VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — The girlfriend of a Knotts Island man who went missing and was later found dead in a drainage ditch last year has pleaded guilty to two charges.
Ashley Walton of Virginia Beach was accused of getting help to hide the body of her boyfriend, 42-year-old Martrell Lamar.
She pleaded guilty to concealing a dead body and being an accessory after the fact to homicide during a Tuesday hearing. The court found that Walton acted with malicious intent and in an effort to hide her crime from authorities…