Calvin Purdie Jr., 35, was sentenced to 20 to 40 years for third-degree murder and a consecutive term of 10 to 20 years for aggravated arson Monday.
DNA found under fingernails on a hand that was not incinerated helped lead to a sentence for strangulation, as Calvin Purdie Jr., 35, was sentenced to 20 to 40 years for third-degree murder and a consecutive term of 10 to 20 years for aggravated arson by a judge in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, on Monday.
"This was cold, heartless and vicious," Judge William Tully told Purdie, mentioning that he thought the case was"about as close to a first-degree murder case that you can come" without a first-degree murder verdict, according toPurdie was convicted for the murder of his girlfriend's mother, whose body was discovered in a 2019 fire. A jury convicted him of the crimes in November after a previous trial where jurors failed to reach an agreement on a verdict.
Purdie's DNA was discovered under the fingernails of the hand of 48-year-old Charlotte Chaplin that was not incinerated, prosecutors said. Authorities accused him of setting a fire to cover up the murder of Chaplin in May 2019 in Hershey.reported. One of Chaplin's adult children and their daughter were asleep during the fire, but made it out alive. They had no knowledge of what happened to Chaplin until police arrived.
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