Anonymous Tip Led Police To 16yr Old Marcus Anthony Rutter, 2nd Charged In Murder Of Teacher

[Mata Hari]

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

An anonymous tip led police to a 16-year-old city boy accused in the killing early Monday of a sixth-grade teacher in her Lancaster city home.
The tip came in through Lancaster City/County Crimestoppers Monday evening.
Three hours later, around 9:30 p.m., Marcus Anthony Rutter was taken into custody by detectives who spotted him walking in the 600 block of East Marion Street.
Authorities said they are still looking into the possibility that Rutter had an accomplice in the robbery and killing of Nicole Mathewson, 32, who was found dead in her home at 710 N. Franklin St. Monday morning.
Police Chief Keith Sadler, when asked if officials know the name of the alleged co-conspirator, said that while Rutter has been intensely interviewed, police don’t want to “jump the gun” in case he’s intentionally attempting to mislead them.
Asked about the possibility that Rutter acted alone, Lancaster County District Attorney Craig Stedman said, “The evidence is consistent that someone — at least one other person is involved but we can’t make that conclusion at this point in time.”
Investigators, so far, have found no connection between Mathewson and the suspect, Stedman said at a press conference Tuesday afternoon.
The motive, he said, was burglary.
Mathewson was found dead by a friend who went to check on her just after 9 a.m.
The friend had been contacted by Conestoga Valley School District officials, who became concerned when Mathewson failed to arrive for work at Brownstown Elementary School.
She died of “multiple traumatic injuries,” Lancaster County Coroner Dr. Stephen Diamantoni said after an autopsy on Tuesday.
Stedman declined to discuss details of how Mathewson was killed but said it’s “appalling, I will tell you that.”
“It’s an absolutely devastating crime,” he said. “It’s grisly.”

 

[Krystal]

This was in my local paper today. Just sickening, a 16 year old, makes me sick to read about kids that evil.

 

[Satanica]

Especially when we read about them every freaking day.

 

[BlueLover]

Shit you can't even educate kids these days. I'd bet the accomplice has a connection to the teacher probably a student of hers one of those 14/15 year old 6th graders.

 

[Kathy]

That baby face will fit right in with his new living arrangement. Why do I already hear his family saying "he has always been such a good kid and never got in any trouble".

 

[Whisper]

Thomas Moore, 25 & Marcus Rutter, 16​

[...]
16-year-old and his 24-year-old accomplice have been arrested in the gruesome murder of a middle school teacher, which authorities as described as "appalling" and "absolutely devastating."
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Police arrested Marcus Anthony Rutter, 16, Monday night and then
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announced the arrest of his alleged accomplice, Thomas Moore, 25, for the murder of Nicole R. Mathewson.

They have both been charged with homicide, burglary, criminal conspiracy to commit burglary and robbery
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Moore was also charged with receiving stolen property and access device fraud.
Police have not released details about the nature of the murder, but
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Chief of Police Keith Sadler said the teacher was "brutally murdered" at a press conference Tuesday
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District Attorney Craig Stedman called the vicious acts "absolutely devastating" and "grisly."
It's appalling, I will tell you that," he told
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When the teacher did not arrive for school Monday morning, a friend checked on her home and immediately called police
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and found her dead with visible traumatic injuries.

Rutter admitted to police he sought to rob the house, and he and a co-conspirator applied force that caused the death of the sixth-grade teacher
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"Based on what (Rutter has) said, we're absolutely sure he participated in this murder,
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Stedman noted.
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Police have not released any other details on the investigation and note it is ongoing.
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A GoFundMe page has been created to pay for Mathewson's funeral expenses.

"She was truly a remarkable person who loved life and had a contagious joy that blessed everyone she met,"
[...]
SOURCES
http://lancasterpolice.com/news/pre...ade-in-n-franklin-st-homicide-investigation-/
&
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2014/12/elementary_school_teacher_was.html#incart_m-rpt-1

Sixth-grade math teacher Nicole Mathewson was brutally killed inside her Lancaster, Pa., home.​

 

[ChaosKitty]

scum for the holidays

 

[justfedup]

Wow. Evil never takes a break, does it?

 

[Krystal]

There's another thread on this one but with just the 16 year old arrested. I think it was Mata that posted it yesterday.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Jul 29, 2016

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, will not be eligible for parole until he is at least 71.

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

Rutter pleaded guilty to murder of the first degree, conspiracy to commit first-degree murder and related burglary and robbery charges on July 11.

Rutter, who will turn 18 on Aug. 13, was not eligible for the death penalty under Pennsylvania law because of his age at the time of the crime.

“The only sentence that we would be happy with would be Nicole be alive today, and we can't do that,” District Attorney Craig Stedman said following the sentencing hearing. “It's certainly a significant sentence. Personally, we can't do it but, the appropriate sentence is the death penalty, really.”

Rutter was 16 when he and Thomas Gregory Moore, 26, broke into Mathewson's home and stole items including electronics, her car and her debit card before beating and killing her in the home on Dec. 15, 2014.

Moore, Rutter's cousin, avoided the death penalty when he reached a plea agreement in February. He is currently serving a life sentence plus 20 years at the State Correctional Institution at Camp Hill in Cumberland County after pleading guilty to murder of the first degree and related burglary and robbery charges.

Todd Brown, the chief public defender who assisted Chris Tallarico in defending Rutter, spoke for about 90 minutes as he attempted to convince Ashworth that Rutter should be given the minimum sentence of 35 years for the most egregious charge of murder in the first degree.

He brought up Rutter's age and the cognitive developments of a juvenile. He brought up Rutter's family life and upbringing, his mental health and how he was influenced by Moore.

Brown painted Rutter as the follower who looked up to older cousin Moore, the “leader” and “manipulator” who committed the murder that night.

Rutter was a shy and scared accomplice who did not have the strength to stop Moore and has shown genuine remorse, he said.

Rutter, who read from a statement, apologized for his involvement in the crimes and accepted responsibility.

Assistant District Attorney Christopher Larsen objected to the defense's version of the facts as he stared down Rutter, often raising his voice as he lectured him about the evidence in the case.

Mathewson, ever the effervescent person her friends and family described her as Friday morning, had recently baked cookies to disperse to her neighbors, Larsen said.

And Rutter couldn't resist helping himself to the Tupperware containers full of them as he and Moore committed their crimes.

As the day went along, and Rutter joked with his friends at a McCaskey High School basketball game, he sent messages to Moore asking if the 24 hours had expired before they could get more “bread,” or money, off of Mathewson's debit card.

Rutter "liked" the initial stories posted on Facebook about the murder. And he wanted to buy some weed.

“That's what Rutter was concerned about,” Larsen said.

As horrified as the defendant says he was of the actions of “Evil Thomas Moore,” he took the Tupperware containers full of cookies, Larsen said.

Ashworth referred to Rutter's decision to eat the cookies as “callous.”

Rutter was an "active participant" and the "instigator" of the home invasion, Ashworth said, and Rutter was alone with the victim for an extended period of time while Moore left to use Mathewson's debit card at an ATM.

Only he and Moore truly know what happened in the home, he said.

"To say this was barbaric, depraved and senseless is an understatement," Ashworth said.

https://lancasteronline.com/news/lo...cle_e35bc7de-5587-11e6-a27d-af04a617a6a8.html

 

[Sugar Cookie]

@Satanica

Oct 23, 2017

A state appeals court Monday ordered a Lancaster County judge to resentence Marcus Anthony Rutter who admitted participating in the torture and murder of an elementary school teacher.

However, that ruling by a panel of the Superior Court can't really be considered a win Rutter, who is serving a 54- to 109-year prison term.

In fact, it could result in Rutter spending even more time - maybe even the rest of his life - behind bars for the December 2014 slaying of 32-year-old Nicole Mathewson.

On appeal to the state court, Rutter claimed county Judge David L. Ashworth sentenced him too harshly after Rutter pleaded guilty to conspiring with Thomas Moore to kill Mathewson during a burglary at her Lancaster City home.

Rutter was 16 at the time of the murder. Moore, who was 24 at the time of the killing, is serving a life-plus-20-year prison term.

In the state court's opinion, Judge Jacqueline O. Shogan rejected Rutter's claims that Ashworth's sentence was too severe, and that it was illegal because it gave him no real chance at eventual freedom, as the law requires for juvenile killers.

To the contrary, Shogan found Ashworth didn't sentence Rutter harshly enough.

She noted that Rutter's 54- to 109-year sentence consists of a series of consecutive punishments for a laundry list of crimes Rutter pleaded guilty to in connection with Mathewson's murder.

One of those guilty pleas was to a count of first-degree murder. Ashworth sentenced Rutter to 35 to 70 years in prison on that charge.

That is an illegal sentence, Shogan found, because state law requires that juvenile killers be sentenced to at least 35 years to life on first-degree murder convictions. So, she sent Rutter's case back to county court for imposition of the longer sentence.

https://www.pennlive.com/news/2017/10/appeal_backfires_on_teen_who_t.html

 

[Sugar Cookie]

@Satanica

"Nicole Mathewson no longer exists," Larsen said. "She doesn't get to work out in the sun. She doesn't get to visit with her family.

A Lancaster man who appealed his sentence after pleading guilty to first-degree murder in the killing of a teacher when he was a teenager is still facing at least five decades behind bars.

Marcus Rutter, now 20, had appealed his 54- to 109-year sentence in the 2014 beating death of 32-year-old Nicole Mathewson, a sixth-grade teacher.

Rutter, who was 16 at the time of the crime, argued in his appeal that the sentence was essentially a life term, something his plea agreement didn't allow.

The appeals court rejected that argument, but it did order him re-sentenced on the grounds that the maximum term under 2012 law should have been life.

Rutter was re-sentenced Wednesday to 54 years to life. He'll be eligible for parole when he is 70.

At the hearing, First Assistant District Attorney Christopher Larsen told Judge David Ashworth that he would be "hard pressed to find [a crime] as evil as the one before you."

Larsen also responded to statements from Rutter's defense about Rutter's accomplishments and program involvement as an inmate at a state prison in Clearfield County.

"Nicole Mathewson no longer exists," Larsen said. "She doesn't get to work out in the sun. She doesn't get to visit with her family."

Man still faces 5-decade sentence in 2014 murder of teacher

A Lancaster man who appealed his sentence after pleading guilty to first-degree murder in the killing of a teacher when he was a teenager is still facing at least five

www.wfmz.com

 

[Sevens My Charm]

Rutter was re-sentenced Wednesday to 54 years to life. He'll be eligible for parole when he is 70.

 

[Satanica]

And hopefully he won't get parole until much, much later.

 

[Babs]

Hopefully he'll be dead before then.