Murder Shoes & Fabulation

Grafton is a small city in Ozaukee County, Wisconsin, about twenty-five minutes from Milwaukee. On the morning of 26 January 1982, eighteen-year-old Jonathan Leatherman telephoned his friend Christopher E. Moore, also eighteen, to arrange to smoke marijuana. Moore lived with his parents a few minutes' walk away, and at about 10.45 a.m. Leatherman walked over. He went upstairs to Moore's bedroom and found him on the floor, unresponsive, in a messy room. Leatherman called 911 and reported a suicide, then went back into the room looking for a quarter pound of marijuana that Moore kept there. He told police he could not find it. Gary Helm, a member of the Grafton rescue squad who also worked for the street department, was collecting rubbish nearby, was sent to the house and went upstairs with Grafton police officer Daniel Palkovic. They found no pulse. Deputy county coroner Ruth Hyser arrived at 12.05 p.m. and pronounced Moore dead.

The room held a great deal of physical evidence. There was blood on a jacket, a torn shirt, jeans, socks, underwear, a hat, gloves, a yellow towel from the hallway and a cheesehead. Hair was clenched in Moore's left hand, caught between the fingers of his right hand, stuck to his chin and neck by dried blood and caught in his clothing. There were glass fragments, the top, base and bowl of a broken glass bong, pieces of maroon plexiglass, a metal stem, a rubber grommet and a small water-pipe screen. A drinking glass with a little orange liquid stood next to an ice cube. Screws, thumbtacks, a safety pin and a red disposable lighter lay around the body. Most importantly, a phone directory in the upstairs hallway had a bloody shoe impression on its cover.

An autopsy by Dr Helen Young showed that Moore had been stabbed 57 times, that his throat had been slashed and that he had suffered blunt-force injuries to the head. The cause of death was massive haemorrhage from multiple stab wounds. She agreed that the broken bong could have caused some of the head injuries. His heart was intact inside his body, despite a wide wound on his back over the area of the heart.

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details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it Two or three weeks later the brothers told Trent they had to get rid of the clothes. this part of the story is covered for now Trent later told the story to police and became the state's main witness with immunity.

The brothers did not keep quiet. details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it He told his co-worker Carol Winker at the end of April that he knew the man who killed a boy in Grafton and then said, 'I'm the guy that did it.' this part of the story is covered for now

The clothing and shoes were passed around. details of the account remain covered until revealed Todd later found two pairs of shoes inside and wore the tennis shoes for about three months before giving them to Sergeant Fred Getz. Tammy Whittaker heard Rush Schram say the shoes in the bag were the murder shoes. The tread pattern on one shoe matched the incomplete bloody impression on the phone book, though the crime lab could not say that this particular shoe made it.

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