DWM TALKS II
NEXT
DWM remembered the March 12 meeting with Gerald Fields.  He recalled three separate
crack cocaine buys that day (although Mr. Powell had accused one of these small-time
crack dealers of lying that DWM had bought crack from him that day with cash and a
videocamera).  He remembered what he'd bought with bad checks that day.  He recalled
intimate details of the layout of our house, and details of an alarm visit there from over
four years before.

He didn't remember anything he did the next day.  Or the next.

He said he didn't kill Karen, and he admitted several times to being a liar.  The judge had
to tell him about a half-dozen times to only answer the question (and not move on with
the script).  And on the last question he was asked, he admitted to telling Uncle Sparky
he killed Karen.
DWM said he was spending 150 dollars per day on crack at the time, plus the cost of his
motel room in Decatur (in addition to his apartment in Hanceville).  He said he paid for
his three separate buys of crack March 12, 1999 with bad checks, but his checking
account showed 70 dollars of checks, and he'd bought gas, beer, and cigarettes with that.
The Decatur Daily's headline was:

MOORE: DIDN'T KILL TIPTON
The article began with DWM admitting to writing bad checks to support his crack
cocaine addiction, but that HE DIDN'T KILL KAREN TIPTON.  He said he was not at
the Tipton home when SOMEONE stabbed her to death.  He was a 1992 graduate of
Austin High School.  He worked for Howard Godbee, and had been at the Tipton house.
The article briefly mentions DISPUTED DNA evidence, his "I was lying" confession, the
"I was suicidal" stabbing himself.  The section ends with "Moore continued to say he was
innocent." and a classic:  
"'I never went in Karen Tipton's home,' he
said."

And the next subheadline is     GAY WEB SITES: (!!!)
The article quoted Catherine Halbrooks, Sherman Powell, and Sherman Powell's
son-in-law at length, regarding their claims that Karen was looking at GAY MULTIPLE
PARTNER ORGY porno sites the day she was killed.  In contrast, the state's rebuttal
witness got a brief, misleading blurb, without mentioning the cookies being claimed by
Brother to
be pornographic web sites or evidence of connection to pornographic web
sites and sex partners
--were actually marketing counters, commonly found in temporary
internet files, and
not a website at all, nor evidence of connection to pornographic
web sites
. It didn't mention that even Brother's son-in-law admitted that none of the
cookies connected with
any web page.   It did mention the last question of the trial, with
the state's expert making clear there was
NO EVIDENCE that Karen, or anyone else
on this computer, had been connected to SOME OTHER PERSON through these
"cookies" and temporary internet files
... (and that's the only way ANY of this was
ruled admissible
--even WITHOUT the rape shield law--because Brother claimed as his
alleged "offer of proof" to have BEEN ON THESE PORNOGRAPHIC WEBSITES
HIMSELF!!!!  And that they were sites for WIFE-SWAPPING!!!!  (They could have
brought back son-in-law to rebut it, but they didn't.  His cover had been blown by that
time...)