Uncle Guilty in Teen’s Death

CANTON — A jury in Canton has convicted the uncle in the capital murder of a Greenville teenager, and it didn’t take long to reach the decision. Michael Moore will spend the rest of his life in prison with no chance of parole for murdering his niece Alicia Moore, 16, in November of 2012. Her body was stuffed in a wicker trunk and left along a rural Van Zandt County road. The case has torn at the family, with one member murdered and another on trial. But Jessica Byrd, Alicia’s aunt, says her opinion changed. According to Byrd, perhaps a year later, after Moore got arrested, the family was told some things that made her reflect on some other things she knew, and she “just put two and two together.” Moore had denied any involvement in a jailhouse interview.