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Nov 29, 2012 · Micah Moore, 23, has been charged with murder in the death of 27-year-old Bethany Deaton, whose Oct. 30 death, police said, originally appeared to be a suicide.
- CBS News
Nov 29, 2012 · Attorney Melanie Morgan said 23-year-old Micah Moore was distraught over the death of 27-year-old Bethany Deaton when he confessed to killing her and made a series of stunning allegations...
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Nov 28, 2012 · Police said 27-year-old Bethany Deaton's death initially appeared to be a suicide when officers found her body with a note and an empty bottle of over-the-counter pain medication in a minivan...
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It's a wedding photo to melt a mother's heart, the newlywed Bethany Deaton about to embark on the journey of a lifetime. "She was radiantly happy. That was her waving goodbye to everybody," Carol Leidlein said of the picture. Bethany and her new husband, Tyler Deaton, were heading off on a two-week honeymoon in August of 2012. And despite all of he...
"When we found out about Micah's confession it felt like ... her dying all over again," Carol Leidlein said. "As if it couldn't have hurt more." Still grieving from the sudden loss of her daughter, Leidlein was shocked to hear that Bethany's good friend, Micah Moore, had voluntarily confessed to her murder. "When Micah ... came in and told his stor...
With Micah Moore's confession in hand, investigators were confident a crime had been committed -- but needed details of why and how. "Micah is very intelligent but just didn't seem to have the drive to wanna take someone's life," Col. Ben Kenney explained. "Who -- mighta been with Micah at the time?" With all eyes on him as an alleged accomplice, T...
For two years, Det. Penny Cole and Col. Ben Kenney have been trying to crack this case. It's become personal. "We have one of the photographs of -- Bethany, taken obviously at a happier time in her life. And -- I keep -- that ... just to remind myself that-- this was somebody's daughter," said Kenney. "Her picture there reminds me that Bethany's st...
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Dec 7, 2012 · Three days after Ms. Deaton’s funeral, a 23-year-old man, Micah Moore, walked into the Grandview, Mo., Police Department and confessed to suffocating her.
- Erica Goode
Nov 28, 2012 · One man, whose name was blacked out of the criminal complaint, told police that Tyler Deaton said after Bethany Deaton died that he had had a dream he killed his wife by suffocating her.
Nov 1, 2014 · Prosecutors have dropped charges against Micah Moore, who falsely confessed to the murder of Bethany Deaton, the wife of his spiritual leader. Deaton's death had been ruled a suicide before Moore's admission. Prosecutors now say they will keep the case as an open investigation.
