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Woman: ‘I strangled my mom’


Published March 3, 2010

LEAGUE CITY — A woman accused of strangling her mother and disposing her body in a vacant, overgrown, Brazoria County oil field cried openly Tuesday in court, the first day of testimony in her murder trial.

At first Erin Ashlyn Moffatt, 20, in her videotaped interview with authorities, struggled to find the words to describe her mother’s death until an investigator suggested it was too heavy a burden to harbor.

“I strangled my mom,” Moffatt said, as she sat in the Lafayette Parrish Sheriff’s Office interview room with League City police detectives.

“With what?” detectives Cory Beyer and Gina Gonzales asked her.

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