Steven Fike, 67, who is serving a life sentence in Alabama state prison, will have a change of plea hearing on March 12 in Suffolk Superior Court in Boston. He previously pleaded not guilty to killing 19-year-old Wendy Dansereau at a Boston hotel.

Steven Fike is expected to plead guilty in the death of Wendy Dansereau at a Boston motel. He is in prison for killing Sammy's dancer Patricia Ann Culp.

BOSTON — 67-year-old Steven Fike, in Boston’s Suffolk Superior Court direct from Alabama where he is serving time for a 1982 rape and murder in that state, is on the verge of taking responsibility for the death of a woman in Boston in 1980.

An Alabama inmate is expected to plead guilty to manslaughter after he was charged in 2019 in the decades-old killing of a woman in Boston, the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office said in a statement.