The Police News
March 9, 2010 4:30PM
GALVESTON - A jury in Judge Wayne Mallia's 405th District Court in Galveston has sentenced a League City daughter to 50-years imprisonment for strangling her mother to death and dumping her body in an oil field.
The jury of eight men and four women sentenced Erin Ashlyn Moffatt, 20, this afternoon after convicting her of murder and tampering with physical evidence in the Sept. 2, 2008, slaying of Jana S. Moffatt.
At one time Moffatt confessed to police she strangled her mother after trying to stab her with a syringe, then recanted her confession, saying she was high on drugs, hadn't slept or eaten and was off her medication.
Although the state claimed Moffatt strangled her mother with a cord, evidence pointed to manual strangulation.
Jana Moffatt's body was badly decomposed when it was recovered in a Brazoria County oil field.
The jury sentenced her to two years probation for Tampering With Evidence by trying to hide her mother's body in the oil field.
Breck Porter