Curtis Moore

• Confession

● Victim wore dark coat when walking on the street the night of the murder.

● Victim was an elderly woman, walking south on the street.

● The victim was assaulted on a “big rug, carpet” that had been removed and sent to the lab at the time the defendant was taken to the crime scene.

● Defendant indicated the general area in which the attack took place.

● Defendant mentioned choking the victim to a hospital worker. The general area where he pushed the woman down and “got me a little bit.”

While in the home, the officer asked the defendant if anything was missing. The defendant did not answer when asked twice, and on the third occasion the officer said, “was it a rug in here last week when you were here? And he [defendant] stated that is was, well, it was two scatter rugs still on the floor. He, I pointed out the scatter rugs, I said is this the rug that was in here last week when you were in here and he stated, no, he said, big rug, big rug, carpet….Well, I (the officer) was in there on the night when this crime took place and we examined, it was a large rug on the floor, and we had found a wet spot on the rug over near the bedroom door, it was in the living room, but it was near where you go into the bedroom…we [took] the complete rug up and ha[d] it sent to the lab.” The lab indicated some evidence of seminal and vaginal fluid on the rug and when the defendant was asked to show where he had pushed the woman down, “he stopped in the general area where we had found the wet spot on the floor” and said that then he got down and “got me a little bit and I go home.”

“Q. …well, what did he tell you other than to describe a lady and which you suggested to him that he saw on the street? A. He had described to me…the weight and the height and her color of her pocketbook and color of her coat…”