A tragic discovery in Silver Spring: Denise Middleton, 26 and thirty-eight weeks pregnant with her first child, was found dead in an apartment on December 9, 2022. Investigators concluded she had been killed at least a month before being found; her body was in an advanced state of decomposition when a Montgomery County SWAT team located it while executing a search warrant at the residence. An autopsy determined she had been shot seven times.

The apartment belonged to Torrey Damien Moore, who was taken into custody during that search. The search had grown out of an unrelated homicide investigation into the killing of 61-year-old convenience store clerk Ayalew Wondimu. Moore was charged in the deaths of Denise Middleton and her viable fetus, as well as in the separate killing of Wondimu. Court proceedings resulted in convictions on counts including first-degree murder and related weapons offenses.

Did anyone in Silver Spring know Denise, her expected son Ezekiel, or have information about her last weeks?