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