Your Honor, members of the Jury, my name is Zora Broome, representing the prosecution in this case. Today I present four exhibits, A-1, A-2, B-1, and B-2.
Exhibit A - 1. Evidence of the Crime Scene To determine who did it, we take a look at where it all happened: The Moore family’s home. The Moore family home was decently large in Montgomery County, just 100 miles southwest of Des Moines.
On the outside, the house seemed fine to anyone who passed by it. The inside is far from the outside. Every resident in the house had been brutally murdered in the room they were in. By the time they were all asleep, they were all asleep. However, some oddball things were left by the killer.
For starters, the killer simply left the weapon out in the open.…show more content… One could assume that this was because the killer didn’t want anyone to look into the house while the crime was being committed, but if so, why cover up the mirrors as well?
Exhibit A - 2. Evidence of the weapon and victim. Josiah, Sarah, Herman, Katherine, Boyd, and Paul Moore, as well as Lena and Ina Stillinger, were the victims. All victims suffered blunt force trauma to the head with over 20 strikes to the face each. However, the parents, Josiah and Sarah Moore (more so Josiah) suffered the worst with cuts to the face and neck; with Josiah’s eyes reportedly practically missing from the damage. All the victim’s faces were beaten so much so that their faces became bloody and unrecognizable.
Another detail of the victims would be with one of the Stillinger girls, Lena. With a wound found on her arm, we can assume that she was away when the killer came into her and her sister’s room. Based on the angle, we can also assume that she attempted to fight back, unfortunately losing. The skirt of her nightgown was also pushed up past her waist. Whether this was from her attempting to fight back or an attempt at sexual molestation from the murderer, we won’t know. Unfortunately, no records were able to be found since the initial murder happened about 71 years before DNA testing was even
