MISSOURI
Fox 4
[with video]
November 13, 2012, by Sarah Clark
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. — The admitted killer of 27-year-old Bethany Deaton made his first court appearance Tuesday morning.
Micah Moore, 23, confessed to suffocating Deaton because he feared she would reveal the ongoing sexual abuse she endured by him and others to her therapist
Jackson County prosecutors said Moore lived with Deaton, her husband and other men. A probable cause statement reveals Moore told a detective he and the other men in the home, including Deaton’s own husband, drugged her and sexually assaulted her for months.
The statement said witnesses called this a “religious community” where they had sex with each other. According to the witness statements, Deaton’s husband, Tyler Deaton, was the spiritual leader. He has not been charged with any wrongdoing in connection to the death of his wife.
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