ALICIA CHANTA MOORE - 16 yo - / Charged: Uncle, Michael Moore - Greenville TX

Alicia Moore Missing: Texas Police Search For Schoolgirl Who Vanished After Exiting Bus
Posted: 11/06/2012 9:44 am EST Updated: 11/06/2012 9:44 am EST

Police in Texas are concerned for the safety of a Greenville teen who has been missing since last week.

The last confirmed sighting of 16-year-old Alicia Chanta Moore was Friday afternoon, when she got off the school bus. She was reported missing the following morning.

According to Greenville police Chief Dan Busken, officials at Greenville Independent School District have reviewed campus surveillance camera footage that shows Moore exit the school bus safely near her home at the corner of Bourland and Walnut streets at 3:25 p.m. Friday. What happened to the teen after her drop-off remains a mystery.

Authorities said they have interviewed Moore's friends and teachers. It's yet unclear what they learned from the interviews. The school district's technology department has also attempted to trace the location of Moore's school-issued iPad, however officials said the device has been reset.

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Without knowing whether Alicia Moore ran away or was abducted, investigators say they must examine both possibilities simultaneously.

Moore is described as an African American female, 5'1 tall and 97 pounds. She has medium-length black hair, brown eyes, and wears braces. She was last seen wearing a white shirt with a black undershirt, a green jacket, pink headband and black glasses, earrings and a necklace and was carrying a black backpack.

Anyone with information about the whereabouts of Alicia Moore is urged to contact the Greenville Police Department at 903-457-2900.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/06/alicia-chanta-moore-missing_n_2081892.html

I hope she's found alive but I have a bad feeling.  They just found a black female in a trunk on the road.  They are currently trying to identify the body.
William

Police confirm that body found in trunk in Van Zandt County is missing Greenville teen Alicia Chanta Moore
By Matthew Watkins mwatkins@dallasnews.com 11:49 am on November 7, 2012 | Permalink

A photo of Alicia Moore getting off th school bus Friday(From Jessica Nicole Byrd's Facebook page)

Update at 12:49 p.m.: Jessica Nicole Byrd, Moore’s aunt, has posted to her Facebook page the photo you see here — said to be taken from surveillance footage showing the 16-year-old getting off the bus. Byrd is asking “if you all can recognize the young man standing behind her on this picture, please let me know a name or have him to call or text me.”

Update at 12:09 p.m.: In a letter to parents, Greenville schools Superintendent Don Jefferies expressed condolences to the family and friends of Moore, but said that the district has no indication of any predators near local schools or buses.

Jefferies said the district provided police with surveillance video that showed Moore getting off the bus safely on Friday.

“That being said, it is paramount that we remember to stay alert for any strange or suspicious person around our schools and buses,” Jefferies said. “Please remind your children to be vigilant as they go to and from school. Our drivers are highly trained to stay alert and constantly scan their surroundings.”

Jefferies said in the letter that counselors and staff will be available Wednesday “to speak with and comfort any students in need.”

Original item posted at 11:49 a.m.: Greenville police confirmed today that a body found in a trunk in Van Zandt County belongs to missing 16-year-old Alicia Chanta Moore.

Moore disappeared on Friday. She was last seen getting off a bus at a neighborhood street corner in Greenville. Police announced she was missing on Monday. On Tuesday, her body was found in a trunk that had been dropped off a bridge along FM 47, north of Wills Point.

A construction worker found the box, which wasn’t visible from the road, authorities said.

Police didn’t release any details about whether they have a suspect in the case. A press conference has been scheduled in Greenville for 2 p.m. Updates will follow that.

http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/2012/11/police-confirm-that-body-found-in-trunk-in-van-zandt-county-is-missing-greenville-teen-alicia-chanta-moore.html/

Unfortunately this thread can be moved to murdered. William

Alicia Moore's Murder: Heartbroken Family Pleads For Teen's Killer To Come Forward

11/08/2012

Police in Texas are trying to locate the person responsible for the murder of 16-year-old Alicia Chanta MooreThe heartbroken family of teenage girl who was murdered,
placed in a trunk, and dumped along a remote stretch of Texas highway is
making a painful plea for the killer to surrender to police.


The emotional plea came Thursday from Alicia Chanta Moore's aunt,
Jessica Byrd, on behalf of the 16-year-old murder victims' entire
family.


"Do the right thing and turn yourself in. That's all we ask you to do
so we can get some sort of peace from this situation," Byrd told The
Huffington Post.


The distraught aunt, whose deep sorrow was evident in her voice,
added, "We're not here to judge you. That's not our job. That's God's
job."
The body of 16-year-old Alicia Moore was discovered at about 12 p.m. Tuesday in a furniture trunk
along Highway 47. The body, police said, was transported to the Dallas
County Medical Examiner's Office for the positive identification.


According to Greenville Police Chief Dan Busken, detectives are
treating the case as a homicide. Moore appears to have suffered trauma
wounds, though the exact cause of death has not yet been determined,
Busken said.


"We have a lot of work ahead of us with this investigation," Busken
said. "We have received many tips from the community, and we hope those
tips continue to come in."
The police chief did not elaborate on what type of trauma Moore suffered and did indicate whether police have a suspect in mind.


Moore's body was found in Van Zandt County, about 40 miles away from Greenville where she disappeared. Moore was last seen Friday afternoon when she got off the school bus.

Busken said officials at Greenville Independent School District
reviewed campus surveillance camera footage that showed Moore safely
exit the bus at 3:25 p.m. Friday, near her home at the corner of
Bourland and Walnut streets. What happened to the teen after her
drop-off -- roughly one block from her home -- remains a mystery.


"There's nothing that we can think of that could have happened," Byrd
said. "She's not the type that would just take off and she would not
walk up to anybody she did not know. She is very shy and quiet. Either
someone threatened her to come with them or she was approached by
someone she trusted. We just don't know."


Authorities said they interviewed Moore's friends and teachers. The
school district's technology department also attempted to trace the
location of Moore's school-issued iPad, however officials said the
device had been reset and was untraceable.


Byrd said Moore's family is upset that police did not do more to
locate the missing teenager. An Amber Alert was never issued and a
police press release was not issued until Monday, Byrd said.


"[Police] didn't do enough," Byrd said. "They told us the situation
did not qualify for an Amber Alert because there was no evidence of
abduction. Then they waited till Monday to do something."


Cedric Fisher, a friend of Moore's family, expressed the same doubts in an interview with The Dallas Morning News.


"I feel like personally [the police] really dropped the ball," Fisher said.


Lori Philyaw, public information officer for the city of Greenville,
Texas, told HuffPost Wednesday that authorities did not issue an Amber
Alert for Moore because the case "did not fit the criteria."
According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, a law enforcement
agency in Texas must meet a number of specific criteria's to issue a
state Amber Alert. That criterion includes determining whether abduction
occurred and or if the child is in "immediate danger of sexual assault,
death or serious bodily injury."


The Greenville Independent School District issued a notice to parents Thursday
about a suspicious person who had approached a student. According to
the notice, a student at Greenville Middle School reported being
approached Wednesday and offered a ride by a man in a gray or silver
Dodge four-door pickup truck.


"The student reported that the suspect had been waiting on Texas
Street in front of the Middle School as though waiting to pick up a
child, only he did not pick up a child," Superintendent Don Jeffries
said. "Instead, the man drove his pickup truck toward the student in the
parking lot. He lowered his window and asked if the student needed a
ride and offered to take the student home. When the student refused, the
man drove away west on Park."


The suspect is described as a Hispanic male with gray hair and a
stubble of gray beard. He wore a gray Dallas Cowboys shirt and was
described as speaking English, but not well. The truck was said to have
rails on the top of the cargo box sides.


Authorities have not yet commented on the possibility of a link
between Wednesday's report of a suspicious person and Moore's homicide.


Meanwhile, Byrd said that the last 6 days have been a living nightmare for her family.


"We just don't know why [this happened] or who could be responsible,"
she said. "This is a nightmare that we wish would just go away."


Anyone with information in this case is asked to contact the Greenville Police Department at 903-457-2900.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/08/alicia-moore-murder_n_2093017.html

it really amazes me when the families tell the killers that they're not judging them, only God can judge them, yet in the same breath pass judgement on law enforcement. i dont feel that law enforcement dropped the ball, they were going on statements of the family that said there was the possibility that she had run away.

Alicia Moore Sexually Assaulted Months Before Homicide, Police Say

Posted: 11/09/2012 4:49 pm EST





Police in Texas are trying to locate the person responsible for the murder of 16-year-old Alicia Chanta Moore.

Police trying to solve the murder of a Texas teen have arrested one man and questioned another accused of sexually assaulting the victim, but say they have not named a suspect or person of interest in the case.

"We are using all of our resources to investigate this tragedy and to find the person or persons responsible," the Greenville (Texas) Police Department said Thursday in its latest press release.

Authorities discovered the body of 16-year-old Alicia Chanta Moore, who disappeared Nov. 2, at about 12 p.m. Tuesday in a trunk along Highway 47. The body, police said, appears to have suffered trauma, though police won’t comment on the exact cause of death.

Months before Moore was killed, her mother told police that 49-year-old Terry Dwayne Ramsire abused her daughter, according to police. Ramsire was charged with sexual assault of a child and indecency with a child by sexual contact, according to a city spokesperson. He's being held in the Hunt County Jail on $70,000 bond, and while Ramsire was locked up at the time of Moore's disappearance and homicide, police say they are working to determine if a connection exists.

Greenville cops announced on Nov. 8 that they also arrested Tobias Whetstone, a man they previously questioned about Moore's disappearance, according to NBC 5. However, police said he was arrested on an outstanding family violence arrest and didn't immediately say if he's linked to Moore's killing.

The Huffington Post does not typically identify victims of alleged sexual assault, however Moore's identity was revealed to the media before the sexual assault allegations were made public.

More on this story:

• Texas Police Search For Schoolgirl Who Vanished After Exiting Bus
  
• Teen's Body Found In Discarded Trunk
  
• Heartbroken Family Pleads For Teen's Killer To Come Forward
  
• More Alicia Moore Coverage
  

Moore's body was found in Van Zandt County, about 40 miles from Greenville where she was last seen. Moore was captured on on surveillance camera footage safely exiting the school bus at 3:25 p.m. Friday, near her home. What happened to the teen next remains a mystery.

Moore's family was told that police questioned Ramsire, but do not believe there is any connection between Moore's death and the alleged sexual assault case. "[Ramsire] has no relevance to the [murder] case at all," Moore's aunt, Jessica Byrd, told The Huffington Post. "He was locked up way before that even happened."

Whetstone's mother, Tracy Whetstone, told NBC 5 that her son also was uninvolved in the Moore case. She said police searched their home Monday looking for evidence that would tie her son to Moore's disappearance but found nothing.

He son has an alibi, she said. "It makes me feel real bad," Whetstone told NBC 5. "I'm actually hurt about it, because I know my son would do nothing like that. We got witnesses where he was, and I know my son. I have faith in God, and I know he didn't do this."

Greenville police have yet to comment on a possible link, but Byrd said her niece knew Whetstone. "He knew Alicia through a mutual friend," she said.

According to the Van Zandt County Sheriff's Office, anyone who knew Moore or recently came into contact with her is being questioned by police.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/09/alicia-moore-update_n_2101798.html

Greenville
9:16 am
Mon March 18, 2013
Judge rules defendant incompetent




Credit Hunt County
The Hon. Judge Richard Beacom, 354th District Court
A man charged with allegedly sexually assaulting a Greenville teenager who later was found murdered has been found incompetent to stand trial.



1:16
Brad Kellar / KETR
The attorney for Terry Dwayne Ramsire was seeking to suppress statements Ramsire allegedly made to law enforcement officials last year due to questions over Ramsire’s mental competency.

During a hearing Thursday in the 354th District Court, Judge Richard A. Beacom  issued an agreed judgment as to Ramsire’s incompetency and ordered him committed to a mental health facility, “for future examination and treatment toward specific objective of the Defendant attaining competency to stand trial.”

The judgment indicated that neither the prosecution nor the defense had sought a trial to determine competency and did not oppose the ruling.

Beacom ordered a mental examination for Ramsire in January.

Ramsire, 50, received two indictments from the Hunt County grand jury in September 2012; one for aggravated sexual assault of a child and another for indecency with a child by sexual contact, alleging he sexually assaulted Alicia Chanta Moore on multiple occasions during July 2012. Ramsire has pleaded not guilty.

Ramsire was arrested on the charges on Aug. 23, 2012 and has remained in custody at the Hunt County Jail since that time in lieu of a total of $70,000 bond.

http://ketr.org/post/judge-rules-defendant-incompetent

I think the judge is incompetent not the defendant.

UPDATED: Three CPS workers arrested in connection with Greenville murder case
Written by  Staff Report
Tuesday, 24 September 2013 17:45

On September 24, 2013, three Child Protective Services workers were arrested following their indictments in Hunt County for various counts of oppression and tampering with evidence.

Arrested today were: Laura Ard, 60, a former CPS investigative supervisor who retired earlier this year, charged with one count of tampering with evidence; Natalie Reynolds, 33, a supervisor in the Dallas office, charged with three counts of official oppression and one count of tampering with evidence; and Rebekah Ross, 34, who resigned on July 31, charged with four counts of official oppression and one count of tampering with evidence. All charges are third-degree felonies.

Several of the CPS workers were involved in the case of Alicia Moore, a Greenville teen who was last seen November 2, 2012, and whose body was found days later stuffed in a trunk in Van Zandt County. Moore's uncle, Michael Moore, was later charged with capital murder in that case. The CPS employees were involved in, among other cases, investigating allegations of sexual abuse of Alicia Moore which were filed prior to her disappearance.

The cases were presented to a Hunt County Grand Jury following a months-long investigation by the State Investigator General's Office into mishandling of the investigation of allegations of sexual abuse of Alicia Moore.  49-year-old Terry Ramsire was recently convicted and sentenced to 20 years in prison in the sexual assault case, the basis of which occurred months before Moore's disappearance.

The specific connections between the charges and the Alicia Moore investigation are not yet known.
- See more at: http://inforney.com/texas/item/1292-three-hunt-county-cps-workers-arrested-in-connection-with-greenville-murder-case#sthash.twHRumi5.dpuf