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Matthew Harrison (Lancaster County DA’s Office) and the hotel where he was arrested following a standoff with police (WBRE screenshot)

A 48-year-old man in Pennsylvania is accused of killing his wife, allegedly sexually assaulting the 49-year-old woman in their home before strangling her to death and confessing to the crime in a series of text messages to family and co-workers. Matthew Harrison was taken into custody on Thursday and charged with one count each of first-degree murder, second-degree murder, and strangulation, as well as two counts of aggravated indecent assault in the slaying of Jami Harrison, authorities announced.

According to a news release from the Lancaster County District Attorney’s Office, officers with the Northern Lancaster County Regional Police Department at about 4:14 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 5 responded to a call regarding a deceased woman at a residence in the 2200 block of E. Mount Hope Road in Hanheim.

The caller who reported finding the body was Matthew and Jami Harrison’s 11-year-old daughter. The daughter told the emergency dispatcher that her dad was “really mean and hurts” her mother, police said.

Upon arriving at the scene, first responders found Jami Harrison lying in her bed and pronounced her dead on the scene. Authorities noted that she had “red marks on her neck and possible bruising on her forehead.”

A subsequent autopsy conducted by the Lancaster County Coroner’s Office ruled the manner of death homicide with the cause being asphyxia due to strangulation. The autopsy also showed signs of sexual assault on the victim’s body.

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