Detective's Wife Records a Warning. Then She's Dead.
In 1988, a homicide detective was shot dead on his porch, just months after his wife recorded a secret tape naming him and warning against believing her death was suicide. She died before the tape mattered, and then he was gone too. What did she know, and why did her husband's version of events not align with the evidence?
In this episode, we unravel the complex life of Bobby Moore, a detective whose career was marked by violence, from a 1974 D.C. murder to his own death in Indiana. We explore the critical details of his wife Barbara's death, including a phone call that captured the moments leading up to a fatal shot, and how physical evidence contradicted Bobby's self-defense claim.
Case: Bobby Moore
Location: Fremont, Indiana; Washington D.C.
Date: July 1988; July 1974
Key People: Bobby Moore, Barbara Moore, Barbara Schuford, Lewis A. Sysler, Mary Harris
Event: Two mysterious deaths linked by a secret recording
- In July 1988, Bobby Moore, a former homicide detective, was shot dead on his front porch in Fremont, Indiana.
- Three months prior, his wife Barbara Moore recorded a tape stating that if anything happened to her, it was not suicide, and she named her husband.
- Barbara Moore's daughter, Barbara Schuford, was on the phone with her mother during an argument with Bobby, hearing a loud sound before silence and Bobby's calm voice.
- Bobby Moore claimed self-defense in Barbara's death, stating she advanced on him with a firearm, but physical evidence like blood spatter contradicted his account of her body's location.
- The initial murder that connected Bobby and Barbara was the 1974 shooting of Lewis A. Sysler, a retired judge and lobbyist, who was killed by mistake in Washington D.C.
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