Reply Dennis Lepage, 64, is slated to be sentenced July 30 for strangling 28-year-old Alvaro Marquez Espeleta on Dec. 31, 1975, at the victim's Reynard Way home. (Shutterstock) SAN DIEGO, CA — A former Navy man has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the 1975 death of a San Diego serviceman, a prosecutor said Thursday. Dennis Lepage, 64, is slated to be sentenced July 30 for strangling 28-year-old Alvaro Marquez Espeleta on Dec. 31, 1975, at the victim's Reynard Way home. Espeleta's nude body was found in the bedroom of his home by co-workers, who went to check on the naval dental technician after he failed to show up for work at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot.