Ohio man found not guilty of strangling wife, staging to look like suicide

NY Post ^ | August 26, 2022 9:57pm | Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News

[conservative98]

It took a jury just under three hours to find an Ohio man not guilty Friday of murdering his wife and staging it to look like a suicide.

Matheau Moore, 51, sobbed and cradled his face in the palms of his hands in a Delaware County courtroom when the judge read the verdict of not guilty to two counts of murder and one count of felonious assault.

Emily Noble vanished on her 52nd birthday May 24, 2020, sparking a manhunt, according to the Columbus Dispatch.

She was found about four months later, her badly decomposed remains hanging from a tree branch in the woods from a USB cord wrapped around her neck.

Prosecutors accused Moore of killing his wife then stringing up her corpse to mislead investigators.

A forensic anthropologist, a pathologist and officials form the Delaware County Coroner’s Office said the cause of death was homicide and that a hanging would not cause the injuries she had sustained to her neck.

But a defense expert, Heather Garmin, a forensic anthropologist, said that bones in the neck can be very fragile, and could have snapped from weight of her body.

In closing statements, Moore’s defense lawyer Diane Menashe argued that Noble had endured tragedy after tragedy and finally gave in to her grief, taking her own life, about two years into her marriage to Moore, Law&Crime reported.

Most recently, Moore’s 17-year-old son had committed suicide and Noble was deeply shaken by this. Her first husband also died from suicide, and she lost her mother in a car accident.

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There was no evidence that Moore had ever abused Noble, and the prosecution provided no clear motive for the alleged murder.

The prosecution’s case was “totally speculation,” Menashe said in summations.

[conservative98]

Persecutors.

[conservative98]

You’re guilty until proven innocent. Sad - no motive. No history of abuse. Wife was distraught and sad from losing son and other family members - but prosecutors needed a suspect - bam - husband has to fight and prove innocent. System sucks.

[kiryandil]

There was no evidence that Moore had ever abused Noble, and the prosecution provided no clear motive for the alleged murder.

But at least the persecutors had a bottomless checkbook to attack the husband with...

Of course, these local prosecutors are amateurs.

Federal persecutors would have gotten a conviction - and got him to plead guilty to killing his dog, too - whether he'd done it, or not.

Do You Want To Lose In Federal Court, Little Man? HAHAHAHAHA!! Then You'll Be in OUR Hands!!

[DannyTN]

That’s why I never wrap phone cords around my neck so I can talk on the phone while climbing trees.

[DannyTN]

It’s like running with scissors.

You just don’t do it.

Unless someone is being strangled by a phone cord while hanging from a tree. Then you run with scissors and hope it doesn’t end in a double suicide.

[Doctor Congo]

How do you get two counts of murder when only one person died?

[conservative98]

"This is a sham": Prosecutor Mark Sleeper walked out of the courtroom after a heated argument with Judge Stephen Wolaver over the judge continuing the Matheau Moore trial without prosecutor Melissa Schiffel being present." #stagedsuicidemurdertrial pic.twitter.com/ehaBjbL0PI— Law&Crime Network (@LawCrimeNetwork) August 25, 2022

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Wow, did this prosecutor start out talking about a scene in a movie!? After he just prosecuted a case with ZERO physical evidence.— Ninafikiri (@SoulSistaNumbr1) August 25, 2022

Where was the evidence of the murder?— Ninafikiri (@SoulSistaNumbr1) August 25, 2022

I told y'all it was a sham lmao— Blue Unicorn (@blueunicornluv) August 25, 2022

Fuzzy head guy and @DelCoProsecutor are both embarrassments. This was a garbage case brought by garbage prosecution to cover for a garbage police dept. Case closed.— theotherotherpda (@theotherotherp1) August 26, 2022

[conservative98]

#StagedSuicideMurderTrial #StagedSuicideMurderCase @CourtTV

NOT GUILTY - OF ALL CHARGES‼️✅ @TedCourtTV @CourtTV pic.twitter.com/bXUYiwzmtD— ADRIIENNE F. (@itsadriienne) August 26, 2022

#StagedSuicideMurderTrial

IMHO, correct verdict.

well done to Diane Menashe👏🏼‼️ @dianemenashe #MatheauMooreDefense team did great! @CourtTV pic.twitter.com/JeCHbSVUrN— ADRIIENNE F. (@itsadriienne) August 26, 2022

[Still Thinking]

If it was Michael Moore, and he killed his wife, it would either be that he ate her or that she got trapped in a flab fold and suffocated.

[conservative98]

Beware of this lunatic.

Melissa Schiffel @DelCoProsecutor

Prosecutor Melissa Schiffel yelled in court about the suicide instruction in the jury instructions in the #MatheauMoore trial. "There's been no evidence that Emily Noble was suicidal. None," Schiffel said to the judge. #stagesuicidemurdertrial pic.twitter.com/IXCvmUKwwY— Law&Crime Network (@LawCrimeNetwork) August 25, 2022

[CatHerd]

It is sad. Hadn’t the poor man already been through enough?

It’s also sad how suicides can cluster. First her husband, then her son, then her. It’s a very special grief those who mourn suicides suffer. The teen boy could not handle it. She could not handle it twice. Too, too much tragedy in one family.

[Qui is]

“System sucks.”

No argument with you there. Seems to me that detectives and prosecutors have devolved into scum constantly looking for opportunities to justify their existence by persecuting anyone and everyone based upon the flimsiest of evidence.

Very sad and evil.

[frank ballenger]

She was found about four months later, her badly decomposed remains hanging from a tree branch in the woods

Wasn't this already on the Hallmark family movie night special?

Maybe I'm confusing it with the LGBTQ couple who each pay for a hit man to kill the other but the two snipers kill each other in the bushes when the couple between them ducks?

[kiryandil]

How do you get two counts of murder when only one person died?

The American Jesters System is magic, that way.

Wait'll you see the magic that Gauleiter Garland's "Deportment of Jesters" uses to indict Trump, his family and everyone he knew from his childhood up to the present.

They'll even dig up Ivana, and indict her like the Brits did with Oliver Cromwell.

[Secret Agent Man]

When you’re a man and there’s a woman involved,

You’re guilty until proven innocent.

[ETCM]

System sucks.

In our adversarial system, justice is not a goal. Winning is the goal, regardless of innocence or guilt. Innocents are convicted and guilty set free. Every. Day. The system incentivises such corruption through political and financial advancement of the worst abusers.

[21twelve]

That is odd with the two counts of murder.

Maybe one for the original supposed strangulation, and then another for the hanging?? (I don’t see how that would make sense though).

If I was the defense attorney I would point out in the evidence photos of the house all of the various extension cords, ropes, etc. and ask the jury to wonder why a MAN would use something like a phone charging cable rather than a good sturdy rope?

OTOH, I’ve read where most women kill themselves from an overdose as hanging is deemed to violent. I can’t imagine trying to hang myself - must be a slow death, especially with a phone cord.

[4Runner]

Her parents spent a lot of money on her teeth when she was a kid.

[heartwood]

It was her first husband and her stepson who committed suicide. The boy was not suffering from his father’s suicide.