More than twelve years after Aliza Sherman was fatally stabbed in the center of Cleveland, the police arrested a man on Friday in relation to his death.
A grand jury has accused Gregory Moore, 51, Sherman’s former divorce lawyer, for charges related to the fatal stabbing of the four -year -old nurse and mother, while waiting outside his office building on March 24, 2013. Accusations include an aggravated murder position, a position of conspiracy, six counts and two kidnapping counts.
Security images captured a hooded person who left the crime scene, but the person is now believed to be Moore, she was never identified. The case remained unsolved at that time.
Ohio’s criminal investigation office assumed Sherman’s case in 2021, months after NBC’s “Datelline” presented Sherman’s case, talking to his daughter Jennifer, eight years after the murder.
“The Sherman family has waited for more than a decade for the responses about his mother’s homicide,” said Cuyohoga County Prosecutor Michael C. O’Malley, in a statement. “Through the tenacious work of multiple agencies of application of the law, evidence was accumulated that paints the unmistakable image that Gregory Moore orchestrated and participated in the brutal murder of Aliza Sherman.”
It does not seem that Moore has been assigned a lawyer.
The accusation establishes that on Sunday Sherman was killed, Moore sent him a text message to meet him in the office building at 4:30 pm and let him know when he left.
While Sherman waited outside the building, “Moore or an unnamed conspirator” approached her from behind and stabbed her more than 10 times, which led to her death, according to the accusation.
The accusation alleges that Moore sent a text message and called Sherman before and after he allegedly killed her.
“These texts and call requests had the purpose of creating false evidence that Moore was unaware of Sherman’s assault,” says the accusation.
The accusation of the Grand Jury said that Moore killed Sherman to avoid his divorce trial, which was scheduled to start the next day.
The accusation establishes that at the time of Sherman’s murder, Moore was being investigated for sending bomb threats to the court in the days he had to appear before the court to avoid the judgments in a similar way. Moore knew that he was investigating the bomb threats, according to the accusation.
In 2017, Moore declared himself guilty of inducing panic related to the threats of bombs and falsification to give the authorities deceptive statements during Sherman’s investigation.
Moore will be prosecuted at the Cuyohoga County Justice Center on a later date, prosecutors said.
