A D.C. man was convicted Friday of second-degree homicide within the 2010 disappearance of mom of two Unique Harris, whose physique has by no means been discovered.
At round 10:39 p.m. on Oct. 9, 2010, Isaac Moye arrived at Harris’ residence after her kids had been asleep, having referred to as her on a cellular phone shortly earlier than getting into the constructing. The two had identified one another for a few months at that time.
The subsequent morning, Harris’ kids awoke to seek out their mom lacking alongside together with her cellular phone and keys — however with out her eyeglasses or her purse containing her ID and bank cards. A piece of a settee cushion had additionally been reduce out and was lacking.
There had been no indicators of a battle having occurred nor any hint of Harris’ blood on the scene. To at the present time, her physique has not been recovered.
Over the course of the police investigation within the ensuing years, Moye would change his story a number of occasions, vacillating between admitting and denying that he and Harris had been intimate, and denying having seen Harris in any respect on Oct. 9, 2010.
Despite the injury to the couch cushion, police had been capable of recuperate Moye’s DNA from traces of semen left on the furnishings. GPS data additionally positioned Moye at Harris’ residence the whole night time of Oct. 9.
In addition, Moye had made admissions to a different particular person a couple of lacking woman, saying that police would by no means discover her as a result of he “did it, but did it the right way.”
Moye was arrested and brought into custody in December 2020, and has remained there since. Now 46, Moye faces as much as 40 years in jail, a high-quality of as much as $250,000 and 5 years of parole supervision if he’s finally launched from incarceration.
“More than a decade ago, two children lost their mother to a killer who had no regard for anyone’s needs but his own. Thanks to dogged police work by the Metropolitan Police Department detectives who worked this case, and the dedicated, tireless efforts of the prosecution team, a jury held this defendant accountable for this heinous murder,” U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Matthew Graves stated.
Harris’ mom, Valencia Harris, was ecstatic at having lastly obtained justice in her daughter’s demise.
“All I could think was, ’Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, God. Thank you, Lord.’ There are no words to sum up having to turn a predator into my prey. Because I told [Moye] , ‘You made my daughter your prey and now you are mine.’ And I meant every word then and I still mean it now. So here we go: Guilty! Guilty!,” the elder Harris exclaimed to WRC-TV.
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