MCS-9
Unsolved!!
On Monday, August 12, 1991, the body of Lee E. Moore, 66, was discovered on his farm in Whitewater, Missouri. He had been shot to death.
The Major Case Squad was activated.
Moore was retired from the U.S. Post Office and lived alone on the farm in Whitewater. He was known to carry a gun on his person at all times.
Unfortunately, the Moore family were not strangers to gunfights and criminal investigations.
One of Moore’s sons, Gregory Ray Moore, was killed in a gunfight with a neighbor named Carson Smith in 1978 over a boundary-line dispute. Both Gregory Moore and Carson Smith were killed in the shootout. It produced both a Coroner’s Inquest and a well-publicized civil lawsuit.
Another of Moore’s sons had served time in federal prison for interstate transportation of stolen motor vehicles and passport fraud, but was out at the time of the killing. He had been a surviving witness to the double homicide involving his brother and Carson Smith.
Another of Moore’s sons, Bradley E. Moore, was a respected Cape Girardeau Police Officer.
Although many leads were pursued and the investigative report grew to more than 650 pages, the murder has never been solved.
Anyone with information that might lead to justice for Lee E. Moore is encouraged to call Crimestoppers or the Cape Girardeau County Sheriff’s Department.