John Lee Moore, 41, of Bacon County, Georgia, was killed in a home attack that grew out of a family crisis. Court and state records say his daughter Robin had separated from her husband, William Sallie, after abuse, and she and her young son went to stay with her parents. In March 1990 Sallie returned, rented a mobile home under another name, armed himself with a 9mm pistol, cut the phone line outside the Moore house, and forced his way in after midnight.

Sallie went straight to the bedroom where John and Linda Moore were sleeping and opened fire. John was struck six times, including wounds that damaged his heart; he collapsed to the floor and died. Sallie then reloaded outside, fired through a bedroom window as Robin and her sister April tried to help, threatened to kill April, handcuffed and bound Linda, Robin and April, and abducted the two daughters to the trailer he had rented. The court record says both women were raped and later released the next night in Bacon County.

Authorities arrested William Sallie soon after. Police recovered the murder weapon in his trailer; he was prosecuted and convicted of malice murder, felony murder and related crimes, later resentenced to death after a retrial, and the convictions and sentence were affirmed by the Georgia Supreme Court. Does anyone have memories of the Moore family or details about the case that could add to the record?