Conviction: Second-Degree Murder
DOC#  0291048
Parole Review Date: 7-1-09
Sentence: LIFE
Has Served: 15 yrs to date

Crime Story
Joseph David Moorer lived with the victim and they were related.  Moorer was a crack cocaine user and in the early morning hours of September 2, 1993, Moorer went out and bought five rocks of crack. 

When he returned home the victim was asleep and Moorer went outside of the apartment to smoke one of the rocks.  In his confession to the police Moorer advised that the victim work up and caught him smoking the crack on the back steps of the apartment and took his remaining rocks that he had left on the kitchen bar and flushed them down an upstairs toilet.  This enraged Moorer who began to fight with the victim. 

Moorer grabbed a kitchen knife an the victim picked up a machete.  Moorer was able to get the machete away from the victim and began to stab the victim multiple times until he was lifeless. 

Moorer said he wrapped the victim's body in a pink blanket then drove the body to Granite Street off of Westinghouse Blvd. and disposed of it.  Moorer stated that he attempted to clean up the crime scene in the apartment.  He said that he took all of his bloody clothes along with any other evidence and placed them in a plastic bag and threw them in a dumpster of an apartment complex. 

The victim's decomposing body was found a week later by a maintenance worker off of Granite Street.  Moorer pled guilty to Second Degree Murder and was sentenced to LIFE.

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