Convict pleads guilty to two murders

By: The Associated Press

A 23-year-old prison inmate linked by DNA evidence to two long unsolved Albany killings and a rape has pleaded guilty to murder charges.

Raymon McGill, formerly of Schenectady, faces 40 years to life behind bars.

He admitted Saturday in Albany County Court to fatally stabbing Martha Montalvo, a 50-year-old state worker, in her home five years ago.

He also admitted to murder in the shooting death of 69-year-old George Young in 2004 during a robbery at Young's home.

McGill previously confessed to raping an 85-year-old woman in her Albany apartment in 2000.

A mandated DNA sample was taken from Mcgill when he entered the state prison system in March to start a five-year sentence for attempted robbery. His sample was checked against open cases in the state DNA data bank.