Albrecht Muth, who was arrested in 2011 for killing his 91-year-old wife Viola Drath, was found guilty of first-degree murder. The trial of Albrect Muth has been delayed because a D.C. judge has ...

A D.C. Superior Court judge on Thursday ruled that the man accused of killing an elderly D.C. socialite cannot represent himself because he is in such poor health. Albrecht Muth,48, is charged with ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - District of Columbia prosecutors say a German man charged with killing his elderly wife is forfeiting his right to be present for his own trial by engaging in lengthy hunger strikes.

WASHINGTON (WUSA9) -- A convicted killer in Georgetown was sentenced to 50 years in prison on Wednesday. Albrecht Muth was found guilty of killing his 91-year-old wife Viola Drath in August 2011.

The murder trial of a District man charged in the 2011 beating death of his wife in their Georgetown home might not begin until December or even March — months after the original October scheduled ...

The man accused of killing his much older socialite wife in their Georgetown home had tried to get a drug dealer to “do away with her,” according to prosecutors. Albrecht Muth, 48, is charged with ...

Albrecht Muth, the eccentric German charged in the 2011 beating death of his elderly Georgetown wife, has been hospitalized as a result of a hunger strike, sources familiar with the case said Friday.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — A German man who masqueraded as a well-connected Army general choked his elderly wife to death, searched online for escape plans and claimed to be entitled to part of the socialite’s ...

A German-born man charged with killing his socialite wife in Georgetown is being transferred to a psychiatric hospital for a competency screening after a doctor said he was delusional. Albrecht Muth ...