GUILTY PA - Nicole Mathewson, 32, murdered in her Lancaster home, 15 Dec 2014

[DizzyErin9988]

Talking about a shooting just before the murder.

https://www.facebook.com/marcus.rutter.528?fref=ts

FB picture with friends flashing gang signs.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?...988961.-2207520000.1418741657.&type=3&theater


Here is a pic from local news, so it's his FB

http://lancasteronline.com/news/loc...cle_41fc7300-8524-11e4-9b7e-5f5dc7dd1e76.html

Oh I'm sure there will be more arrests in this case. Sounds like a group crime.

They are NOT throwing gang signs. They are flipping off the camera & throwing peace signs.


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[OkieGranny]

http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2015/01/lancaster_da_to_decide_on_deat.html

The district attorney on Friday also added a felony sexual abuse charge...

Because Rutter is a juvenile, state law prevents him from facing the death penalty. However, Moore is still eligible.

 

[HMSHood]

Talking about a shooting just before the murder.

https://www.facebook.com/marcus.rutter.528?fref=ts

FB picture with friends flashing gang signs.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?...988961.-2207520000.1418741657.&type=3&theater


Here is a pic from local news, so it's his FB

http://lancasteronline.com/news/loc...cle_41fc7300-8524-11e4-9b7e-5f5dc7dd1e76.html

Oh I'm sure there will be more arrests in this case. Sounds like a group crime.

They incriminated themselves.

 

[wendybtn]

Well, at least they got him after his first one; that is enough notice that there need be no more.

 

[TravelingBug]

Such a loss.

The articles make it clear what a phenomenally amazing and gracious woman Nicole was!

http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2014/12/nicole_mathewson_16-year-old.html#incart_m-rpt-1

(Skipping / snipping chunks of both of these next two articles b/c of copyright and percentages but both really worth reading!)

This one largely starts out about how she ended up where she was, how she met her roommate/housemate who shares most of this about Nicole.

Mathewson lived alone, but she was never afraid of being attacked according to Leaman.

"She was a single woman and she was proud," Leaman said. "She was thankful to be able to buy a home. She wasn't sure she could buy a home, but she did it. She poured herself into that home. She welcomed people, she hosted people.

"She was never fearful of being alone as a single woman. She loved her neighborhood and the people she came in contact with along the streets. She wasn't afraid, which I'm thankful for."

<snip>

Leaman had found two pounds of frozen blueberries in their freezer and had no idea what to do with them. Mathewson had suggested they throw a giant breakfast and invite their community to come out. A few weeks later and almost 100 people showed up for party. Mathewson had even made up little blueberry jam jars to hand out to people as a thank you for coming.

"She was just absolutely beaming," Leaman recalled. " She loved to bring people together...She took such joy in bringing joy to others."

That love of people suited Mathewson well in her work as a sixth-grade teacher at Brownstown Elementary School.

"She had a lot of difficult students and she would continue to just pour herself into them, encourage them to help them become who they really were and who they were created to be," Leaman said.

It's an attitude Leaman is sure Mathewson would have taken with Rutter.

"She would have loved him," Leaman said. "He probably had a hard life and she would have loved him and looked at him and called him out and set him straight.

"She didn't beat around the bush about things. If there was truth to be spoken, she spoke it. but it was with a grace and humility that a lot of people don't carry," Leaman continued. "I know without a doubt that she would have called him out and said 'This is not who you are, this is not who you were created to be.'

"Maybe she had that chance, I don't know."

<snip>

 

[TravelingBug]

The other:

http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/in...emembers_slain_teac.html#incart_story_package

A lot snipped out, mostly about the funeral, the struggles those who loved Nicole are having not having her present in their daily lives, and the grief, and at a times, anger, they're feeling as a result, but yet the difference she made at the same time.

Like I said w/ the article above, a great read in the entirety...but highlights below.

With those words, the focus shifted from Mathewson's death to her life, with friends and students all stepping up to the microphone to share stories of dances during math class, baked oatmeal and Sunday songs.

"It was a beautiful thing to watch Nicole lead a worship," Parschauer said during his remembrance of Mathewson. "When she would lead in worship you could almost imagine her already in the presence of God. It was like she wasn't with us in the room.

"She would sing songs like 'It is Well With My Soul' and she was almost in a different place as she imagined being with her heavenly father," he said. "It was a beautiful thing to watch Nicole as she worshipped God."

And as Mathewson worshipped God, she also shared a message of love.

"Nicole had the biggest heart and she willingly shared that love with everyone she encountered," said Arianne Gorniak, a special education teacher at Brownstown Elementary and colleague of Mathewson's.

"Helping and caring for others is what Nicole did best," Gorniak said. "Nicole truly embodied the saying of 'Live, laugh, love.'"

And then mentions about how Nicole lived challenging those to reexamine how they live their own lives, because of the difference in how Nicole lived and the way her life made a difference to so many:

"Nicole's life is something real and something beautiful," " said Amy Wright, a friend of Mathewson's. "The miracle God began in her life, it's not finished yet.

"I realized that though [Nicole]'s no longer here with us physically, her sweet spirit and legacy is," Wright continued. "It reminds me to trust God even when we can't understand His ways, to love others well and to be joyful and thankful for each day He has given us."

Mentioning that despite tears when she comes to mind b/c of the loss of her presence in their lives, they should remember what she exemplified and taught them and to live despite the tears and sorrow:

"But we have to do what Nicole would have done, and that is sing a song, dance around the room, share stories with others to make new friends and never forget to live, laugh, love every day of our lives."

What a lovely, remarkable woman!

 

[Richrd]

Thomas Moore, 25, & Marcus Rutter, 16,: Homicide+ of Nicole Mathewson

The City of Lancaster, & Lancaster County, are in South-Eastern, PA.

Day 52

1) Defendant Thomas Gregory Moore:

Your One-Click Source* Of Upper Court:

ChargeS --- No Bail --- Pre-Trial Confinement --- MotionS --- Scheduled Court DateS ---

Verdicts --- Sentencing --- Payments --- Follow-Up --- Appeals

*Upper Court Criminal Docket Sheet:

*https://ujsportal.pacourts.us/DocketSheets/CPReport.ashx?docketNumber=CP-36-CR-0000238-2015*

18 § 2501 §§A (F1) :: Criminal Homicide
18 § 3123 §§A1 (F1) :: Involuntary Deviate Sexual Intercourse :: Forcible Compulsion
18 § 3701 §§A1I (F1) :: Robbery
18 § 3502 §§A1 (F1) :: Burglary
18 § 903 §§C (F1) :: Conspiracy for Burglary

18 § 3925 §§A (F2) :: Receiving Stolen Property
18 § 3921 §§A (F2) :: Theft By Unlawful Taking

18 § 4106 §§A1I (F3) :: Access Device - [Automated Teller Machine]

Grades of PA Crimes:
H1 = Heinous of 1st Degree; H2
F1 = Felony of 1st Degree; F2; F3
M1 = Misdemeanor of 1st Degree; M2; M3
S = Summary

*"Recent Entries made in the Court Filing Offices may not be
immediately reflected on these Docket Sheets..."

*Pre-Trial Confinement Without Bail, since 12/17/14.

2) Defendant Rutter at Next Post

 

[Richrd]

Thomas Moore, 25, & Marcus Rutter, 16,: Homicide+ of Nicole Mathewson

The City of Lancaster, & Lancaster County, are in South-Eastern, PA.

Day 52

2) Defendant Marcus Anthony Rutter:

Your One-Click Source* Of Upper Court:

ChargeS --- No Bail --- Pre-Trial Confinement --- MotionS --- Scheduled Court DateS ---

Verdicts --- Sentencing --- Payments --- Follow-Up --- Appeals[/B]

*Upper Court Criminal Docket Sheet:

*https://ujsportal.pacourts.us/DocketSheets/CPReport.ashx?docketNumber=CP-36-CR-0000287-2015*

18 § 2501 §§A (F1) :: Criminal Homicide
18 § 3123 §§A1 (F1) :: Involuntary Deviate Sexual Intercourse :: Forcible Compulsion
18 § 3701 §§A1I (F1) :: Robbery
18 § 3502 §§A1 (F1) :: Burglary
18 § 903 §§C (F1) :: Conspiracy for Burglary

18 § 3925 §§A (F2) :: Receiving Stolen Property
18 § 3921 §§A (F2) :: Theft By Unlawful Taking

18 § 4106 §§A1I (F3) :: Access Device - [Automated Teller Machine]

Grades of PA Crimes:
H1 = Heinous of 1st Degree; H2
F1 = Felony of 1st Degree; F2; F3
M1 = Misdemeanor of 1st Degree; M2; M3
S = Summary

*"Recent Entries made in the Court Filing Offices may not be
immediately reflected on these Docket Sheets..."

*Pre-Trial Confinement Without Bail, since 12/16/14.

1) Defendant Moore at Previous Post

 

[OkieGranny]

http://lancasteronline.com/news/loc...cle_1e1bc88e-9f70-11e5-af12-7f976c61c3bb.html

The trial for both defendants is scheduled to begin on April 12, 2016, with Judge David L. Ashworth presiding.

&#8220;As of now, they will be tried together,&#8221; Brett Hambright, spokesman for the Lancaster County district attorney&#8217;s office, said in an email Thursday.

 

[0101ABA]

Killer trades death penalty for life in prison, pleads guilty to teacher Nicole Mathewson's murder

One of two men charged with killing Conestoga Valley elementary school teacher Nicole Mathewson in her Lancaster home in 2014 pleaded guilty Friday to the crime.

Thomas G. Moore, 26, avoided the death penalty by admitting guilt to first-degree murder and other charges. District Attorney Craig Stedman had vowed to pursue the death penalty in December.

Judge David L. Ashworth sentenced Moore to life in prison without possibility of parole during an emotional hearing in which Mathewson&#8217;s family described him as &#8220;evil&#8221; while at the same time offering him forgiveness for his crime.

Moore also was sentenced to 20 to 40 years, in consecutive prison terms, for related crimes including burglary, robbery, criminal conspiracy, theft and access device fraud. He also was ordered to pay $38,566 in restitution.

http://lancasteronline.com/news/loc...cle_e8681e5e-cc42-11e5-ae35-27b16a7b09f6.html

 

[0101ABA]

The second person charged in the 2014 murder of Conestoga Valley elementary school teacher Nicole Mathewson pleaded guilty Monday.

Marcus Rutter, 17, admitted he broke into Mathewson's home Dec. 15, 2014, and robbed and killed her, according to the Lancaster County District Attorney's Office.

He pleaded guilty in Lancaster County Court to first-degree murder and related counts including burglary, robbery, receiving stolen property and access device fraud.

Lancaster County Judge David Ashworth will order Rutter's sentence on July 29. Because Rutter was 16 at the time of the killing, he will not face the death penalty under state law.

http://lancasteronline.com/news/loc...cle_1a077d20-4776-11e6-8ca1-5b60cca6401b.html

 

[0101ABA]

Marcus Anthony Rutter was sentenced to 54 to 109 years in prison Friday for his role in the 2014 murder of Conestoga Valley elementary school teacher Nicole Mathewson.

Rutter, 17, formerly of the 700 block of Marion Street, will not be eligible for parole until he is at least 71.

Judge David L. Ashworth handed down the sentence at the Lancaster County Courthouse.

A previous agreement spared Rutter a sentence of life without parole.

http://lancasteronline.com/news/loc...cle_e35bc7de-5587-11e6-a27d-af04a617a6a8.html