea agreement calls for a prison sentence of 18 to 40 years.