I don't think this case is discussed on the boards that much, but I was wondering what everyone thought of the Dimitri Moore (SP?) case. This was the young child who was killed in Florida. My memory is kind of fuzzy, but I remember the prosecutor claiming his mother was responsible for his death, I think they said perhaps she had killed him in the bathtub. A few other witnesses stated he was playing basketball nearby shortly before the murder. Does anyone have any other details? Thoughts?

Add a "c" on to dimitri and you've got it. The prosecutor in this case was another one that bugged me, claiming that the injuries he suffered on his head were definitely bathtub injuries, but how would he know? I thought the mother was innocent, and the jury agreed with me. The youths playing basketball had been spotted pushing him around not long before his death, so it seems pretty likely they were responsible, although it probably wasn't an intentional murder.

The mother might be another candidate for our "worst and/or weirdest interviewee" category. She said "my baby" (in reference to Dimitric) about five hundred thousand times.

While I too believe she was probably innocent and I believe he was probably killed by those kids, I wonder if they didn't have help from an adult in covering up the crime. Dimitric's body was found in the trunk of the mother's car, nude and squeaky clean. I think it's safe to assume that the clothes were disposed of and the body cleaned to destroy evidence. My question is though, would pre-adolescent kids have had enough foresight to clean the body in this manner in order to destroy evidence and then to put it in the trunk to frame the mother?

I know we're all different but I didn't feel she was as outraged as she should be. Someone out there killed her child and she was accused of it (I don't think she is responsible btw) and she just seems so matter of factly about it talking about how these boys that may have killed her son didn't mean to do it. I would have been a whole lot less composed than she was given the circumstances.

The mother might be another candidate for our "worst and/or weirdest interviewee" category. She said "my baby" (in reference to Dimitric) about five hundred thousand times.

While I too believe she was probably innocent and I believe he was probably killed by those kids, I wonder if they didn't have help from an adult in covering up the crime. Dimitric's body was found in the trunk of the mother's car, nude and squeaky clean. I think it's safe to assume that the clothes were disposed of and the body cleaned to destroy evidence. My question is though, would pre-adolescent kids have had enough foresight to clean the body in this manner in order to destroy evidence and then to put it in the trunk to frame the mother?
That was one of my thoughts too Justin. Either some kids killed him...maybe thought he was hurt and went and told their parents who probably realized the boy was dead and panicked. They clean him up but it always leaves me back to the question of how he got in his mother's trunk?????

You guys are great will these cases!! I know I always lock my car when it's parked in the driveway. I wonder how someone would have put the body in the trunk if it were locked. I wonder if the police examined the lock to see if any evidence of tampering occurred. I do remember the mother from the interview, and I also recall she took a polygraph. Like everyone else said, maybe Dimitric was playing basketball and the kids went a little hard on him, knocked him down, or blocked a shot and he tried to fight back. I think I remember some kids making a comment that he was in trouble??

I would highly doubt that if the mother did it, she would place the body in the trunk, then drive around with it. Highly, highly unlikely. Actually, the fact that Dimitric was found in the car makes me suspect the youths more. They probably figured placing him in the car would be a lot less risky than putting his body in the house or leaving him at the scene of the murder. It was actually pretty crafty (I'm not condoning it) of them to put him in his mothers car as that threw suspicion her way. Whoever did it though, probably didn't intend to kill him, rather hurt him.

I think the boys seen pushing him around got too rough and their parents covered it up.
I seem to remember some neighborhood women saying 'someone said they saw him by the railroad tracks, come on, we'll show you' when he was missing.
That was probably to get the mother away from the house so the body could be planted.

Well Florida has bungled a few of them over the years, John Purvis, Tommy Zeigler, possibly Glen Consagra, not charging Michael Haim, just to name a few. Florida is probably one of the most corrupt states in the country in my opinion, in terms of judicial problems. Illinois, Texas, California, Arizona and Pennsylvania get some dishonorable mention too.

I haven't seen this one in awhile but what I do remember thinking was the mother was abit sus, I think.. I'll to watch this again though.

I havent seen this one in a while either, while I admit the mother's behavior is suspect I dont think she killed her child, but that is just my opinion. I am one that believes that the cops and prosecutors tend to overplay the emotion card. They tend to think that because someone isnt balling their eyes out all the time that it must mean they are a murderer or something and that isnt necessarily true.

I havent seen this one in a while either, while I admit the mother's behavior is suspect I dont think she killed her child, but that is just my opinion. I am one that believes that the cops and prosecutors tend to overplay the emotion card. They tend to think that because someone isnt balling their eyes out all the time that it must mean they are a murderer or something and that isnt necessarily true.

good point. another classic example would be the Ramseys IMO.

I think the boys seen pushing him around got too rough and their parents covered it up.
I seem to remember some neighborhood women saying 'someone said they saw him by the railroad tracks, come on, we'll show you' when he was missing.
That was probably to get the mother away from the house so the body could be planted.
OMG...First let me say that I'm a newbie and I'm a huge fan of UM & miss the show being on the air. From time to time I look for updates on some of the cases that I've never forgotten. I was looking for an update on another case when I ran across this thread. That's how I eventually read about this case. I don't even remember viewing this case was UM was on the air but luckily I was able to watch the case profile via YouTube it has since been removed. Anywho after watching the video something struck me as being very ODD and it's the same comment you made about those ladies who approached her after she and Dimitric's older brother had been out searching for him. "Yeah he was playing down by the railroad tracks, come on we'll show you". I was even wondering if that was in fact how it happened because that scene just didn't fit. I think she was "lured" away from the house and that's when his body was placed in the trunk of his mother's car. It was dark when those ladies approached them plus they walked down to those railroad tracks....then daylight when they pulled up to the house after once again being out searching for Dimitric and suddenly his body is found in the trunk of the mother's car. WTH??? Why would the police even look in the trunk of her car??? They (mom and older brother) wasn't even home. Someone in that neighborhood knows something....sorry for my lengthy reply, but this case really bothers me.