Posted on 08/26/2022 8:35:46 PM PDT by 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.
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Even if there was clear evidence of homicide, where is evidence that the husband committed homicide?
“Means, motive, opportunity” is good guidelines for investigation, but it is not evidence.
Rumor has it, he didn’t even have a dog, but would have been convicted of it anyway.
Didn’t comply to rules of evidence.
How do you get two counts of murder when only one person died?
Not sure if it applies here but in some states if you kill a pregnant woman you get charged with 2 counts of murder rather than 1.
Case was “merely supposition”, as Holmes would say.
How can you murder someone twice?
Oh boy, she got de crazy eyes!
We had a secretary that committed suicide after a string of personal tragedies. Her husband committed suicide, a year later her son did too, and then her daughter died in a car accident. All of this in a span of 3 years.
It was very sad.
Thanks for the correction. I was tired and missed they were not using her married name of Moore (still can’t get used to that) and see now that indeed it was her stepson. The article says she was “deeply affected” by his death, though, and I have no reason to doubt that.
That poor man, lost his son to suicide, then his wife, then falsely accused of her murder. Apparently, depressed people* who commit suicide are in such a dark place they are unable to consider how it will affect those who love them, even if they know that terrible complicated grief firsthand, as this lady did.
So often, those who have lost someone very close to them to suicide torture themselves with questions like “why didn’t I see this coming?” and “what could I have have done to prevent it?” and “is there anything I said or did to contribute to their decision?” Some become suicidal themselves.
*There may be a few “revenge” suicides, as in “I’ll make them sorry” but I imagine these are a tiny minority of completed suicides.
I don't know. Derek Chauvin was convicted of two counts of murder and one of manslaughter for the death of George Floyd, and I have not seen an explanation of how the prosecutors were able to bring all of those charges for a single death. Perhaps someone knowledgeable in criminal law will be able to explain it.
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