The former divorce attorney has been charged in the murder of his own former client in downtown Cleveland, Ohio more than a decade ago — and it was all so he could have her case delayed, according to prosecutors.
Gregory Moore, 51, was indicted Friday on a slew of charges — including aggravated murder, conspiracy and kidnapping — for the 2013 killing of 53-year-old nurse and mother of four Aliza Sherman, Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s announced Friday.
Moore allegedly planned the deadly attack to stop her divorce case, which was set to begin the day after she was killed, prosecutors alleged in an unsealed indictment.
It was also not the first time he had resorted to crime to delay cases, authorities said. Moore later pleaded guilty to calling in bomb threats to court houses to delay his cases, according to authorities.
Authorities believe that either Moore or an unnamed co-conspirator carried out the attack, according to prosecutors.
Sherman managed to call police while she laid wounded and bloody outside the law office, and was assisted by a Good Samaritan who found her on the sidewalk, prosecutors said.
She died after arriving at a nearby hospital.
“The Sherman family has waited over a decade for answers regarding their mother’s homicide,” Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael C. O’Malley said in a statement.
“Through the tenacious work of multiple law enforcement agencies, evidence was accumulated that paints the unmistakable picture that Gregory Moore orchestrated and participated in the brutal murder of Aliza Sherman.”
Moore allegedly called and texted Sherman before and after the attack in an attempt to fabricate an alibi, according to the indictment.
Sherman’s estranged husband, Dr. Sanford Sherman, was never charged in the case — but he refused to cooperate with cops, investigators previously said. He died in a Florida nursing home last summer.
