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Anthony Allen Shore
This man is currently on death row in Houston, Texas. I was stunned to learn of his MO and its similarity to the JonBenet Ramsey murder. His targets were young females, and children, including a 9 year old girl. He employed garrotes and sticks to commit the murders. Some were abductions. Some were home invasions. He was convicted in 1997-8 for the sexual molestation of his own children, at which time his DNA was entered into CODIS. It wasn't until 2003 that a codis match identified him with an unsolved murder; later leading to a confesssion of additional murders and a death sentence in 2004.
While his KNOWN murders were commited in the Houston Area, some investigators feel there are more. He was apparently a high IQ psychopath who was perfectly capable of planning, stalking and executing his killings. If, as some believe, the ransom note is a ruse, its purpose, perhaps, was to allow the killer ample time to leave the area. It's about 15 hours from Houston to Boulder.
Interestingly, Shore worked many years for Southern Bell Telephone Company -- i.e., SBTC
My question for you experienced sleuthers are:
1. What is the current state of DNA matching in the JonBenet case? His dna wasn't entered into CODIS until 1998, and the victim match wasn't until 2003.
2. Has this man ever been identified and/or eliminated as a possible suspect?
3. Do we specifically know if JonBenet appeared in any pageants or publicity in the Houston area shortly before her death?
4. How common is this particular comination: children murdered by a pedophile stranger, home invastion, with the specific mo of garrote, molestation and physical violence?
I'm including a few snippets of information about this man and links to two sites with some information about him. Thanks for any insight you could provide.
"Several jurors appeared horrified, with their hands covering their faces, when listening to testimony from one woman who said Shore broke into her family's home in 1993 when she was 14, tied her up and raped her..."He said in a calm voice, 'I'm just here to rob your house,' " said the woman, now 25. Shore then covered her eyes and mouth with duct tape and bound her hands behind her back, she said....'I had to do something'."He used a knife to cut off my panties," the woman said. "As I was screaming, he got upset and told me I was being too loud." ..Then she felt hands around her throat. "I kind of came out of my stupor and realized I had to do something. If I don't do something, I'm going to die," she said...She was able to kick him away, but he threatened her before leaving the house..."He said he knows everything about me. He'd been watching me come home from school. He knew that I played soccer,"
"Shore, 42, strangled three of the female victims with cord or rope as he sexually assaulted them."
"Shore has admitted killing Laurie Lee Tremblay, 15, who was found dead in September 1986; Dana Sanchez, 16, found dead in July 1995; and Diana
Rebollar, 9, found dead in April 1994. All 4 were strangled, and 3 were sexually assaulted, prosecutors said."
"The state of Texas will execute an admitted serial killer. A jury in Houston has convicted and sentenced Anthony Shore for strangling a 21-year-old Houston woman 12 years ago...Shore admits to killing Maria del Carmen Estrada as well as two teenagers and a 9-year-old girl between 1986 and 1995. All of his victims were strangled and assaulted. .."A monster, absolute horrendous monster, capable of things that made this jury cringe as we showed them this week," Terese Buess, prosecutor, said...Shore will not be tried for the other three murders because he received the death penalty for the murder of Estrada. . . . . . ."
Links:
http://www.crimezzz.net/serialkiller_news/SHORE_anthony_allen.php
http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/2004-07-29/news/feature_1.html
This man is currently on death row in Houston, Texas. I was stunned to learn of his MO and its similarity to the JonBenet Ramsey murder. His targets were young females, and children, including a 9 year old girl. He employed garrotes and sticks to commit the murders. Some were abductions. Some were home invasions. He was convicted in 1997-8 for the sexual molestation of his own children, at which time his DNA was entered into CODIS. It wasn't until 2003 that a codis match identified him with an unsolved murder; later leading to a confesssion of additional murders and a death sentence in 2004.
While his KNOWN murders were commited in the Houston Area, some investigators feel there are more. He was apparently a high IQ psychopath who was perfectly capable of planning, stalking and executing his killings. If, as some believe, the ransom note is a ruse, its purpose, perhaps, was to allow the killer ample time to leave the area. It's about 15 hours from Houston to Boulder.
Interestingly, Shore worked many years for Southern Bell Telephone Company -- i.e., SBTC
My question for you experienced sleuthers are:
1. What is the current state of DNA matching in the JonBenet case? His dna wasn't entered into CODIS until 1998, and the victim match wasn't until 2003.
2. Has this man ever been identified and/or eliminated as a possible suspect?
3. Do we specifically know if JonBenet appeared in any pageants or publicity in the Houston area shortly before her death?
4. How common is this particular comination: children murdered by a pedophile stranger, home invastion, with the specific mo of garrote, molestation and physical violence?
I'm including a few snippets of information about this man and links to two sites with some information about him. Thanks for any insight you could provide.
"Several jurors appeared horrified, with their hands covering their faces, when listening to testimony from one woman who said Shore broke into her family's home in 1993 when she was 14, tied her up and raped her..."He said in a calm voice, 'I'm just here to rob your house,' " said the woman, now 25. Shore then covered her eyes and mouth with duct tape and bound her hands behind her back, she said....'I had to do something'."He used a knife to cut off my panties," the woman said. "As I was screaming, he got upset and told me I was being too loud." ..Then she felt hands around her throat. "I kind of came out of my stupor and realized I had to do something. If I don't do something, I'm going to die," she said...She was able to kick him away, but he threatened her before leaving the house..."He said he knows everything about me. He'd been watching me come home from school. He knew that I played soccer,"
"Shore, 42, strangled three of the female victims with cord or rope as he sexually assaulted them."
"Shore has admitted killing Laurie Lee Tremblay, 15, who was found dead in September 1986; Dana Sanchez, 16, found dead in July 1995; and Diana
Rebollar, 9, found dead in April 1994. All 4 were strangled, and 3 were sexually assaulted, prosecutors said."
"The state of Texas will execute an admitted serial killer. A jury in Houston has convicted and sentenced Anthony Shore for strangling a 21-year-old Houston woman 12 years ago...Shore admits to killing Maria del Carmen Estrada as well as two teenagers and a 9-year-old girl between 1986 and 1995. All of his victims were strangled and assaulted. .."A monster, absolute horrendous monster, capable of things that made this jury cringe as we showed them this week," Terese Buess, prosecutor, said...Shore will not be tried for the other three murders because he received the death penalty for the murder of Estrada. . . . . . ."
Links:
http://www.crimezzz.net/serialkiller_news/SHORE_anthony_allen.php
http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/2004-07-29/news/feature_1.html