BUFFALO, N.Y. — A Buffalo man who admitted to killing two women whose bodies were found in Chautauqua County has been sentenced.

Richard J. Fox , 62, has been sentenced to 20 years to life for each of the deaths of Cassandra Watson and Marquita Mull. The prison terms will be served consecutively. He pleaded guilty in September in Erie County Court to two counts of Murder in the Second Degree.

Investigators say that sometime around 2003 and 2004, Fox killed Cassandra Watson at a location in the City of Buffalo. Her body was found several years later by a hiker in 2021. The hiker discovered a human skull while walking along the Chautauqua Rails to Trails near Woleben Road in the Town of Portland.

A forensic analysis found the skeletal remains had been buried at the site for several

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