Man Convicted In 2010 Murder Of Girlfriend: Camden Co. Officials

CAMDEN, NJ — A Camden County jury has convicted a man of strangling his then-girlfriend to death in 2010 before moving to Texas, officials announced.

Timothy Simon, 54, was convicted of murder on Wednesday after a ten-week trial according to Camden County Prosecutor Grace C. MacAulay. Officials listed his residence as Salem City.

Simon had called 911 to report that his girlfriend Lawanda Strickland had died on July 10, 2010 in Camden city, officials said. Strickland was found deceased on her couch in a home they shared that morning, officials said.

An autopsy determined the cause of death to be blunt force trauma to the neck, and the manner of death to be homicide.

Officials in Camden County continued investigating, along with police in Houston, Texas. Cell phone data, DNA evidence, crime scene processing, and numerous interviews connected Simon to the crime, MacAulay said. Read more — Texas Man Strangled His Girlfriend to Death in South Jersey in 2010: Prosecutor

Simon was charged with Strickland's murder in December 2015, and officials arrested him in Texas. He was extradited back to New Jersey in 2016, MacAulay said.

His trial began Dec. 6, 2022, said MacAulay. Simon's sentencing is scheduled for April 6, 2023, and he was taken to the Camden County Correctional Facility.