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Timothy Wright Sentenced to 55-Year-Prison Term Stemming From 2014 Murder

Wright was charged with strangulating and killing 25-year-old Joyce Vanderhoff on February 13, 2014.

On February 17, 2023, Judge Dorothy Garrabrant, J.S.C., sentenced Timothy Wright, 42, of Chambersburg, PA, to 55 years in New Jersey State Prison for the 2014 murder of 25-year-old Joyce Vanderhoff.


A jury previously convicted Wright for first-degree murder after a two-and-a-half-week trial that commenced this past October.

Wright was charged with strangulating and killing Vanderhoff on February 13, 2014.

Vanderhoff’s naked body was found on the side of Weymouth Road in Hamilton Township the following morning.

Wright was arrested in 2019 in Pennsylvania and extradited to New Jersey to stand trial.

The 55-year sentence is subject to the No Early Release Act requiring that 85% of the sentence be served before a defendant is eligible for parole, and then a period of parole supervision for five years after release.

This was a cooperative investigation between the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office Major Crimes Unit and Hamilton Township Police Department with assistance from the FBI and the Chambersburg (PA) Police Department.

*Post updated-corrected 2/18/2023 at 1:15 p.m.