Lynda Moore /// Part 1 /// 670 | Forensic Files

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[Music] many called it the mystery in the mountains and oh what a mystery it was
a beautiful mother of two is home alone in Saxton's River Vermont she lives in a big sprawling home
with most of the property in full view from the road in route 121 nearby [Music]
she's well liked and well known around town and the surrounding areas she's busying herself while waiting for
her kids to come home from school her son and daughter are due to arrive around 4pm
surely they would come bouncing off the school bus and ready to forget the day's
lessons and move on to time spent with their toys Hobbies or maybe to play in the
yard with the family dog it was after all a beautiful day outside it was April 15 1986 a Tuesday and Linda
Moore was home she would have most of the day to herself and it was a much deserved day alone
she was going to get in a little me time Linda worked part-time at a clothing store nearby Bello Falls
and she did the bookkeeping for her husband Stevens home remodeling business Stephen wasn't just staying busy his
outfit consisted of several team members and it was quite successful there was plenty of work plenty of jobs
and plenty of books to keep [Music] but that beautiful day would turn ugly and red with blood
thankfully Steven was the first one home that Tuesday unfortunately word had to be sent out to stop the
school bus that the two more children were on their father and the police wanted to
intercept the bus and remove the children and prevent them from coming home and finding what their father had
found just minutes earlier this is true crime garage and this is the still unsolved case of Linda Moore
[Music] foreign [Music] some of the shows that are wonderful listeners love so much shows like
Dateline and 48 Hours shows that feature a lot of solved true crime stories but also some still Unsolved Mysteries and
murder cases would have most certainly featured the case that we are taking a look at here today had this occurred
more recently Dateline premiered in 1992 and 48 Hours has been doing gangbusters work since
1988. our story dates back to before both of those nighttime news magazine shows
Linda Moore was killed in her home in the middle of the day on what should have just been another Tuesday in 1986.
she lived with her husband and two kids in Saxton's River Vermont Saxton's river
is in Incorporated Village in the town of Rockingham and in Windham County Vermont
the population back in 1986 was about 550 people but keep in mind it's a village within a
town the town of Rockingham back in 86 was home to about 5 500 residents and Windham County had a population of about
39 000 people we covered the Connecticut River Valley cereal case the best we could in just
two episodes that was episodes 636 and 637. we released those episodes back in December of last year so those are
waiting there for you if you want to go back and turn your ear balls onto those episodes
the river valley case is rather complicated these potential serial killer cases are complicated stories to
tell typically the main reason for that is multiple victims it can be difficult for someone
listening to keep up with the details of each of the victims and their cases keeping them clear from the details of
the other victims in their cases the other issue is the passage of time when we talk about serial killer cases
or as in this case the potential that the person responsible is a serial killer unfortunately some of these guys
are able to kill over a span of many years and in some cases even decades before
they are discovered and apprehended for example we know Jeffrey Dahmer killed 17 males over the course of
roughly 13 years we also know that Dennis Rader the BTK killer first killed four members of the
Otero family in 1974 and then BTK was not apprehended until three decades later in 2005. well in here in this case
with Linda Moore it's debatable whether this case is connected to the Connecticut River Valley serial killer
cases yeah and it for one simple fact here Captain the really truly separates this case from many of the others
Linda Moore is killed inside of her home in Saxton River Vermont on April 15 1986. the other victims that are
connected or believed to possibly be connected to the Connecticut River Valley killer were all found outside in
many cases had been missing for several months for a long period of time and when the bodies are finally found and
discovered they are in relatively bad shape extensive decomposition has taken place
evidence is lost due to the nature of the crime scene and where the body is found here with the Linda Moore case if
it is in fact connected to the Connecticut River Valley killer this is very much different because you
have a couple of things that took place here she's killed one inside in a more controlled environment where one would
expect to find evidence that wouldn't be lost to the passage of time or the outdoors the
nature of an outdoor crime scene but she's also found relatively quickly after the attack that took her life so
detectives are looking at this case through a very different angle and lens that they would the other cases and keep
in mind a lot of the bodies that were found that are believed to be victims of the river
valley killer were found across the state line in New Hampshire here we are in Vermont with the case of 36 year old
Linda Moore I believe people could make a strong argument either way but but you have to put this killer in that
area with that opportunity that's correct and on the afternoon of April 15 1986 Linda Moore's husband found her stabbed
to death in their home prior to being stabbed prior to the attack It is believed that Linda Moore was sunbathing
in their yard several people were seen outside of the Moore's household including what is
referred to these days as a mysterious dark-haired man with cheap glasses and a blue knapsack
although she was not left in the woods like the other victims Moore's body was stabbed in
again what is reported as a very specific pattern that is found in some of the other
stabbing victims in the river valley killer case profiler John philpin was brought in and worked with multiple law
enforcement agencies in a lot of these cases and he was brought in just days after Linda Moore was killed initially
we had a couple things going on with this case it was significantly different than the cases the other cases
one being that they were suspicious of the husband and rightfully so most of the time it turns out to be the
husband a lot of times it is a domestic situation and detectives believe that is
what they were looking at with the Linda Moore case well also he is the one that
found her body and oftentimes the perpetrator is the one that finds the body or conveniently finds the body
John Philbin had such a difficult time with the Linda Moore case that he struggled to be able to
determine if this should be included or separate from the other cases and in fact he put together two profiles of the
Killer and I believe that he did this based off of the idea that he couldn't sort out if this one was connected or
not and I agree with that 100 in fact it was about five days after five or six days after Linda Moore was found dead
that the New Hampshire State Police and the Attorney General in New Hampshire had discussed putting together a task
force to work on all of the unsolved cases that were piling up in the state of New
Hampshire and they invited law enforcement from Vermont to sit in they encouraged them
to join and send officers and detectives to join this task force in the end Vermont would say we are
going to cooperate with New Hampshire authorities we are going to work with them communicate with them
and assist them in any manner that we can however we will not be dedicating officers to their task force right
and I think part of that Captain was their belief that initially this Linda Moore case had nothing to do with the
cases that were piling up the unsolved cases that were piling up in the great state of New Hampshire but do we know if
these stabbing patterns were released to the public no so the thing that I question here is the reports that have
came out about this air quotes specific pattern right keep in mind a couple of the victims
unfortunately were found skeletal remains is the situation so that you're going your only way to
decipher what kind of stabbing pattern it would be or even if it was a bladed weapon that killed the person at all
would be if there's certain markings on the bones because you have unfortunately no skin
no flesh to tell you the story of the injuries right and they did find evidence that a lot of these decomposed
bodies were the victims of a stabbing initially what I had read there were multiple reports that came
out that said that the stabbing pattern the specific stabbing pattern was stabbed to the upper portion of the body
so up near the neck area including the neck area and then in almost a V pattern toward the upper
abdomen however further digging I found other reports that seem to suggest a much different
attack and my question here Captain is without knowing the specifics without having those Case Files those actual
case files in the autopsy reports it's difficult to determine how many of these victims shared the same injuries
or that same pattern of injuries because further digging tells us that some of the victims it's believed that their
throats were slashed possibly from behind and that there were a dozen or so stab wounds to the lower abdomen right
so if you want to picture this and I bet you don't but you're listening to the show so you probably are hold on
let me get my sandwich if you want to picture this in your mind the attack the way that it would go down in the first
case it would very likely be a very aggressive attacker attacking the victim and stabbing in a downward motion
to the neck and the upper portion of the body up near the shoulders and around the heart and lung area
the other attack style B if you will is very different the the slashing of the throat the slit
throats and there is evidence to suggest that the attacker was actually behind the victim
when they slash the throat slit the throat and then when the victim fell to the ground or the floor as in Linda
Moore's case then stabbed the lower abdomen repeatedly before leaving the body well that could mean a couple
things one simple explanation is we have two killers if there's two types of attacks the
other is it's the same killer but the attacks are happening differently based on the position of the victim to the
attacker correct and so for those not familiar with the Connecticut River Valley killer let's fill in some of the
blanks here before we get into Linda Moore's case the Connecticut River Valley killer is the name given to an
unidentified serial killer believed to be responsible for a series of stabbing murders that took place in and around
Claremont New Hampshire and the Connecticut River Valley primarily in the 1980s no one can seem to agree on
what victims belong to this killer but some of the victims that some believe could be connected to the river valley
killer are victims from the 70s and even the late 60s and as said we are going to get into the
still unsolved Linda Moore homicide case that's why we are here but you can't talk about Linda Moore's case without
talking about the Connecticut River Valley case now for the sake of moving things along
I'm just going to say River Valley killer or river valley cases a lot of times in this week's story
to be clear there is another killer out there known as the river valley killer who
thankfully has been apprehended but this is in a different part of our country Charles Ray Vines was the infamous
killer known as the river valley killer but that was in Arkansas so if you get online and start poking
around on this case just know that this case is unsolved and we are not talking about Charles Vines AKA The
River Valley killer who raped and killed two elderly women in Arkansas in the 1990s he was caught in 2000. Vines was a
rapist and killer his first victim was a legally blind woman she was 89 years old
Captain she lived by herself he savagely beat and raped her in her home in April
of 1993. thankfully she survived the attack but she was unable to identify the attacker
two months later he attacked another woman this time killing her and then in 1995 a 74 year old woman
Ruth Henderson was brutally assaulted and killed in a crime scene that was incredibly disturbing but disturbingly
similar to one of the previous murders do you think that the previous murder do you think that some of these killers
start off with like elderly victims because they know that they can physically overtake them easier I don't
want to get too much into the psychology of it here Captain but from what I've found is oftentimes when we are talking
about an elderly woman who is attacked raped and murdered it's very weird because oftentimes the
attacker is a younger male right and I think it goes into what you're saying there that as as a younger male
or somebody that's not committed this type of crime before and I hate to say this word but it's the truth they lack
confidence and they are looking for a weaker prey someone that is easy somebody that is
vulnerable to attack and we know that even once these killers get confidence and once they have killed before and
intend to kill again they still look for vulnerable prey and weaker persons to attack
but they start to hone in more on their preferred type of victim the one that they fantasize about right with the
elderly women who knows what Vines was fantasizing about maybe that's what he was fantasizing about you also have
opportunistic killers that will just attack and a kill and kill whoever is vulnerable whoever is available to them
when they go out hunting for a victim now fortunately as said Vines was apprehended in 2000 this is because he
was caught red-handed in the act this is when the parents of a 16 year old girl much different victim type here they
come home they find Charles Ray Vines in the middle of stabbing their daughter and Vines was supposed to be a family
friend this was somebody that was known to to the family and so he's arrested he's sentenced to
three life terms without the possibility of parole he admits to the other murders
that they had suspected him of and this to avoid the death penalty all of that information came from the
good Folks at oxygen which did a very intriguing story on Charles Ray vines on their series snapped
and you hope given those dates that we just went through in the location of those attacks by Vines you hope and pray
that Charles Ray Vines was looked at in the Melissa Witt case who was abducted and killed in December of 94. and Morgan
Nick who was abducted in June of 1995. so let's get back to the case at hand today the Linda Moore case yes and as
said you cannot talk about Linda Moore's case without discussing the Connecticut
River Valley case and we said in our episodes 636 and 637 that we intended to cover Linda's case
in a separate episode because again the case is so different from the river valley cases when you look at
them as a whole Linda was a wife and mother of two her and her husband Stephen Moore owned a
somewhat well-known house on Route 121 in Saxton's River Vermont they lived either on or near what is
referred to as tid's corner so this looks like to be a big house with a barn a decent sized yard but the
thing here that's going to play a key role in this investigation and in this True Crime Story
is that their home is in full view of passing cars and passer buyers that are on Route 121. well even though this is a
small town this is a busy road and so this is a house that it it would have been a desirable house so we all know
those routes that we take those Country Roads where you go oh here comes this really neat barn house coming up it was
one of those this was a like a landmark House of this road and people when they drove by were in the habit of kind of
looking over and checking out the house the Moors were very fond of their home they were very house proud and given
Stephen's job as a home remodeling a person that owned his own Home Remodeling Company you can imagine the
upkeep level in the maintenance level that's probably going on at the Moore house so it's a desirable home but also
the you can see Act activity right people going in and out of the house maybe people in the backyard the dogs
outside these are all things that drivers would regularly note when they passed by the house and we know this
based off of the people that live nearby people that lived in the surrounding areas because 121 was heavily trafficked
Road a lot of people told police this but also you had the police the sheriff's department saying their
deputies and their officers when they were out driving did the same thing it was just a natural thing that you did
you look over and see what's going on on tid's corner and at the Moore house again this will play a key factor into
today's investigation on April 15 1986 36 year old Linda Moore was home alone while her husband is at
work it's a Tuesday at around 2PM this is believed to be the last time that she is seen in the yard of her home
and we're going to have a lot of things that are a lot of moving pieces going on
here so Stephen Moore has several guys working for him they're remodeling a home that is approximately five to six
miles away from the Moore house on this day his guys are supposed to be working until about 3 30. as we said earlier
Linda works part-time but she also does some of the bookkeeping for Steven's business right so on this day Steven has
a conversation with his wife via the telephone where he says one of the guys is going to be stopping by to pick up a
check she says okay no problem they have that conversation this is before lunchtime
Stephen Moore leaves for what's reported to be about 10 minutes around lunch and
he's seen going to a local store to get a sandwich and he returns to the work site
relatively quickly gone roughly 10 minutes later that day he goes to send his guy one of his guys
down to the dump they have a dump truck out at this property that they're working on any of the materials that
they're discarding go in the dump truck and then they need to be taken to the dump driven to the dump so this guy is
going to drive the dump truck that will be his last job of the day and then he's
due to leave about 3 30. so this is all going on right around three o'clock well
the guy that's driving the truck to the dump he needs to pay the dump for taking
that load there the way this works is you go in and they weigh your vehicle and then you go dump
your stuff in the dump and you come back and they weigh your vehicle again and then they charge you for the the weight
so he tells his driver stop off at my house on your way there pick up a check from Linda I'll call her and have the
check ready and this should take you to the end of the day he says okay no problem
so at the work site Stephen Moore goes into the home that they're working on and he picks up and uses their landline
to call his wife the phone rings and rings and rings and Rings again this is right around three o'clock
he thinks well this is strange the kids will be home soon she should be home for
when the bus arrives after school but the phone's ringing so she must not be home
well he can't stop and pick up a check because Linda's not there to write the check and give it to the driver of the
dump truck so he very quickly Flags down his driver and says continue on to my house I'm
leaving here in two minutes I'll meet you there I'll write the check dump truck driver leaves the work site
heads toward the Moore house within two minutes Stephen Moore leaves the work site and the way that it's explained to
me Captain is that Stephen Moore had a bit of a Lead Foot this guy liked to get where he was going and like to get there
fast so he leaves the work site again it's about five to six miles away from the
more home and he actually passes the dump truck on his way to his own home so he arrives before his worker does and
he goes inside and he sees his wife's vehicle in the driveway and he says I was a little annoyed here
she is at home doesn't have things going on I need something for work she's supposed to be
keeping the books I called she didn't even answer so he goes into the home and he's a
little annoyed but he noticed how quiet the house was as soon as he walked in the dog was outside
they have a a family dog and the dog was outside of the home and it was typical for the dog to lay out in the yard her
car's there dogs in the yard he sees his wife's sandals outside he also sees a portable radio outside
it's not on but he sees it out there goes into the home notices how quiet it is he sees a package of crackers or some
kind of snack item out on the countertop in the kitchen and he goes in and he's kind of you know
we all kind of do this he's kind of complaining out loud you know thinking that his wife will hear
him he's kind of complaining that she didn't pick up the phone didn't want to have to stop by the house and fill out a
check well this is when he notices that his wife is lying face down in a doorway between
I I probably shouldn't say doorway Captain it's probably more of an entrance way between their kitchen and
their living room she's face down he does see a little red near her but he doesn't immediately
understand what it is and then he goes rushes over to his wife he thinks she just fell
has some kind of accident yeah or fainting yes rolls are over and immediately that I mean this is pretty
gruesome stuff here he sees the the the cuts on to the throat area and he said Not only did he see red
but he saw White and this was on her arm and near the throw area so he's seeing not just blood
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the back and cheers to you Colonel and remember you're smarter if you stay at the Holiday Inn yeah we've the captain I
have experienced that on a couple of occasions you're also taller uh here's a weird thing Captain so in
this story one thing that I wanted to look up immediately is when did 9-1-1 right we have 9-1-1 you can pick up your
phone and call for emergency services you don't exactly need to know exactly the phone number for the police station
or EMTs Poison Control you call 9-1-1 you tell them what's happening and hopefully they can connect you to the
appropriate channels well the internet tells me that 1968 was the first time that 9-1-1 was available
I'm wondering if it is available across the country that early because our cases
in 1986. and one problem that Stephen Moore amongst other problems that he will have
is that when he arrives finds his wife he runs over to the nearest phone you know they're on the the ground level
of their home picks it up and he says there was a bit of a delay maybe 30 seconds maybe 45 seconds he could not
remember the phone number for the ambulance services in his area yeah but at this point you're freaking out you're
seeing blood you're seeing bone your wife you come in you're angry we've all been there oh I've been working my butt
off I come back she's not doing nothing and then you see her now you're in shock
you can't remember the number for the ambulance so he ends up calling the operator dial zero tell the operator
what's going on the operator has to give him the number for the ambulance service
to which he then hangs up and calls them Okay ambulance arrives and it's believed
by all involved including law enforcement that the ambulance arrives on the scene Within
10 to 15 minutes at the very latest of Stephen Moore arriving at his house and the reason why we can verify this
information is remember the dump truck driver left the work site before Stephen Stephen speeds past him arrives at his
home first and then the doctor the dump truck driver arrives within a minute or two behind Stephen Moore right so
Stephen goes into the home and then he comes running out yelling at his worker saying get in here I need your
help my wife's been stabbed so we have his worker to tell us what time approximately that they arrived and
then we have the ambulance to tell us what time they arrived on the scene the ambulance says that when they arrived
the woman unfortunately Linda Moore was beyond help she had been dead for and the the driver said she had been
dead for at least an hour in his opinion now here's another funny part of the story and not funny haha it's funny
scratch your head but as you said Captain Stephen Moore likely is in panic mode at this time
the ambulance says are the police on their way Stephen Moore has not called the police
and so the ambulance driver says well I'm gonna have to call the police the ambulance driver sees Blood on the
handle on the receiver of the phone that's nearby Linda Moore's body so he runs upstairs to the next nearest
phone to call the police yeah he just wanted to disturb the evidence it's believed that the police were on
scene within 10 to 15 minutes after the ambulance driver called them like you said it's a very small town
the other strange thing here for Stephen Moore is remember he was in route to his
house to write a check for the driver to go to the dump he then goes upstairs and gets his
checkbook and writes the check for his driver to continue on his way of course everybody
found this to be incredibly weird yeah it's a little fishy kind of fish stick fishy maybe not so much halibut fishy
police arrive on the scene and now we have the father Stephen Moore the husband Stephen Moore who's telling police my
kids their school bus is going to pull up any minute now they typically arrive before four
yeah nobody wants them walking into this scene for a million reasons well let's stop there for a second because do you
find it odd that he wrote the check because you have this dump truck you have this employee
you have to get them out of there I don't find it that strange I think the police found it very odd I'm sure maybe
even the dump truck driver found it odd I'm with you though there are some of the people truck driver find it odd he
he can't leave until he gets paid right well he's he's not being paid the the dump needs to be
paid for right for taking the load there but I mean the dump truck could go there in the
morning or two days from now like not you don't have to continue doing right everything that you normally would do
when you find your wife stabbed to death on the kitchen floor right so I for those reasons yes that's why everybody
would find it odd but also the dump truck driver basically establishes his Alibi because he was with him at the
work scene and then they had to drive from the work scene over to their house so that would be his Alibi so you'd
think that he would want him to stick around and talk to the police officers to establish his Alibi the reason why I
can agree with you is we've seen some people and have I I've experienced this personally where some people they don't
they just don't know what to do and the way that they are wired tells them to just
keep on keeping on keep moving right like oh like even it's almost like a default
reaction right I I can't process what's happened and so my default is oh I was doing this
action I'll just do this action yeah it's busy work so that's what I think happened now
rightfully so he and the police are worried about the kids arriving they actually sent out a couple Cruisers to
try to track down the bus to stop them from arriving on scene they did stop a bus it turned out to be
the wrong one so the kids do arrive at the house from my understanding by this point several people have been notified
as to what what happened uh Stephen Moore immediately called a few people while the police were trying to track
down the bus uh the people he called was his attorney and his I can't remember Captain if it was his
parents or his in-laws but the parents were called and thankfully so because when the kids arrive Stephen Moore is
out front and he has to tell his children what he has found he has to tell them that their mother has been
murdered and thankfully either his parents or Linda Moore's parents were there to take the children and remove
them from the more home they never step foot inside the home okay but let me stop you
there another Captain question for you ding ding ding do you find it odd that he called his
lawyer yes and here's the thing with this case what it reminds me a lot of is the
actions of a one John Ramsey let's say right where you have all these actions by somebody that's very close to the
victim that's found inside the home and you can look at it from different angles and have a different opinion on
the person so like in John Ramsey's case we have all of these things that he did and some
people oh this is weird this is not how you're supposed to behave and then others that say no
this movement this action is pretty logical in this situation and here's why now the police were it was not lost on
them that oh one of the first calls you make if not the first call was to your attorney
so they grilled him about this and what they found out was that in the end the attorney that he called was his business
attorney slash best friend okay so this is a long time friend and this is not somebody that you would hire
to defend you in a murder investigation right so he's not calling his best friend to get legal
advice he's following his best friend because he's going well look he has to figure out what he's
going to do with his children he's calling to get friend advice not legal advice right
so that's one of those things that on the surface it looks rather suspicious and then you do the fishing and then you
go okay not not really suspicious at all right what's interesting is we hear a lot of
times in the river valley cases that no suspects were ever named publicly and that's true never named publicly by the
police the media and local certainly named some suspects and we hear the same thing for the Linda Moore case as well
no suspects ever named publicly but what we do have beneath the surface is the lead detective told Stephen Moore
look buddy you understand you are our Prime Suspect here in this case you're behaving strangely your movements
your actions seem odd you seem disconnected from the situation you have a check written uh we're asking you
questions about your wife and you are giving us emotionless answers and he says you gotta understand Stephen
ninety percent of the time this is a domestic situation ninety percent of these cases the husband is involved yeah
the husband did it and he also told Stephen Moore something that I found very interesting given that
Stephen Moore was the one that found his wife and given the timeline that Stephen
Moore is able to provide to Detectives he tells Stephen Moore look you're in a strange Catch-22 situation because you
are the prime suspect but you also are our best witness [Music] foreign so much more to get to
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On April 15th, 1986 a young mother was attacked and killed in her home. She was home alone that day while her husband was at work and her two children were at school. 36 year old Lynda Moore was viciously attacked inside her home. With no sign of forced entry and some pretty random suspects the Vermont State Police were sure to have a difficult time with this murder investigation. If you have any information that could help this cold case investigation please contact the Vermont State Police Major Crimes Unit by calling 1-802-244-8727. Tips may also be submitted anonymously at https://vsp.vermont.gov/tipsubmit or by texting keyword VTIPS to 274637 (CRIMES)

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Brief Summary

The episode discusses the unsolved murder of Linda Moore in 1986 and its potential ties to a serial killer.

Key points

The Mystery in the Mountains. A beautiful mother of two is home alone, but her day takes a dark turn.
Linda Moore's Tragic Fate. Linda Moore was killed in her home on a seemingly normal day in 1986.
The Connection to Serial Killers. Exploring the potential links between Linda Moore's case and other unsolved murders.
The Last Time Seen. Linda Moore was last seen in her yard on April 15, 1986, before her tragic death.
A Gruesome Discovery. Stephen Moore finds his wife, Linda, lying face down with severe injuries.
Panic and Confusion. Stephen struggles to remember the ambulance number after finding Linda injured.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

It was a beautiful day outside.

Describing the day of the incident.

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Tension

75/ 100High tension

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