A jury found a 31-year-old man guilty of killing a woman he was in a relationship with and her unborn child – the first time a person has been convicted in Montgomery County, Maryland, of murdering someone who is unborn.
In 2022, Torrey Moore, the father of 26-year-old Denise Middleton’s unborn child, shot Middleton inside the apartment they shared in White Oak and left her there for almost two months, prosecutors said.
Video evidence showed Moore grabbing Middleton in the lobby of the building and pushing her toward the elevator.
“The story is awful,” Montgomery County State’s Attorney John McCarthy said. “There is no way to slice it. This is a terrible case.”
Moore left Middleton on the floor of their apartment while he traveled to North Carolina and California, prosecutors told the jury. Along the way, he searched Google for how to move a dead body without being seen.
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