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I want you back with me many called it the mystery in the mountains and oh what a mystery it was
and still is a beautiful mother of two was 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 she's wellik and well known
around town in 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 400 p.m. 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 15th 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
Bellow Falls and she did the bookkeeping for her husband Steven's home modeling business Steven 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 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
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 [Music] Moore I want you back with me
some of the shows that our wonderful listeners love so much shows like dat line 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 dat line premiered in
1992 and 48 has been doing Gang Busters 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 saxon's
river is an incorporated Village in the town of Rockingham and in window 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 serial 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 earballs 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 each of the victims in 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 dmer killed 17 males over the course of roughly 13
years we also know that Dennis Raider the BTK killer first killed four members of the ottero family in
1974 and then BTK was not apprehended until three decades later in 2005 well and 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 that really truly separates this case from many of the
others Linda Moore is killed inside of her home in Saxton River Vermont on April 15th
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 per 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 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 believe 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 15th 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 napsack 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 that 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 so he is the one that found her body and often
times the perpetrator is the one that finds the body or conveniently finds the body John philin 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 5 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 to 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 stabs to the upper ER 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 share 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 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 slashed 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 the 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 more 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 found is often times when we are talking about an elderly woman who is attacked raped and murdered
it's very weird because often times 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 Vin 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 milissa wit 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 Steven 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 Siz 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 housee 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 Steven's job as a home remodeling a
person that owned his own Home Remodeling Company you can imagine the upkeep level and the maintenance level
that's probably going on at the more house so it's a desirable home but also that you can see 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 lived 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 mo
house again this will play a key factor into today's investigation on April 15th 1986 36
year-old Linda Moore was home alone while her husband is at work it's a Tuesday at around 2
p.m. this is believ 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 Steven Moore has several guys working for him they're
remodeling a home that is approximately 5 to 6 miles away from the more 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 step 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 Steven 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's 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 3:00 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 land line to call his wife the phone rings and rings and rings and Rings again this is right
around 3:00 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 ly is 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 2 minutes I'll meet you there I'll write the
check dump truck driver leaves the work site heads toward the Moore house within
2 minutes Steven Moore leaves the work site and the way that it's explained to me Captain is that Steven Moore had a
bit of a Lead Foot this guy liked to get where he was going and likeed to get there
fast so he leaves the work site again it's about 5 to six miles away from the mo 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 right rushes over to his wife he thinks she just
fell had some kind of accident yeah or fainting yes rolls her 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 throat area so he's seeing not just
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the captain and 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 911 right we have 911 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 emt's Poison Control you call 911 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 uh 911 was available I'm wondering if it is available across the country that early
because our case is in 1986 and one problem that step 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 you're seeing blood you're seeing bone your wife you 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 Steven 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 Steven Steven leads past him arrives at his home first and then the duck TR the dump truck driver arrives
within a minute or two behind Steven Moore right so Steven 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 at 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 more likely is in panic
mode at this time the ambulance says are the police on their way Steven Moore has not called
the police and so the ambulance driver says well I'm going to have to call the police the ambulance driver sees Blood
on the handle on the re 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 it doesn't want to disturb the evidence it's believed that the police
were on scene within 10 to 15 minutes after the ambulance driver called them well like you said it's it's very small
town the other strange thing here for step 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 halant fishy police arrive on the scene and now we
have the father Steven Moore the husband stepen Moore who's telling police my kids their school bus is going to pull
up any minute now they typically arrive before 4: 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 the dump truck driver find it odd he he can't
leave until he gets paid right well he's he not being paid the the the dump needs
to be paid for 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 i' 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 yeah right like oh like e 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 uh 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
Steven 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 Steven 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 Moore home they never
stepped 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 Ramsay 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 uhhuh and you can look at it from different angles and have a different
opinion on the person so like in John Ramsay'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 SL best friend okay so
this is a longtime 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 calling his best friend cuz 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
a little digging 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 locals 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 got to understand Stephen 90% of the time this
is a domestic situation 90% of these cases the husband is involved yeah the husband did it and he also told Steven
Moore something that I found very interesting given that Steven Moore was the one that found his his wife and
given the timeline that Steven Moore is able to provide to detectives he tells Stephen Moore look
you're in a strange catch22 situation because you are the prime suspect but you also are our best
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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

Linda Moore was murdered in her home in 1986; her case remains unsolved and may be linked to a serial killer.

Key points

The Mystery in the Mountains. Linda Moore's tragic story unfolds in a seemingly peaceful town, leading to a shocking crime.
Unsolved Case of Linda Moore. A mother of two is found murdered in her home, raising questions about safety and justice.
Different Angles of Investigation. Detectives approach Linda Moore's case with a unique perspective, unlike other unsolved cases.
Linda Moore's Last Moments. On April 15, 1986, Linda Moore was last seen in her yard before tragedy struck.
The Discovery. Steven Moore returns home to find his wife lying face down, leading to a shocking revelation.
Emergency Response. After discovering Linda's body, Steven struggles to call for help, leading to a delay.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

This beautiful day would turn ugly and red with blood.

Describing the sudden shift in a peaceful day to a tragic event.

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Tension

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