William Moore pleas guilty to murder of Carol Mould

BY Ron Sylvester
The Wichita Eagle
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March 3, 2010

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EL DORADO - After Bill Moore calmly pleaded guilty Tuesday to killing an Andover woman five years ago, Doug Mould talked of the wife and mother he and his three children lost.

“There is no closure in these sorts of situations,” Mould said of the loss of his wife, Carol, in a violent attack in their home...


Moore, 56, pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of second-degree murder.

Had he gone to trial, Moore faced first-degree murder and life in prison.

...Moore could face nearly 13 years when he returned for sentencing May 10.

Mould, 46, was found dead in her burning house, just off K-254, on Sept. 22, 2004...

Then last May 20, paramedics received a call that Moore was suicidal at his home. “I killed Carol Mould,” Moore told paramedic Dom Domebo...

During his confession, Moore said that he knew Mould because their sons served together in Boy Scouts. Moore said he went to her house hoping to have sex with her.

Under the plea agreement, Moore will not be able to appeal his sentence...
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Butler County Attorney Jan Satterfield’s decision to offer Moore the plea...
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So what will Butler County Attorney Jan Satterfield decide what to do about the disappearance of Adam Herrman? It is pretty clear that Valerie Herrman killed him, and Doug Herrman has kept his yap shut all these years.
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If Carol Mould's murderer can walk in 13 years, will Satterfield even bother to charge the Herrmans? Could it be she's scared to proceed? Valerie Herrmans own family is willing to testify against her. What's stopping the filing of charges?
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Maybe we need to just wait until Satterfield can get voted out and replaced by someone who knows the job. My own opinion.

EMT: Bill Moore confessed to Carol Mould’s killing, El Dorado, Kansas

BY RON SYLVESTER
The Wichita Eagle

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EL DORADO - An emergency medical technician testified this morning in Butler County District Court that Bill Moore confessed in May to killing Carol Mould five years earlier.

Dom Domebo testified at a preliminary hearing...that he was called to Moore's house in Benton on May 20.

Domebo found Moore despondent and saying he wanted to hurt his wife. Domebo said he assured Moore he would be taken care of, and prepared to take him to a Wichita hospital for a mental evaluation.

As the ambulance pulled away from the house, Domebo said Moore told him, ''I killed Carol Mould.''

Mould was a neighbor of his in Benton, Domebo heard Moore say. She was found dead after a fire at her house on Sept. 22, 2004.

Moore, 55, was a Boy Scout leader with no criminal history before his arrest last spring.

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Man formally charged with Mould murder

Right: William "Bill" W Moore, Cessna employee

Originally posted 5/22/2009
Benton Kansas
ksn.com

BUTLER COUNTY, Kansas – A Butler County man has officially been charged with first degree murder in the 2004 death of Benton resident Carol Mould.

Moore was charged in May for the murder, which took place in September 2004.

KSN has learned that Moore told his wife that he was worried about harming her and asked her to call someone. She called 911 and emergency crews arrived at their home around 11:20 p.m. – about an hour and 20 minutes before he was arrested.

Moore’s bond has been set at $250,000.

Kansas: Butler County judge sets $250,000 bond in Carol Mould homicide

JUDGE FEARS SUSPECT COULD POSE THREAT TO SELF, FAMILY
Butler County judge sets $250,000 bond in Carol Mould homicide
BY TIM POTTER
The Wichita Eagle
Saturday, May 23, 2009

EL DORADO - William "Bill" Wherry Moore -- a former Cub Scout and Boy Scout leader and Benton-area youth-sports coach -- looked distressed as he sat in shackles Friday and a judge read the charge against him: Premeditated murder in the first degree in the September 2004 killing of Carol Mould, a 43-year-old wife and mother of three.

The prosecutor, Butler County Attorney Jan Satterfield, told District Judge John Sanders that she was requesting that Moore remain in jail under a $250,000 bond because of the nature of the charge and concern that he could pose a threat to himself and others, including his wife.
Satterfield said Moore -- a 55-year-old aircraft worker (Cessna), according to a jail booking sheet -- has no criminal history.

Sanders set Moore's bond at $250,000 and appointed a public defender for him. Sanders said he was aware that Moore's "mental state" has been a concern but didn't elaborate.

On Sept. 22, 2004, authorities responding to a report of a fire found Mould's badly burned body in her Benton-area home off K-254. Authorities have not said how she died but have said her body was set on fire after she was killed. The fire didn't destroy the house.

The Mould house sits a couple miles from Moore's rural Benton home. Butler County Sheriff Craig Murphy announced that early that morning his investigators arrested Moore in Mould's killing.

Moore's wife, Tammy, said, "You can print that my husband is having a nervous breakdown, and he does not know what he is saying. My husband is not a murderer."

Neither Murphy nor Satterfield said what prompted the arrest.

After Moore's court appearance Friday, Mould's husband, Doug, said he wanted to thank investigators for "working extraordinarily hard in trying to solve Carol's case."
He also thanked Circle school district staff for supporting his children...