{"id":256688,"date":"2013-05-09T14:39:44","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T19:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=256688"},"modified":"2013-05-10T15:25:13","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T20:25:13","slug":"investigation-of-2012-death-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=256688","title":{"rendered":"Suspect in 2012 Murder Claims He&#8217;s Not Guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/05\/Michael-Vincent-Moore.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/05\/Michael-Vincent-Moore-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Vincent Moore\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-256421\" \/><\/a>CANTON \u2014 The man jailed in Canton for the murder of his niece and the dumping of her body made several claims in saying he is not guilty, during an exclusive interview with reporter L.P. Phillips. The defendant says he loved 16-year-old Alicia Moore and wanted to help her, claiming, \u201cShe was addicted to sex.\u201d In a jailhouse interview, Moore said he has been through this before, claiming he was a suspect in a California murder \u2014 a case in which he claims another man was ultimately convicted. Moore says local police zeroed in on him from the beginning, and he \u201cwasn\u2019t surprised when they came.\u201d Moore also claims to have an alibi. He says he was in Grand Prairie with his dad the day Alicia disappeared. Officials say DNA links Moore to the murder; Moore claims if that\u2019s their evidence it was planted. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, officials in Greenville and Van Zandt County issued a joint statement saying their investigation is still ongoing, adding, \u201cwe anticipate the discovery of additional evidence that will further implicate Michael Vincent Moore. They also say, \u201cuntil we conclude our investigation, we will continue to restrict the release of sensitive information in this case\u2026While we would like to share more information at this time, doing so could compromise our investigation and jeopardize a subsequent prosecution.\u201d Moore, 57, of Grand Prairie, was arrested at his home exactly six months after the teenager\u2019s body was discovered last fall. He\u2019s held on $10 million bond, charged with capital murder. The girl was last seen in Greenville, and her body was found in Van Zandt County. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CANTON \u2014 The man jailed in Canton for the murder of his niece and the dumping of her body made several claims in saying he is not guilty, during an exclusive interview with reporter L.P. Phillips. The defendant says he loved 16-year-old Alicia Moore and wanted to help her, claiming, \u201cShe was addicted to sex.\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=256688\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Suspect in 2012 Murder Claims He&#8217;s Not Guilty<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-06 22:34:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=256688"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256962,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256688\/revisions\/256962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=256688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=256688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=256688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}