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- MALE NARRATOR: September 1995,
Anglesey Northwest Wales,
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56-year-old
Henry Roberts had returned home
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after having drinks
at the local pub.
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When he heard a noise
outside his cottage,
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he went to investigate.
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Unbeknownst to Henry,
it was a deadly trap.
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- DAVE: Henry came out
to see what the disturbance was
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and saw this--this figure
in black,
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he had black leather
trousers on,
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he had black boots,
a black leather jacket
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and a black leather
slash pea coat.
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The idea was to
look like, uh, a Nazi officer.
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- NARRATOR: The man in black
was 49-year-old
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local cinema owner
Peter Moore, who was armed
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with a commando knife.
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Moore launched
an attack on Henry
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and stabbed him repeatedly.
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- When Peter Moore
kills Henry Roberts,
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he stabs him 27 times,
this is way more violence
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than he actually needs
to end his victim's life.
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- GEOFFREY:
Moore, in the end,
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pulled his trousers down and
stabbed him in both buttocks.
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The final humiliation,
if you like.
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- DEREK: I mean,
it's so astonishing.
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On the one hand, you have
the respectable businessman,
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on the other hand,
the cold-hearted killer.
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- NARRATOR: He was a sexual
predator who terrorized men
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in the north of Wales
for nearly two decades,
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and would go on to claim
three more innocent lives
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in less than three months.
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That makes Peter Moore one of
the world's most evil killers.
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- NARRATOR: The 25th
of December 1995, North Wales,
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most people were enjoying
the festive period
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when news broke
that a serial killer
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had been loose in the sleepy
seaside town of Kinmel Bay,
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and he was one of their own.
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- GARETH: I think people
were very shocked
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for a number of reasons.
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It's the only case
of serial killing in North Wales
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and the fact
that all four murders
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were carried out
within a short period.
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The brutality
of the--the murders as well,
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uh, it was quite horrendous.
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- NARRATOR: The man responsible
was 49-year-old
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local cinema owner Peter Moore,
who'd killed
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and mutilated four people.
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He would also admit
to nearly 50 attacks on men
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between 1975 and 1995.
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- LEWIS: I've known him
13, 14 years
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and I'd been to his home,
I'd spent time with him
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and I realized
that I didn't know him at all,
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I mean, it was something
quite evil there
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and I didn't see the monster
because the monster
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was so well hidden.
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- NARRATOR: Even seasoned
detective, Dave Morris
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was shocked by the depravity
of the crimes.
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- DAVE: It's almost 24 years now
since I arrested Peter Moore
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for those murders, and certainly
in my police career,
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we've never had anything
like that in North Wales before.
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He presented this persona
to the outside world
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that he was a nice gentleman
that would do anything
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for anybody, but deep down
he had this dark side to him,
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um, which eventually took over
his whole persona and that
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was just one of the very
brutal psychopathic murderer.
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- NARRATOR:
This killer's story begins
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on the 19th of September 1946.
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Peter Howard Moore
was born in St. Helens,
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in Lincolnshire,
in the northwest of England.
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He was the only child
of Edith and Earnest Moore.
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- LOUIS: He was
considered somewhat
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of a miracle baby
because his mother thought
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she couldn't actually conceive
and she essentially doted on him
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much of his life.
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He had a close relationship
with her.
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- DR. YARDLEY: She had him
when she well into her 40s,
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and I think in this way,
he does differ
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quite significantly
from a lot of serial killers.
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Many serial killers,
you look at their childhoods,
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they're full of neglect,
but in this case,
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it seems to be the opposite
end of the spectrum.
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This was somebody who was
overindulged, essentially.
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This was somebody who never
faced any consequences
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for their actions,
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he could do pretty much
whatever he liked.
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- NARRATOR: Peter had
a very different relationship
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with his father.
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- GEOFFREY: His father,
Earnest Moore
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was a disciplinarian,
but he certainly didn't make
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his son's life easy,
so he came to loathe his father,
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and adore his mother, Edith.
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- GARETH: He made some
quite strong comments
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about his father.
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He suspected that his father
was gay, and, uh,
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there were hints
that his father, uh, had been
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violent as well, uh, his father,
according to Peter Moore,
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was an alcoholic, and
Peter Moore didn't like alcohol.
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- NARRATOR: In 1952, the family
moved to Kinmel Bay,
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a small seaside town
in northeast Wales.
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- The northeast coast
is historically, uh,
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a tourist area, um,
in the winter it's, um,
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it's reasonably quiet,
in Kinmel Bay, in particular,
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reversed to a sort of community
[unintelligible] atmosphere.
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- GEOFFREY: Moore lived
in a comparatively
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substantial housing.
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His parents
were relatively prosperous.
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They ran an ironmongers,
a family business.
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- GARETH: The family was
well respected in the area.
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They provided
a much needed service,
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and, especially
amongst the elderly.
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The didn't have to walk far.
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- NARRATOR: Moore lived
a comfortable lifestyle compared
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to most of the other
children in the area.
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- DR. YARDLEY: He was the son
of a local shop owner,
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so I think, this would've
given him a sense that he
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was above his peers,
he felt superior to them,
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and this would not
of endured him
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to the--the children of this
particular part of Wales,
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many of whom their parents
came from working class
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backgrounds.
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- NARRATOR: At school,
Moore was described
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as being well behaved,
but he was a loner
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and his height made him
stand out from other children.
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- DR. YARDLEY: He was
much taller than them,
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so, there's that sense of
exclusion from the peer group,
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but there's also a sense
of feeling better than them,
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and I think his elevated height
was something he accorded
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with elevated status.
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He felt that he was above them
and looked down on them.
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- GEOFFREY: He also felt
that he was entitled
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to alot of things.
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He was a boy of vanity
and that vanity was to emerge
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as his life went on,
and turn itself
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into a much darker quality.
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- NARRATOR: Isolated and alone,
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Peter developed
a passion for film.
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- DR. YARDLEY: He had
a home cine camera
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and I think
that instilled in him
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this fascination with cinema,
with movies, with storytelling.
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- NARRATOR: After leaving school
Moore went to work
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with his father
at the hardware shop.
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For the next 29 years,
his passion for the cinema
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was put on old.
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Peter was gay,
but kept his sexuality
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hidden from his parents.
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- DR. YARDLEY: It was something
that he didn't feel
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able to share
because I think at this time
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in--in a very kind of
traditional community,
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being gay was not okay,
it was--was something
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that was heavily stigmatized.
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- GEOFFREY: Remember,
until 1967,
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you could be arrested,
convicted and imprisoned
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for being homosexual
in this country.
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Moore was very aware of that,
so although there may have been
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a certain number
of covert relationships
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as he was beginning
to grow through adolescence
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and into young manhood,
I suspect almost all the time,
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he concealed it as effectively
as he possibly could.
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- NARRATOR: After hours,
Moore would frequent gay bars
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in and around Liverpool.
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He would also travel to London
to watch sex shows.
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It was around this time
that he developed an interest
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in sadomasochism.
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- GEOFFREY: One
of the fascinations
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about sadomasochism
is that it can arise
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from comparatively
simple things,
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tying someone up,
subjugating them,
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wanting to be
in complete control,
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and so once that had
placed itself
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in Moore's psyche,
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I think he took it upon himself
always to be dominant
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and once more,
always to use his dominance.
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- NARRATOR: Moore also
had a fascination
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with Nazi subculture
and memorabilia.
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- GEOFFREY: If you accept
that Moore wanted to control,
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there can be no more powerful
icon of control
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than Adolf Hitler
in Nazi Germany.
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The two almost go hand in hand,
and there was certainly
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a tendency in the early 60's
for there to be a connection
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between Nazism
and sadomasochism.
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- NARRATOR: His appetite
to control men
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would soon turn violent.
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- GEOFFREY: Because of Moore's
covert personality,
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this dominate male,
he took great pleasure
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in homosexual encounters
in which he would
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not only attack
a submissive male,
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he would also demonstrate
to other males
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just how dominant he was.
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Moore used his homosexuality
in that isolated community
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to become a preying individual.
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He would prey upon vulnerable
homosexuals who didn't
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know quite how to handle
their homosexuality.
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- DR. YARDLEY: I think
Peter Moore was well aware
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of the homophobia that existed
in society at that time
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and he knew that there
was a sense of stigma
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that the men that he attacked
were unlikely to report
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those attacks,
so I think he felt secure
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in--in the knowledge
that he was targeting
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a marginalized group,
and the more extreme
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his offending got,
he really did feel invincible
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at this point in time.
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- NARRATOR: Peter Moore's
desire for dominance and control
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was escalating by the day.
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Soon his need for control
would turn violent,
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and he began to attack random
men in the surrounding areas.
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- DAVE: He would go with
whichever boyfriend he had
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at the time, and he would drive
round the sort of rural areas
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looking for older men
walking home,
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generally from the pub.
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He parked further up the road
and as they walked past,
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he'd jump from--from behind,
normally with rubber cuffs
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and he'd severely attack them,
um, some people were left
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very, very badly injured
as a consequence
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of those attacks.
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- DR. YARDLEY: They were
really brutal,
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people were beaten unconscious,
so these were
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really, really serious
physical assaults,
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and they were almost escalating,
I'd say, in ferocity
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as his need to exert control
got even greater.
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- NARRATOR: Despite some
of the attacks being reported,
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Peter Moore's name
or any of the men
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he was with at the time,
never came up
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in any of the inquiries.
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- DAVE: We were investigating
those all through the 1980s,
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but obviously,
we didn't connect Peter
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as the man we were looking for.
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Peter didn't have any
criminal record.
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There was no reason
to suspect him in those days.
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- NARRATOR: Moore continued
with the facade as the son
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of a respectable
local businessman,
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but by night
he was a violent predator.
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In 1979, his father,
Earnest, died.
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Moore had already
been running the business,
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but now he was head
of the household, too.
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- GEOFFREY: He has to be
in command,
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has to look after his mother,
has to run the ironmongers
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and at the same time,
wants to make a mark
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on the local community.
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As a respected figure.
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- NARRATOR: Moore opened up
a video rental section
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in his shop, which re-ignited
his passion for film.
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Eventually, he would close
the hardware shop
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and in 1991,
he opened his first cinema.
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In the winter
of 1994, he opened
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a second one in Holyhead
as fellow cinema owner,
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Lewis Colwell recalls.
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- He gave the impression
that cinemas were for families
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and children,
and that's what he believed in.
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People liked him,
people talked to him.
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He was very approachable.
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- DR. YARDLEY: He became
a real pillar of the community
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in this regard,
so he was the one
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who brought the glitz
and the glamour of Hollywood
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to the rainy, welsh,
sleepy villages.
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- GEOFFREY: There can be
no doubt that Peter Moore
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got a great deal of kick
out of combining his passion
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for darkness
and his passion for the cinema,
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and he was absolutely relishing
the fact that he had
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a secret life that he kept
hidden from the world.
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- NARRATOR: Life was going well
for Moore, but in April 1994,
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tragedy struck when
his beloved mother passed away.
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- GEOFFREY: She has been
the focus of Moore's life,
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the focus of tryna
keep up appearances,
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he could never have admitted
to his mother
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any of his secret exploits,
gay relationships,
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cruising gay areas,
but once she was dead,
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it was quite a different matter.
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Edith had been
the restraint on Peter Moore.
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Without her,
he quickly escalated
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into what he was probably
all along.
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- NARRATOR: With the house
to himself, Moore was now free
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to indulge with his
sexual fantasies at home.
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- DAVE: Moore's mother was alive
he kept his interest
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in sadomasochism
away from the home.
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After the death of his mother,
he brought that side of things
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into his home life
and there was, um,
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all sorts of, um,
S&M paraphernalia in the rooms,
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whippings or floggings
had taken place on the property.
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The death of his mother
had been like, uh,
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a release valve from,
if you'd like,
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he didn't have to sorta
keep a cap on it anymore;
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that side had overtaken.
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- NARRATOR: In the summer
of 1995, Moore opened
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a third cinema, the Wedgwood
in Denbigh and reveled
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in the limelight.
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- GARETH: The first time
I met Peter Moore was when
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he was about to open a cinema,
and he was, understandably,
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looking for publicity
and he was always prepared
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to pose for pictures and always
prepared to give a quote.
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- LEWIS: He was hailed a hero
'cuz he came in
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on a blaze of publicity.
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The newspapers really, you know,
went to town,
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the savior of cinemas,
he was on the six o'clock news.
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- NARRATOR: But beneath
the veneer of the successful
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businessman, Moore
was financially unstable.
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- LEWIS: All the cinemas he had
were in little North Wales
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market towns, you know,
they weren't taking any money,
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they were just ticking over
or even running at a loss.
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- GEOFFREY: Moore extended
himself too quickly.
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Three cinemas
all in a short space of time,
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he couldn't allow it to be seen
that he was actually struggling,
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and he certainly couldn't allow
it to be seen that he would
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actually close one
of the three cinemas,
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indeed, quite the opposite,
he started to say,
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"Oh, I'm gonna open
a fourth cinema,"
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which of course, he never did
because he was simply
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in financial difficulty.
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- NARRATOR: With the financial
pressure mounting,
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so was Moore's need
for control and violence.
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- Well, what happens
in many of these cases
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is that criminal behavior
escalates.
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He's inflicting pain on others
and then it becomes more
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and more brutal,
and then it escalates
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to the--the highest form
of sadism,
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and that is actually
killing the victim.
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- NARRATOR: On the 19th
of September 1995,
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Moore decided to buy himself
a macabre birthday present
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to celebrate is 49th birthday.
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- DAVE: And he went to a local
gun shop in Wales
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and he bought a very
lethal looking, uh,
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double bladed commander knife
and a sheath.
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He--he told me later
that he'd--he'd been thinking
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of murdering somebody,
uh, for some time,
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uh, the--the pressure
of the--the bank,
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the financial situation,
everything, he just felt like
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he wanted to kill somebody.
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- NARRATOR: With murder
on his mind,
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Moore had his eyes set
on his first victim,
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56-year-old, retired
railway worker, Henry Roberts.
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- DAVE: Henry Roberts
lived alone in quite
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a rundown cottage in Anglesey.
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He was somewhat
of a recluse really,
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he would go to the local pub,
that was his routine.
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Peter Moore had a cinema
in Holyhead and would drive
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to 'em in Kinmel Bay.
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As he was driving along
the A5 road,
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he would pass Henry Roberts
every evening, and he decided
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Henry would be
a good person to kill.
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- NARRATOR: Moore then set
about putting his devious
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fantasies into action,
and paid Henry a visit.
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- DR. YARDLEY: Peter Moore
pretends to break down
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in Henry Roberts' driveway
and Henry comes out to see
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if he needs any assistance
and the two strike up
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a conversation.
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It emerges that they're both
interested in Nazi memorabilia,
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so this particular event
has given Peter some knowledge
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about his victim to be able
to plan his next move.
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- NARRATOR: A couple
of nights later,
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Moore returned once again
to Henry's cottage,
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but this time he was armed
with his knife
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and was dressed
for the occasion.
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- DAVE: He had black
leather trousers on,
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he had black boots,
a black leather jacket
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and a black leather
slash peacoat.
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The idea, he said,
was to sorta look like,
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uh--uh, a Nazi officer.
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Peter caused a distraction
outside to attract, um,
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Henry out of the cottage,
um, Henry came out to see
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what the disturbance was and
so this--this figure in black.
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- NARRATOR: Moore then launched
a brutal attack
00:18:23
on the defenseless man.
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- DAVE: And he began
to stab Henry,
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so when Henry realized
that he was under attack,
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he turned around
and tried to get back
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to the safety of his cottage.
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He wasn't very steady
on his feet
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and as he scurried back
to his cottage,
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Peter walked behind him
and stabbed him repeatedly,
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and he collapsed
near to one of the outhouses
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in the yard and died.
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- DR. YARDLEY: When Peter Moore
kills Henry Roberts,
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he stabs him 27 times,
this is way more violence
00:18:51
than he actually needs
to end his victim's life.
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- NARRATOR: In a final act
of depravity, Moore decided
00:18:59
to humiliate his victim.
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- DAVE: After he died,
he pulled down his trousers
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and he stabbed him twice
in the buttocks
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and left him in that position.
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- DR. YARDLEY: So, it's not
enough just to kill him,
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he wants to demean him as well.
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He wants to experience
feeling power and control.
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- NARRATOR: Moore left
Henry's mutilated body
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and fled the scene.
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Four days later, locals
of Henry's pub became concerned
00:19:26
when they hadn't seen him.
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- GEOFFREY: Finally, one of the
regulars went to see
00:19:33
what had happened to him,
and visited his house,
00:19:37
only to find Henry Roberts'
dead body outside the house.
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The regular ran back to the pub
and told the landlady
00:19:46
who was cleaning the windows
to call the police.
00:19:50
- NARRATOR: North Wales' police
arrived to investigate.
00:19:54
- GEOFFREY: Originally,
when Henry Roberts' body
00:19:56
was discovered,
the police suspected a burglary
00:19:58
that had gone wrong,
but then of course,
00:20:01
they discovered there was quite
alot of money in the house.
00:20:03
At one point, a 21-year-old
was arrested, but never charged,
00:20:08
of course because there was no
connection to Roberts.
00:20:11
- NARRATOR: A second man
would also be arrested,
00:20:14
but later released
without charge for the murder.
00:20:17
There seemed no obvious motive
for the killing,
00:20:20
and Peter Moore had seemingly
got away with murder,
00:20:24
something that gave him
a perverse thrill
00:20:27
and would only ignite
his desire to kill again.
00:20:31
- DR. YARDLEY: After
that first killing,
00:20:33
I think Peter Moore
would have felt a sense
00:20:35
of being back in control.
00:20:38
Now that he has externalized
that rage, he's taken that out
00:20:42
on somebody else, he feels
that he has some power back,
00:20:46
all those other things
that were going on in his life,
00:20:49
his mother dying,
his financial issues,
00:20:51
they don't matter anymore
because he's back in control.
00:20:56
- LOUIS: Keep in mind, these
murderers are sexually motivated
00:20:59
and the sexual instinct
is very, very strong,
00:21:03
and so when someone kills
and gets sexually gratified
00:21:07
in the way Moore did,
they wanna do it again.
00:21:11
- NARRATOR: And that opportunity
would come less
00:21:13
than a month later
in October that year.
00:21:17
- DAVE: Peter took a night off,
he went to Liverpool,
00:21:19
drove in his--in his van
and he went to,
00:21:21
um, a club called Paco's,
which was a gay bar in Liverpool
00:21:25
and I think Edward Carthy
was there.
00:21:27
- GEOFFREY: Edward Carthy
was 28, his partner
00:21:31
had recently killed himself.
00:21:33
Edward was, obviously,
deeply upset
00:21:38
and took refuge in Paco's.
00:21:40
It was there
that he had the misfortune
00:21:43
to encounter Peter Moore.
00:21:46
- LOUIS: Moore is smart,
he's not going after anybody,
00:21:49
he's going after only people
he thinks he can get over on,
00:21:53
and he's pretty good at
detecting who those people are.
00:21:58
- DAVE: Edward, I think
he'd had a few to drink
00:22:00
and he approached Peter
and started to speak to him,
00:22:03
and Edward asked him
if he could have a lift home,
00:22:04
he said, "Where are you going?"
00:22:06
"Well, I'm gong back
to North Wales,
00:22:07
can you give me a lift
back to Birkenhead?"
00:22:09
- GEOFFREY: Edward gets
into Moore's transit van
00:22:12
and he falls asleep.
00:22:14
Moore decides that he's not
gonna take Edward back
00:22:18
to his flat, instead he's gonna
take him to his old
00:22:22
hunting ground in North Wales.
00:22:25
Edward wakes up,
and realizes that he's nowhere
00:22:29
near Birkenhead, and in fact,
he's in rural Wales.
00:22:34
I think at that moment,
Edward feared for his life,
00:22:37
and he tries to jump out
of the transit van.
00:22:42
- NARRATOR: Moore pulls
into the forest track
00:22:44
and stop the engine,
he then ordered Edward Carthy
00:22:48
to get out of the van.
00:22:51
- DR. YARDLEY: Edward Carthy
starts to--to panic and,
00:22:54
according to Peter Moore,
he said, "You're not one
00:22:58
of those Nelson types are you?"
00:23:01
- GEOFFREY: And Moore say,
barely flinching,
00:23:06
"Oh, yes I am."
00:23:08
And he stabs him
four times, and he disposes
00:23:11
of Edward's body,
hides it off the track
00:23:15
in the midst of the forest.
00:23:18
- NARRATOR: Unlike
Henry Roberts,
00:23:20
Edward wasn't reported missing.
00:23:24
- DAVE: The family didn't notice
anything unusual 'cuz Edward
00:23:26
was quite transient,
he would come and he would go.
00:23:30
- GEOFFREY: In a space
of a month,
00:23:32
Peter Moore has committed
two murders,
00:23:36
and got clean away
with both of them.
00:23:40
- NARRATOR: Moore felt
invincible,
00:23:41
and on the 30th of November,
00:23:44
just over a month
after killing Edward Carthy,
00:23:47
he was about to strike
for a third time.
00:23:51
- GEOFFREY: Late in November,
Moore is once again
00:23:54
on the hunt for another victim.
00:23:57
Of all unlikely places,
00:24:00
it's on a road--a site of
roadworks on the A5,
00:24:04
the main road across North Wales
and into Anglesey.
00:24:08
And as he's driving
back to his own house,
00:24:11
he happens to see a caravan
with its lights on.
00:24:15
- NARRATOR: The caravan
was a temporary home
00:24:17
for 49-year-old, Keith Randles,
a security manager from Chester.
00:24:23
- DAVE: He got
a couple pints in a pub
00:24:24
and then bought some chips
from the chip shop
00:24:26
and taking them back
to the caravan
00:24:28
where he'd spend the evening in,
watching telly,
00:24:30
his and his daughters and just
spend the night with them.
00:24:34
- NARRATOR: Dressed in black,
Moore approached the worksite.
00:24:38
- GEOFFREY: He bangs on the door
of the caravan, Keith wasn't
00:24:41
expecting anyone to knock
at the door on that night.
00:24:45
He certainly wasn't expecting
a black clad Peter Moore
00:24:50
standing in front of him.
00:24:52
He's barely opened the door
when Moore launches an attack
00:24:56
on him and starts to stab him.
00:24:59
Keith fights back,
there is a struggle.
00:25:02
Moore, in the end,
overpowers him,
00:25:05
brutally, ruthlessly
stabbing him repeatedly.
00:25:09
Keith had defensive wounds
on his hands
00:25:11
where he tried to stop Moore.
00:25:13
- GARETH: And during the attack,
Keith Randles was, well,
00:25:18
according to Peter Moore,
asked him why he was doing it,
00:25:21
and his reply, chillingly was,
"For fun."
00:25:24
- NARRATOR: Despite Keith
putting up a fight,
00:25:26
he succumbed
to his horrific injuries.
00:25:29
Moore was unfazed
by the vicious attack
00:25:32
and calmly left the crime scene,
but he'd made a mistake.
00:25:38
- DAVE: As he went back
to his house
00:25:39
and was getting ready
to go to bed,
00:25:41
he realized
he'd had a black clip-on tie,
00:25:43
um, and it'd obviously come off
during the fight,
00:25:46
so he had to drive back
to the murder scene
00:25:48
to recover his black tie.
00:25:50
- NARRATOR: With Keith
lying dead outside the caravan,
00:25:53
Moore decided to violate
his victim further.
00:25:57
- GEOFFREY: Just as he'd done
with Henry Roberts,
00:25:59
pulled down Keith Randles'
trousers and he stabbed him
00:26:03
in the genitals.
00:26:04
Another act of...humiliation
00:26:08
to defile the victim,
00:26:10
to render them an object,
and also to increase
00:26:15
Moore's own
sexual gratification.
00:26:20
- NARRATOR: The father of two
was found by workmen
00:26:22
as they arrived for work
that morning.
00:26:26
- GARETH: It's a very difficult
one to understand
00:26:28
and it must be
very difficult for, uh,
00:26:30
Keith Randles' family
to--to understand why--why
00:26:34
you should be subjected
to a such a horrific attack,
00:26:37
just for doing a job
and staying where he did.
00:26:42
- NARRATOR: The police
were now aware
00:26:43
of two dead bodies
in just over two months.
00:26:46
The body of Edward Carthy
remained undiscovered
00:26:50
in Clocaenog Forest.
00:26:53
- DAVE: Again, there was
no obvious motive,
00:26:55
there's no direct link, so that
made investigation launch again,
00:26:58
um, so there's two murder
investigations running
00:27:00
at the same time in Anglesey.
00:27:03
- NARRATOR: With no one
suspecting the triple murderer,
00:27:06
cinema owner Moore
was free to continue
00:27:09
with his deviant desires,
and soon had his eyes
00:27:13
set on his next victim.
00:27:15
- GARETH: Tony Davies worked
in the crematorium
00:27:18
in Cardigan Bay,
uh, a family man.
00:27:20
He left home
quite late at night,
00:27:23
told his wife
he was going to visit his aunt
00:27:25
and take a meal to her.
00:27:26
She'd recently,
uh, had an operation,
00:27:29
and so he went to Pensarn,
which is near Abergele,
00:27:33
um, where she lived;
it was about
00:27:35
eleven o'clock at night.
00:27:37
- NARRATOR: At some point
in the early hours
00:27:39
of the 18th of December,
Moore spotted 40-year-old,
00:27:42
Anthony Davies at Pensarn Beach.
00:27:46
Armed with his knife,
he pounced.
00:27:49
- GEOFFREY: Anthony
was a strong man
00:27:51
and didn't give up
without a fight.
00:27:55
- DAVE: Anthony fought back
and what happened was, um,
00:27:58
the knife had been turned
on--on Peter, on his arm
00:28:01
during the scuffle.
00:28:03
- NARRATOR: Anthony Davies
was stabbed five times
00:28:05
in the chest
and once in the back.
00:28:08
He eventually died
from his injuries.
00:28:12
The heartless killer
then tended to his own wounds.
00:28:17
- DR. YARDLEY: He took
Anthony's coat and wrapped it
00:28:19
round his injury
and left the scene
00:28:21
with the coat
still round his arm,
00:28:24
and when he got home,
he washed the coat
00:28:27
and he hung it up in his house.
00:28:30
- NARRATOR: Meanwhile,
Anthony's wife grew concerned
00:28:34
when her husband
didn't return home that evening.
00:28:38
- GEOFFREY: At about 4:30,
now the Monday morning,
00:28:42
she rings the elderly aunt
and says,
00:28:44
"Have you seen Anthony?"
and the lady says,
00:28:48
"No, no, he--he left at 12:30."
00:28:52
- GARETH: She, uh,
suspected that he--
00:28:54
her husband had been
at the Pensarn beach
00:28:57
at a certain time before,
and so she asked
00:29:00
one of his brothers
to go to the beach
00:29:02
to have a look.
00:29:04
- GEOFFREY: The brothers
set off to look for Anthony.
00:29:06
Anthony's wife has not
just simply phoned his brothers,
00:29:10
but she also phoned the police,
and in one of the most
00:29:13
terrible ironies
of this dreadful event,
00:29:17
is the brothers and the police
arrive almost simultaneously
00:29:21
at the beach to discover
Anthony's mutilated body.
00:29:27
- NARRATOR: Police found
Anthony's car
00:29:29
parked in the car park,
but it was locked,
00:29:32
they then discovered
his body on the shore.
00:29:35
The police knew they had to act
fast to catch their killer.
00:29:40
Dave Morris was part
of the investigation team.
00:29:44
- DAVE: The scene
investigating officer was aware
00:29:46
of the reputation
of Pensarn beach had
00:29:49
as being a meeting place
for gay men,
00:29:51
so made an appeal
to the gay community
00:29:54
to, um, try and identify
who might be the person
00:29:58
responsible for this--this
particular murder in Pensarn.
00:30:02
- GEOFFREY: But at the outset,
there really wasn't
00:30:04
much movement until finally
the local North Wales police
00:30:08
were persuaded to open an
anonymous tip line for gay men.
00:30:13
- DAVE: We had
a very good response
00:30:15
and, uh, one thing that became
quite clear was that
00:30:18
there was a male who dressed
in black leather jacket
00:30:21
and black trousers,
who had hysterically attacked,
00:30:24
uh, men on Pensarn beach
and robbed them.
00:30:26
They--they, he'd--he'd taken
property belonging to them,
00:30:28
watches and the like,
and this had been going on
00:30:30
for some period of time.
00:30:33
Another line of inquiry
that we had was a transit van
00:30:36
had been seen on Pensarn beach
at around the time of, uh,
00:30:41
the--the murder, certainly
over--over that time period,
00:30:45
so, um, there were two focuses
to the investigation,
00:30:47
one was to try and identify
the driver of the van
00:30:50
and the other was to try
and identify the unknown man
00:30:52
in black.
00:30:54
- NARRATOR: Dave would finally
get a breakthrough from
00:30:56
an anonymous caller 48 hours
into the investigation.
00:31:01
- DAVE: Somebody had--had called
on the hotline and described
00:31:04
he'd been picked up
on Pensarn beach
00:31:05
and taken to a house
in Kinmel Bay
00:31:07
where he'd been attacked
and he describes it
00:31:09
as being lucky
to get away with his life.
00:31:12
I followed the loose directions
00:31:13
that were given by the caller,
and, um, I was able
00:31:15
to identify Peter Moore's house.
00:31:18
I was aware of Peter Moore
from my time
00:31:20
as, uh, as a uniform
police officer.
00:31:22
Peter was running
the hardware shop
00:31:24
and we were quite frequently
phoned for police assistance,
00:31:27
uh, I was aware that Peter
was a gay man,
00:31:29
that he liked to wear
black leather clothing,
00:31:31
so I came back to the incident
to the interview room
00:31:34
and called them back
and reported that, um,
00:31:35
I believe
I'd identified find the house,
00:31:37
and the house was owned by
a gentleman called Peter Moore.
00:31:40
- NARRATORR: The police also had
a breakthrough with the van
00:31:43
that was spotted
at the murder scene.
00:31:46
- DAVE: Two of the detectives
came in and, um,
00:31:48
they'd established that there
was a van hire company
00:31:50
in Denbigh, who had hired
a white transit van
00:31:53
to a guy called Peter Moore,
and it was at that point,
00:31:57
a decision was made
to, uh, arrest him.
00:31:59
- NARRATOR: The police
had now identified the man
00:32:02
in black as Peter Moore.
00:32:05
On the 21st of December 1995,
00:32:09
they now had a warrant
to arrest the 49-year-old.
00:32:13
- DAVE: Went out in the morning,
it's, uh, a team of four,
00:32:16
uh, detectives,
we went in two vehicles,
00:32:18
and we approached the house.
00:32:20
I saw the van driving away,
so we fell in behind it,
00:32:25
and we, and we began
to follow the vehicle.
00:32:28
- NARRATOR: Moore was on
his way to pick up a colleague,
00:32:30
unaware that he
was being followed.
00:32:34
- DAVE: He turned into
a housing estate in Abergele.
00:32:37
He pulled up,
um, outside the house,
00:32:39
and just sat in the van,
so I took the decision
00:32:41
to get out of the police car
and--and approach the van.
00:32:45
I opened up the door
of the transit van,
00:32:47
he was quite surprised.
00:32:49
I identified myself,
um, took the keys out the van,
00:32:52
undid his safety belt
and asked him
00:32:53
to come out of the van.
00:32:54
We just told him
he was under arrest
00:32:56
under suspicion of murder
of Tony Davies.
00:32:59
- NARRATOR: Dave would also
make a shocking discovery
00:33:02
in the front seats of the van.
00:33:05
- DAVE: There was
a holdall bag,
00:33:06
and when that bag was seized
and searched, um,
00:33:09
the murder weapon
was found in that bag.
00:33:11
I was quite surprised
by his reaction because,
00:33:13
um, I would have expected him
to be quite shocked,
00:33:17
quite, um, inquisitive,
asking why he was arrested.
00:33:21
He didn't ask any questions,
he just totally accepted
00:33:23
the situation and came with me
to--to my police car.
00:33:27
- NARRATOR: Dave was tasked
with interviewing Moore
00:33:29
for the murder of Anthony Davies
but had no idea
00:33:33
he was responsible
for three further murders.
00:33:37
- DAVE: And by now,
we'd recovered the coat
00:33:40
that belonged to Tony Davies.
00:33:41
We'd recovered
the murder weapon.
00:33:43
He still wouldn't agree
that he was the murderer,
00:33:47
but nonetheless, was-was charged
with the murder of Tony Davies.
00:33:50
- NARRATOR: With the killer
now safely in custody,
00:33:53
the police made a thorough
search of Moore's property.
00:33:57
- DAVE: A VHS video recorder
had been stolen
00:34:00
from the caravan
that Keith Randles lived in.
00:34:03
As luck would have it,
we actually had
00:34:05
the serial number
of the VHS video recorder,
00:34:08
and when the search team
searched Peter's house,
00:34:11
they found this recorder
underneath his [unintelligible]
00:34:14
and when they pulled it out
and compared the serial number,
00:34:16
it was the actual VHS recorder
that had been stolen
00:34:18
from the caravan in Anglesey.
00:34:21
- NARRATOR: The police
also found other
00:34:23
incriminating items
in his house.
00:34:26
- DAVE: There was
a swastika flag that he'd taken
00:34:28
from Henry's cottage
as a memento.
00:34:32
Tony's keys were all found
in the fish pond in the backyard
00:34:35
so it was property from scenes
at the home address.
00:34:38
- DAVE: He'd also kept
the newspaper cuttings
00:34:40
from the local papers
of--of the investigations,
00:34:43
so he'd been following
those quite closely as well.
00:34:45
- DR. YARDLEY: Moore is one
of those serial killers
00:34:47
who keeps things
that belong to his victims
00:34:49
and this isn't
particularly unusual
00:34:52
because they want to relive
those memories of the suffering
00:34:55
and--and the murders
that they've carried out.
00:34:58
It really is
incredibly chilling.
00:35:01
- DAVE: So it puts
a whole new complexion
00:35:03
on--on the murder investigation,
so once I'd finished
00:35:07
my interview with him,
and at this stage there was--
00:35:09
there was no admissions,
um, one of the sergeants
00:35:12
from the interview step forward
and said,
00:35:14
"You're now under arrest for
the murder of Keith Randles,"
00:35:17
so that took him by surprise,
he hadn't expected that at all.
00:35:22
- NARRATOR: With the evidence
mounting, Moore decided
00:35:25
that he wanted to start talking.
00:35:27
- DAVE: It's 2:30
in the morning,
00:35:29
phone call, uh,
"Peter wants another interview,
00:35:32
"he wants to admit
four murders to you,
00:35:34
will you come in?"
00:35:35
Uh, during that--
that initial interview,
00:35:38
he admitted the murder
of Henry Roberts,
00:35:41
the murder of Tony Davies
on Pensarn,
00:35:44
he, uh, also admitted
the murder of Keith Randles
00:35:47
in the caravan in Anglesey,
and then, um, told us
00:35:51
about the murder
of Edward Carthy,
00:35:52
that at that time
we didn't know about.
00:35:54
My opinion is that
he made the admissions
00:35:57
'cuz it was his way of regaining
control of the situation.
00:36:01
- NARRATOR: The police quickly
set about locating the body
00:36:04
of Edward Carthy.
00:36:06
- DAVE: Basically, um,
he was given
00:36:08
an [unintelligible]
certain map of the area,
00:36:09
which he--he circled
00:36:11
where--where the body would be,
and initialed the map
00:36:14
and then, um,
the search team went out.
00:36:17
- GEOFFREY: On the 23rd
of December, badly decomposed,
00:36:20
the body is where
Peter Moore says it will be.
00:36:23
He tells the police and I quote,
00:36:26
"It's built up over a long time,
00:36:30
I must admit, I've always had
a tendency towards violence."
00:36:34
He also tells them that he
had a fifth victim in mind,
00:36:37
his bank manager, who he said,
hadn't dealt with him fairly.
00:36:42
- NARRATOR: The police continued
to question Moore
00:36:44
about the other murders
and attacks he'd committed.
00:36:48
- DAVE: He described them
as a job well done.
00:36:50
The fact that he'd actually
murdered four innocent men
00:36:52
meant nothing to him.
00:36:54
During that same interview,
as well as the four murders
00:36:56
he'd admitted, he also told us
that, uh, he'd been attacking,
00:36:59
uh, lone males that night at--
mainly in the Cymoedd valley,
00:37:03
but the whole of rural
North Wales
00:37:05
and parts of rural Cheshire
from the 1970s
00:37:07
through to the late 1980s.
00:37:10
- NARRATOR: Peter Moore
was eventually charged
00:37:11
for all four murders.
00:37:14
As he awaited his trial date,
he decided to blame the attacks
00:37:18
on someone else.
00:37:20
- GEOFFREY: He tells the police
that it wasn't him,
00:37:24
it was Jason, his friend.
00:37:28
He was simply there
at the time, but Jason,
00:37:32
his gay friend, did it.
00:37:35
Jason was named after
a character in a movie,
00:37:38
not surprisingly,
"Friday the 13th".
00:37:41
- NARRATOR: Meanwhile,
news broke that a serial killer
00:37:44
had been on the loose
in the small town
00:37:46
of Kinmel Bay,
and it shocked the locals.
00:37:50
- DEREK: In one word, horror.
00:37:52
That a man who appeared
to be a respectable businessman,
00:37:57
uh, who'd brought cinema
back to life in North Wales
00:38:02
could have been killing people
and attacking people,
00:38:06
it was very hard to believe.
00:38:09
- LEWIS: You know,
you get these people
00:38:10
who go around fighting
and god knows what,
00:38:12
you think they might,
but this bloke just wasn't
00:38:15
just that kind of bloke,
he was, looked harmless.
00:38:18
I never felt threatened,
I never felt uncomfortable.
00:38:21
When they said, "My God,
Peter Moore murdered four--"
00:38:23
you know, I think, "Oh, my God."
00:38:25
My blood runs cold
to think I'd been in that house,
00:38:30
that--you know,
on my own with this man.
00:38:33
- NARRATOR: The trial took place
on the 11th of November 1996,
00:38:37
at Mold Crown Court
in North Wales.
00:38:41
The callous killer took
the opportunity
00:38:43
to revel in the spotlight.
00:38:46
- DR. YARDLEY: Peter Moore's
behavior at his trial
00:38:48
really is evidence
of his sadism.
00:38:50
Firstly, that he didn't
immediately plead guilty
00:38:54
because doing so
would have spared
00:38:55
his victims' families
the trauma of a trial,
00:38:59
and also because
he had silenced those victims,
00:39:02
he was the one
in control of the narrative.
00:39:05
He was the one who everybody
was looking at
00:39:08
and--and he was enjoying that.
00:39:10
- NARRATOR: The jury
were presented with evidence
00:39:12
taken from Moore's house
as well as police footage
00:39:15
from the property.
00:39:18
- GARETH: The footage was such
a strange, incongruous mixture
00:39:21
of stuff, items such as
[unintelligible],
00:39:24
German caps, police helmets,
sadomasochistic stuff,
00:39:29
and then, uh, the camera panned
to show fluffy toys
00:39:34
on--on the pillows, and, um,
[unintelligible] curtains
00:39:38
and, uh, really odd.
00:39:41
It just showed then
the two completely,
00:39:43
uh, separate worlds
that Peter Moore operated in.
00:39:47
- NARRATOR: The heartless killer
continued
00:39:49
to manipulate the story.
00:39:52
- GEOFFREY: Peter Moore
presented to the jury
00:39:55
of eight men and four women,
that, um, it wasn't him
00:39:59
that was really responsible,
it was the mysterious Jason.
00:40:02
Throughout his time
in the witness box,
00:40:04
being crossed examined
by then Alex Carlile, QC,
00:40:08
that it was all Jason's fault,
and there was a memorable piece
00:40:11
of cross examination, in fact,
when Carlile said to him,
00:40:15
"Is Jason in court?"
"No."
00:40:17
"Okay, can you see him?"
"No."
00:40:19
"You invented him, didn't you?"
"No."
00:40:22
- In denying
what he did to the courts,
00:40:24
he was reliving the murders,
he would listen
00:40:26
to the facts again.
00:40:27
In--in court, he took
pleasure from listening to that.
00:40:31
- DEREK: He was enjoying
his notoriety,
00:40:34
and outside court, he didn't
mind his photograph being taken.
00:40:37
He just failed to realize
00:40:42
the tragedies that he'd caused,
00:40:46
and the heartbreak that,
uh, he'd left for families.
00:40:51
- LOUIS: He played to the media.
00:40:53
He showed his handcuffs,
he displayed to them
00:40:55
when they had
the cameras on him.
00:40:57
Keep in mind, Moore's a nobody,
so if he could have
00:41:00
national attention, of course
he's gonna play the media
00:41:02
and get his
little bit of infamy.
00:41:07
- DAVE: The family were there
in the publicality
00:41:09
and they had to sit there
and listen for three weeks
00:41:11
to--to all of them, um,
the details of--of the murder
00:41:14
of their, of their loved ones,
you know, I thought that
00:41:16
was very, very cruel.
00:41:18
- GEOFFREY: It took them
two hours
00:41:19
and 35 minutes
to convict Moore
00:41:22
of the four murders.
00:41:25
- GEOFFREY: One of
Alex Carlile's quotes to him
00:41:29
about him, "The man in black,
black thoughts
00:41:33
and the blackest of deeds,"
and that was what gave
00:41:37
Peter Moore the nickname
that he still has,
00:41:41
of the man in black.
00:41:43
He was called, and I quote,
"A violent and predatory sadist
00:41:48
who was obsessed by the Nazis,"
and also, as the judge put it,
00:41:54
"One of the most dangerous men
ever to set foot in Wales."
00:41:58
- NARRATOR: On the 29th
of November 1996,
00:42:02
Peter Moore was sentenced
to a whole life tariff
00:42:05
and was eventually sent
to HMP Wakefield.
00:42:10
He appealed his life sentence
to the European courts,
00:42:13
but was rejected several times.
00:42:15
Even behind bars,
he craved attention.
00:42:20
- GARETH: I received
numerous letters,
00:42:22
uh, from prison,
many of them dealt
00:42:25
with his, uh, proposed appeals,
00:42:29
others dealt with civil actions
00:42:32
against North Wales police
and, uh, some former
00:42:36
friends of his.
00:42:39
I think, uh,
the letters were really
00:42:41
a continuation, he liked being
the focus of attention.
00:42:45
- DR. YARDLEY: Peter Moore
was a coward who took advantage
00:42:47
of a social climate.
00:42:49
He took advantage
of the vulnerabilities
00:42:51
of other people,
and he's a very dangerous man,
00:42:54
and he's exactly
where he belongs.
00:42:57
- DEREK: It'll be many years
before Peter Moore is forgotten
00:43:01
and I think, when people
drive past in Kinmel Bay,
00:43:04
they still point to the house
where he used to live.
00:43:09
- DAVE: He still remains the,
uh, one of the most
00:43:11
brutal killers
in--in the history
00:43:12
of North Wales police.
00:43:14
My hope is, we never
have another Peter Moore
00:43:17
in North Wales.
00:43:18
He was a very, very,
very ruthless man,
00:43:20
and to kill people as a form
of stress relief,
00:43:23
I think, says it all.
00:43:25
- NARRATOR: He was a sadistic
predator who terrorized
00:43:29
the north of Wales
for two decades,
00:43:32
preying on those
who were vulnerable.
00:43:34
He brutally murdered
and mutilated four men
00:43:38
in cold blood for fun,
just to satiate
00:43:41
his devious sexual desires.
00:43:44
Undoubtedly, Peter Moore
is one of the world's
00:43:48
most evil killers.
00:43:50
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