Chesco Man Sentenced To 55 Years In Separate 2020 Lancaster County Deaths

CHESTER COUNTY, PA — A Chester County man pleaded guilty to charges related to the strangulation death of his girlfriend and the death of a man to whom he'd delivered drugs; he was sentenced in both crimes in Lancaster County this week.

Matthew J. Moser, 32, of Chester County, will serve up to 55 years in prison after pleading guilty to charges of third-degree murder and drug delivery resulting in death in two separate 2020 crimes, according to the Lancaster County District Attorney's Office.

Lancaster County President Judge David Ashworth handed down the sentence. Moser was sentenced to 20 to 40 years on the third-degree murder charge and six to 15 years on the charge of drug delivery resulting in death, for a total aggregate sentence of 26 to 55 years in prison in a plea agreement with the Commonwealth, according to the Lancaster County District Attorney's Office.

Troopers with Pennsylvania State Police were dispatched to a home on Shirktown Road in Caernarvon Township, in Lancaster County, for a reported drug overdose on Jan. 29, 2020. Police reported finding a 24-year-old man dead in the home. Evidence found through Facebook messages, phone records, and internet searches on Moser's phone indicated he delivered the drugs that resulted in the man's death, the District Attorney's report said.

In a separate incident on March 2, 2020, state police were dispatched to a home on Twin County Road in Caernarvon Township to check on the welfare of a resident, the Lancaster County DA's Office said.

Police reported finding Kristin Graham, then 47, dead in an upstairs bedroom, from strangulation. The bedroom door had been shut and locked, according to police reports.

Police obtained information from multiple people that led to Moser, Graham's boyfriend, becoming a suspect in the homicide, the DA's report said.

Moser had been living at the victim's Twin County Road home and at a Quality Inn hotel in Chester County, according to police reports.

Pennsylvania State Police led a collaborative effort between law enforcement agencies to bring Moser into custody on March 3 at the Quality Inn hotel in West Goshen. Other occupants in the hotel were evacuated as police made contact with Moser and eventually took him into custody after a long standoff.

State Police Trooper Clinton Wagner and Scott Enedy filed the charges.

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