Sex, Lies And The Doctor's Wife
Nov. 10, 2005
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Karen Tipton was murdered on March
12, 1999, inside her home in Decatur,
Alabama. (CBS)
(CBS) When Karen Tipton, a mother of two and the wife of prominent
psychiatrist
Dr. David Tipton, is found stabbed 28 times in her Decatur, Ala.
home, in March
1999, police find the crime scene puzzling. There was no forced
entry, but the
brutality of the murder suggested a crime of passion.
Police quickly rule out the husband as a suspect. A month later,
police arrest
24-year-old Daniel Wade Moore, who had worked for the alarm
company that
installed service to the Tipton home.
But did someone other than Moore want Karen dead? Correspondent
Erin Moriarty
reports on the subsequent trial and a bombshell that turned this
case upside
down, this Saturday, Nov. 12 at 10 p.m., ET/PT.
Moore, a drug user, had initially confessed to his uncle to being
present at the
scene of Karen's murder, but later retracted his statement. Moore
tells Moriarty
that at the time he confessed to his uncle all he cared about was
getting high
on drugs and that he only confessed to keep his relatives from
getting involved
in his legal problems. Moore had also stabbed himself with a
penknife while
being questioned by police. Dr. Tipton and investigators find
Moore's
explanation of why he confessed hard to believe.
There was little physical evidence against Moore. In fact, only
one suspicious
hair was found in Karen's bedroom and the DNA results were not
conclusive. At
trial, Moore was convicted and sentenced to death row. His
attorney believes
the real killer is someone else, but he has no evidence.
Eight months following the conviction, Moore's defense attorney
discovers that
prosecutors withheld potentially explosive information in the
case. Most
damaging was a 245-page FBI report commissioned by the Decatur
police
department that suggested Karen had a "secret life," was
having multiple
affairs, and may have known her killer. Although some of the
information was
presented at trial, would the existence of the FBI report have
influenced the
jury's verdict?
With this in mind, the judge in Moore's case delivered a scathing
decision
overturning Moore's conviction. And, the judge has accused the
prosecutors of
"intentionally suppressing evidence" and "willfully
defying court orders to win
a conviction."
In a stunning reversal in February 2005, the same judge who
sentenced Moore to
death released him from prison. The state appealed the decision
and Moore is
now awaiting a final ruling from his cell in the Morgan County
jail.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/11/09/48hours/main1028132.shtml
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